This guide puts together a realistic and enjoyable plan to help even the most reluctant exerciser to improve their health. There are no crash diets or faddy meals, instead the emphasis is on eating wholesome food (recipes from Ainsley Harriott) and taking some steps towards a healthier way of life.
Fighting Fit reveals how to develop, use, update, and expand your own flexible fitness plan - for a workout at home, at the gym, or with a partner; a whole body approach to ensure complete fitness and avoid common strains and stresses; different sports, activities, and training methods, and highlights their effectiveness in personal programs; and how to make health and fitness an integral part of your life.
Fed up with feeling less than fighting fit? Tired of dieting or obsessing over your weight? Envious of those people who seem confident in their bodies, and seem to have no worries? If so, then this is exactly the right book for you. Susanne Garnett and Jennie Hoskins met at a gym when Jennie tried to teach Susanne to box, and the session ended in lots of laughter. Susanne asked for boxing gloves for her seventieth birthday and the rest is history! Now they've combined their very different skills, in combat fitness training, and writing. How to Feel Fighting Fit provides advice, stories, and encouragement, based on the lives and testimonies of real women, of all ages and levels of fitness. You can read it sitting on your sofa, but by the end, they hope you'll want to stand up, step out, and embrace all that life can offer, whatever your age, and level of fitness. It's not an exercise manual or diet book, but more a pump-primer to fill you with confidence and energy, and the knowledge about healthy living to get started on the right path. There are also some healthy recipes at the end because, hey, who doesn't enjoy reading recipes?
The fitness plan used by the SAS - perfect for fans of British Miltary Fitness classes. Every year thousands of men and women discover new levels of fitness and inner strength as they are put through their paces to meet demanding standards required for new recruits in the British Army - this book will take you to the same level. Beyond that are the elite: the SAS, Paras and Commandos. Each unit has rigorous and searching requirements designed to select only the strongest, fittest and meanest for the world's toughest regiments. Recommended by a recent SAS squadron commander as 'an excellent guide', FIGHTING FIT's unique and proven training programmes have already helped many soldiers pass these most demanding tests. Now you can join them. Illustrated throughout and including inside information on the kit you'll need, the food you should eat and how to cope with injury, FIGHTING FIT is the comprehensive insider's guide to the fitness methods of the world's most professional army.
This book evolved from a recent national conference that was convened to explore how the mass media could become a more potent weapon to improve public health. The conference sought to achieve several goals: increasing understanding of mass communication influences on health issues and problems, exploring shared responsibilities among media and public health professionals, designing strategies for influencing policymakers and gatekeepers in each field, and setting priorities for future initiatives and research.