The hottest, most sought-after fitness program today, core fitness training focuses on the tranversus abdominus, a deep abdominal muscle that is crucial to maintaining lumbar spine strength. As recommended by sport scientists, physiotherapists, and osteopaths, maintaining core stability through core training strengthens weak muscles and imbalances originating inside the body. This book instructs on the most effective stretches, poses, and workouts, taken from a range of fitness principles that include yoga, Pilates, t’ai chi, and weight training. The end result is an all-around workout of core muscles with benefits that include—
An increase of energy and stamina Improved posture Reduction and often elimination of lower back pain A more trim, better looking body Increased muscle strength A boost in the body’s flexibility
The author’s recommended workouts focus on virtually all parts of the body. Detailed exercise instruction is enhanced with more th… More >>
Total Core Fitness: Stronger, Leaner, and Fitter to the Core
Nutrition in Pregnancy and Lactation provides balanced, comprehensive coverage of nutrition needs during and between the times of these unique physiologic events, as well as offering extensive practical information on counseling and support for breastfeeding mothers and their infants…. More >>
Nutrition In Pregnancy and Lactation
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Renowned hypnosis and health experts Steven and Joy Gurgevich reveal the most powerful tool available for sustainable weight loss–our subconscious minds. With The Self-Hypnosis Diet, readers can reach their perfect weight with proven, successful techniques designed to utilize and understand the subconscious mind-body connection. In this instructive book and companion CD of guided self-hypnosis trancework sessions, readers will discover: * How to determine, reach, and maintain your ideal weight based on your own needs * How to increase willpower, change unhealthy eating patterns, and create new and lasting behaviors * How to still have an enjoyable, fulfilling love affair with food As members of Dr. Andrew Weil’s Integrative Medicine program, Steven and Joy Gurgevich have taught thousands how to use hypnosis to overcome the innate challenges of dieting. With The Self-Hypnosis Diet, they provide readers with the “missing ingredient” to any plan for achievin… More >>
The Self-Hypnosis Diet: Use the Power of Your Mind to Reach Your Perfect Weight
The complete guide to optimum nutrition, Precision Nutrition translates the latest in nutrition research into plain-English strategies that you can use immediately to be healthier and look better than ever before.
Precision Nutrition comes in three parts:
1. The system binder, containing 10 separate guides on the fundamentals of designing an optimized nutrition program.
2. The Gourmet Nutrition cookbook, with over 100 delicious gourmet meals to show you how to make good food taste great.
3. A one-year membership to our private members-only website. There you’ll find an enormous database of exercise videos, exercise programs, recipes, resources and an online community of expert coaches and 45,000 members just like you — all ready to pitch in and help you reach your goals…. More >>
Precision Nutrition System
The encompassing Prevention Practice: A Physical Therapist’s Guide for Health, Fitness, and Wellness successfully details the impact health promotion, health protection, and the prevention of illness and disability has on increasing the quality and length of a healthy life. As outlined in the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice and Healthy People 2010, fundamental health, fitness, and wellness concepts are presented that are critical for providing preventive care to healthy and at-risk populations. Other helpful topics include screening tools for determining risk factors associated with common medical problems, suggestions for providing appropriate interventions (consultation, referral, education, resources, and program development), and evaluation of program outcomes. Research and case studies are incorporated to illustrate the importance of accessible health, fitness, and wellness opportunities for individuals and communities at increased risk for health problems. Perfect … More >>
Prevention Practice: A Physical Therapist’s Guide to Health, Fitness, and Wellness
The $lt;i>Complete Guide to Family Health, Nutrition, and Fitness$lt;/i> will help you take an active role in improving the health and well-being of you and your family by offering authoritative and current medical information in a convenient, easyto-understand format. Taking a balanced, commonsense approach to the issue of health and wellness, this indispensable guide delivers an encouraging perspective with helpful reference sections…. More >>
Family Health, Nutrition and Fitness
Dr. Bill Misner Ph.D., C.S.M.T., is a sports nutritionist who knows and tells exciting secrets–how to unlock outstanding athletic performances and win by using a healthy diet that works with your body’s own natural processes. For the first time, Dr. Misner explains, in terms all of us can understand, how our muscles and bodies really work–what fuels endurance and athletic performance, what nutrients and minerals are essential for good health, and how they are depleted to cause premature exhaustion, stress–even the onset of disease and infection. He tells why, what, how, and when to use athletic and nutritional supplements, nutrients, micronutrients, ergogenic substances, and fluids to “find another gear” for competition, and to live better, healthier, and more energetic lives. He also explores and explains many of the myths that plague modern nutrition; how drinking distilled water does not leach vital minerals from the body; why alcohol and caffeine are enemies of high p… More >>
Nutrition for Endurance: Finding Another Gear
This title provides readers with an invaluable guide to conditioning your body for improved power, agility, and overall fitness. This superb new volume – for men and women – from award-winning personal fitness trainer Paul Collins, presents readers with practical, easy-to-follow exercises to condition your body for athletic and sports performance. “Functional Fitness” provides step-by-step coaching advice and workouts utilizing body weight, fitness balls, medicine balls, plyometrics, resistance bands, stability and speed training equipment – all of which have been specifically designed to coordinate your muscular framework for improved dynamic agility and power. This is a must-have volume for anyone interested in dramatically improving their sporting and athletic performance…. More >>
Functional Fitness: Build Your Fittest Body Ever With Australia’s Body Coach
