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You've already got the abdominal muscle that you need to sport a sexy 6-pack body. Yes, that even means you – even if you can't see them right now! In her latest publication, renowned fitness expert and nutritionist, Lisa Rooney, is going to guide you on the path to unveiling your incredible abs! Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned fitness veteran, Lisa's program implements short, but highly effective interval training methods that will help...
42) Somatic Exercises for Beginners: Discover Your Body's Potential: A Step-by-Step Guide to Somatic Exe
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Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and holistic healing with "Somatic Exercises for Beginners," a comprehensive guide designed to unlock the innate potential of the human body. Authored by a seasoned somatic practitioner, this book serves as a roadmap for individuals seeking to cultivate greater awareness, release tension, and restore balance to their physical and emotional well-being. In this illuminating tome, readers are introduced...
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A groundbreaking book, Emotional Wisdom reveals powerful ancient tools for transforming our painful emotions into happiness and health. Socalled negative emotions are valuable messages that let us know we are out of balance. With compassion and humor, Taoist authors Mantak Chia and Dena Saxer explain the messages that anger, depression, fear, worry, and stress offer us. They present three easytolearn twentyminute internal energy practices, with helpful...
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Written by a woman who began running marathons at 50 years old, this inspirational guide describes the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of exercise. It confronts the problem of obesity today-nearly 60 percent of Americans are overweight-and emphasizes that weight control becomes an even greater challenge with age. But as this handbook asserts, it's never too late to get fit. In nine easy-to-follow steps, the mechanics of an exercise program...
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PREFACE I was interested in martial arts as a kid, probably because I was lanky and skinny, and I guess physically weaker than some of the bigger boys at school. Without going into too much of my early years, they certainly were not the best years of my life. Apart from considering myself physically weak, I never knew my dad, and then at 16 my mum died, and so I went to live with my older sister and her husband. Anyway, over the years, I've had a...
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Through yoga postures, a mom and daughter team travels the world. They meet a prince and princess, see a leprechaun, visit Tuscany, the South of France, and still make it home for Thanksgiving. We all want our children to have tools to survive and get ahead in this world. What better time to start than when they are young, teaching those values and giving them experiences that will carry them through life? Adventures of Mom and Daughter Yoga provides...
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People are often dissatisfied with the success of their exercise programmes or activities, but they may simply have been the wrong programmes for their muscular structure. Exercise For Your Muscle Type eliminates this frustration by showing readers how they are built and by helping them put together an appropriate personalised comprehensive exercise programme. With a better understanding of ones own body, anyone can achieve his or her fitness goals...
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Get Fit While You Sit is aimed at anyone who wants to get or stay in shape. In keeping with the trend toward low-impact exercise, this total body workout can be done right from a chair, anywhere -- at home, work, or while sitting in traffic. This is a perfect program for always-busy Baby Boomers, frequent travelers, the young at heart (who may not be so young in body), and the increasing number of people with special conditions, for whom traditional...
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For those who suffer from aches, pains, and creaky joints, this handy reference shows how to keep the body's skeleton young and healthy. Including a series of stretches, this guide explores how muscles, joints, and bones work, how and why they wear and tear, and how to combat stiffness and pain. Treatments focus on the lower back, thoracic spine, neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, and feet. Further advice teaches the warning signs...
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We rely on our hands every day and can take for granted their strength, flexibility and dexterity. We exercise our bodies, faces and minds to maintain fitness and health but, until now, have not had a structured set of exercises specifically for our hands. The Handella system of hand exercises provides a comprehensive set of gentle movements to flex and stretch the muscles and joints in our hands.
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A healthy body, clear mind, and soaring spirit are now within reach in Pilates Fusion-a holistic approach to one of the most beneficial fitness practices today. Melding the best of Pilates with Eastern philosophy, Pilates Fusion features over 50 fully illustrated stretching, breathing, and mat-based exercises matched with meditative visualizations to awaken the spirit while strengthening the body. Pilates instructor Shirley Sugimura Archer provides...
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Are you ready to reach your peak physical fitness? Do you have what it takes to reach your peak? Let's face it; reaching peak physical fitness isn't going to be a walk in the park. Discover: - How to choose and create your own training program - Different trainings to consider - The role of diet and sleep in physical fitness training - How to evaluate your progress - and many more...
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Some may argue that being a female already puts women in a disadvantageous state. But ladies, it's time we take what we have and make it even better. We may never be equal to or as strong as men, but that doesn't mean we can't try our hardest!
Discover:- Beginning strength training for women- Women strength training throughout history- The basics of strength training for women- Training at home or at the gym?- And more!
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"Exercise Daily With Gaily" is a step-by-step exercise program for individuals of all ages and all capabilities. Exercises can be done at home, at the office, inside, outside or while traveling. Clear and concise instructions, plus visuals, make doing the exercises both beneficial and fun. Get fit and increase your strength and endurance, while improving your balance through low-impact exercise.
This is a perfect regiment for men, women, older adults...
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Should I use free weights or machines? How much weight should I work out with? Weightlifting or weight training has many health benefits for both men and women. But just how does weight lifting do that? What is the physiology of weight lifting?
Discover:-Weightlifting techniques- How weightlifting benefits can improve your health- Safety tips for weight lifting- Best weight lifting routines- And more!
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First published in 1945 Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology contains the authorized legal edited and original Library of Congress version of Joseph H. Pilates and William J. Miller first complete fitness writings. It details the exercises poses and instructions fundamental to the matwork developed by Joseph and Clara Pilates. Based on his concepts of a balanced body and mind and drawn from the approach espoused by the early Greeks these are...
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Boosting your metabolism is about changing your lifestyle and habits. If you have tried to speed up your metabolism before but do not see visible results, you have also come to the right place. Find out: - How metabolism works - What affects metabolism - How to fire up your metabolism - The right mindset for increasing your metabolism - And many more
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Tiffany Lee Gaston will walk you through how to unlock your inner badass and transform yourself in as little as 12 weeks!
You'll learn how to create your own workout plans based on your goals, ability, fitness level, and resources.
-12 Week Training & Cardio Program.
-12 Week Workout Schedule.
-Sample Meal Plan.
-Nutritional Food Guide.
-Bonus - Ab Core Workouts.
-Bonus - Printouts Workbook.
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Part 4 of a comprehensive guide to building muscle for the average man on the street.Following on from the science of muscular growth and techniques detailed in part 1, this book gives a complete guide to building shoulder muscles and how to keep them growing.Exercises are fully illustrated with photographs, and tips included. Special attention is made to safe form and how to get the best out of each movement from hand grips to speed tips.Written...
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It was never part of Adam Hill's life ambition or his genetic constitution to wear a Speedo in public, let alone compete in a triathlon. For the first three decades of life, he was the poster child for non-athleticism, obsessively unhealthy habits, and an intense fear of...well...everything.
Yet at the age of thirty-three, with a physique that could only be described as "Sasquatch with a Dad Bod," he put aside his insecurities and took his first...
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