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A comprehensive guide to yoga, its history, philosophy and how to
incorporate the practice into your everyday life. Expert yoga
practitioner Lucy Lucas offers fresh insight into the history,
philosophy and science of yoga, helping you to truly understand its
ancient wisdom. Includes more than 50 step-by-step sequences.
CONTENTS Chapter 1: What is Yoga? Including The history of yoga and
Yoga philosophy Chapter 2: How Yoga Works Including How we move and
why it matters, How yoga impacts upon the brain and A guide to
poses Chapter 3: How to Live Your Yoga Including A practice for hip
strength and mobility, A gentle flow for boundaries and Letting in
more of the good
With irreverence, humor, and soul-touching candor, the former
editor of Bicycling magazine explores the CrossFit phenomenon, the
fitness revolution sweeping America, chronicling his experience
"inside the box" and how he got into the best shape of his life.
Lifelong amateur athlete Stephen Madden decided to put himself to
the test, physically and mentally, by immersing himself in the
culture, diet, and psyche of CrossFit-the fast-growing but
controversial fitness regime that's a stripped-down combination of
high intensity aerobic activity, weightlifting, calisthenics, and
gymnastics practiced by more than two million athletes worldwide.
But what's crazier? The fact that such a grueling regimen-in which
puking and muscle breakdowns during workouts are common-is so
popular, or that people pay good money to do it? In Embrace the
Suck, Madden chronicles the year he devoted to mastering all of the
basic Crossfit exercises like double unders, muscle ups and kipping
pullups, and immersing himself in the Paleo diet that strips weight
from its followers but leaves them fantasizing about loaves of
bread. Throughout, he explores the culture of the sport, visiting
gyms (boxes) around the country, becoming a CrossFit coach, and
confronting some basic questions about himself, his past and
athletic limitations-and why something so difficult and punishing
can be at once beautiful, funny, and rewarding.
From an elite Special Operations physical trainer, an ingeniously
simple, rapid-results, do-anywhere program for getting into amazing
shape
For men and women of all athletic abilities
As the demand for Special Operations military forces has grown
over the last decade, elite trainer Mark Lauren has been at the
front lines of preparing nearly one thousand soldiers, getting them
lean and strong in record time. Now, for regular Joes and Janes, he
shares the secret to his amazingly effective regimen--simple
exercises that require nothing more than the resistance of your own
bodyweight to help you reach the pinnacle of fitness and look
better than ever before.
Armed with Mark Lauren's motivation techniques, expert training,
and nutrition advice, you'll see rapid results by working out just
thirty minutes a day, four times a week--whether in your living
room, yard, garage, hotel room, or office. Lauren's exercises build
more metabolism-enhancing muscle than weightlifting, burn more fat
than aerobics, and are safer than both, since bodyweight exercises
develop balance and stability and therefore help prevent injuries.
Choose your workout level--Basic, 1st Class, Master Class, and
Chief Class--and get started, following the clear instructions for
125 exercises that work every muscle from your neck to your ankles.
Forget about gym memberships, free weights, and infomercial
contraptions. They are all poor substitutes for the world's most
advanced fitness machine, the one thing you are never without: your
own body.
Men and women of the boomer generation now have a book about
exercise catered to their specific needs and circumstances. A
recent New York Times article on the elderly and exercise
proclaims. Encouraged by doctors to continue to exercise three to
five times a week for their health, a legion of running, swimming
and biking elders are flouting the conventional limits of the
middle-aged body's abilities, and filling the nation's operating
rooms and orthopedists' offices in the process.
Get on the path to increased flexibility and improved muscular
strength! With more than 450,000 copies sold worldwide, Stretching
Anatomy, Third Edition, is your go-to guide for seeing inside the
stretches that will help you increase range of motion, enhance
recovery, and facilitate ease of movement during physical and
everyday activities. The visually stunning illustrations of 79
stretches cover all major joint areas of the body from the feet to
the neck. Each stretch includes step-by-step instructions on how to
perform the stretch, the names of the muscles stretched, and a
Stretch Notes section detailing the procedures and benefits of
every exercise as well as safety considerations and variations for
increasing or decreasing difficulty. You'll find suggested
stretching programs for daily mobility and flexibility, including
stretches for people who sit or stand for extended periods, as well
as a program proven to help lower blood glucose. Sport-specific
stretching routines for 23 different sports are included for
athletes and their trainers who want to improve flexibility,
maximize efficiency of movement, and enhance recovery from training
and competing in their chosen sport. If tight hips, frozen
shoulder, limited neck mobility, leg cramps, arthritis, or general
muscle soreness are conditions you're all too familiar with, use
Stretching Anatomy, Third Edition, to develop a regular stretching
routine that will help you move and feel better. CE exam available!
For certified professionals, a companion continuing education exam
is available that can be completed after reading this book. The
Stretching Anatomy, Third Edition Online CE Exam, may be purchased
separately or as part of the Stretching Anatomy, Third Edition With
CE Exam, package that includes both the book and the exam.
A comprehensive introduction to yoga geared to men of all ages and
backgrounds--whether they're athletic or sedentary, young or old,
devotees of yoga seek new information to enhance their existing
practices or neophytes just starting out of their yoga journals.
Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read?
Is it possible to:
Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?
Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness
book.
"The 4-Hour Body" is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning
more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the
collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and
thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From
Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon
Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 "New York Times"
bestselling author of "The 4-Hour Workweek, " fixated on one
life-changing question:
For all things physical, what are the tiniest changes that produce
the biggest results?
Thousands of tests later, this book contains the answers for both
men and women.
From the gym to the bedroom, it's all here, and it all works.
YOU WILL LEARN (in less than 30 minutes each):
How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd
combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.
* How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays,
weekends)
* How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice
* How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids,
and in four hours of "total" gym time
* How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested
* How to produce 15-minute female orgasms
* How to triple testosterone and double sperm count
* How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12
weeks
* How to reverse "permanent" injuries
* How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months
* How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 50
topics covered, all with real-world experiments, many including
more than 200 test subjects.
You don't need better genetics or more discipline. You need
immediate results that compel you to continue.
That's exactly what "The 4-Hour Body" delivers.
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