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There are around 60,000 qualified gym instructors and personal
trainers in the UK alone, with several thousand more qualifying
each year. The Register of Exercise Professionals' (REPs) Level 3
qualification is seen as the principal goal for all instructors,
and a key part of this is advanced circuit training. Fitness
Professionals: Advanced Circuit Training is the advanced companion
to the definitive Fitness Professionals: Circuit Training. Building
on the basics of the first book, this new title is the only book in
the market that specifically deals with more complex and innovative
circuit methods - including kettlebell exercises, boxercise and
increasingly popular 'boot camp' military-style exercise - and
which actively helps trainers in the industry achieve their
professional qualifications. Using step-by-step guidance to
planning and coordinating sessions and illustrated by quality
photographs, Advanced Circuit Training is written in accordance
with REPs national standards for Level 3.
The great Jerry Colonna's hidden masterpiece - out of print since
the war ended. That's 1945, folks And it's just as funny now as
then. Bob Hope wrote the Foreword, so that should tell you
something. Read it, rip it up, learn about the War, feast your eyes
on that Mustache once more
Now in paperback--one of America's greatest entertainers shares his
favorite jokes and memories.
Bob Hope died at the age of 100 in July '03. His legendary career
spanned the entire 20th century, from impersonating Charlie Chaplin
in front of the firehouse in Cleveland in 1909 to celebrating an
unprecedented 60 years with NBC in 1996. He entertained millions
worldwide with his performances in vaudeville and on Broadway, on
his top-rated weekly radio show, in beloved movies such as his Road
pictures with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, and, most notably, in
the countless television appearances that made him a superstar and
a welcome guest in every living room in the country.
With Bob Hope: My Life in Jokes, readers can enjoy the very best of
his humor and, in the process, learn about the amazing life and
career of a true national treasure.
On the early years:
"I wouldn't have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the
audience threw at me."
On growing old:
"Age is only a number. However, in my case, it's a rather large
number."
As Oscar Levant said many years ago, "A pun is the lowest form of
wit, especially if you didn't think of it first." In this lively
collection you'll find a hilarious abundance of pun-ishment for the
millions who can't resist giving a word or phrase a twist... and
ammunition for many occasions from movie, TV and theatre wags; from
the wits of Wall Street and Washington... the gems from poets and
pundits and some of the bottom-of-the-barrel crumbs!
Golf is like taxes. You drive hard to get to the green and wind
up in the hole.
A monastery in financial trouble decided to go into the
fish-and-chips industry to raise revenues. One night a customer
knocked on the door and a monk answered. "Are you the fishfriar?"
the customer asked. "No," the robed figurereplied, "I'm the
chipmonk."
The book also contains a PUNdix, a PUNabridged dictionary and a
collection of the best... and worst... jokes in the world!
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