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    The MAF Method: A Personalized Approach to Health and Fitness
    The MAF Method: A Personalized Approach to Health and Fitness
    The MAF Method: A Personalized Approach to Health and Fitness
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    The MAF Method: A Personalized Approach to Health and Fitness

    By Dr. Philip Maffetone

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    About this ebook

    I’ve been helping people personalize their health and fitness needs for more than four decades. This eBook takes you through the key features of MAF — why and how it works and the way food, exercise and stress are able to significantly help us. By the end you’ll be ready to start.

    MAF is an open system that can be used by itself, or be integrated into any approach you may be currently using, or help you start all over again. That’s
    because MAF provides assessment tools that help take the guesswork out of exercise, food and stress management. These tools, such as the MAF Test and Two Week Test, can help you better understand whether your workouts and eating patterns are really right for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Philip Maffetone
    Release dateMay 12, 2020
    ISBN9780463388631
    The MAF Method: A Personalized Approach to Health and Fitness
    Author

    Dr. Philip Maffetone

    Dr. Philip Maffetone’s credo is that “everyone is an athlete.” As a health and fitness trendsetter he has perhaps had more positive impact on a wider variety of people than anyone in modern history. From professional and Olympic athletes in virtually every sport, to average people from all walks of life, his system for achieving optimum human performance by tapping into the human body’s fat-burning system has helped millions of people achieve their goals in sports, business and life.During his two decades in private practice and beyond, Dr. Maffetone has been a respected pioneer in the field of complementary medicine, bringing the latest advances to health-care professionals around the world. He is an internationally recognized researcher, educator, clinician and author in the field of nutrition, exercise and sports medicine, and biofeedback.Over the course of his career, Dr. Maffetone has worked with some of the world’s finest athletes in a variety of sports, most notably Mark Allen, six-time Hawaii Ironman Triathlon Champion. Dr. Maffetone has also worked with other endurance athletes of all types, professional baseball and football players, adventurers, NASCAR drivers, and Olympic medalists in a variety of sports. While his work with top-level athletes reads like “Who’s Who,” perhaps more notable, Dr. Maffetone has helped thousands of weekend warriors achieve personal-best performances in their chosen sports.Outside the sports arena, Dr. Maffetone has coached a variety of people in the entertainment field, including musicians James Taylor and Johnny Cash, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and producer Rick Rubin, and has also provided a system of success for some of the world’s top business executives as well as the United States military.Dr. Maffetone’s research has been reported in newspapers, magazines and other media around the world, including Huffington Post, The Today Show, Men’s Health, CNN, Readers Digest and The Atlantic magazine.Schooled in the fields of human biology, kinesiology, physiotherapy and Chinese medicine, Dr. Maffetone is a pioneer in the field of biofeedback. He is an internationally-acclaimed author, having published more than 20 books including the first on heart-rate monitoring in the early 1980s, and the first on the benefits of barefoot running in the 1990s. His “Big Book of Health and Fitness” serves as a bible for the healthy and active lifestyle, and his textbook, “Complementary Sports Medicine” is published in four languages. He continues to write extensively and lecture worldwide on health and human performance.In 2003, Dr. Maffetone was presented with the prestigious Statuette award by the International Academy for Child Brain Development. He was named Triathlete Magazine’s coach of the year in 1995, and in 2000 was honored by Inside Triathlon magazine as one of the top-20 most influential people in endurance sports worldwide.

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    The MAF Method - Dr. Philip Maffetone

    THE MAF METHOD

    Personalize your health and fitness

    MAF logo

    Dr. Philip Maffetone

    Dr. Maffetone’s system goes beyond dealing with symptoms; he looks at health and fitness as an integrated balance. He deals with the whole picture clearly and directly. Fascinating and illuminating… and I feel great!

    — James Taylor, singer, recording artist

    Edited by Hal Walter

    © 2020 Phil Maffetone

    The guidelines put forth in this book should only be used as a reference and only used in the context of standard medical care with your physician.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    1. Why MAF works

    2. How MAF works

    3. Decision-making in health and fitness

    4. MAF 180

    5. Athletes: Fit but unhealthy?

    6. Healthy food vs. junk food

    7. Sugar addiction

    8. Dietary supplements

    9. The new aerobic revolution

    10. Addressing stress

    11. The overfat pandemic

    12. How to grow younger

    Epilog: Let's begin your MAF journey!

    References

    Introduction

    Greetings, and welcome to MAF. I’ve been helping people personalize their health and fitness needs for more than four decades. This eBook gives you a good overview of many key features of MAF — why and how it works, important useful definitions, and the ways food, exercise and stress are able to significantly help us. By the end you’ll be ready to start the process of personalization.

    MAF is an open system that can be used by itself, or be integrated into any approach you may be currently using, or help you start all over again. That’s because MAF provides assessment tools that help take the guesswork out of exercise, food and stress management. These tools, such as the MAF Test and Two-Week Test, can help you better understand whether your workouts and eating patterns are really right for you.

    A note about terminology. I have emphasized simplicity throughout my career. Let’s start at the top.

    Health and fitness are separate but related states.

    Health: a state of complete, physical, biochemical, mental-emotional balance where all bodily systems (nervous, hormonal, immune, digestive, etc.) function in harmony.

    Fitness: the quality of physical activity, including exercise and sports.

    One can be healthy but have poor fitness ; or very fit but unhealthy.

    An unfortunate but common problem in sports is that athletes are too often fit but unhealthy. The indications include the common incidence of physical, biochemical and mental-emotional injuries. Athletes are often forced out of training and competition due to these conditions, and, sadly, some die at early ages during competition due to health problems.

    Health and fitness encompass all the terms that are thrown around like a pair of old sports shoes. Some of these buzzwords include longevity, wellness, athletic, being in shape and mindfulness. How about unwell, poor health, out of shape, obese, overweight? Cardio anyone? Core? Then there are the mental, emotional, psychological, cognitive, behavioral aspects of the brain, and its memories and creativity. As many of these are not well-defined, confusion results in their implementation.

    Basically, health and fitness covers them all.

    We can further describe the components of health and fitness through three aspects:

    Physical: This includes our body structure such as muscles, ligaments, tendons, bones and joints.

    Biochemical: Included are hormones, digestive enzymes, nutrients, blood components and the brain’s neurotransmitters.

    Mental-emotional: This includes our cognitive process, thinking and being our self, memory, learning and others, including physical pain.

    While most features of health and fitness can be put into one category, most also include the two other factors. For example, muscles are physical factors that contain biochemical and mental-emotion features that influence their function.

    MAF emphasizes the balance of all components of both health and fitness. This begins with the need to improve the aerobic system because it supplies the energy that’s essential for all physical, biochemical and mental-emotional health and fitness.

    The acronym MAF stands for maximum aerobic

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