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.
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.
Get Fit, Get Happy isn't about just transforming the way you look. It's about transforming the way you feel. Harry Judd is a member of the hugely successful bands McFly and McBusted who have headlined Hyde Park, notched up 19 hit singles - of which 7 went to number one - and 2 number-one albums. He is a much-loved former Strictly Come Dancing champion and has been crowned the nation's favourite ever winner of the show. And yet in spite of this success, there have been times when Harry has been prone to anxiety and other mental health issues. He's not alone. Today, anxiety, depression and other mental health problems affect more of us than ever before and we are all looking for ways to adapt, cope and survive the pressures of daily life. The one thing that Harry has turned to time and time again to redress the balance in his life is fitness. Now, using a combination of exercise and dance, Harry makes the mood-boosting benefits of fitness accessible for everyone. Young or old, male or female, small or large, tall, short, thin, fat or somewhere in the middle: anyone will be inspired by Get Fit, Get Happy. Without any need for expensive kit or lots of time, Harry's approach is fun, fast, free. Part memoir in which Harry tells the life lessons that he has learned, and part richly researched fitness plan to get you feeling more positive, Get Fit, Get Happy is a fitness revolution to help people find a little more happiness in their lives.
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.
The hilarious Sunday Times bestseller! Reached number 5 in the paperback non-fiction chart – sadly not number 2! Get fit while you sh*t with this rather amusing and slightly silly parody of the HIIT workout phenomenon This is for the multitaskers, the toilet-lovers, the bottom-tooters, the widdlers, the toilet-paper origamists – yes, I’m talking to you! You thought there would never be an exercise regime that you could enjoy in the comfort of the smallest room, but here it is: The SHIIT Workout. It even has pictures and planners to log your workouts. Getting into shape has never been more fun, as you go through the (bowel) motions from jumping jacksies and push-outs to bottom burpees and skidders. This is the essential guide to getting fit while you SHIIT. Just make sure you have plenty of toilet roll handy as it’s going to get messy – you’re going to do more than sweat.