Books in category Exercise

Exercise Balls for Dummies

Author: Sara Kooperman
Publisher : For Dummies
ISBN : 9780764556234
If you want to shape up or lose weight, get on the ball!

It?s inexpensive. It?s something you can do at home. It?s effective!

However, unless you have a personal trainer, using the exercise ball correctly to get maximum results can be tricky. That?s where Exercise Balls For Dummies comes in. You?ll discover how to turn an ordinary workout into a super workout that builds strengt

Get With the Program!

Author: Bob Greene
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN : 9780743238045
In GET WITH THE PROGRAM, Bob Greene becomes his readers' personal trainer, offering a solid physical, emotional and mental workout. From the first page, Greene makes it clear that GET WITH THE PROGRAM is not a diet book. Greene wants his readers to get real about their bodies and the changes they want to make in their lives. His exercise approach combines aerobic activities to stimulate the metabo

The Ballecore Workout

Author: MOLLY WEEKS
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN : 9780345471901
BalleCore is unique in that it combines three tried-and-true disciplines into one optimal workout. Pilates strengthens and stretches the major muscles, activates your core (the band of muscles below your chest), and energizes your body. Hatha yoga helps quiet the mind through breath, fortifies the nervous system, builds stamina, and produces mental equilibrium. Ballet increases blood flow, develop

Mind/Body Health (Paperback)

Author: N. Lee Smith, Kathryn J. Frandsen, Brent Q. Hafen, Keith J. Karren
Publisher : Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co
ISBN : 9780321596420
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Water Exercises for Rheumatoid Arthritis (Paperback)

Author: Ann A. Rosenstein
Publisher : Idyll Arbor
ISBN : 9781882883639
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Escape Your Shape

Author: Youzell Jeffers, Edward J. Jackowski
Publisher : Fireside
ISBN : 9780743211444
Do you wonder why the latest fitness fad doesn't work for you? Have you lifted weights for months, dreaming of toned, defined muscles, with no results? Have you exercised regularly for months -- or even years -- without seeing any changes in your body? If you answered yes to any of these questions, chances are your exercise routine is incomplete and wrong for your body type. Everyone -- men and wo

Sexy in 6

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Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong
ISBN : 9780738212425
Don''t have time to hit the gym? You can get a bikini body in just six weeks--in your spare time! Proven effective for all body types, Sexy in 6 offers highly motivating, super-fast workouts that are easy to squeeze into a busy day, plus a simple diet plan and delicious recipes. Split into six-minute training intervals, the plan uses a unique blend of Pilates, yoga, cardio, and strength training--

Fit for Life

Author: Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher : Little Brown Uk
ISBN : 9780316852630
A guide to physical fitness by the explorer Ranulph Fiennes. Beginning with basic exercises designed to help maintain a minimum level of fitness, the book progresses through to training regimes tailored to those who are aiming for greater heights in sport, adventure or everyday life.

Lose Your Mummy Tummy

Author: Jodie Gould
Publisher : Da Capo Pr
ISBN : 9780738209814
A groundbreaking yet simple set of exercises that will flatten the dreaded mummy tummy-regardless of a woman's age or when she had a baby.

Pregnancy naturally separates a mother's outermost abdominal muscles to make room for her growing uterus. Called a diastasis, this separation doesn't fully close up in 98 percent of new moms. The larger the diastasis, the weaker the muscles and the greater ch

I Will Get Fit This Time!

Author: Alex A. Lluch
Publisher : Ws Pub
ISBN : 9781887169974
Lluch presents a comprehensive guide that helps readers determine their current fitness level, create personal goals, develop a workout plan, and maintain a daily physical activity log to keep them motivated.

Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Dobbins
Publisher : Fireside
ISBN : 9780671531638
The complete program for building and maintaining a well-conditioned, excellently proportioned body -- for a lifetime of fitness and health.In Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men, legendary athlete Arnold Schwarzenegger shows you how to achieve the best physical condition of your life. For every man, at every age, Arnold outlines a step-by-step program of excercise, skillfully combining weight training

Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes

Author: Juleen R. Zierath, John A. Hawley
Publisher : Human Kinetics
ISBN : 9780736064798
Provides students, scientists and health care clinicians with information on the role of physical activity in alleviating insulin resistance. This book discusses the emergence of an exercise-deficient phenotype and details the effects of exercise training on selected aspects of substrate metabolism.

The Men's Health Hard Body Plan

Author: Larry Keller
Publisher : Rodale Pr
ISBN : 9781579542290
BIGGER SHOULDERS! BULGING BICEPS! RIPPED ABS! A LEANER TORSO! STRONG LEGS! Get the Body You Want in Just 12 Weeks-- Guaranteed! For fast, effective results, look no further than The Men's Health Hard-Body Plan-- because you won't find this information anywhere else! Based on solid scientific research and exclusively developed by two leading exercise and nutrition gurus, The Men's Health Hard-Body

Men`s Health Ultimate Dumbbell Exercise

Author: Myatt Murphy
Publisher : Rodale Pr
ISBN : 9781594864872
The easiest, most inexpensive way to build muscle strength, size, and power turns out to be the best, with this supremely effective guide from the world’ s largest men’ s magazine Workout fads and fitness equipment come and go, but as trainers and bodybuilders know: nothing tops a simple set of dumbbells for convenience, reliability, and versatility when you are trying to build muscles

Sexy in 6

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Publisher : Da Capo Pr
ISBN : 9781600940309
By a top-rated Exercise TV star, a quick and easy fitness program to lose stubborn pounds, proven effective for women of all body types

Men's Health Power Training: Performance-Based Conditioning for Total Body Strength

Author: Robert Dos Remedios
Publisher : Rodale Pr
ISBN : 9781594865848
One of the nation?s elite strength and conditioning coaches presents a unique training program designed to help men achieve functional strength and muscular balance throughout their bodies.

For decades, the conventional measure of an individual?s strength was the amount of weight he could bench press. Now, that measure is being challenged by expert trainers like Robert dos Remedios who a

Weight Training for Dummies

Author: Liz Neporent, Shirley J. S. Archer, Suzanne Schlosberg
Publisher : For Dummies
ISBN : 9780471768456
More than 150 easy-to-follow exercises for rookies and veterans alike Weight training provides a variety of health benefits; a properly executed strength or weight lifting routine can lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, stabilize blood sugar, increase bone density, reduce the risk of disease, and much more. This timely update of the popular Weight Training For Dummies features valuable in

Secrets of Rejuvenation (Paperback)

Author: Martin Faulks
Publisher : Watkins Pub Ltd
ISBN : 9781906787066
Turn back the clock with these simple exercises and meditations, all based on an ancient regime created by the Bodhidharma--the founder of Zen Buddhism. He gave it to the monks of a Shaolin temple so that they could be free of illness and halt (even reverse) the aging process. The results are extraordinary: one person who practiced the sequences saw his grey hair turn black again after just a mont

The Pilates Body

Author: Brooke Siler
Publisher : Bantam Dell Pub Group
ISBN : 9780767903967
The trainer whose Manhattan studio instructs the supermodels and the stars now offers a pain-free home routine for Pilates, the hottest thing in fitness today ( Newsweek ). 200 photos. 60 line drawings. From the Publisher It may be today's trendiest exercise, but the Pilates Method has been endorsed by physicians for almost a century. Developed by Joseph H. Pilates to help strengthen and condition

Muscle Logic

Author: Charles Staley
Publisher : St Martins Pr
ISBN : 9781594860836
Trainers and Olympic athletes agree that Escalating Density Training (EDT) really works. Now everyone who works out can learn how to benefit from this superbly effective, time-efficient system. Your muscles will get bigger when you force them to do more work in the same period of time. That's the breathtakingly simple concept behind Charles Staley's innovative training system, EDT. Over 300 people