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What if there was a pill to help you live longer, feel better,
look younger, and improve almost every aspect of your life with
zero bad side effects, wouldn't you want to take it? The Magic Pill
will prove to you that with a little time, energy, and effort, you
can have all of these benefits and much, much more.
Unveiling the most current scientific information on aging,
exercise, nutrition, and supplementation, this first guidebook of
its kind provides a comprehensive self-help approach to living
longer, improving your health, and finding the happiness that
resides within us all. Matt O'Brien takes you on an exciting
journey filled with motivation, education, and inspiration. Read
this book You will take control of your health and your life will
never be the same again.
Praise from Matt O'Brien's Clients:
"I know for certain that I would not have arrived at this
fantastic place in my life without Matt O'Brien as my coach,
motivator, and friend ... Thank you, Matt, for giving me my health,
fitness and life back."
-Jill Gear
Matt O'Brien's expertise and ability to teach have transformed
my attitude towards exercise and nutrition. I have a new passion
for my health."
-Brandice Lardner
The term "functional training" has been associated with a fair
amount of controversy ever since it became part of the fitness
training vernacular more than a decade ago. In Functional Training
Anatomy, noted strength and conditioning specialists Kevin Carr and
Mary Kate Feit cut through the clutter and misconceptions about
functional training and cover all aspects of how to build a
purposeful, effective, and efficient program that provides the
strength, stability, and mobility you need to support your body in
life and in sports. Beginning with a clear definition of what
functional training entails, you will learn about the importance of
mobility training and its impact on movement quality, performance,
and injury reduction. Use the warm-up activities to prepare for
high-intensity activities. Use the medicine ball and plyometric
exercises to learn to produce and absorb force. Develop power with
Olympic lifts, kettlebell swings, and jumping exercises. Improve
strength in the upper body, lower body, and core with hip-dominant,
knee-dominant, pushing, pulling, and core exercises. See the inner
workings of each of the exercises with superb full-color
illustrations that show the primary and secondary muscles and
connective tissue being used. The detailed instructions for these
multiplanar and unilateral exercises ensure you execute each one
correctly and safely. The Functional Focus element shows how the
exercises translate to specific activities, whether that be an
explosive athletic move or simply moving a box. Functional Training
Anatomy incorporates traditional and nontraditional exercises and
mobility drills that will help you increase functional strength and
reduce injury so your body is prepared to support the demands of
athletic performance and daily living. CE exam available! For
certified professionals, a companion continuing education exam can
be completed after reading this book. The Functional Training
Anatomy Online CE Exam may be purchased separately or as part of
the Functional Training Anatomy With CE Exam package that includes
both the book and the exam.
Stress is the leading cause of neck pain-and popping a pill is not
the answer. Using the tools and techniques taught here, you can
prevent neck pain and headaches in just minutes a day. Author
Rowlin L. Lichter, M.D., is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon
who shares step-by-step instructions on how you can stop your neck
pain and headaches simply, quickly, and easily. Dr. Lichter has
created a system of easy exercises that have provided permanent
relief to 85 percent of the patients who tried them. Now this cure
is yours without a prescription These techniques have been
developed with the help of physical therapists at CHART
Rehabilitation in Hawaii, with continuing success. Knowledgeable
doctors and therapists worldwide have adopted these methods. Dr.
Lichter also explores complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
therapies, like acupuncture and many kinds of massage and shiatsu,
which can give temporary relief. Since most neck pains are
transient, that may be all the help you need. He also offers his
professional opinion on which treatments, products, and "miracle
solutions" to avoid. These exercises offer permanent relief from
more serious neck pain and can be an important upgrade to any
healthy lifestyle.
Yijing (I-Ching) theory is the foundation of Daoism and Chinese
medicine, and this book explores the deep roots that they both
share. Daoism and Chinese medicine both view the human body as a
microcosm of the universe around us; what is happening outside
affects us inside. Medical qigong is based on the premise that we
can energetically affect something outside based on our intention
inside. Much of medical qigong, one of the main branches of Chinese
medicine, originates from the practices of Daoist shamanic healers.
This book introduces a Chinese medicine healing system based on the
principles of the Yijing that serve as the foundation of medical
qigong and Daoist spiritual practices. The Yijing Medical Qigong
System is a compilation of self-healing exercises and qi emission
therapeutic treatment techniques based on Daoist medical qigong and
Yijing theories. This system's approach is unique in that it
focuses on the meanings of the trigrams rather than the hexagrams
of the Yijing. The eight trigrams are used in innovative ways for
healing the body, mind, and spirit. The Yijing Medical Qigong
System is based on the premise that the Yijing theory that infuses
Chinese medicine and Daoism is just as relevant today for healing
and spiritual guidance it was three thousand years ago.
Start your journey to better health and fitness now with The Body Coach and the bestselling diet book of all time!
Eat more. Exercise less. Lose fat.
In his first book, Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, reveals how to shift your body fat by eating more and exercising less.
Lean in 15 – The Shift Plan features a hundred recipes for nutritious, quick-to-prepare meals – including his bad-boy burrito and oaty chicken – and guides you through Joe's signature HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) home workouts – revealing how to combine food and exercise to ignite intense fat-burning. It will teach you how to fuel your body with the right food at the right time so you burn fat, build lean muscle and never go hungry.
Thirty percent of American adults are obese. Thirty percent more
are overweight but not yet obese. These basic statistics point out
the grave danger responsible for thousands of debilitating diseases
and premature deaths, a danger that threatens to financially
bankrupt our national health care system. Christians, who as the
"light of the world" lead by example, are active participants in
the unhealthy life choices contributing to this present crisis. In
"Healthy Vessels, " author and devout believer Jim Williamson, who
has been a health practitioner for over thirty years, offers
guidance to the secular world and Christians alike for exercising
self-control and responsibility and for making smart, healthy
lifestyle choices."Healthy Vessels" begins by exploring the obesity
crisis-the underlying habits causing it, its dangers, and what it
means for the future; then Williamson melds scriptural advice on
healthy habits with his experience and research in nutrition and
exercise. The result is a roadmap for those of us struggling with
preventable health problems to understand more about our bodies and
how to make them healthy vessels.Drugs and surgery will not fix the
problems facing America today. The battle for our health and
happiness is a struggle against outside influences and personal
impulses. Through applying a little discipline and striving for
healthy habits, we can overcome these challenges and truly honor
our creator.
Rushing to Yoga details how awakenings may be found in distant
countries as we search to find ourselves, but they also can occur
daily in our lives. The stories included describe how we can
benefit from our daily lives if we only take a moment to stop
rushing around and allow the learning-the remembering-to occur. We
don't need to spend a fortune, flying to Bali or Italy. Our
awakenings, our remembering can occur right here in our daily
lives, as long as we have a sense of humor and some fabulous
friends to help us identify them and remember them. Rushing to Yoga
is based on real stories about author Marilee Bresciani's life,
stories that are like what many middle-class Americans may have
experienced as they search for meaning. She shares these stories,
couched in humor, with the intent that they will inspire reflection
and discourse. There are no answers in this book. Rather, readers
may find humor in their own adversities and use them as
opportunities to reflect upon the lessons learned. When adversities
are faced with humor, and when lessons are learned in our daily
lives, we should share those lessons with others, so that we truly
can grow in joy, love, and peace.
The Yoga Sutras were compiled about 2,000 years ago by the sage
Patanjali from an oral tradition reaching back into unknowable
antiquity. He gives us the essential wisdom for the practice of
yoga and meditation to know, first hand, the essence of our true
Self-the conscious indweller that enlivens this body. Experiencing
the fully conscious state shows us the essential transcendent
nature of the universe to bring us a state of undisturbed joyous
tranquillity. Traditionally, this wisdom has been handed down from
master to student as a transmission of the means to liberation.
Patanjali tells us that the pure blissful inner Self is already
attained and all that is required is to lose interest in that which
is not the Self. This is pretty straight forward, and we learn all
we need to know in the first three sutras. Presuming we will not
get it the first time, he goes on to detail the nature of the Self,
the practices that will awaken us, the attainments that arise from
the practices and then explains about the state of final
liberation. Throughout the book we are reminded of two fundamental
practices that lead to the final state, kaivalya. One practice is
vairagya (dispassion, non-attachment) and the other is viveka
(discrimination). In the practice of viveka, we learn to
discriminate between the mind and the watcher of the mind
(consciousness itself). When we can rest in the state of
consciousness knowing itself; we answer the question, "Who am I?"
Advance Praise for "Row Daily"
"This book has the potential to change and lengthen your active
life."
-Jo A. Hannafin, MD
." . . shows the way to improve your fitness and quality of life
through rowing."
- Marlene Royle, OTR
"I use the principles in this book to help train people to become
Navy SEALS; you can use them to improve your fitness at your own
pace, whatever that may be."
-Michael Caviston, MS (Kinesiology)
"A 'golden gateway' to the sport of rowing for those who know
nothing about it and a demonstration of how easily you can find
better health and a better life through rowing "
-Victoria Draper, Founder/CEO, Rowbics
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