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Body Fuel

Body Fuel

Calorie-cycle your way to reduced body fat and greater muscle definition

Summary

Fitness phenomenon Mark Lauren has shown thousands of people around the world how to get in shape FAST through his bestselling book, You Are Your Own Gym.

Now, for the first time, Lauren reveals his unique eating plan to supercharge your metabolism, build and preserve muscle, burn fat and boost energy. The Body Fuel diet is made up of three, easy-to-follow blocks. You'll learn how to 'cycle calories', plus how and when to eat slow-fuel carbs, fast-fuel carbs, proteins and fats to get the most from your workouts and steadily lose weight. Designed to trick the metabolism, keeping the body in fat-burning mode, the programme won't let you fall into common diet ruts that stop you getting the best from your body.

The perfect companion to You Are Your Own Gym, Body Fuel includes: fully anglicised text, menus for each of the three eating blocks, 50 deliciously easy recipes, advice on supplements, a meal planner, and the advice you need to customise the plan for your own needs, including a section dedicated to Veganism. With Body Fuel, you'll keep your tastebuds happy and your body lean for the rest of your life.

About the author

Mark Lauren

Mark Lauren trained US Special Forces operatives for over a decade and revolutionised the US army’s training regimes. During that time he effectively prepared over 700 trainees for the extreme physical demands of the most elite levels of the US special operations community. He is a Military Physical Training Specialist, Special Operations Combat Controller, triathlete and mixed martial artist. Lauren broke, and still holds, the Department of Defense s long-standing underwater record by swimming 133 meters, on one breath, subsurface, for 2 minutes and 23 seconds, until losing consciousness. He lives in Tampa Bay, Florida.
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