Cengage Learning Activity Series From aerobics and yoga - to bowling, tennis, weight training, and more - Cengage Learning offers a complete line of activities texts to meet your teaching needs. Written for individuals of all skill levels and backgrounds, the Cengage Learning Activity Series goes beyond the mere fundamentals, showing students how to improve, excel, and simply get more enjoyment from their favorite physical activities. Practical, visual, and clear, the best-selling WEIGHT TRAINING FOR LIFE, Tenth Edition, prepares students to plan their own weight training programs for a lifetime of fitness. This text builds a solid foundation of current knowledge and practice in weight training for men and women of all ages and skill levels. It contains hundreds of full-color photos demonstrating exercises and proper techniques.

In examining the course of the debate between the philosophies of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft in the first seventy years of the nineteenth century, several important conclusions have been reached. First, a much more diverse spectrum of women's exercise existed in the antebellum era than is currently described in modern historical texts. Second, several exercise systems had significant links to an ideal of womanhood - called in this text Majestic Womanhood - which directly competed with the prevailing construct of the ideology of True Womanhood articulated by historian Barbara Welter. Third, purposive training mattered in the lives of American women influencing them physically, intellectually, and emotionally. In many instances this training empowered women to step beyond the confines of their separate sphere of domestic duty and involve themselves in the world outside their homes.

Pilates benefits every body - including yours! Are you looking for the ideal home workout that anyone can do? Try Pilates and discover how to strengthen your core, become more flexible, improve your posture and even relieve back pain! This Pilates for beginners book is for everyone, regardless of age, race, size, gender, or physical ability. Discover how you can take advantage of all Pilates has to offer. This exercise book includes: - A complete workout plan allowing you to find your comfort zone and test your abilities without judgement - all from the comfort of your own home - 50 Pilates exercises with at least three variations/modifications for different body types - 15 sequences that combine the exercises - Expert advice and tips on Pilates and how to add the exercises to your life Pilates instructor and wellness coach, Micki Havard, will show you a wide range of Pilates exercises to discover this practice's physical and mental benefits. Step-by-step photography and a diverse group of models demonstrate each exercise with its possible variations, so you can find the best way that suits you, and your physical abilities. Once you've found the movements that suit you, you'll begin to notice the positive changes in your body as you become stronger and more confident. Other physical activities will become more manageable, and you will have renewed confidence in your everyday capabilities! If you enjoyed Pilates for Everyone, be sure to check out the other title in this series - Yoga for Everyone. So forget what you've heard. Exercise isn't just for the privileged few. It's meant to be enjoyed by everybody. Yes, you can do it - and this series will show you how!

Barrett has been asked many times throughout the years, "How long will it take me to get into shape?" Since each person is unique and many variables play a role in the process of getting into shape, Barrett touches on a partial list of factors that can affect the speed of progress, including consistency, intensity, proper diet, sleep, nutritional supplements, age, genetics, metabolism, gender, weight and lifestyle.

Benefits of exercise and proper diet can enhance the overall quality of your life physically, mentally, and spiritually. Exercise and proper diet can assist you physically by helping to control weight, prevent obesity, reduce (bad) cholesterol levels, decrease blood sugar levels, slow the aging process, increase your energy level, help prevent heart disease, and aid rehabilitation after injury, operation, or illness. In addition, exercise and proper diet can assist you psychologically by helping to improve sleep, fight depression, reduce anxiety, relieve stress, increase self-esteem, enhance self-confidence, and much more.

You are the pilot of your own ship; therefore, you will create your own destiny. Only you can choose to help yourself. Without goals, you are like a cork in the ocean floating wherever the tide wants to take you.