With this unique guide, overall fitness is truly an attainable goal—and is necessary to avoid injury and intensify enjoyment of any outdoor activity.
With road-tested common sense and real-world effectiveness, award winning author Paul Scott offers a complete program for giving yourself the kind of baseline level of fitness that will equip you to stay healthy and to reach your full potential—whatever your sport or passion. Outside Fitness embraces the notion that human beings are hard-wired for play and adventure, and any fitness quest that doesn't address the drive to embrace challenging exploration and stimulating variety is simply too utilitarian and ultimately too dull to be effective. The key is to be fit enough to have fun and to have fun getting fit. Along with having fun, the Outside Fitness program will help you develop endurance, power, agility, flexibility, and balance. You'll get the what-for on nutrition and a sustainable program to carry you forward. Fitness will become a personal adventure rather than a daily act of obligation. Outside Fitness draws on the most recent research in exercise physiology with a friendly tone and unique and fun graphic illustrations. Paul Scott's series of Outside magazine articles out of which this book has emerged won a National Magazine Award. Full-color illustrations throughoutBook Description
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Paul Scott has written for Outside, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Skiing, The New York Times magazine, Runner's World and many more publications. He lives in Rochester, Minnesota.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Nice introduction to the science behind exercise,
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This review is from: Outside Fitness: A Comprehensive Training & Nutrition Guide for an Active Lifestyle (Outside Books) (Paperback)
Paul Scott is very thorough in this book describing the science behind functional training. The exercises are very useful for beginning a workout routine. For advanced people I recommend that you incorporate a few of the exercises into your routine as well. You'd be surprised at what a difference it makes.
A couple of the reviewers were bitching about some typos. Come on people this isn't English Comp class. Quit being so [...]. It's an interesting read and I highly recommend it.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Outside Fitness: A Comprehensive Training & Nutrition Guide for an Active Lifestyle (Outside Books) (Paperback)
As a mountain guide, I geuss I am more interested in the practical advice given in this book than whether it has enough slick style, perfect spelling, excellent grammar or impeccable editing. And really don't consider this book an excuse to ravage the Outside Magazine's style.
I have been using the original "Shape Of Your Life" workout that appeared in Outside Magazine for about 2 years, and was happy to see this book update that workout and take it to the next level. While this version takes more time out of my day to workout than the old version, it also seems to be getting me in better physical condition. As Mr. Scott says the program is only an outline and after I finish the 24 weeks I will start combining the best of the original workout with this one to keep it interesting.
9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Let's Hope There's a Second Edition,
By Outdoor Junkie (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Outside Fitness: A Comprehensive Training & Nutrition Guide for an Active Lifestyle (Outside Books) (Paperback)
I really wanted to like this book. It has been a couple of years in the making, following the "Shape of Your Life" series originally published in Outside Magazine. My issue is primarily with the poor presentation of what is some generally great information. There are too many typos to address individually so I'm going to concentrate on a couple of major issues.
Let's start with the cover. Outside has long been recognized for great editorial design. The cover does not live up to the standard set by the magazine. It is dated, unauthentic, confusing and uninspiring. I think to a certain extent you can judge a book by its cover. This book is about functional fitness and yet features a shirtless dude carrying his bike over his head for reason other than to show-off his back. Compare it with "Conditioning for Outdoor Fitness" and the difference is clear. Once you get inside there are other perfectly avoidable errors. The illustration accompanying the "Stability-Ball Dumbell Row" is actually the illustration for the "Stability-Ball Tricep Extension" and is used again later in the book. Either no one responsible for the book noticed, or they figured none of us would notice. No matter what the explanation, it calls into question the accuracy and thoroughness of the rest of the book. There's really no excuse for such sloppiness. It seems like a project that lacked the support and supervision of the magazine that sets the standard for outdoor enthusiast publications. I sincerely hope they consider repackaging and re-editing the material in another edition. It, and we, deserve better.
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