The Happy Body
Jerzy and Aniela Gregorek's morning program of slow lifts, stretching and eating rules
Jerzy Gregorek won four world weightlifting championships and coached at UCLA. With his wife Aniela he teaches the program the book sets out. It is a short daily sequence of a few exercises, each one done slowly to a fixed count. Flexibility, strength and posture are the target together rather than any one of them. Rules for eating are strict and specific. The tone is uncompromising, and a lot of the book goes on excuses, which is either why people stick with it or why they put it down.
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Jerzy Gregorek trained him and he keeps sending friends and relatives, though he admits he has gifted more sessions than he has taken himself. He recommends the books, and likes that Gregorek refuses every excuse people offer about genetics, age or big bones.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show transcript: Jerzy Gregorek and Naval Ravikant
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