My husband and I were first introduced to Bill Phillips when we saw an infomercial for Body for Life several years ago. That was an excellent book, but we had a hard time following the eating plan because more room was devoted to the workout, and there weren't a lot of recipes.

This article relies too much on to. Please improve this by adding. ( May 2007) () Body for Life (BFL) is a 12-week and exercise program, and also an annual physique transformation competition. It was created by, a former competitive and owner of, a manufacturer of. It has been popularized by a bestselling book of the same name.

The first annual Body for Life competition was held in 1996. (It was then called the 'EAS Grand Spokesperson Challenge'.) Entrants write about their experience of the program, and send this to EAS along with their 'before' and 'after' photos. Prizes vary each year, but in 2005 the first prize was US$1,000,000. Since, it has gone down significantly with the last payment being US$25,000 for the past few champions. Most recent champions include 2008 Grand Champions Emily Alvers and Colby Knight. Body for Life makes use of principles that have been widely known in bodybuilding.

Its differences are in the way it has been packaged and so as to appeal to consumers and be understood by the public. It supports an extensive ancillary industry of,. Contents • • • • • • • • Exercise [ ] The adapts itself to changes in nutritional intake. If the calorie intake is reduced, the body responds by slowing down its metabolism, and by muscle in preference to fat [ ]. This reduces the metabolism long-term.

When the diet comes to an end and normal calorie intake is restored, the individual starts to gain weight even faster than before. This is known as. Diets that focus exclusively on calorie reduction often fail in this way [ ].

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With these concerns in mind, Body for Life addresses energy expenditure (i.e. Exercise) in addition to energy input. For best results, Body for Life holds that this exercise should include to build skeletal muscle and increase the metabolism over the long term. This also helps to maximise the energy expenditure and loss from aerobic exercise.

Body for Life's exercise program is more complicated than its diet program. It suggests exercising six days a week, normally Monday to Saturday, and alternating between weight training. The seventh day, usually Sunday, is a rest day (referred to as the 'free day', during which no exercise is done and unhealthy, normally fatty foods may be eaten).

Weight training sessions alternate between exercises for the upper body and exercises for the lower body. This allows the exercised muscles enough time to recover fully before the next training session. Each fortnight follows the same pattern: Intensity index Body for Life uses Gunnar Borg's Rating of Perceived Exertion (known as the ) for assessing the intensity of exercise based on how hard you feel you are working. It uses the variant developed by the, which uses a scale of 0 to 10: • 0 is no exertion at all. • 2 corresponds to very light exercise. For a healthy person, this is like slowly at their own pace for several minutes.