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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! What is physical activity? Moving your body in a way that uses energy—playing soccer, dancing, throwing a Frisbee, and much more. Brian P. Cleary's goofy verse and Martin Goneau's humorous illustrations give young readers a whole playground of activities and highlight some of the health benefits of exercise. Examples of physical...
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"In THE CORE 4 Steph finally offers women a strong body and mind achieved through minimal time on the treadmill, simple workouts, targeted nutrition (that is also delicious!), and mindset practices with clear results. When you focus on The Core 4--Eat Nourishing Foods, Move with Intention, Recharge Your Energy, and Empower Your Mind--you give yourself the gifts of care, strength, and resiliency, and take a powerful step toward the life you want."--Amazon....
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It's no secret that people are living longer lately, and setting up an appropriate exercise and nutrition plan is vital to maintaining this longevity. This book contains more than fifty exercises for seniors, with beautiful full-color step-by-step images to illustrate each.
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"This groundbreaking study demonstrates how the prevalent problems of obesity, ailing health, and lack of energy can all be easily improved simply by using the power of gravity. The survey is based on the author's research into how weightlessness weakens astronauts' muscles, bones, and overall well-being, suggesting ways to incorporate gravity into everyday life and illustrating how it can increase fitness as well as prevent aging. Addressing those...
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What if your pain and lack of mobility aren't due to your age, but your habits? The instructions in this book are the experiences of four women over seventy-five who have used these principles and exercises for years to regain strength and mobility. Bowman shows how anyone over fifty can improve their whole-body mobility-- and move and feel better-- without special equipment. -- condensed from back cover
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Katy Bowman explains the larger picture when it comes to DR including body alignment; frequency of movement; the effects of all-day forces, like intra-abdominal pressure; and why a few exercises simply aren't enough for long-term success. You need to learn a new way to move for an improved set of core muscles. Because the abdominals are connected directly and indirectly to every other part of the body, Diastasis Recti lays out a whole-body corrective...
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Little Friedrich Muller was a puny weakling who longed to be athletic and strong like the ancient Roman gladiators. Inspired by his own experiences body-building, Don Tate tells the story of how Eugen Sandow changed the way people think about strength and exercise.
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Contrary to what most diets would have you believe, the human body does not recognize all calories as equal. Some foods are used to boost brain power, fuel metabolism, and heal the body-while others are simply stored as fat. In The Calorie Myth, Bailor shows us how eating more of the right kinds of foods and exercising less, but at a higher intensity, is the true formula for burning fat.
Why? Because eating high-quality foods balances the hormones...
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Do you dream of a flat stomach, a longer, leaner body, and superb posture? Do you wish to improve your overall appearance? Pilates will help you achieve all this — and more. 20 Minutes to Master Pilates is a clear introduction to the practice and its background, guiding you through key exercises that benefit both body and mind. Pilates is a disciplined, focused form of exercise, designed to strengthen ligaments and joints, increase flexibility,...
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Carter Glass was one of the more significant Virginia politicians in the early part of the 20th century. A Lynchburg native, he was to represent both houses of Congress, and was the Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson. He was instrumental in establishing the Federal Reserve System. A true advocate of "State's Rights", Glass was a consistent opponent of the New Deal and clashed with President Roosevelt many times (though Roosevelt offered...
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The bestselling science reporter for The New York Times tells us what works and what doesn't when we work out
Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health is Gina Kolata's compelling journey into the world of American physical fitness over the past thirty years. It is a funny, eye-opening, brow-sweating investigation into the fads, fictions, and science of fitness training.
From the early days of jogging, championed by Jim Fixx-...
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If you've picked up this book, it is for a reason ...
What is your reason?
Are you looking to learn, grow and boost not just your health but your life?
This book could be just what you need. In it, Daniel will show you how to:
· set and actually achieve goals through tried and tested techniques;
· clear the ambiguity around movement, breathing and health as a whole;
· become the healthiest version of you and sustain this once...
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End chronic pain—for good—with this practical guide from the PBS personality behind Classical Stretch and author of the New York Times bestseller Aging Backwards.
Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human
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How to find and treat the problem causing your back pain, rather than just treating the symptom. In this book you will learn: why you were already in trouble before you started to feel pain; how to discover the root cause of your pain, and how to get rid of it; how to restore the normal function to more than just the tissue of your lower back; why your abs are not your core and why people with back pain should never do sit-ups; how doing one simple...
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When Natalie Shelton thinks back to how things were before the car accident, she remembers a great marriage. She and her husband, Zack, seem as strong and dependable together as the houses he builds. They live in Portland, Oregon, and Natalie is co-owner of a successful accounting firm. They're happy, she's almost sure of it. Yet as Natalie lies trapped in a coma, unable to communicate though aware of everything around her, she realizes that her husband...
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Move, Connect, Play is a book detailing the core principles of Acroyoga, a practice that melds the spectacle of circus arts with the healing power of massage and the breathwork of yoga.
Get ready to learn how to fly.
AcroYoga is a movement practice that combines the balance and connection of yoga with the fitness and intensity of acrobatics, as well as the holistic healing power of physical therapy. People come to it for all kinds of reasons-they...
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Do you want to live a more productive, stress-free, and happier life? Have you always wanted to pick up a new hobby? Do you want to lose weight and look your absolute best? What if I told you could do all three, all at once? If this sounds good, then keep reading! If you're brand new to yoga, it can feel intimidating and be difficult to know exactly where and how to get started. Our Yoga for Beginners guide was created specifically for you-to give...
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