Dr. Pam Peeke : National Body Challenge : Discovery Health

"If you had to, could you?"

Dr. Peeke asks this question in Fit to Live-the exhilarating one-hour special that explores the role physical fitness plays in helping humans survive life-or- death scenarios. Dr. Peeke challenges five ordinary people with varying body types to determine if they have the basic level of endurance, strength and agility to survive extraordinary circumstances-such as making it up 30 flights of stairs to the roof of a burning skyscraper or simulating an emergency rescue with a dummy the weight of an average adult.

Over the course of only four weeks, Dr. Peeke and her team perform amazing mental and physical transformations-pounds are shed, muscles grow and medical conditions are reversed. The perfect companion to the National Body Challenge, Fit to Liveis about real life fitness-being mentally and physically strong enough to manage 21st century living challenges such as running to catch a plane, sprinting to snatch a child back from the curb, or even pulling yourself out of a car submerged in water.

As part of the National Body Challenge, Discovery Health features Fit to Live and National Body Challenge: Twins Edition during the week of January 7, 2008.

The book, Fit to Live, was written by Dr. Peeke and published in 2007.

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