Fitness Book RecommendationsThe following is a list of fitness book recommendations that I've made to clients over the years. Each of these fitness book recommendations are books I've read and see value in. I've linked each book with Amazon.com where you can read summaries of the books as well as other readers' ratings.
Natural Health Books
Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome 
This is an incredibly informative and reader-friendly book about a common debilitating medical condition that goes largely undiagnosed and untreated. A very empowering work, cram-packed with vital information about a condition that very likely affects millions of people.
The Cortisol Connection Diet: The Breakthrough Program to Control Stress and Lose Weight
Hormone Balance: A Woman's Guide To Restoring Health And Vitality
Hormonal Health: Nutritional and Hormonal Strategies for Emotional Well-Being & Intellectual Longevity Books on Peak Performance
The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life Books on Nutrition
The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat Loren Cordain, Ph.D., is widely acknowledged as a leading expert on the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors. In numerous publications in the world's best scientific journals, he has documented the dramatic health benefits of eating a diet consistent with human genetic evolution. Learn how a diet based on lean meats, seafood, fresh fruits, and fresh vegetables can lead to ideal body weight, optimum health, and peak athletic performance.
The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance  Loren Cordain, Ph.D., follows his success of The Paleo Diet with the first book ever to detail the exercise-enhancing effects of a diet similar to that of our Stone Age ancestors. At every level of competition, The Paleo Diet for Athletes can maximize performance in a range of endurance sports.
Power Eating  is a complete guide to developing a diet that can maximize a man or woman's efforts to increase strength contains the latest information on supplements, steroid alternatives, and eating plans for the dedicated strength trainer. Low-fat recipes are featured, along with the author's special muscle building drink formula.
Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill: The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health  In Fats that Heal Fats that Kill, expert Udo Erasmus takes an in-depth look at the oil industry. Read about the politics of health and the way our bodies assimilate oil. Learn about modern healthful oils like flax, evening primrose and hemp.
Eating For Life  has already helped thousands of people break free from the dieting dilemma and discover that, contrary to pop-culture belief, food is friend, not foe. Used intelligently, it nourishes the body and mind, satisfies the appetite, calms cravings, renews health and lifts energy.
Books on Fitness
Strength Training Anatomy One of the best-selling strength training books ever published! Get an inside look at the human form in action with more than 400 full-color illustrations. This detailed artwork showcases the muscles used during each exercise and delineates how these muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. Like having an X-ray for each exercise, the information gives you a multifaceted view of strength training not seen in any other resource.
Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning  is the most comprehensive reference available for strength and conditioning professionals. In this text, 30 expert contributors explore the scientific principles, concepts, and theories of strength training and conditioning as well as their applications to athletic performance.
Full-Body Flexibility Release unhealthy tension and tightness from your muscles with an advanced stretching system tailored to how you move! The Full-Body Flexibility system blends the best stretching methods from yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and sports training. Stretch sequences are organized by body region and by type of movement so that you can quickly find a flexibility workout for performance, specific muscle relief, or recovery; or you can customize a sequence to your own special needs.
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explores the documented relationship between elevated levels of this hormone, chronic stress, and such health conditions as obesity, depression, suppressed immune system, osteoporosis, and hypertension. This new edition describes the results of the latest research about the connection between cortisol and HSD, and cortisol and testosterone.
Provides prescriptive, easy-to-read information that helps women overcome the hormonal rollercoaster that often leads to mood swings, PMS, weight gain, and more. This comprehensive work provides traditional and alternative solutions for women to balance hormones and achieve greater overall health.
is a program of nutrition, exercise and supplementation. This best selling book is a must for those wishing to optimize health, vigor and lifespan. The book explores hormone replacement therapies for men and women, treatments for menopause, and methods for slowing the effects of aging. This book is written for lay people and professionals alike
is based on cutting-edge neuroscience from the world-renowned Amen Clinic, this practical, easy-to-understand guide gives you the tools you need to optimize your brain-power and enrich your health and your life in the process.
Dr. Jim Loehr, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder of the Human Performance Institute and New York Times bestselling co-author of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives.
Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in their groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness and life balance.
Trying to lose weight but just too confused as where to start? Everything You Need to Know About Fat Loss will show you the way. You will learn and understand the effects total calories, types of calories and exercise exert on body fat loss and body fat inhibition.
Achieving your best body ever requires that two elements merge as one: solid training and good nutrition. This book provides the nutritional component of that muscle-bulding equation, offering the Men’s Health take on food for fitness. Men’s Health Muscle Chow gives you more than 150 simple recipes for delicious meals ranging from workout protein shakes to healthy dinners the whole family will enjoy.
the straight scoop on food, how nutrition research is influenced by food industry lobbyists and politics. It's author, Nestle, has a great reputation as an expert and researcher. What to Eat is balanced, scientific thinking on how to eat to be healthy. A refreshingly non-biased, objective and reasonable view of how we need to eat to stay healthy.