Stronger: How to build strength: the secret to a longer, healthier life
About this ebook
Discover the key to longevity, health and happiness...
Renowned osteopath David Vaux has spent decades advising patients and supporting government initiatives on healthy ageing. He knows that one activity above all others can make the difference to your future health: strength building.
In Stronger, Vaux brings together the latest scientific research to explain why strength training in midlife is the simplest and cheapest thing you can do to transform your body. It reinforces your muscles and bones, enhances your nervous system, boosts your immunity and ultimately paves the way to a better future.
With dynamic illustrations and habit-building hacks tailored to you, Stronger unveils the mere ten movements you need to fortify your body and embark on your journey towards a stronger and healthier life.
'Stronger is a life-changer - a refreshing, innovative and powerful roadmap to healthy ageing through strength building.' Dr. Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett, co-authors of the Sunday Times Bestseller Built to Move (2024)
'This book should be prescribed by the NHS to anyone over 40!' Professor Sir Muir Gray CBE (2024)
About the author
David Vaux is one of Britain's most innovative Osteopaths and a renowned strength specialist. He been researching the impact of strength building on living longer for decades, both through academic research and in everyday sessions with his patients. As an authority on strength in older age, he has provided advice to UK health charities, think tanks and healthy ageing steering groups, including the UK Governments Aging society Grand Challenge, David is a leading UK advocate for strength and optimal ageing.
As a second-generation London Firefighter serving operationally during the 90s and 2000s, David became the youngest person to attain the rank of Sub officer in the London Fire Brigade. After 15 years of front-line duty, a career-ending spinal injury forced him to change course. He discovered osteopathy, first as a way of dealing with his own injuries, then - realising how life-changing the practice of movement, balance and strength, can be - he trained as an osteopath and and later-life strength advocate.
