Your physical condition affects your attitude, outlook on life, and ability to serve God and others to your full potential. In Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness, author Diana Anderson provides interesting facts and vital information about health, nutrition, and exercise, and illustrates the connection between physical fitness and your walk with Christ.
"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own." (1 Corinthians 6:19, NIV)
In addition to illustrated step-by-step exercise routines, sample meal plans, and discussion about the relationship between certain foods and health taken straight from Scripture, Diana emphasizes the importance of positive friendships, and the need for rest and reflection on the Word of God. She also explains the impact of negative self-talk and stress on your physical condition.
Whether you are a fitness fanatic or a couch potato, Fit for Faith will meet you right where you are, inspiring you to make lifelong changes and to adopt a positive attitude toward your health and physical fitness.

108 Insights into Tai Chi ChuanA String of Pearls, focuses on important elements of Tai Chi: health, breathing, posture, body mechanics, visualization, Chi flow, Pushing Hands, and more. 108 Insights into Tai Chi Chuan is written by Michael Gilman, who has been teaching Tai Chi for more than twenty years. He is also a national Grand Champion competitor in Pushing Hands (Taste of China tournament, 1994). You'll discover how to get the fullest health benefits from Tai Chi, improve your Pushing Hands with simple exercises and visualizations, and learn tips to keep your body (especially the knees) in tune for a lifetime's worth of Tai Chi. * Have more fun with your practice!* Improve your skills!* Discover helpful insights on teaching others!* Enjoy the good health that Tai Chi brings!

Why read this book? You should read FIT FOREVER, The Next Step if... [You are looking to find balance in mind, body and spirit [You want to look and feel younger than you are [You are looking for healthy, easy to fix recipes [You are committed advance to the next step in your Fit Forever Journey [You want to live a happier more energetic life FIT FOREVER The Next Step is a uniquely designed lifestyle book that encourages daily consistency in leading a healthy life. It is the perfect companion for those who are looking to go deeper after reading book one of the Fit Forever Series. This book will give you the daily "hands on" tools and motivation for leading a life of balance. Welcome to The Next Step to your health and happiness.

An accessible guide on the history, anatomy and philosophy behind yoga, showing how yoga students can develop and grow their personal practice. By offering students and teacher trainees guidance on how to move on to the next stage in their learning, this practical companion helps to deepen their understanding of holistic yoga practice. Including insights from renowned yoga professionals, including Lizzie Lasater, Andrew McGonigle, Graham Burns, Tarik Dervish and more, this book offers practical ways to hone yoga skills and knowledge. Covering everything from how to use your breath and the different styles of yoga, to what to expect from yoga teacher training, this is an essential handbook for all students and trainee teachers of yoga.

The secret key to losing weight ... easily! Train your brain and say goodbye to diets ... forever! You think losing weight is all about diet and exercise. You think: "If only I could just stick to that diet, resist the carbs and exercise daily, I would lose weight! But I am too weak and don't have the willpower..." You are stuck in a vicious cycle, going from failed diets to bouts of secret indulgence, from deprivation to frustration! What you don't know: You are fighting a war against yourself and subconsciously setting yourself up for failure! Your subconscious mind rules how you think, react ... and eat. The good news is: You can train your brain to work for you, to automatically achieve weight loss for life! Sleep Your Fat away reveals: * How to shrink your stomach and lose weight effortlessly. * How to train your brain while you sleep ... and much more! Your personal coach at your bedside While you are sleeping, your subconscious mind receives seven hours of positive affirmations and empowering beliefs. It is the pain-free path to your ideal weight. The Authors Joy Martina, MD is a Rapid Change Coach, founder of the Christallin Method, and trainer of weight-loss experts and an ex-carb and chocolate addict! Roy Martina, MD is the number one Holistic Thought Leader of Europe. Roy effortlessly lost forty pounds in six months and has kept his ideal weight since. Today the Martinas are healthy, happy, and slim and with Sleep Your Fat Away, you can be too.

Do you want to eat well, exercise and be happy? Does a lack of time stand in the way? If so, it’s time to fit healthy habits into your busy schedule, without turning your life upside down.
Finding Life’s Secret Sauce provides a recipe for happy, healthy living. You simply have to find the ingredients that work for you.
Eat Up! Forget about diets and deprivation and enjoy good food.
Shape Up! Add new twists to the old routine so you get fit and stay that way.
Live it Up! Make sure there’s plenty of time leftover for fun.
Motivation without intimidation, Finding Life’s Secret Sauce will help cure the wellness blues!
   

As a result of the current economic conditions, more and more Americans are joining the ranks of the small business owner, seeking to start or grow their own business. Many of these new and existing entrepreneurs are struggling with the demands of the business and making time for their family, friends, and most importantly, themselves. If you are a small business owner or entrepreneur who finds it challenging to find the time to focus on you, your weight, your fitness and your health this book is for you. In The SlimPreneur: How to Lose Weight While You Make Money, you'll learn the secrets successful entrepreneurs know, the better you take care of yourself, the more successful your business will be. Author Janet K. Fish shares the short cuts and strategies that ensure that you meet your weight loss and fitness goals no matter how busy your schedule is. You'll learn to think like a healthy and wealthy entrepreneur and how those unique thought patterns make the difference between success and failure.

How much is not exercising costing your bottom line? Do you have the energy and drive it takes to achieve your daily wants, needs and desires? Learn how to adopt the secrets of mental, physical, and financial fitness within the pages of Hip to Be Fit. The Hip To Be Fit! Program makes life smoother, and it becomes easier to implement life's goals. Clients laugh when I tell them to ""use your butt to train your brain for better fitness,"" but then they see the results of the routines. *Brand new ways to improve energy levels *Exercises that can be done anywhere and with little to no equipment! *Inside information on cardio routines *The secrets of pain-free exercise... finally revealed *The perfect little ""tweak"" that ""fit"" people know *How to never again feel sluggish when you work *How exercise can make you wealthy *Burst out of an energy lull immediately *The one thing you must do when you want to lose your internet butt.

Most of us know that we need to work out to be healthier and live longer lives, but did we know that our success at work depends on it? Elite personal trainer and workplace wellness expert Perry Lieber knows it, but he doesn't want you to take his word for it. In Work Out and Grow Rich, interviews with his most successful clients (such as Greg Renker, founder of Guthy-Renker, and Mark Bissell, CEO of Bissell) reveal the habits that helped them become rich in every meaningful sense of the word-and how you can too.

The eXercise Factor shows you how to ease into the best shape of your life, regardless of your age, weight, or current fitness level. Learn how to increase your life expectancy and significantly improve the quality of your life by the actions you take. This is not about a quick fix; it is about a long-term, sustained lifestyle. There are four key success drivers-knowledge, nutrition, exercise, and the X Factor-which work together holistically to turbo-charge your ability to live a long, high-quality life. While exercise is the secret sauce, the X Factor is probably the most important ingredient, and no book addresses the critical importance of these two ingredients like The eXercise Factor.

I Hate Yoga poses an intriguing question: How is it possible to become so disenchanted with an age-old activity that historically offers so much healing and serenity? Sadly, even yoga can fall prey to the dark influences of Western society. Social media, a bad boy guru, religion, competitive yoga and "a multiplying spawn of self-righteous yoga knowers" are just a few of the culprits that are scrutinized in showing that yoga has lost its path. But it's not too late to put it back on the Buddha-bus to paradise. How? With an exorcism that humorously and earnestly rids yoga of its imposed impurities. Then, as author Paul McQuillan explains, "Once we have cathartically performed our ugly yoga striptease and thrown down each garment of bogus credibility and confusion, we will then focus on watching the Yoga-Phoenix rise from the ashes ... this will take place only after the affectations surrounding yoga have been laid bare and exposed as nothing more than a societal red herring, distracting us from the beauty of a profoundly beneficial art form." Such a transformational journey doesn't happen easily, but once it begins, you may just find that there is an unlikely and surprising beneficiary: You.

In a cathartic journey from yoga-hate to yoga-love, I Hate Yoga explores why yoga has become so controversial in Western society, all the while growing in popularity. Social media, religion, a bad boy guru, yoga competitions and other unlikely bedmates are humorously and conscientiously exposed in this thoughtful look at the world of yoga today. You'll find yourself shocked, tickled, and perhaps even transformed as author Paul McQuillan takes you through a maze of dissent and praise-ultimately enabling you to arrive at your own surprising and unlikely conclusion. You'll want to put this book down, but only to go to yoga and begin your own love/hate relationship.

The achievement journal is Perlus' first of many steps along her journey to becoming the expert on inspiring and guiding individuals toward achieving their peak performance in every domain.   All fitness professionals and current success/achievement journals tell the consumer what to eat and how to train. The missing element is how to develop mental toughness. Therefore, using proven mental toughness techniques and sport psychology, Perlus teachs consumers how to achieve their goals while recommending they follow what they've been told to eat and how they've been advised to train.  The niche it fills: The majority of individuals who achieve their health and fitness goals use journals to track their progress. Top fitness professionals have provided success journals to help their readers follow their fitness and nutrition programs. Perlus' achievement journal is designed for fitness enthusiasts who are searching for mental toughness tools to help them achieve their goals using the fitness program they have already created.

Foreword by Dr. Mehmet OzA renowned personal trainer to Olympic athletes, movie stars, Broadway actors, and supermodels, draws on twenty years of experience to create a powerful three-step fitness approach--combining mindful techniques with effective workouts--to achieve stunning results in only fifteen minutes a day. With a foreword by Dr. Mehmet Oz.Cutting edge research in the fields of neuroscience and neuropsychology shows that negative thinking prevents people from improving bad health and shedding excess weight. As the research makes clear, your mindset is the crucial factor when it comes to slimming down, toning up, and boosting overall well being.Joel Harper's Mind Your Body provides simple, effective ways to harness your brainpower to make lasting changes. Utilizing his powerful three-step approach, readers will learn how to quickly and simply access mindful techniques, combine them with effective fifteen minute workouts, and eat simply and deliciously to quickly, efficiently, and effortlessly yield successful weight loss, a leaner and firmer body, reduced stress, improved health, increased happiness, and enhanced energy.You'll notice improved mood, impulse control, motivation, and energy in just one day. In one week, you will have established new ways of thinking, moving, and eating that will deliver effortless weight loss, energy surges, and more restful sleep. At the end of four weeks, you will have dropped a dress size, lost up to ten pounds or more, shed fat, toned up, doubled your energy levels, and have bulletproof motivation--all thanks to a positive new outlook and fifteen minutes a day. Mind Your Body shows you how.

Senior's Tai Chi Workout is the first complete guide for mature adults to help them achieve their goals of greater mobility using Tai Chi exercise. This easy to follow format starts with a detailed description of each exercise, accompanied by a clear series of photographs of Master Domingo Colon himself showing each movement step-by-step.
Master Colon has developed a unique method of teaching Tai Chi so that each practitioner is able to perform the exercises safely and efficiently for maximum benefit. Special attention has been given to the correct alignment of the knees, spine, shoulders and neck, which are areas of concern for many older adults. His concise approach combines his training as a physical therapist and his 40 years of Tai Chi experience to help re-establish healthy patterns of movement to make everyday tasks much easier to accomplish.
There are so many physical and mental benefits to be gained by learning the exercises in this book, which include: better balance, increased flexibility, greater blood and lymphatic circulation, deeper and easier breathing, superior muscle tone, and better memory, focus and concentration. And the best part is that the reader will start feeling some of these positive results right away after just a few practice sessions, because the explanations are very easy to follow.
This workout guide begins by discussing the principles and concepts of Tai Chi so that are important considerations.
Then the Meditation Section provides a method to calm and focus the mind before the more challenging exercises to follow. This technique emphasizes deep, diaphragmatic breathing, positive visualization, and physical postures that help to invigorate the body and mind.
This is followed by a series of Chi Kung (energy and breathing exercises) that increase general flexibility, circulation and flexibility in individual areas of your body. Many may choose to perform these exercises on a daily basis to maintain or improve their conditioning. The exercises are gentle enough that they may be done every day.
The next section is a detailed step-by-step description of the Wu Chi Tai Chi Form. This is the series of beautiful and graceful Tai Chi flowing exercises usually seen in demonstrations of Tai Chi. Clear and simple instructions, with accompanying photos, allows anyone to easily learn these movements and immediately begin to benefit from them. Extreme attention is given to providing safe instructions, breathing techniques and all required information without burdening the student with unnecessary detail.
At the end of the book, there are several sections that act as additional references about the benefits of the exercises, correct breathing techniques and advanced meditation and relaxation exercises. Information is provided to allow all readers to conveniently communicate with us to have questions answered.

Balanced Body Breakthrough is the essential guide for anyone who wants to beat stress and find balance. Caroline Jordan dispenses wellness wisdom in short, easy-to-read segments. Jordan's definition of wellness includes the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. From start to finish, this book is filled with knowledge and resources to help you personalize your approach to living well. Balanced Body Breakthrough teaches you to clarify values, create a plan and set smart goals, manage your time, feel healthy, get fit, and enjoy life. This book is a tool that will help you stay committed, positive, and present in living a feel-good life you love.

FINALIST - Sports, 2016 Best Books Award This 3rd edition includes a new and easy-to-follow layout. Each technique is presented in four to six large photographs with detailed instructions on how to perform the movements. Motion arrows are used on the photographs to help you execute the movements correctly. DISCOVER THE MARTIAL ESSENCE OF TAICHI CHUAN Here's your chance to take the next step in your tai chi journey Martial applications found within tai chi chuan are a direct link to your tai chi as a form of self-defense. When you study the martial side of tai chi, you can become proficient in a variety of high-level skills, including sensing, neutralizing, yielding, striking, chin na, and even throwing. If you know a tai chi form, you are going to discover the essence of your movements by becoming aware of their martial applications. If you are practicing tai chi pushing hands, you will greatly improve your skills with this understanding of martial applications. If you are ready, you are going to love the amazing tai chi fighting set. This fully choreographed set (requires a partner) will combine all your tai chi skills into one 5-minute routine. This book includes *Martial applications for the Yang-style long form*Martial applications for Yang-style tai chi pushing hands*The complete Yang-style tai chi fighting set For any style of tai chi chuan, this book will be important for practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding and advanced skills. *Learn how to analyze the forms and defense applications in your tai chi, gaining higher-level knowledge of your style.*Discover the martial applications of Yang-style. These insights will give you greater understanding of your own art.*Find inspiration. Dr. Yang's writing will inspire you to investigate the martial applications of your tai chi style.

You have an owner's manual for your car, your stereo, and even your blender, so why not your body? The Fighter's Body is exactly that-an owner's manual for your most complex piece of equipment. As a martial artist, you make special demands of your body. Have you ever wondered how that latest fad diet might affect your performance on the mat? Ever wanted to take off a few extra pounds? How about putting on muscle without slowing down? Making weight for a tournament? Losing five pounds fast? Eating better? Changing weight classes? Are you confused about supplements, vitamins, and protein shakes? Don't know where to start? Start here. This book will answer your questions about important topics including *Why some diets are harmful for martial artists* How to calculate your protein needs for training*When and how to use supplements*How to eat at fast food places and not ruin your diet*Why it's OK to splurge on "dirt day"*How to safely make weight for a tournament*Why HIIT training is essential to weight loss*What to eat on competition days*How to create a plan that works and stick to it Loren W. Christensen and personal trainer Wim Demeere combine their knowledge of martial arts, weight training, nutrition, diet, and exercise to answer your questions and put you on the road to becoming the best martial arts athlete you can be.

This book is a thought provoking book that brings yoga philosophy and postures to a wide audience. Both experienced yogi and newcomer alike will find out how to practice yoga in the pool, and how to make it more of a conscious action or 'Kriya' that will help improve not only the body, but the mind too.