Maximum Energy for Life: A 21-Day Strategic Plan to Feel Great, Reverse the Aging Process, and Optimize Your Health

279 Pages·2002·2.58 MB·English

by  Mackie Shilstone

Maximum
Energy for Life:
A 21-Day Strategic Plan
to Feel Great, Reverse
the Aging Process,
and Optimize
Your Health
Mackie Shilstone
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Maximum
Energy
for Life
A 21-Day Strategic Plan to Feel
Great, Reverse the Aging Process,
and Optimize Your Health
Mackie Shilstone
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Maximum
Energy
for Life
A 21-Day Strategic Plan to Feel
Great, Reverse the Aging Process,
and Optimize Your Health
Mackie Shilstone
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This book is printed on acid-free paper. ∞
Copyright © 2003 by Mackie Shilstone. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
Published simultaneously in Canada
The “Performance Assessment Questionnaire” and “How Do I Approach Goal Setting?” are used by
permission of F. Dean Sunseri, L.P.C., Life Coach, The Evergreen Wellness Center; “How Vulnerable
Are You to Stress” is used by permission of The University of California at Berkeley Wellness Letter, ©
1995; the material under the heading “Biofeedback: Feel the Difference between Arousal and Relax-
ation” and the eight meditative exercises are from The High Performance Mind: Mastering Brainwaves
for Insight, Healing, and Creativity (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam) and is used by permission of the
author, Anna Wise © 1995; the material on Attitude Breathing is copyrighted by the Institute of
HeartMath and is used by permission; the “At-Home Body Fat Test for Males” and the “At-Home
Body Fat Test for Females” are from the book Turn Up the Heat: Unlock the Fat-Burning Power of Your
Metabolism(Viking) and are used by permission of the author, Philip L. Goglia © 2002; “Top Twenty
Carbohydrates Ingested by Americans” and “Acceptable (Low) Glycemic Foods” are used by permis-
sion of the Glycemic Research Institute, Washington, D.C.; the “Questionnaire for Nutritional
Assessment” and the material under the heading “Eat Healthy with These Nutritional Guidelines”
are used by permission of E. C. Henley, Ph.D., R.D. © 2002; some of the material in “The “Wellness
Organizer” was adapted from the “Skinny Box” developed by Hal C. Becker, Ph.D., and is used by his
permission; the questionnaire PAR-Q AND YOU is reprinted from the 1994 revised version of the
Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q ANDYOU). PAR-Q ANDYOU is a copyrighted,
pre-exercise screen owned by the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology; “A Ten-Year Risk Evalua-
tion for Men and Women” in the appendix was published by NIH (the National Institutes of Health),
Publication No. 01-3305, May 2001.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shilstone, Mackie.
Maximum energy for life : a 21-day strategic plan to feel great,
reverse the aging process, and optimize your health / Mackie Shilstone.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-471-23537-7 (Cloth)
1. Health. 2. Physical fitness. I. Title.
RA776 .S53723 2003
613—dc21 2002014019
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
This book is dedicated to my loving family—
my wife, Sandy, my two sons, Scott and Spencer,
my mother, Frances—and to the spirit in the heart
of the strongest and bravest man I’ve ever known
in my life, my father, Cecil.

Contents
Foreword by Steve Wynn vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
PARTONE
Secrets and Strategies to Manage Your Energy
and Reduce Your Stress
1 Discover the Art of Maximum Performance 11
2 Seven Secrets to Put You at the Top of Your Form 15
3 Nine Strategies to Achieve Your Goals 26
4 Discover and Balance Your Energy Style 39
5 Minimize Your Fear and Maximize Your Focus 45
6 The Stress Connection 52
7 Master Stress Management for Maximum
Performance 65
PARTTWO
The Strategic Plan for Optimum Health
8 Learn the Basics about Heart Disease 81
9 Two Essential Strategies to Cut Your Risk of
Heart Disease 100
10 The Nutritional Program for the Twenty-first Century 106
11 Eleven Life-Transforming Benefits of Exercise 151
12 Attain the Maximum Rewards from Exercise 160
13 The Pro Circuit Exercise Program 167
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vi CONTENTS
PARTTHREE
Cultivate Your Passion for Your Life and Work
14 Recharge Your Passion for Your Career 193
15 Renew Your Motivation 206
PARTFOUR
The Optimum Performance Program
16 Your Twenty-one-Day Optimum Performance Program 221
Appendix: A Ten-Year Risk Evaluation for Men and Women 247
Resources to Help You 252
Index 255
Foreword
by Steve Wynn
I
first met Mackie Shilstone back in 1993, although I’d been aware
of his reputation in the sports performance field for many years.
Mackie’s revolutionary performance enhancement strategies came
to my attention in 1985 when he made history by training Michael
Spinks to be the first light heavyweight boxer to move up and take
the title from the heavyweight champion of the world, Larry Holmes.
Because Las Vegas, where I lived, worked, and owned several prop-
erties, was where many important boxing matches took place, Mackie
and the athletes he worked with were there often. In 1993 Evander
Holyfield was the champion and Riddick Bowe was preparing to chal-
lenge his title. Holyfield was considered to be one of the most condi-
tioned athletes in the world, so it was going to be quite a contest.
I was curious to see how Mackie’s innovative techniques worked
up close, so during the last weeks of Bowe’s training I invited him
and Bowe to do one of their cardiovascular training runs at Shadow
Creek, my private golf course. I noticed that Mackie had Bowe wear a
heart monitor, a training technique I’d never seen before. When I
remarked about it, he said that he was maneuvering Bowe’s heart
rate up and down to simulate what he would actually experience dur-
ing the fight.
I asked Mackie if I could work with him a bit during his off hours,
and he kindly consented. He also utilized a heart-rate monitor on
me, and it was the first time I had ever understood how managing
your heart rate could affect your performance. As a busy entrepre-
neur and developer, stress was something I was accustomed to. One
of Mackie’s specialties was performance stress management, and we
had some enlightening conversations about it. He explained to me
that boxing was largely learning how to utilize applied stress, the
stress of repeatedly inflicting blows upon your opponent and the
stress you experience trying to get out of the way of your opponent’s
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