20 Best Books For Health And Fitness (2023 Updated)

Women are not small men. Stop eating and training like one. Because most nutrition products and training plans are designed for men, it’s no wonder that so many female athletes struggle to reach their full potential.

ROAR is a comprehensive, physiology-based nutrition and training guide specifically designed for active women. This book teaches you everything you need to know to adapt your nutrition, hydration, and training to your unique physiology so you can work with, rather than against, your female physiology.

Exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist Stacy T. Sims, PhD, shows you how to be your own biohacker to achieve optimum athletic performance. Complete with goal-specific meal plans and nutrient-packed recipes to optimize body composition, ROAR contains personalized nutrition advice for all stages of training and recovery.

Customizable meal plans and strengthening exercises come together in a comprehensive plan to build a rock-solid fitness foundation as you build lean muscle where you need it most, strengthen bone, and boost power and endurance.

Because women’s physiology changes over time, entire chapters are devoted to staying strong and active through pregnancy and menopause. No matter what your sport is—running, cycling, field sports, triathlons—this book will empower you with the nutrition and fitness knowledge you need to be in the healthiest, fittest, strongest shape of your life.

The Women’s Health Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever written specifically for women, this book is a body-shaping power tool for both beginners and longtime fitness buffs alike.

This book contains hundreds of useful tips, the latest findings in exercise science, and cutting-edge workouts from the world’s top trainers. Backed by the authority of Women’s Health magazine, this updated and revised edition features 100 new exercises in 20 workouts designed by BJ Gaddour, the Fitness Director of Men’s Health magazine, and 1,350 photographs, showing movements for every muscle and training plan to match every fitness goal.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING DIET BOOK PHENOMENONIf you’ve ever suspected that not everyone should eat the same thing or do the same exercise, you’re right. Your blood type reflects your internal chemistry.

It is the key that unlocks the mysteries of disease, longevity, fitness, and emotional strength. It determines your susceptibility to illness, the foods you should eat, and ways to avoid the most troubling health problems.

Based on decades of research and practical application, Eat Right 4 Your Type offers an individualized diet-and-health plan that is right for you. In this revised and updated edition of Eat Right 4 Your Type, you will learn: – Which foods, spices, teas, and condiments will help maintain your optimal health and ideal weight – Which vitamins and supplements to emphasize or avoid – Which medications function best in your system – Whether your stress goes to your muscles or to your nervous system – Whether your stress is relieved better through aerobics or meditation – Whether you should walk, swim, or play tennis or golf as your mode of exercise – How knowing your blood type can help you avoid many common viruses and infections – How knowing your blood type can help you fight back against life-threatening diseases – How to slow down the aging process by avoiding factors that cause rapid cell deteriorationINCLUDES A 10-DAY JUMP-START PLAN.

In this revolutionary weight-loss program informed by more than 1,200 scientific studies, fitness and diet expert Jonathan Bailor offers concrete evidence that the calorie-counting model of weight loss doesn’t work.

In fact, cutting-edge science supports a radically different approach to weight loss and health, proving that by focusing on food and exercise quality—rather than calorie quantity—you can burn fat and boost health more easily and enjoyably that you ever thought possible.

The human body does not recognize all calories as equal. Some foods are used to repair tissue, boost brain power, and fuel our metabolism—while others are stored as fat. In The Calorie Myth, Bailor shows us how eating more of the right kinds of foods and exercising less, but at a higher intensity, is the true formula for burning fat.

Why? Because eating high-quality foods—like whole plants and nutritious proteins—balances the hormones that regulate our metabolism. Translation: Those extra 10 pounds aren’t the result of eating too much.

they’re the result from eating the wrong foods. In The Calorie Myth, Bailor offers clear, comprehensive guidance on what to eat and why, providing an eating plan, recipes, and a simple yet effective exercise regimen based on the principles of high intensity interval training.

Losing weight doesn’t have to mean going hungry or spending hours at the gym. The Calorie Myth offers a radical new model for weight loss and long-term health.

The healthy diet plan that’s become a million-copy word-of-mouth bestseller — now completely revised and updated. Hailed a “medical breakthrough” by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Eat to Live offers a highly effective, scientifically proven way to lose weight quickly.

Joel Fuhrman’s revolutionary six-week plan is simple: health = nutrients / calories. When the ratio of nutrients to calories in the food you eat is high, you lose weight. The more nutrient-dense food you eat, the less you crave fat, sweets, and high-caloric foods.

Eat to Live has been revised to include inspiring success stories from people who have used the program to lose shocking amounts of weight and recover from life-threatening illnesses; Dr. Fuhrman’s nutrient density index; up-to-date scientific research supporting the principles behind Dr.

Fuhrman’s plan; new recipes and meal ideas; and much more. This easy-to-follow, nutritionally sound diet can help anyone shed pounds quickly-and keep them off.

Here is the perfect book for beginning riders who are using muscles they never knew they had before, advanced riders who want to stay in top form (especially as they get older), and weather-bound riders who want to be fit when spring arrives.

The Rider’s Fitness Program details a fun and effective six-week program that strengthens the muscles riders use while improving overall balance, flexibility, and coordination. The book features more than 85 exercises designed to help new riders get over the aches and pains of getting started and experienced riders hone their skills and technique and prevent injuries.

The routines are flexible, so you can customize the workout you need for jumping, dressage, reining, endurance, polo, or rodeo. The exercises are accompanied by step-by-step photographs that demonstrate how to perform each action properly (with an emphasis on safety).

They progress from basic to advanced and are suitable for riders at all fitness levels. The authors also include fundamental information on diet, general health and safety, and clothing and equipment.

Take the guesswork out of getting fit! With the Personal Diet Journal, it’s easy to track your progress and figure out what works best for you. It provides a wealth of information about diet and exercise, including a BMI Chart, Exercise Chart, and Fat and Calorie Food Chart.

There’s also a quick guide to foods rich in essential vitamins and minerals so you’ll get the biggest bang for every bite you eat. Just jot down your daily stats in the journal, check your results on the weekly goal progress chart, adjust if you must—and you’re on your way to becoming slimmer, stronger, and healthier!.

Increase strength, build mass, burn fat, and define your muscles. With full-color anatomical illustrations, step-by-step instructions, and training advice, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy is the authoritative resource for sculpting your physique without free weights, machines, or expensive equipment.

Targeting all muscle zones and primary muscle regions–arms, chest, shoulders, back, core, thighs, glutes, and calves–Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy presents 156 of the most effective bodyweight exercises that can be performed anytime, anywhere.

With expert advice from renowned strength trainer Bret Contreras, you’ll learn how to modify, combine, and sequence exercises to ramp up your routine and avoid plateaus. In depth yet practical, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy takes you inside every exercise through stunning anatomical artwork that reveals primary muscles worked along with the relevant surrounding structures, including bones, ligaments, and tendons.

Whether you are just beginning your quest for a better body or simply seeking a proven approach for training at home, on the road, or on the go, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy is a one-of-a-kind resource that you’ll refer to again and again.

The host of The Model Health Show podcast shares his secrets for weight loss and staying healthy — including a transformational 30-day plan. Food is complicated. It’s a key controller of our state of health or disease.

It’s a social centerpiece for the most important moments of our lives. It’s the building block that creates our brain, enabling us to have thought, feeling, and emotion. Food isn’t just food. So why does figuring out what to eat feel so overwhelming? In Eat Smarter, nutritionist, bestselling author, and #1-ranked podcast host Shawn Stevenson breaks down the science of food, with a 30-day program to help you lose weight, reboot your metabolism and hormones, and improve your brain function.

Most important, he explains how changing what you eat can transform your life by affecting your ability to make money, sleep better, maintain relationships, and be happier. Eat Smarter will empower you and make you feel inspired about your food choices, not just because of the impact they have on your weight, but because the right foods can help make you the best version of yourself.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Daniel Plan is far more than a diet plan. It is an appetizing approach to achieving a healthy lifestyle by optimizing the five key essentials of faith, food, fitness, focus, and friends.

– Unlike the thousands of other books on the market, this book is not about a new diet, guilt-driven gym sessions, or shame-driven fasts. Your path to holistic health begins here, as Pastor Rick Warren and fitness and medical experts Dr.

Mark Hyman guide you to incorporate healthy choices into your current lifestyle. – The concepts in this book will encourage you to deepen your relationship with God and develop a community of supportive friends who will encourage you to make smart food and fitness choices each and every day.

This results in gradual changes that transform your life as they help you: Conquer your worst cravings – Find healthy replacement foods for the foods you love – Discover exercise you enjoy – Boost your energy and kick-start your metabolism – Lose weight – Think more clearly – Explore biblical principles for health.

and ultimately create an all-around healthy lifestyle – It’s time to feast on something bigger than a fad. Start your journey to impactful, long-lasting, and sustainable results today Plus, get more from The Daniel Plan with The Daniel Plan Cookbook, The Daniel Plan Journal, and The Daniel Plan 365-Day Devotional.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Improve all areas of your health—your sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, weight—and even slow down aging with easy, science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar while still eating the foods you love.

Glucose, or blood sugar, is a tiny molecule in our body that has a huge impact on our health. Ninety percent of us suffer from too much glucose in our system—and most of us don’t know it. The symptoms? Cravings, fatigue, infertility, hormonal issues, acne, wrinkles… And over time, the development of conditions like type 2 diabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome, cancer, dementia, and heart disease.

Drawing on cutting-edge science and her own pioneering research, biochemist Jessie Inchauspé offers ten simple, surprising hacks to help you balance your glucose levels and reverse your symptoms—without going on a diet or giving up the foods you love.

For example: * How eating foods in the right order will make you lose weight effortlessly * What secret ingredient will allow you to eat dessert and still go into fat-burning mode * What small change to your breakfast will unlock energy and cut your cravings Both entertaining, informative, and packed with the latest scientific data, this book presents a new way to think about better health.

Glucose Revolution is chock-full of tips that can drastically and immediately improve your life, whatever your dietary preferences.

The host of The Model Health Show podcast shares his secrets for weight loss and staying healthy — including a transformational 30-day plan. Food is complicated. It’s a key controller of our state of health or disease.

It’s a social centerpiece for the most important moments of our lives. It’s the building block that creates our brain, enabling us to have thought, feeling, and emotion. Food isn’t just food. So why does figuring out what to eat feel so overwhelming? In Eat Smarter, nutritionist, bestselling author, and #1-ranked podcast host Shawn Stevenson breaks down the science of food, with a 30-day program to help you lose weight, reboot your metabolism and hormones, and improve your brain function.

Most important, he explains how changing what you eat can transform your life by affecting your ability to make money, sleep better, maintain relationships, and be happier. Eat Smarter will empower you and make you feel inspired about your food choices, not just because of the impact they have on your weight, but because the right foods can help make you the best version of yourself.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe Daniel Plan is far more than a diet plan. It is an appetizing approach to achieving a healthy lifestyle by optimizing the five key essentials of faith, food, fitness, focus, and friends.

– Unlike the thousands of other books on the market, this book is not about a new diet, guilt-driven gym sessions, or shame-driven fasts. Your path to holistic health begins here, as Pastor Rick Warren and fitness and medical experts Dr.

Mark Hyman guide you to incorporate healthy choices into your current lifestyle. – The concepts in this book will encourage you to deepen your relationship with God and develop a community of supportive friends who will encourage you to make smart food and fitness choices each and every day.

This results in gradual changes that transform your life as they help you: Conquer your worst cravings – Find healthy replacement foods for the foods you love – Discover exercise you enjoy – Boost your energy and kick-start your metabolism – Lose weight – Think more clearly – Explore biblical principles for health.

and ultimately create an all-around healthy lifestyle – It’s time to feast on something bigger than a fad. Start your journey to impactful, long-lasting, and sustainable results today Plus, get more from The Daniel Plan with The Daniel Plan Cookbook, The Daniel Plan Journal, and The Daniel Plan 365-Day Devotional.

The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever created, this book is a body-shaping power tool for both beginners and longtime lifters alike.

From start to finish, this 480-page muscle manual bulges with hundreds of useful tips, the latest findings in exercise science, and cutting-edge workouts from the world’s top trainers. All expertly demonstrated with color photographs, with dozens of movements for every muscle in your body, including:* More than 100 core exercises! You’ll never run out of ways to sculpt your six-pack.

* 74 biceps, triceps, and forearm exercises: Build your arms faster than ever before. * 64 chest exercises, and featuring dozens of variations of the pushup and bench press. * 103 back exercises, so you can carve a v-shaped torso.

* 40 shoulder exercises, for a tank-top worthy torso. * 99 quadriceps and calves exercises, to help you jump higher and run faster. * 62 glutes and hamstrings exercises, for a more powerful, athletic body.

Hundreds of workouts! From cover to cover, you’ll quickly see that there’s a training plan for every fitness goal—whether you want to shrink your hip, find your abs, or shape your arms. Highlights include:* The World’s Greatest 4-Week Diet and Exercise Plan – Lose 10 pounds of pure fat in 30 days! This scientifically proven plan, based on research from the University of Connecticut, shows what’s truly possible when you combine the right kind of diet with the right kind of exercise.

You’ll build muscle and lose fat faster than ever. * 64 Ways to Add Inches to Your Arms – You’ll learn how to mix-and-match the 12 best biceps exercises to create scores of sleeve-busting routines. The upshot: You’ll never get stuck in a muscle-building rut again! * The Get Back In Shape (Fast!) Guide – If you’ve never even picked up a weight, you’ll want to try this plan from Joe Dowdell, C.

S. C. S. Joe makes his living training celebrities, cover models, and professional athletes, such as NBA stars Troy Murphy and Mike Dunleavy. And the strategies he uses when designing workouts for his high-profile clientele are the same ones he employs to help you burn fat, build muscle, and get back in shape.

* The Ultimate Fat Loss Plan – You might call this the six-pack workout. That’s because it’s designed to help you finally finish off the flab that’s hiding your abs. Created by Bill Hartman, P. T. , C.

S. C. S. , a top fitness advisor to Men’s Health, it’s based entirely on the new science of fat loss. From the sets to the reps to the rest, every part of this workout is designed to optimize your body’s ability to burn away belly-fat.

– And:* Boost Your Bench Press by 50 Pounds in 8 Weeks – World-class powerlifter Dave Tate shares the strategies that helped him lift a personal best of 610 pounds * Triple Your Chinups in 6 Weeks – Use this simple routine that to master one of the world’s greatest muscle-building exercises* Add 4 to 10 inches to Your Vertical Leap – This high-flying plan from strength coach Kelly Baggett will have you jumping out of the gym in no time * The Beach Ready Body Workout – Get-strong to get-big—this 8-week plan shows you how * The Wedding Workout – Look great—just in time for the big day (and your honeymoon!) * The Best Sports Workout – Train like an athlete, look like an athlete* The Scrawny to Brawny Workout – Pack on muscle fast: your 4-week plan * The Best Workouts for a Crowded Gym – Sculpt a lean, fit body—no waiting! * The Best Bodyweight Workouts – Take your workout anywhere with these no-weight routines * The 10 Best 15-Minute Workout.

The World’s Fittest Book is set to become every fitness enthusiast’s bible. Dubbed the body’s complete user guide, it will become the go-to resource for learning all you need to know about building muscle, losing fat, eating (healthy) cake and unlocking your superhuman physical potential.

Packed with workouts the author tried and tested in the pursuit of multiple world records, it’s more than a book, it’s the greatest training tool ever written! Designed for anyone who wants to make permanent and lasting changes to their food and fitness, it’s the first book to combine the teachings, tips and tricks of Olympic and World Champions into one, easy to follow resource.

– This book will show you how it’s possible to:Live below 10% body fat with the aid of chocolate and Mayan secrets – Add 27% more muscle mass, courtesy of tips from world heavyweight champions – Increase speed by 10%, thanks to gold medal winning Olympic sprinters – Squat, deadlift and bench weights you never dreamed of lifting, with the guidance of the world’s strongest men – Improve endurance capacity by 60%, thanks to the knowledge of world champions in multi endurance-based sports.

all of which the author has achieved during the 10-year ‘Fitness Pilgrimage’ that has taken him around the globe. Aiming to be the most eclectic and comprehensive fitness guide ever created, The World’s Fittest Book is the sum and substance of over a decade of research and the collective wisdom of some of the greatest minds and athletic bodies in history.

By learning the lessons within it, readers will understand ‘fitness’ better than the vast majority of the population. Every chapter will have an easy to digest workout within it and can be read individually.

But if you want to read the stories and the science behind the routines, that’s there too. Until now, there hasn’t been a book covering such an ambitious range of areas, catering for the casual fitness enthusiast seeking clarity and guidance in their own gym routine and kitchen habits as well as the seasoned sportsperson who’s hit a plateau and is searching for tips, tricks and tweaks they can make to their training and diet.

This book changes that, and will take you on a journey to whatever level of fitness you want to find.

Discover the cutting-edge science behind long-term weight loss success, in this powerful new book from the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die. Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad—and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems.

It’s time for a different approach. Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of the Nutrition Facts website. Author of the mega bestselling How Not to Die, Dr.

Greger now turns his attention to the latest research on the leading causes—and remedies—of obesity. Dr. Greger hones in on the optimal criteria to enable weight loss, while considering how these foods actually affect our health and longevity.

He lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss diet—factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome—showing how plant-based eating is crucial to our success.

But How Not to Diet goes beyond food to identify twenty-one weight-loss accelerators available to our bodies, incorporating the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities.

Dr. Greger builds the ultimate weight loss guide from the ground up, taking a timeless, proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend. Chock full of actionable advice and groundbreaking dietary research, How Not to Diet will put an end to dieting—and replace those constant weight-loss struggles with a simple, healthy, sustainable lifestyle.

Over 1 million copies sold! With new exercises, additional stretches, and more of Frédéric Delavier’s signature illustrations, you’ll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during strength exercises.

This one-of-a-kind best-seller combines the visual detail of top anatomy texts with the best of strength training advice. Many books explain what muscles are used during exercise, but no other resource brings the anatomy to life like Strength Training Anatomy.

Over 600 full-color illustrations reveal the primary muscles worked along with all the relevant surrounding structures, including bones, ligaments, tendons, and connective tissue. Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the anatomical depictions show both superficial and deep layers and detail how various setup positions affect muscle recruitment and emphasize underlying structures.

New pages show common strength training injuries in a fascinating light and offer precautions to help you exercise safely. Author and illustrator Frédéric Delavier is the former editor in chief of the French publication PowerMag.

He is a journalist for Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to Men’s Health Germany and several other strength training publications.

Joel Fuhrman’s Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program for Conquering Disease offers precise diet and fasting programs to relieve headache, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis, psoriasis, lupus, and uterine fibroids.

You’ll also learn:- How to use fasting to lose weight- How to start, what to expect, how to reintroduce food to maintain maximum benefits- How to work with a physician for longer fasts (more than 3 days).

Does it feel as if you’re fighting your body to lose even one pound—or just to maintain your current weight? Respected health and wellness expert and bestselling author Jillian Michaels has been there, too.

So she consulted top experts in the field of metabolism and discovered that she’d inadvertently been abusing her endocrine system for years. After “fixing” her own metabolism, she decided to share what she learned by devising this simple, 3-phase plan that engages all the weight-loss hormones (including the friendly HGH, testosterone, DHEA; and the not-so-friendly: insulin, cortisol, and excess estrogen).

In Master Your Metabolism, discover how to: – REMOVE “anti-nutrients” from your diet – RESTORE foods that speak directly to fat-burning genes – REBALANCE energy and your hormones for effortless weight loss Michaels offers a wealth of information throughout, including: shopping lists and online shopping resources, hormone-trigger food charts, how to eat “power nutrient” foods on a budget, smart strategies for eating out, quick and easy recipes, as well as mini-programs for addressing PMS, andropause, metabolic syndrome, PCOS, and menopause.

Includes a bonus PDF with tips, recipes, and meal plans for maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle.

12-time New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD, presents his unique Pegan diet — including meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists. For decades, the diet wars have pitted advocates for the low-carb, high-fat paleo diet against advocates of the exclusively plant-based vegan diet and dozens of other diets leaving most of us bewildered and confused.

For those of us on the sidelines, trying to figure out which approach is best has been nearly impossible — both extreme diets have unique benefits and drawbacks. There must be a better way! Fortunately, there is.

With The Pegan Diet, a food is medicine approach, Mark Hyman explains how to take the best aspects of the paleo diet (good fats, limited refined carbs, limited sugar) and combine them with the vegan diet (lots and lots of fresh, healthy veggies) to create a delicious diet that is not only good for your brain and your body, but also good for the planet.

Featuring 30 recipes, and plenty of infographics illustrating the concepts, The Pegan Diet offers a balanced and easy-to-follow approach to eating that will help you get, and stay, fit, healthy, focused, and happy — for life.