Description
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With more than 25 years in the culinary profession, Chef Robert Irvine has cooked his way through Europe, the Far East, the Caribbean and the Americas in hotels and on the high seas. He's best known as the host of one of Food Network's highest-rated shows,
Restaurant: Impossible, but equally recognized for his muscular physique and healthy lifestyle focus that once earned him recognition as one of the top 25 Fittest Guys in America by
Men's Fitness magazine.
With the release of Fit Fuel: A Chef's Guide to Eating Well, Getting Fit, and Living Your Best Life, Chef Irvine translates his tough love tactics from the failing restaurant owner to the everyday man and woman struggling to get their health and fitness goals on track.
Developed from Robert Irvine's lifetime of training and nutritional knowledge, with support from distinguished fitness writer Matt Tuthill, Fit Fuel is packed from cover to cover with equal parts inspiration and information that can change your life forever.
The book is divided into three parts, the first of which examines the mental aspects of goal setting, habit forming, and long-term maintenance. Here, Chef Irvine provides encouraging, digestible ideas of how to change the way we see and think about food, ourselves, and our own unlimited potential. Just as he's done in season after season of Restaurant: Impossible, Chef Irvine provides readers with the same no-excuses encouragement and mental coaching in Fit Fuel, motivating with tools, resources, and inspiration every step of the way.
The second section of the book focuses on training, with an easy-to-follow resistance training program, demonstrated through A and B photography and well-defined techniques that the 49-year-old British Royal Navy veteran considers fundamental to his own lean and muscular physique. In addition to the main program, there are time-saving workouts, as well as a full starter s program for any beginner who might find the main program too daunting off the bat.
In its final section, Fit Fuel provides recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, all illustrated with realistic photography and step-by-step instructions. Few dishes or main ingredients are overlooked, despite their unmerited reputations as no-no foods. From pancakes to salads, beef to fish, Chef Irvine challenges the idea of good vs. bad as it pertains to the everyday diet, emphasizing the fact that healthy eating does not require deprivation.
When you're finally ready to achieve your full potential, Fit Fuel awaits.
Review
Irvine and Tuthill live this lifestyle and know how to make nutrition for it appealing. I got a lot of great ideas flipping through these pages and I thought I already knew how to make clean food gourmet. I guess I'll have to add a few more recipes to my repertoire.
Great work all around! A must-read for people who can't stay on track with with their diets. -Sean Hyson,
Training Director, Muscle & Fitness and Men's Fitness
About the Author
With more than 25 years in the culinary profession, there aren't many places Chef Robert Irvine hasn't cooked or challenges he hasn't had to cook his way out of. During his time in the British Royal Navy and in the years that followed, Robert has cooked his way through Europe, the Far East, the Caribbean and the Americas, in hotels, on the high seas and even for the Academy Awards; and that was before his career in TV. As the host of one of the Food Network's highest rated shows,
Restaurant: Impossible, going on it's 12th season, Robert is best known for saving struggling restaurants across America by assessing and overhauling the restaurant's weakest spots.
Going on its fourth year, Robert continues to tour his live show,
Robert Irvine LIVE, across the US. Robert is the author of three cookbooks,
Mission: Cook! and
Impossible to Easy; and
FIT Fuel, a lifestyle -food and fitness- book. Robert was previously the host of
Fitness: Impossible, A Hero's Welcome, Food