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Friedman suffered from exercise bulimia—a compulsion to purge calories through excessive exercise, and a rapidly growing eating disorder that affects some 400,000 American women. In Diary of an Exercise Addict Friedman recounts her descent into a life-threatening illness, her remarkable recovery, and the setbacks along the way. With refreshing candor she lays bare her relationships with family, friends, and lovers and the repressed desire that finally surfaced as she found her own way back to health…. More >>
Diary of an Exercise Addict
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Anatomy of Exercise is revolutionary for its insights into how different muscles of the body actually work during exercise. The book is organized by body area and shows common sequences in the progression of a typical workout. Lifelike anatomical illustrations demonstrate each exercise and reveal in colorful detail exactly which muscles are engaged, which are being conditioned and how those muscles respond. The following features help the reader gain the greatest benefit from each exercise and thereby improve fitness and well-being: Detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations for all the exercises Annotations identifying the active and stabilizing muscles Concise how-to instructions for each exercise Identification of the specific muscles that benefit the most from each exercise Suggested modifications for different levels of difficulty Instructions on stabilizing the body throughout each movement A visual index of exercises that all… More >>
Anatomy of Exercise: A Trainer’s Inside Guide to Your Workout
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Men are losing their masculinity. Guys are urged to get in touch with their “feminine” side at the expense of the traditional attributes that make men “male.” Not only has “manliness” become a dirty word in a society of beta males and couch potatoes, but there’s actually less and less of it in the blood of too many American men, with studies showing declines in average testoterone levels over the past 20 years. Today’s men need a major adjustment of alpha attitude, and “Alpha Male Challenge” is the 10-week plan for reclaiming the masculine, competitive edge guys need to be on top of their game in every aspect of their lives. It’s the new blueprint for the “true” Alpha Male- the ideal of masculine excellence today. More than just another fitness book, this three-part exercise, diet, and mind-set overhaul features: the revolutionary MaleScale assessment questionnaire that measures the physical and mental traits that define the true Alpha Male; a step-by-step… More >>
Alpha Male Challenge: The 10-Week Plan to Burn Fat, Gain Muscle & Build True Alpha Attitude
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Audiences: Comprehensive textbook for students in athletic training, physical therapy, and athletic injury prevention and rehabilitation programs. Reference for athletic trainers, sports medicine practitioners, physical therapists, and physiotherapists. Therapeutic Exercise for Musculoskeletal Injuries, Second Edition, formerly Therapeutic Exercise for Athletic Injuries, will give you a thorough understanding of the science and application involved in creating superior therapeutic exercise programs. Updated and invigorated, the expansive text offers the most comprehensive approach available to therapeutic exercise. It is a major professional resource and the only text students need on the subject. Therapeutic Exercise for Musculoskeletal Injuries, Second Edition, one of five texts in the Athletic Training Education Series, helps readers develop a deeper understanding of the why, what, and when of therapeutic exercise techniques. It also pres… More >>
Therapeutic Exercise for Musculoskeletal Injuries – 2nd Edition
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In Yoga Body, Buddha Mind-the first book to give readers the best of both inextricably linked practices-Cyndi Lee shares her twenty years of experience as a practicing Tibetan Buddhist and one of the country’s most famous yoga instructors. This easy-to-use guide shows readers of all yoga levels how to combine the basic tenets of Buddhism and meditation with yoga practice. Her book offers simple meditations and exercise sequences that can be done just about anywhere, in addition to more advanced and rigorous regimens. Written in the same personal, comfortable, and charismatic style that Cyndi Lee has brought to her classes, Yoga Body, Buddha Mind is a comprehensive how-to guide for the ultimate enlightening experience…. More >>
Yoga Body, Buddha Mind
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Train Your Brain for Weight Loss utilizes the principles of self hypnosis to bring about transformational change in your thoughts, motivations, and thus, your body. Damien Young brilliantly guides you along a short relaxing journey which accesses your subconscious mind for lasting change. The first audio CD in Train Your Brain for Weight Loss is devoted to helping you become empowered for weight loss success. The 2nd CD is for attaining a very high level of motivation for eating better and exercising more often. Simply listen to the 2 CD’s for just a few weeks, and you’ll experience changes in your behavior without even knowing it’s taking place. You’ll automatically begin to eat healthier foods. You’ll automatically begin to exercise more often. And finally, you’ll automatically begin to lose weight and keep it off…. More >>
Train Your Brain for Weight Loss – 2 Self Hypnosis CD’s for Weight Loss Empowerment and Exercise Motivation
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Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. Textbook, for undergraduates, covers an overview of the field, exercise physiology, prevention and rehabilitation of sports-related injury, biomechanics of human motion, the mind and brain in exercise, and developmental issues. Two-tone highlighting and illustrations. DNLM: Exercise–physiology. … More >>
Foundations of Exercise Science
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The definitive, A-to-Z overview of evidence-based rehab programs using therapeutic exercise In this exceptional evidence-and-guide-based, clinically-oriented resource, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the design, implementation, and supervision of therapeutic exercise programs for orthopedic injuries and disorders. The book’s logical five-part organization begins with an instructive look at the foundations of the rehabilitation process, then covers the treatment of physiologic impairments during rehabilitation; rehabilitation tools; intervention strategies; and special considerations for specific patient populations. Features Helpful review of the foundations of the rehabilitation process, thorough coverage of managing the healing process through rehabilitation, and an algorithm-based approach to musculoskeletal rehabilitation Complete survey of rehabilitation tools, from isokinetics, aquatic therapy, and… More >>
Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise
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Reduce and Even Reverse the Effects of Arthritis—Naturally!
Do you struggle with stiffness, pain, loss of joint function, and swelling due to arthritis? Millions of people suffer on a daily basis from these and other symptoms of arthritis. Traditionally, doctors prescribe an ongoing cycle of anti-inflammatory medication to reduce pain. Here you will find natural alternatives to heavy doses of medicine, such as improving your diet, increasing vitamins and minerals, and using specific herbs to regain your active lifestyle.
Dr. Michael T. Murray, author of the bestselling books Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine and The Healing Power of Herbs, offers specific courses of treatment and gives guidelines for whole-body wellness that combat and even reverse the effects of arthritis. In Arthritis you will learn:
·What causes osteoarthritis, gout, and rheumatoid arthritis
·How to understand the disease process
·Why natural supplem… More >>
Arthritis: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, and Other Natural Methods
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Shed those pounds the healthy way.
This brand-new edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Healthy Weight Loss not only gives readers critical information on nutrition and health—it also delivers everything they need to know about the mental and exercise pieces of the weight-loss puzzle. In addition, it presents a comprehensive overview of today’s most popular diets, chapters on such major diet types as low-fat, low-sodium, low-carb, and low-cal, as well as chapters on dieting for kids, dieting for diabetics, dieting for heart health, and more. Best of all, readers will find five unique diet plans to help them lost weight—and keep it off—starting today!
-Features new research on how nutrition and certain foods affect body weight -Expanded information on surgical and pharmaceutical options for weight loss, plus the skinny on supplements and over-the-counter remedies -Upload exercise chapters with mo… More >>
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, 2nd Edition
