Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman

Fit2Fat2Fit: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 lbs on Purpose

Drew Manning, Brad Pierce · 249 pages

Drawing from the lessons and insights of his breakout website, Fit2Fat2Fit.com, personal trainer Drew Manning delivers the story of his quest to go from fit to fat to fit again in one year in order to better understand the weight-loss struggles of his clients and the online community. Drew embarked on this journey to prove to clients, website followers, and people across the country that it is pos

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

A.J. Jacobs · 402 pages

"Having sanctified himself in The Year of Living Biblically and sharpened his mind in The Know-It-All, A. J. Jacobs had one feat left in the self-improvement trinity: to become the healthiest man in the world. He didn't want just to lose weight, or finish a triathlon, or lower his cholesterol. His ambitions were far, far greater: Maximal health from head to toe.The task was massive. He had to tack

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich · 244 pages

"For decades, Vinnie Tortorich has been Hollywood's go-to guy for celebrities and athletes looking to get fit fast. Now, in this hilarious, R-rated memoir, Hollywood's most outrageous personal trainer exposes the fitness world while getting you into shape."--Page 4 of cover

I'm With Fatty: Losing Fifty Pounds in Fifty Miserable Weeks

Edward Ugel

One man’s humorous and heartfelt journey through his year-long attempt to regain his health and change his life. Lovers of narrative nonfiction will relish this contagiously readable book that looks back at Ugel’s complicated history with food, obesity, and the ruinous effects this lifelong relationship has had on him. Filled with humor, ultimately this is a book about the private hell of being

Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir

Jennette Fulda · 300 pages

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl

Shauna Reid · 400 pages

A hilarious and heartwarming tale of a real-life superhero who battled the bulge and won.In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding behind her Lycra-clad roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began. Toda

Body For Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength

Bill Phillips, Michael D'Orso · 224 pages

Body for Life for Women: A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation

Pamela Peeke · 288 pages

The Spark: The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life

Chris Downie

Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health Life

Ben Greenfield · 480 pages

Presents a guide to achieving peak fitness capability by optimizing performance, fat loss, and brain function, covering such aspects of health as nutrition, training, recovery, stress and time management, sleep, and digestion.

Tone It Up: 28 Days to Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous

Karena Dawn, Katrina Scott · 288 pages

The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse - For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body

Ori Hofmekler · 290 pages

Meat Is for Pussies: A How-To Guide for Dudes Who Want to Get Fit, Kick Ass, and Take Names

John Joseph · 320 pages

The Metabolic Effect Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest

Jade Teta, Keoni Teta

Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life

Jillian Michaels · 272 pages

Few things in life are simple and straightforward, and losing weight is no different — it's not easy, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to pull a fast one. Winning by Losing is a comprehensive, inspirational, and real solution to your weight problems. Taking a triple-threat approach, Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels identifies and illuminates the three keys to health and lasting weight

The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing

Philip Maffetone · 528 pages

Are you a runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance? Then you will want *The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing*. Dr. Philip Maffetone offers expert advice on how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injury-free for many years. His "individualized" approach is a unique system refined over three decades of training athlet

Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness

Candace Cameron Bure, Darlene Schacht · 266 pages

"Millions first met Candace Cameron Bure when she costarred on the hit television series Full House. Today, she is that rare Hollywood working mom who maintains a normal life--no trainer, no nanny, no chef--and is outspoken about her Christian faith and how it has helped overcome certain obstacles...like a serious struggle with food. More than a biography, Reshaping It All is a motivational tool p

ABS Diet for Women

David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker · 384 pages

Thrive Fitness: The Vegan-Based Training Program for Maximum Strength, Health, and Fitness

Brendan Brazier · 245 pages

Professional Ironman triathelete Brendan Brazier presents his own easy-to-apply system for total health and fitness, complete with detailed exercises, photos and recipes. --

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

Timothy Ferriss · 589 pages

The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling autho

The Game On! Diet: Kick Your Friend's Butt While Shrinking Your Own

Krista Vernoff, A.Z. Ferguson

Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle

Tom Venuto · 360 pages

A smart, energizing program to help you shed fat, build muscle, and achieve your ideal body in just 30 days! A huge success as a self-published ebook, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is the bible of fat loss that will allow any reader to get his or her dream body. Tom Venuto has created a program using the secrets of the world's leanest people,although it's not about getting ripped; it is about maxi

Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body

Michael Matthews · 330 pages

"If you want to be toned, lean, and strong as quickly as possible without crash dieting, "good genetics," or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym and money on supplements ... regardless of your age ... then you want to read this book"--Back cover.