Everyday Health and Fitness with Multiple Sclerosis Achieve Your Peak Physical Wellness While Working with Limited Mobility

by Lyons, David; Sloane, Jacob; John, Daymond

• ISBN13: 9781592337415
• ISBN10: 1592337414
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-02-01
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press

Summary

Achieve real gains and remove obstacles in your path to fitness with Everyday Health and Fitness with Multiple Sclerosis.

David Lyons' program is designed to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle and includes anecdotes from real people with MS, their limitations and how they followed this plan to reach their fitness goals. The customizable, high-intensity, calorie-burning workout builds lean muscle mass. Find advice and solutions for overcoming mental hurdles, nutrition fundamentals to properly fuel workouts, easily adaptable exercises, and motivation. Everyday Heath and Fitness is a road map for every person who wants to conquer a disease or disability, and just get moving.

Author Biography

David Lyons was a healthy bodybuilder and gym owner when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2006 at the age of 47. The doctors told him he would rapidly decline and require a wheelchair. Instead David battled the disease in the gym and challenged himself by competing in an NPC bodybuilding competition. David and his wife Kendra then founded the MS Fitness Challenge, which provides certified fitness professionals to people with MS nationwide for 12 weeks at no cost as well as a gym membership, in an effort to educate and train them in the benefits of exercise and nutrition. He and Kendra have also launched their own gym, the OptimalBody Personal Fitness facility in Murrieta, CA.

With American Fitness Professionals & Associates (AFPA), David developed the MS Fitness & Wellness Specialist certification, and he currently writes for EverydayHealth.com. David is the recipient of the Most Inspirational Award at the 2009 Florida State Bodybuilding Championship at 50 years old, the National MS Society Milestone Award, the Health Advocate Achievement Award (alongside Lou Ferrigno), the Health Advocate Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by Arnold Schwarzenegger), and the Lifetime Fitness Inspiration Award from the Global Bodybuilding Organization.

Jacob Sloane, M.D., Ph.D. is a neurologist at the Multiple Sclerosis clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, working to enhance the high level care of Multiple Sclerosis patients at this institution and to conduct Multiple Sclerosis related research. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Boston University Medical School. His PhD in pathology was performed in Carmela Abraham's laboratory at Boston University. He completed an internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital. He started his own laboratory in 2009.

Daymond John is the founder of FUBU, Presidential Ambassador of Global Entrepreneurship, and co-star of ABC's Shark Tank. He is a celebrated pioneer in the fashion industry, branding guru, and highly sought after motivational speaker. John has two best-selling books, Display of Power and The Brand Within, and a third book, The Power of Broke, released in 2016.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Daymond John
Introduction
Part 1      Preparing for Change and a Healthier You
1              Just Get Moving: Find Motivation and Inspiration
2              Achieve Mental Fitness: Make Lifestyle Changes for a Healthy Mind
3              Everyday Nutrition: Eat Right to Reach Your Goals
Part 2      The Multi-Phase Plan to Achieve Your Optimal Body
4              Getting Started: Know the Terms and Tools
5          Phase 1: Adapt Your Workouts, Build Muscle, and Lose Fat
6              Phase 2: Jump-Start Your Metabolism
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Appendix: Sample Fitness and Nutrition Journal
Index