Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.

Just as a physically healthy person--at an ideal weight and with good blood pressure and cholesterol numbers--might not actually be fit enough to run a 5k, so churches can appear healthy--with no obvious issues, maintaining a healthy size--and yet not exhibit fitness. A fit church is one that is not satisfied with merely coasting along with no problems. A fit church is actively making disciples, maturing in faith, developing strong leaders, reaching out to the community, and more. Building the Body offers pastors and church leaders twelve characteristics of fit churches and shows them how they can move their church through five levels of fitness, from beginner all the way to elite--just as an athlete, through training and practice, can become the top in his or her class. Includes comparison charts at the end of each chapter so readers can clearly see where their church currently falls and concluding "Complete the Progress Chart" so that they can see what their goals should be for the future.

Building muscle has never been faster or easier than with this revolutionary once-a-week training program In Body By Science, bodybuilding powerhouse John Little teams up with fitness medicine expert Dr. Doug McGuff to present a scientifically proven formula for maximizing muscle development in just 12 minutes a week. Backed by rigorous research, the authors prescribe a weekly high-intensity program for increasing strength, revving metabolism, and building muscle for a total fitness experience.

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body By Michael Matthews

Men's Fitness Magazine has gone beyond the usual late-night cable channel fitness hype to provide a solid, factual, and proven plan to overall men's fitness through weight training. Their approach is to concentrate on bulking up first and then stripping away the fat afterward. The training principles in the book have been used successfully by athletes, bodybuilders, and fitness experts for decades. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced lifter there's a plan and program to help work your muscles to the maximum. Using extensive photography coded for easy-to-follow exercise instruction you can work your plan confidently. Helpful sidebars further provide "at-a-glance" guidance, tips, and continuing disciplined solutions to your workout needs. Along with the workout there's even a maximum muscle diet and a full-scale fat-loss diet with menus and carb and protein counters to help you achieve your fitness goals on plan.

The Busy Body is a wholesale repudiation of the all-too-common misconception that great physiques are to be relegated to the professional athletes, Hollywood actors, and fitness models of the world. This is the working man's all-inclusive guide for leveraging limited gym time in order to build lean mass and incinerate fat, while maintaining enough time to enjoy life to the fullest. With the principles and strategies covered in this book, we can transform those pasty, memory-foam pecs of yours into a couple of prime rib filets, all while leaving enough time to make homemade beef jerky, collect rare Pokémon, or whatever else it is that you weirdos like to do on the weekends.

Building Bodies is an exciting collection of articles that strive toward constructing theoretical models in which power, bodies, discourse, and subjectivity interact in a space we can call the "built" body, a dynamic, politicized, and biological site. Contributors discuss the complex relationship between body building and masculinity, between the built body and the racialized body, representations of women body builders in print and in film, and homoeroticism in body building. Linked by their focus on the sport and practice of body building, the authors in this volume challenge both the way their various disciplines (media studies, literary criticism, gender studies, film and sociology) have gone about studying bodies, and existing assumptions about the complex relationship between power, subjectivity, society, and flesh. Body building--in practice, in representation, and in the cultural imagination--serves as an launching point because the sport and practice provide ready challenges to existing assumptions about the "built" body.