Covert Bailey--author of four national bestsellers on fitness and the popular star of the PBS television series Covert Bailey's Fit or Fat, offers a feast of up-to-the-minute information and practical advice for those interested in lowering body fat and dramatically improving their over-all fitness and health.

Smart Exercise is full of little-known information and invaluable advice that will help you design the right fitness program. Take Covert's Home Fitness Test, make this book your exercise Bible, and enjoy the benefits of being in the best shape of your life. Best-selling author Covert Bailey, the popular star of the PBS television series Covert Bailey's Fit or Fat, has already won many converts in his crusade to revolutionize America's thinking about health and fitness. Now comes his first new book in years, and it's easily his best yet. Smart Exercise is a feast of useful information and practical advice. Here is a comprehensive guide to exercise and training, an irreverent debunking of weight-loss myths, a lucid explanation of how our bodies stay fit or go fat. Most important, Smart Exercise reveals the secret to good health: fit muscles rule the body. Using his remarkable ability to teach and make you laugh at the same time, Covert vividly explains how muscles really function, descr