If you spend time wandering and wondering in the fitness center, pick up Marco Borges' new book " Power Moves ." Bring it to the gym. Use it at home. It's a fantastic tool that can be used anywhere and by anyone who wants to take control of their health.
To Borges, an exercise physiologist, the only machine you really need for an effective workout is your own body. Exercise is a tool with transformative powers. And every movement you do in the gym should mimic what you do in life.
“It’s about functional fitness or training,” he said in a phone interview. “No one cares about being able to bench press when they’re 100 years old. It’s about getting you to do what you already do better."
Instead of focusing on specific muscles, Borges’ innovative program hinges on four joints—the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee. All the exercises in the book — the “power moves”-- stem from the simple movements of these four joints. By breaking the exercises down this way, you engage all the major muscles in the body, Borges said.
