Provides a low impact exercise program that can be done in a seated positionith or without weights, and includes step-by-step photographs of eachxercise and special workouts for computers users.
Learn how to take control of your own well-being. You’ll find both the motivation and scientific knowledge you need to develop your own personal plan for healthy living and to make physical activity an integral part of that plan. You’ll also explore the roles of stress management, sleep, and nutrition in achieving your goals.
Shares hundreds of exercise options for increasing metabolism, burning fat, and building muscle, in a workout reference that focuses on abdominal and large-muscle groups and outlines a thrice-weekly speed-interval routine for faster results. 125,000 first printing.
What if you could lose fat, get fit, energize your body, and feel healthy-and still keep your day job? You can! The Get Fit, Lean program is designed to transform your body while fitting into your busy schedule. Breaking health and fitness down to their essentials, it lays out a functional approach that's divided into three sections: nutrition, cardiovascular exercise, and resistance training. Easy to follow, this guide offers time-efficient, practical methods that anyone can incorporate into his or her life and start seeing and feeling the results. In his midforties, author J. D. Griffin found himself overweight and suffering from low self-esteem. But then he undertook a twelve-week body transformation challenge, at the end of which he'd lost thirty pounds of fat, gained lean muscle, and developed a fit body to be proud of. Five years later, he still maintains his fit, lean body and has helped numerous people change their lives through his transformation program. Regardless of age, weight, gender, or busy schedule, "Get Fit, Lean and Keep Your Day Job" will help you transform your body and feel great. Get started today!
Change the way you sit in 28 days for health, energy and longevity We live increasingly sedentary lives and our lifestyle has radically changed in terms of how we work and naturally move throughout our day. While we all know about the benefits of exercise for mental and physical health, what we're not so attuned to are the damaging effects of just how we sit - at our desks, scrolling on our phones, in the car or even on our bicycles. But it doesn't have to be this way. By making small changes to our everyday sitting behavior, we can experience increased energy, confidence, optimism and openness. Featuring a practical 28-day plan to transform your relationship with sitting, how long you sit at a time, how to add simple breath work and movement into your day and restorative moves for the end of the day. Sit up, sit better and reap the benefits.
Thanks to advances in medical science, we are living longer than ever before. But how much thought and effort do we put into preparing for these extra years of life? This book makes a strong case for the virtues of physical activity to maintain health and mobility in old age. From mindset and exercise to diet and sleep, each chapter summarizes the scientific evidence and offers advice and encouragement on how to change your everyday habits - starting right now. Interwoven with anecdotes from the author's adventurous life, this is a passionate, highly personal manifesto for embracing later life with humor, resilience, and optimism.A successful entrepreneur and all-round athlete, Jack Lowe has climbed the highest peaks on three continents and travelled 22 countries by bike. At the age of 78, he championed the creation of the Fit for Life Foundation to promote life-long fitness and independent mobility of older people worldwide.All proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to the Fit for Life Foundation, www.fitforlife.foundation
Finally, the solution to the #1 reason we don’t exercise: time. Everyone has one minute. A decade ago, Martin Gibala was a young researcher in the field of exercise physiology—with little time to exercise. That critical point in his career launched a passion for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), allowing him to stay in shape with just a few minutes of hard effort. It also prompted Gibala to conduct experiments that helped launch the exploding science of ultralow-volume exercise. Now that he’s the worldwide guru of the science of time-efficient workouts, Gibala’s first book answers the ultimate question: How low can you go? Gibala’s fascinating quest for the answer makes exercise experts of us all. His work demonstrates that very short, intense bursts of exercise may be the most potent form of workout available. Gibala busts myths (“it’s only for really fit people”), explains astonishing science (“intensity trumps duration”), lays out time-saving life hacks (“exercise snacking”), and describes the fascinating health-promoting value of HIIT (for preventing and reversing disease). Gibala’s latest study found that sedentary people derived the fitness benefits of 150 minutes of traditional endurance training with an interval protocol that involved 80 percent less time and just three minutes of hard exercise per week. Including the eight best basic interval workouts as well as four microworkouts customized for individual needs and preferences (you may not quite want to go all out every time), The One-Minute Workout solves the number-one reason we don’t exercise: lack of time. Because everyone has one minute.
This brand-new, profusely illustrated fitness manual presents a graded six-week exercise program designed to produce optimal body flexibility and fitness. Readers are introduced to a wide range of dynamic and static whole-body stretching exercises that include standing spine rotation, lying hamstring stretch, kneeling hip flexor, standing calf stretch, and many others. The author includes a series of self-assessment questionnaires throughout the six-week program to help readers monitor their progress and, where needed, focus on body-stretching areas that require extra attention. This stretch fit program helps individuals reach maximum flexibility at their own pace, guiding them from beginner through intermediate routines, and finally to advanced exercises designed to produce maximum body flexibility. Color photos demonstrate each exercise routine, and detailed charts guide readers day by day through the entire six-week program. Full color photos on most pages.