Deep Fitness: The Mindful, Science-Based Strength-Training Method to Transform Your Well-Being in Just 30 Minutes a Week

I am a Pilates Instructor and studio owner who has served clients (and myself struggled) with chronic health conditions for nearly 20 years. As a lifelong teacher-learner whose body has never adapted neatly into standardized fitness approaches, I'm forever looking for ways to apply the latest scientific evidence to my own workouts and I can say that this book is a game-changer for me! It has refreshed my sense of what's important and possible for my own quirky body, and described why low muscle tone is linked to so many disparate-seeming physical challenges. It is an empowering testimony why exercise can be so transformative. It has also opened my eyes to new possibilities within the Pilates environment and I'm already at work re-shaping and supplementing our offerings to put the principles of MSTF into practice. I also bought 10 copies for my staff. In other words, YES I think you should buy this book. It is fantastic!

My journey with exercising to muscle failure was deepened by this book. Been doing muscle fatigue exercises for about three years. This book taught me to slow down even more and become engaged in the moment for a deeper experience. This has been a definite game changer and enriching experience that will be of use for decades to come. Still, there’s a lot to learn.

I teach a method of neuromuscular education called Clinical Somatics, which relieves chronic pain. One of my students recommended Deep Fitness to me because its principles are so in line with somatics. I am thrilled to have found MSTF! It is the safest, most effective way to build strength that I have come across. And, it is the only type of strength workout I've ever truly enjoyed and looked forward to!I am recommending Deep Fitness to all of my students. Strength training is an essential element of everyone's workout routine, especially as we age, and MSTF is the best way to approach it. Thank you for writing this book—it's a game changer!!Sarah Warren, CCSE, RSMEAuthor of The Pain Relief Secret

There's some good info here. Also, some nonsense.30 minutes a week won't really transform your cardio stamina and flexibility while building muscle. But even so, the workouts are effective.

The book itself is jam packed with science based knowledge. I learned so much. But honestly the shape/size of the book combined with the glossy paper made it difficult to hold and very annoying.

This is a great book to use as a reference or to follow step by step. It is an approach to fitness that you can incorporate into your routine or to guide you in beginning one. It's unique in it's wisdom and meditative approach. Your patience, strength and awareness of your self will grow. Your relationship with your breath will improve. A book of strength building from the inside out.

This is a fantastic book, dispelling (with ample data) many assumed truths about exercise and fitness. For those seeking an evidence-based methodology for how to get your biggest bang for your buck with exercise , this book won’t disappoint.

I am 66 years old and have changed my lifestyle and diet. Next, I was looking for how to integrate strength training into my life. This approach seems to answer how I can do it consistently and without injury for years to come.

I am so pleased I found this at the recommendation from my Clinical Somatics teacher Sarah Warren for the best type of exercise for strengthening, muscle building and correct muscle use. The exercises are slow and deliberate, focusing on the feeling inside each muscle and carefully taking it to exhaustion. The workouts take only 30 minutes and I have been doing them twice a week. In 5 weeks time I have repaired my body from almost needing spine surgery. It is an exercise plan for the rest of my life. I can't say enough great things about this workout, and I have been lucky enough to get the co-author Andrei Yakovenko to train me. It is a miracle, I can walk again and my previous pain level of a 10 is down to an occasional 1 or 2 and is manageable now. Try it, you will be amazed at how well this works.

The authors have delivered a timely and apposite book. It’s easily digestible, to the point and brilliantly combines cutting edge science and mindfulness holistically. Cannot rate this enough. Stupendous

For someone already into HIT-Training, there is not that much new stuff in here, besides the interesting perspective concerning the meditative aspect of this type of resistance training. But I nevertheless recommend the book, especially for people who have no prior knowledge about this way of working out. It's really amazing what you can achieve with such an minimal time investment

I'm so grateful I found this book. After reading a recommendation in Zoomer magazine, I bought it and read it several times. The book is well laid out, easy to read and persuasive. The authors succeeded in helping me gain a profound appreciation for how my muscles work, and how I could leverage my workouts to break out of a fitness rut. I am finally sweating again when I work out, my body is becoming noticeably stronger, and I am not getting hurt. The workouts illustrated in the book are well explained, but working out virtually or in person are still the best way to get maximum benefits. Reading the book and following through will take your fitness to a new level: you will feel what it's like to make your muscles meet their potential. Read it and give it to your friends and family!

In some sense there's not a lot new in Deep Fitness - I've studied (and practised) both evidence-based strength training and meditation for about a decade. And yet the way in which they are combined here has brought something totally new and fresh to the way in which I approach both. Great book, and one of those cases where 1+1=3 😉