Archive for the ‘Fitness’ Category
Hooping: A Revolutionary Fitness Program

Imagine an exercise that works every major and minor muscle group, burns 600 calories an hour, builds balance and flexibility, requires no investment beyond $25 to $35, and makes you feel exuberant, delightful, sassy, and sexy. And is so much more like play than work that you want to keep doing it.
That’s right, what goes around comes around—the Hula-Hoop, which burst into fad-dom fifty years ago, is hot all over again, but this time for enormously beneficial reasons. Christabel Zamor, credited with reviving the Hula-Hoop with her HoopGirl Workout, is leading what Time magazine calls “the inventive new wave of fitness…that is catching on in health clubs across America.” Hooping brings the best of Hoo… More >>
- ISBN13: 9780761152415
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
The Rider’s Fitness Guide to a Better Seat

With three full exercise routines for riders at beginner, intermediate, and advanced fitness levels, this guide helps you achieve a good basic riding position that is centered, aligned, balanced, and relaxed. There are clear explanations and photos of each exercise plus three tear-out workout guides, so you can exercise anywhere. An improved seat enhances your riding experience, helps eliminate back pain and post-riding soreness, lessens fatigue, minimizes the risk of injury, and improves your performance…. More >>
- ISBN13: 9780470137437
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Prime for Life: Functional Fitness for Ageless Living

Each year, hundreds of people make the decision to leave the routines and restrictions of their daily lives and come to Canyon Ranch, the world-renowned wellness and health center in Tucson, Arizona, for a life-changing week. Within that short time, guests at the ranch reconnect with the natural world and their place in it as living, breathing, moving creatures. In his role as fitness director of the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch, physical therapist Randy Raugh helps guests of all ages—and with all ranges of fitness levels—understand how movement and activity will not only enrich their lives but will also protect them from disease, obesity, and the negative aspects of aging. As children, ou… More >>
Fitness Professional’s Handbook – 5th Edition

Fitness Professional’s Handbook, Fifth Edition, is back with a new title, an expanded scope, and thoroughly updated material. With three new chapters, numerous ancillaries, and material that reflect the current American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) guidelines, this text will allow both students and professionals to stay abreast of the latest research and information in the field. Formerly titled Health Fitness Instructor’s Handbook, this full-color text has undergone a title change to better reflect its extensive use in the field. Reflective of updates made in the seventh edition of ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, it serves as an essential text for those … More >>
Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging

Do all adults experience memory difficulties as they age? What is the difference between normal memory change and the symptoms of Alzheimers disease? Is it possible to stem–or even reverse–memory decline? This timely book is a comprehensive guide for adults who are eager to learn who ageing affects memory and what can or cannot be done about it…. More >>
Nutrition for Health, Fitness & Sport

This textbook provides the reader with thorough coverage of the role nutrition plays in enhancing one’s health, fitness, and sport performance. Current research and practical activities are incorporated throughout…. More >>
Fitness Swimming, Second Edition

Want more from your workout? Whether you seek to improve your technique, trim your times, swim greater distances, or simply improve your fitness level, Fitness Swimming will help you achieve your goals, all in full-color.
Expert swim coach Emmett Hines has created 60 new workouts and 16 sample programs, each arranged into suggested training zones to correspond to your fitness level and performance goals. Over a dozen cutting-edge technique drills help you progressively build an effective freestyle stroke. The text covers stretching, warm-up and cool-down methods, heart rate zone targets, expanded instruction for stroke efficacy, progressive drills, conditioning tips, and fitness assessments. Fitness… More >>
- ISBN13: 9780736074575
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Fitness for Life – Updated 5th Edition – Cloth

Fitness for Life helps students to meet national, state, and local physical education grade-level standards; learn about and meet national health goals for the year 2010; become informed consumers on matters related to lifelong physical activity and fitness; learn self-management skills that lead to adopting healthy lifestyles; take personal responsibility for program planning and setting individualized goals; recognize and overcome the barriers to reaching their activity and fitness goals; use technology to promote healthy living and to separate fact from fiction; and assess personal progress using a variety of tools, including FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM.
Fitness for Life is the… More >>
Tina Vindum’s Outdoor Fitness: Step Out of the Gym and Into the BEST Shape of Your Life

From Maui to Manhattan’s Central Park, Tina Vindum has revolutionized the way people around the world are getting in shape…. More >>
- ISBN13: 9780762751297
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
$11.00
Tina Vindum’s Outdoor Fitness: Step Out of the Gym and Into the BEST Shape of Your Life
The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You’ll Never Quit!

The 8 Colors of Fitness: Discover Your Color-Coded Fitness Personality and Create an Exercise Program You’ll Never Quit! (Oakledge Press, 2008) The 8 Colors of Fitness is a personality-based approach to a physically active lifestyle based on 8 sets of preferences each corresponding to a Color – The 8 Colors. By identifying your Color – and each of us falls into one of the 8 Colors, readers get a snapshot of their exercise personality. Whether you’re trying to include physical activity in your basic wellness program, an exercise enthusiast, or training for peak performance–this book is for you. The 8 Colors of Fitness begins with a short personality assessment to guide readers in discovering their Co… More >>
101 Workouts: Build Muscle, Lose Fat & Reach Your Fitness Goals Faster

Muscle & Fitness magazine has provided a program of rapid-fire core workouts for those seeking to “get moving” on a weight-training fitness program or for those who wish to expand, freshen-up, and enhance their workout regimen. There are 101 fully photo-illustrated workouts presented almost one per every page spread. This concept allows the enthusiast the opportunity to glance at the photo during a workout to check their faithful following of the routine. Whether one is a novice or an experienced weight trainer there is a chapter that focuses on a workout plan just for your progress level. And there is a guide to designing your own personalized workout system. Your fitness and well-being are considered with sec… More >>
- ISBN13: 9781600780240
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
$9.43
101 Workouts: Build Muscle, Lose Fat & Reach Your Fitness Goals Faster
Cat Yoga: Fitness and Flexibility for the Modern Feline

For centuries, people have practiced yoga as a means of improving the body, clearing the mind, and heightening joy. Now your favorite feline can relish the benefits of this ancient discipline with Cat Yoga. Regular practice will help your cat feel more energetic—no more three hour naps in the sun for him! Other benefits include:
• Improved balance
• A sleek waistline
• Mental clarity
• Fuller, more luxurious whiskers
Sixty full-color photographs of cats who have already unlocked the power of yoga guide your beloved pet on this journey, paving the way to enlightenment through Cat Yoga.
* No cats pulled a muscle, felt dizzy, or were harmed in any way in the making of t… More >>
- ISBN13: 9780307352545
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
$7.66
Cat Yoga: Fitness and Flexibility for the Modern Feline
Fitness and Wellness

Hoeger and Hoeger’s FITNESS AND WELLNESS, 8e, delivers full-color, cutting-edge coverage of core concepts coupled with a wealth of resources rivaling the most comprehensive texts. The succinct nine-chapter text offers balanced coverage that concentrates on health-related physical fitness components with up-to-date insight on wellness. In the Hoeger tradition, an integral theme of the text is motivation and behavior modification. The authors teach you how to take control of your personal fitness, health, and lifestyle habits so you can make a constant and deliberate effort to stay healthy–and realize your highest potential for good health. The text is also integrated with CengageNOW™, powerful interactive lea… More >>
$33.00
Fitness and Wellness
101 Workouts for Women: Everything You Need to Get a Lean, Strong and Fit Physique

Muscle & Fitness HERS magazine has provided a program of rapid-fire core workouts for those seeking to “get moving” on a weight-training fitness program or for those who wish to expand, freshen-up, and enhance their workout regimen. There are 101 fully photo-illustrated workouts presented almost one per every page spread. This concept allows the enthusiast the opportunity to glance at the photo during a workout to check their faithful following of the routine. Whether one is a novice or an experienced weight trainer there is a chapter that focuses on a workout plan just for your progress level. And there is a guide to designing your own personalized workout system. Your fitness and well-being are considered wit… More >>
- ISBN13: 9781600780233
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
$9.40
101 Workouts for Women: Everything You Need to Get a Lean, Strong and Fit Physique