Century The 24/7 Body: The Sunday Times bestselling guide to diet and training

This book is actually a work of art, a perfect balance of informative information as well as pages upon pages humorous content. This book stands out from many by giving the reader a genuine connection with the writer, while reading it you almost feel as if you’re being spoken to or given advice directly. It’s both informative and humorous and certainly gave me inspiration to achieve my own personal goals.It’s fantastic that Matt has come this far to not only have just reached 2million subs on YouTube but also to publish what is and will continue to be an outstanding book.

Following Matt for many years now and for him to release a book is huge! First the EarPods The Morsia X (quality for price is insane) but that’s another review. I am half way through this book and I can hear Matts voice in my head as I’m reading as it writes just how he would say things which is weird and funny!Reason for the 4 stars was the cover I didn’t realised it was a paper cover would have been nice for the book it self to share that cover. But the book it self is really good and anyone who is into fitness should give it a go !

Both my 14 and 17 year old sons follow Matt, I myself have watched many of his videos as the boys are always talking about what he has got up to, as soon as the book came out my older son ordered it, great to see he is actually wanting to read a book! He has really enjoyed reading this book and has gained a lot of helpful knowledge. May even read it myself. Well done Matt, Sairs and Luca

This book amazing. Matt's honesty is brilliant. The way he describes people who have made mistakes with 'diets' is what I have done for the past 15 years. The book is so good it has convinced me to sign up to the Morsia App to sort myself out. I have only had it for 24 hours and I have already read it from cover to cover.

This book was enthusiastically recommended to me. I can see all the glowing reviews but as a one guide/reference book on working out and health, it’s far too basic to be in any way useful over time. I felt it was advertised as a reference book you can go back and refer to in creating and sustaining workout and fitness goals for life, but it’s so light that once you’ve read it once, there’s nothing to go back for. And it’s hard to dip in and out of the book to remind yourself of little information you might need need to refer to as any advice is dotted throughout intermittently what is essentially a long winded autobiography.I didn’t know him as a social media personality, so I didn’t buy it as a YouTube follower. About 60% of the content book is actually autobiography, weaved through from start to finish. I’m sure people who watch him and know him might enjoy that as that’s what drawn them to the book but his writing style wasn’t quite jarring and a bit rough round the edges and I felt it detracted from any further sports/health education that has been sacrificed in order to fill the pages with this, which I felt was quite light to begin with. I really didn’t need pages and chapters devoted to why his wife joined him in his business model and how long it takes for him to film/edit his videos, along with exactly why he felt so stressed trying to be a teacher and a YouTube star at the same time. What I was left wanting was more facts/information and more full explanation for his comments and opinions. A shame he just didn’t do a separate autobiography for his fans?My partner is a quite well established sports coach and athlete and also competes internationally, and I have been really into fitness, weight training and working out for years so between us we have a fair few books on the subject of nutrition and sports science and psychology and always enjoy learning more, so I was quite excited by the promise of this book but perhaps because of that I expected too much? I didn’t learn anything new. There was very little scientific explanation of anything he recommended, I think he only names one scientific study in the whole book when backing up anything, and although he touches on some very important issues in the book, the detail is so basic you have no guideline what to do with any of it, and in some cases he isn’t very educated in the things he is writing about at all. The writing should have been a bit more concise in order to get more helpful info in there. You won’t be able to get any idea of what kind of fitness area you want to get into, or how to build a plan, or help workout what your goals are or how to work out what you want over time. Again, this isn’t useful as a reference book.He did touch on the difference between weight loss and fat loss (very important) but I was extremely surprised to not see him discuss the relationship between sugar and calorie intake and insulin production and fat loss/fat gain and how that hormone and it’s mechanism works. Either in this section or the nutrition one. His whole chapter on supplements is a waste of time and space in the book as in his opinion he says basically you just don’t need them which is fine if that’s his opinion as that’s what you’re paying for, but either put in some scientific studies to back it up the proper context so people can understand it rather then just saying because you told them so, or dont waste book space on a big chapter saying nothing? And the diet and nutrition part is so woefully inadequate, there’s so much more helpful info he could have put there. Also his inference that in terms of diet that there’s no point being vegetarian or vegan as it’s too hard to get enough protein, is ridiculously ignorant (I say this as a very happy meat eater by the way, I just feel I’ve been better educated around macros/micros and nutrition to know this is a crazy thing to say). He doesn’t reference any outside literature or recommend anything for further knowledge. It literally is just personal opinion without any further explanation. And when he spent a whole section on the book saying that basically motivation is a myth and that you don’t need it, he lost me. The psychology of working out and endurance/routine/mindset and achieving goals, especially if you’re brand new to your goals but even to competitive long term athletes is massive and the vast majority of cases is the make or break of your outcomes.I’m used to reading well written reference books by sports coaches, scientists and sports psychologists and this really isn’t up to it. There are some good, easily digestible and well researched and explained books that are good as all rounders and myth busters that are suitable for both beginners and pros, but this sadly isn’t it.