Chris Carmichael Has Written the Book on Fitness

Chris Carmichael, the coach behind Lance Armstrong, founder of the eponymous Carmichael Training Systems, an Internet-based coaching business, and much much more, has written a book, and the New York Times has written a long and generally flattering piece about the fitness juggernaut and the juggernaut's latest effort. The paper describes, “5 Essentials for a Winning Life: The Nutrition, Fitness, and Life Plan for Discovering the Champion Within,” as Mr. Carmichael’s transformation from renowned coach of endurance athletes to guru for the overstuffed and underexercised. Only once, the Times warns, does  Carmichaeloverstep: In his sex advice to men. the fitness writer suggests that “good food yields great erections.” For a rebuttal, the Times turns to Dr. Abraham Morgentaler, a urologist at Harvard Medical School, who opines that there is no evidence that if a man with erectile dysfunction “starts eating carrots and greens, he’ll end up having an improved erection.” 

Comments

[Gordon T]

As far as I am concerned, Jack Lalanne wrote the book on fitness. He was the pioneer that proved that Exercise is king, nutrition is queen. (his own words) Look at him today, at 92 he is in better shape than I am.

[Sue M.]

If a man starts eating carrots and greens, chances are his cholesterol will drop, which may reverse some arterial damage, and voila!, blood starts flowing more easily!