For Your Body Only: Discover the Diet You Were Born to Eat [Hardcover]

Coach Davies (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2002

Unleash a Shattering, Unstoppable Intensive The Tested, Proven and Formerly-Secret Battle Plan on How to Annihilate Your Opponents-with an Overwhelming Blitz of Relentless Ferocity, Blazing Speed, Bone-Crushing Strength and Fearful Power. What does it really take to win in football? How can you turn apparent athletic mediocrity into an unstoppable force that can't stop winning? Why do God-given talents and genetic-freaks so often fail on the field to lesser mortals? How do you get the victory before you even step on the field? What fail-safe training method can churn out winners, year-in, year-out, with a staggering consistency?Enter the secret stealth weapon of modern football success, Coach Davies, who has helped high school, college and NFL teams turn lead into gold-and also-rans into number one-with startling frequency. In Renegade Training for Football, Coach Davies presents you with his full program for gridiron mastery."It's not a game, it's a war!" Coach Davies drills into his athletes. Extreme functional toughness, a bloody-minded brutality of purpose and a nasty-streak one mile wide defines the training mindset. The physical program itself cuts to the core of what really, really, really works-in-the-trenches to optimize on-the-field performance. Techniques run the gamut from cutting-edge Eastern European to tried-and-true traditional. It's all here, from rope-skipping, stretching, hurdling, sprint set-up and Olympic lifts to esoteric Russian Kettlebells, abs-work, ladder work, jumping, tumbling and cones. A goldmine of explicit charts and racks of photographs ensure your complete grasp of how to blow past your current athletic level and ratchet up to greatness.Discover everything you need to know for:-Range of Motion Development-Agility Training- Linear Speed Development-Strength Development- Work Capacity Development-Spiritual Development

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About the Author

Coach Davies develops comprehensive training packages for all facets and levels of football, from high school to college to the NFL. Internationally, Coach Davies has been acclaimed for his work with European and South America soccer teams.His Renegade Training philosophy is controversial but has proved highly successful in application. Coach Davies instills a "warrior mindset" in his athletes. The result: a stand-out toughness capable of excelling in the controlled chaos and extreme stress of modern football. Physically, his athletes have consistently broken through past performance barriers to dramatically enhance their speed, strength and power.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 500 pages
• Publisher: Dragon Door Publications (May 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0938045415
• ISBN-13: 978-0938045410
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,425,115 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I had hoped for - falls short., March 22, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: For Your Body Only: Discover the Diet You Were Born to Eat (Hardcover)

I agree with Dr. Tefft on many of the ideas and concepts presented in his book, however, as another reviewer pointed out, the book is poorly written, has terrible editing and lacks cohesion. Dr. Tefft begins by taking a very scientific approach to personalized nutrition, but then takes a u-turn into what seems to be an infomercial for the latest multi-level marketing scheme. (Check out the website listed in the book and that will further illustrate this point http://www.dragondoor.com ) He lays out a great foundation and argument for why all of the scientific and laboratory typing is necessary for optimum nutrition and health, then abruptly dumps all of that for the "better" and "simpler" testing developed by Personal Nutrition and further improved upon by his own organization, The American Society for the Advancement of Personalization (ASAP). This would be fine, except for the fact that it doesn't provide greater personalization, which is supposed to be the point.

Throughout the book Dr. Tefft warns of "one size fits all" nutrition and generalizations, but by the middle of the book he abandons all science and runs headlong into Eastern philosophy and mysticism, mixed with pseudo science and then train wrecks into his own hugely generalized "personal nutrition" plan for you. As another reviewer noted, the endocrine typing is very different from what was done by that typing plan's originator, as is the blood typing. Don't get me wrong, there actually is some good info in this book, but you need to be a discerning reader to find it. The problem is, if you are discerning enough to know what the truths are, then you probably don't need this book.

If you are a person who eats mostly junk food and has no idea what nutritious food is, then you would benefit from learning the basics in this book, i.e. trans fats are bad, don't eat too much sugar, cut processed foods out of your diet, limit caffeine and alcohol consumption, limit your intake of saturated fats, increase consumption of organic fruits, veggies and whole grains, eat lean proteins and especially fish, get your Omega 3's and 6's, drink plenty of pure filtered water and (...) exercise. All of those things and other sound advice are in this book, but the personalization to the level I was hoping to find, just isn't there. Dr. Tefft doesn't even have the reader take body fat percentage into account when calculating BMR, and he barely addresses physical activity in any practical or applicable sense.

At the end of the book, you are offered the opportunity to call and join Tefft's organization and spend $150 for a pH saliva and urine test and hair analysis. I don't know what information they provide on the hair analysis to judge how beneficial their analysis would be, but the pH tests are not of much benefit. Everything you eat or drink affects the pH in your saliva and urine from hour to hour. There are saliva tests which are very telling, but pH at one moment in time is not one of them.

To truly personalize your nutrition, it is going to take more than what is offered here. More variables need to be taken into account. Tefft has simply come up with his own "box" to put us in, but tries to disguise it as "personalized". Be a critical reader, do your research, read the actual books about the body type diet, the blood type diet, and books like "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" by Tom Venuto, Udo Erasmus' "Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill" and as many other great resources as you can find. Then, take the good from them and apply common sense and what laboratory science (testing) is currently available to determine how your body handles nutrients and what is missing from your body. I wish that Teftt had done all of the hard work for us, but he fell short in my opinion. I was really disappointed in the conclusions in this book. I am still looking for sound answers on how to truly personalize my nutrition.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating concept, but the presentation needs work., November 26, 2002

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A. Mattix - See all my reviews
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This review is from: For Your Body Only: Discover the Diet You Were Born to Eat (Hardcover)

In "For Your Body Only," Gregory Tefft elicudates his unique ideas about personalized nutrition based on a complex system of physiological typing combined with scientific testing. The concept is intriguing, and it seems fairly logical. But since this approach to nutrition is inherently complicated (there is no single approach that is right for everyone), presenting the information clearly becomes quite a challenge -- one that Dr. Tefft does not meet. While the book presents useful information, it is disorganized and confusing. The quality of the writing is generally poor. Dr. Tefft spends far too much time making accusations (instead of clearly stating his case), and he has a habit of making sweeping statements that smack of self-promotion. A thorough edit (to eliminate numerous typos) is sorely needed. Thus the three-star review.

Be aware, if you plan on committing yourself to Dr. Tefft's personalized nutrition program, you will need to spend a great deal of time studying this book and possibly performing additional research in order to create a personalized nutritional program. You need to know your blood type, and you need to perform other tests (hair and saliva) in order to determine your body type. Dr. Tefft offers this testing through his website, for a cost of $150 (hair and saliva) and $20 (blood type). You must calculate your daily caloric needs, consult lists of recommended/not recommended foods, and calibrate your personal nutrient levels based on your body type(s). An alternative, of course, is to consult with a personalized nutritionist such as Dr. Tefft, who will help you devise your personalized nutrition plan. If you are still interested in personalized nutrition, and you are willing to invest the time and money, this book is a good place to start.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Help for patients is here, May 5, 2003

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Dr. Ben Fox (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Your Body Only: Discover the Diet You Were Born to Eat (Hardcover)

So often my patients complain about their bodies. An extra few pounds...lack of energy...aches and pains. Physicians of my era were taught that this was 'normal' aging. Intuitively I felt it might be possible to balance each individual's body to their unique chemistry leading to their own correct and efficient chemistry. The aging situation could be different. It is! If you read about Dr. Tefft's program, get yourself tested and follow the rules...your rules... you will see a difference! I have been on this program myself and feel great. I am enjoying early morning runs, have the energy for office hours and my family. This book has given me the keys to the kingdom of my own healthy body. I am sharing it with patients-those who ask, and those who don't. Following Tefft's program can lead to balance that I once thought reserved for youth. I'm encouraged to learn that For Your (my) Body only has had a positive effect on my own well-being and the well being of patients. This approach to good health is holistic in the true sense of the word!