Well, don't feel bad.

They run counter to what my knowledge base had been for over 20 years, and I'm a scientist by education. I thought I was just one of those people who was going to be in good "shape" but not look it, and that it was just the way I was made, because I was doing all the stuff the trainers told me to do.

Now that Im starting to understand what's REALLY going on with my body, I'm getting somewhere.

It's really hard with trainers all over the place still handing out the same bad advise, though. I got sent down the garden path for too long. I did cardio until I was sick and injured, and I NEVER got the results I was supposed to.

It DOES work for some. But for lots of us, it turns us into fat/fit people.

Now that I understand more about how to naturally manipulate my own endogenous steroids, I'm getting somewhere.

Edited to add: try peer-reviewed journal articles, rather than books.