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Professional athlete-turned-firefighter Rip Esselstyn shows you how to lose weight, lower cholesterol, significantly reduce the risk of disease, and become physically fit--in just 4 weeks--by following his plant-powered eating plan based on a diet of whole foods, including whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds.
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Althea Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Our bodies are meant to move. Yet as we age, we find ourselves moving less and less. And the less we move, the tighter our muscles become. This book offers accessible yet effective exercises designed to relieve your stiffness, improve your mobility, and reduce joint discomfort and pain. With easy-to-follow stretches and flexibility-training routines, yoga instructor and health coach Jessica Matthews guide you toward the healthiest, best-feeling version...
43) Ballet beautiful: transform your body and gain the strength, grace, and focus of a ballet dancer
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Da Capo Press
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Artistic, athletic, attainable: these three words represent the promise of Ballet Beautiful, a transformative approach to reshaping your body so that it becomes slender, long, and lean--with the strength and grace of a ballerina. Founder Mary Helen Bowers has used this method to help women lose weight, turn fat into lean muscle, and re-contour their bodies to achieve the regal posture, strength, and elegance of a ballerina. Helps you: achieve the...
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John Wiley & Sons
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2014.
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English
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A required course for majors pursuing sports medicine, exercise science, nursing, or sports therapy degrees, kinesiology is central to a variety of fields. Kinesiology For Dummies tracks an introductory course in the science and imparts the basics of human body movement. With this resource, you will learn how physical activity can alleviate chronic illnesses and disabilities, what factors contribute to musculoskeletal injury, and how to reverse those...
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Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Pilates and yoga practitioners as well as dedicated athletes are familiar with the concept of "core stability." They understand its importance in achieving and maintaining superior fitness. A strong and stable core improves athletic performance, increases power and endurance, reduces stress on the body and minimizes the chances of injury. It helps to improve balance and posture, alleviates back pain and minimizes fatigue. Even everyday actions are...
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The best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek outlines a program for healthy living that draws on 15 years of research and interviews with leading doctors and health-care experts to offer insight into genetic factors, nutrition requirements and fitness practices.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Elite trainer and fitness guru Mark Lauren shows you that the best and only equipment you need to get in shape is free and always accessible: your own body. Featuring 120 different exercises in five movement categories--pulling, squatting, in-line pushing, perpendicular pushing, and bending--and with three ascending levels of difficulty ... ensures that you'll never get bored by the same static workout."--Provided by publisher.
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Human Kinetics
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Provides trainers and athletes with exercises for improving speed, strength, and power during sport performance, based on best practices in functional training. Describes what functional training is, how to analyze the demands of a specific sport, how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of athletes, how to design a program, and exercises for stretching, and dynamic warm-up; lower body, core, upper body, and pylometric training; Olympic lifting;...
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Quarry Books
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2014.
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English
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"Fearless drawing is a beautiful exercise and adventure book exploring how to rediscover the joy of drawing. There is a terrific fear attached to drawing a frozen panic, a cry of "I can't draw!" Yet, embarking on these exciting drawing adventures will re-ignite the profound joy and artistic passion of drawing. Author Kerry Lemon uses a wide range of exercises and encouraging guidance to lead you to fall in love with the process of physically creating...
59) The belly melt diet: the 6-week plan to harness your body's natural rhythms to lose weight for good!
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Rodale
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Explains how women can understand and work with their circadian rhythms and other physical cycles to enable weight loss, revealing how to eat, exercise, and sleep in accordance with a two-phase plan that addresses issues in chronobiology, hunger hormones, and metabolism.
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New Harbinger Publications
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[2015]
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English
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"Little daily hassles can often add up to big stress. In In This Moment, two internationally-renowned psychologists show readers how to connect with the present moment and find a sense of calm and serenity using a breakthrough, evidence-based program grounded in mindfulness and neuroscience. Over time, chronic stress can take its toll on mental and physical health, leading to everything from anxiety and depression to weight gain and disease. By practicing...
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