Body Rx: Dr.Scott Connelly's 6-Pack Prescription

The fitness and fat-loss program that keeps star athletes like Jason Sehorn and Troy Aikman in peak condition also has the power to enable a sedentary housewife to lose one hundred pounds, while providing everyone in between with the tools needed to exceed their physical goals. Body Rx is that program. It has changed the lives of thousands. And it can change yours. The genius behind Body Rx is Dr. A. Scott Connelly, the founder of the sports nutrition movement, and the inventor of MET-Rx, the world's bestselling sports supplement. For years, the five million regular MET-Rx users have been clamoring for Dr. Connelly to put his legendary program into book form. The time has finally come.

In Body Rx, Dr. Connelly reveals his 6-Pack Prescription for a great body. Cutting-edge metabolism research teaches us that the only way to get a better body is to make muscle and burn fat. Calorie counting, endless aerobics, and food deprivation will only rob you of muscle and make you fatter. Through four six-week cycles dedicated to getting stronger, getting sculpted, burning fat, and maintenance, Body Rx is an easy-to-follow exercise and diet plan designed for results.

Dr. Scott Connelly follows his own advice, and it shows. At fifty, he is six feet five and a lean 220 pounds of solid muscle. Dr. Connelly is the ideal combination of a trusted physician and hard-charging personal trainer. His passion for building healthier, better bodies will take Body Rx to the front ranks as one of the most effective, original, and popular books in the field. "You can have the body you want," promises A. Scott Connelly, M.D., a physician, personal trainer, sports nutrition specialist, and sports-supplement designer. His "6-Pack Prescription" is a program of four six-week cycles (strength training, sculpting, fat burning, and maintenance/endurance), each with its own eating plan, exercise program, and optional supplementation. Six months, promises Connelly, will give you the body you want.

"To change how you look on the outside, you need to reverse what's happening on the inside" by reprogramming your body to manufacture muscle, says Connelly. He emphasizes "nutrient partitioning," the principle that "a metabolic traffic cop" directs nutrients into fat-burning muscles or parks them as stored fat. Ingredients and additives in the foods we eat cause nutrients to move into the fat-storage parking lot instead of the fat-burning expressway. He recommends eating plenty of high-fiber complex carbohydrates and low-fat protein, and eliminating processed foods containing fructose ("the Stealth bomber of sweeteners"). Although Connelly designed a line of supplements marketed by Met-Rx, he restricts his supplementation recommendations to one short chapter and does not push his own line. Connelly's exercise program focuses on weight training, with 20 exercises divided into four different weekly workout sessions. Illustrations of the exercises, which work all the major muscle groups, include both machine and free-weight options. Charts--both filled in with his prescription and blank for you to log your actual program--are provided for meal planning and exercise. --Joan Price