Key To Fitness
All In The Eating
JACK WILLIAMS
Special to The Jewish News
B
y 5 a.m. most weekdays,
Larry North has begun phase
two of his quest for sculpted
leanness: an hour or so work-
out in his Dallas gym.
Not on an empty stomach, though.
Not when his body is conditioned to
four or six meals a day, each no more
than 600 calories.
North, a 36-year-old fitness entre-
preneur and talk-show host, begins his
mornings with some light food at 4:30.
At 6:30 a.m., he's eating again: a regu-
lar, low-fat breakfast.
That's the next phase in a muscle-
feeding, fat-starving fitness regimen
that North is pitching among all those
ab-vertisements on the infomercial cir-
cuit.
Like many contemporary fitness
authors, North is tempering exercise
with the sensibilities of a time-con-
stricted age: Less can be more.
Invigorate but don't exhaust. Quality
over quantity. Weight lifting over aero-
bics.
But the heart of his message goes
right to the gut. His multiple-meal eat-
ing plan, outlined in his book Living
Lean (Simon & Schuster), fights the
culprit that undermines the most disci-
plined of exercise,regimens: overeating.
"Those who don't eat during the
day, don't stop eating all night," North
_ said. "If you don't have the right foods
at your fingertips, you'll either start eat-
ing food that's terrible for you or you'll
miss meals."
To North, solving that problem
means combining carbs with protein to
stabilize blood sugar and provide the
amino acids that are essential to muscle
maintenance.
North's book goes into detail in
introducing the kitchen novice to food
preparation that he insists is high on
flavor and low on fat and calories.
As for the workouts, the notion that
rest is sometimes best is vital to the
North program.
"The belief that you need to spend
hours in a gym to look good is simply
not true," said North. "My workouts
are 30 to 45 minutes on the weights,
and 30 to 45 minutes of cardiovascular,
tops. No more than three or four times
a week, and I let diet do the rest."
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Jack Williams writes for Copley News
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