The 10-Minute L.E.A.P: Lifetime Exercise Adherance Plan Book

Staying healthy isn't just a matter of diet--exercise is crucial. However, many people find excuses not to do it. Now, Richard L. Brown, Ph.D., an Olympic coach and trainer to some of the top track and field athletes in the world, offers a powerful, compelling new exercise program that is easy, sustainable, and guarantees optimal performance at all times--a program that increases energy and alertness, enhances sexual performance, helps combat disease, extends your life, and makes you look and feel better.

Based on the most up-to-date physiological and health research and Brown's own experiences training athletes, the L.E.A.P. (Lifetime Exercise Adherence Plan) is a personal mentor that shows you how to:

• measure your fitness level

• create a practical, flexible physical activity program that's realistic and right for you--including how often, how long, and how hard to work

• set goals you can achieve that keep you in the optimal beneficial "zone" without physical or psychological burnout

• measure your progress as you accurately evaluate your performance with every activity.

With L.E.A.P., you will be able to determine just how much energy your body is capable of converting at any given time through physical activities--even those not commonly considered exercise, such as gardening, raking leaves, and vacuuming. In segments as small as ten minutes a day, you can maintain and improve your health, fitness, and quality of life.

Brown answers commonly asked questions and offers practical tools that help in setting training schedules, maintaining a balanced diet, attaining accurate intensity measurements, reducing stress, and staying motivated.

Now you can make exercise a consistent, beneficial and enjoyable part of your life. Get the best from yourself--take the L.E.A.P. to a new, supercharged you.

"The beauty of Dick Brown's secret is that it fits everybody. People at every level can benefit because everyone has the same problems--'when am I exercising too little and when am I exercising too much?'"
--Covert Bailey, author of Fit or Fat

"Dick Brown has taken the mystery out of physical training regardless of your stage of fitness. He is quite right that exercise should be treated with the same respect as any drug. This means you have to use it correctly and stay within a zone. Following his guidelines, you'll be able to use this 'drug' more effectively and with greater enjoyment than you ever imagined."
--Barry Sears, Ph.D., author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Zone

• L.E.A.P. looks at you as an individual, establishes your ability to consume oxygen, and helps you set up an exercise program that balances your physical activity with your capacity to recover.

• L.E.A.P. helps you to determine how much physical activity is exactly right for you, giving you a place to start, a realistic goal at which to aim, and a schedule to follow that gives you answers to the questions, "How often? How long? How hard?"

• L.E.A.P. provides tips on how to get the most from the time you spend on physical activity and shows you the strategies to help you get through the rough spots.

• L.E.A.P. gives you simple tools that help you in specific areas such as training schedules, diet, intensity measurements, stress reduction, and motivation.