Yoga can be daunting. Complicated postures, exotic terminology, and a new-age vibe often make this highly beneficial practice seem like a members only club. The truth is that yoga is for everyone. This title shows readers how to relieve stress, pain from sports injuries, and tension with postures for every major muscle group.
Reveals the stories of the deathless masters, the siddhas Agastyar and Boganathar, who belonged to the '18 Siddha Tradition', famous among the Tamil speaking people of southern India and Babaji, the immortal master made famous by Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi".
Describes the various styles of Tai Chi Chuan, exploring its roots in the Chinese philosophy of Taoism as well as elaborating on the evolution it has undergone over millennia. This book provides an introduction to both the theory and key practices of Tai Chi Chuan for the beginner, and multi-level insights for the seasoned practitioner.
Recent research shows that there are more benefits to be gained from exercising in the morning than at any other time of day. Stretches in bed, yoga salutations, cardio sessions, or exercises for the shower - this book has 10-minute exercise routines to suit your mood and level of fitness.
Starting with the history and origins of Krav Maga, through to the fitness wave that has swept the US, this book includes step-by-step instructions and photographs, demonstrating: how to find the right instructor; using the best equipment; the health benefit of building a strong "core"; and practicing the correct techniques for warming up.
A physical and mental fitness programme, combining the essential elements of healthy living - muscle-toning, enhanced flexibility, and even stress-reduction. The ancient philosophy of Tai Chi is explained, and this Chinese health art is introduced in a series of illustrated workouts in four stages.
Aims to help every golfer - man or woman, young or old - play better, consistently. This illustrated book as well as exercise DVD featuring pro instructors offers the secrets of proper conditioning and how it carries over to your game. It features illustrated sketches, exercises and routines, for different ages and levels.
Presents 74 lesson plans offering instruction in hatha yoga, including asana, pranayama, the yamas and niyamas, the chakras, creating mindfulness and understanding emotions. This book includes chapters such as: Salutations in Motion, Lessons of the Heart Centre and Relaxation.
Triathlons are exploding in popularity. This guide helps triathletes-in-training learn how to: find the right shoes, bike and swimwear; train for sprint and Olympic-distant triathlons; improve running form, cycling efficiency, and freestyle stroke; and train alone or in a group. It also includes training logs to keep track of their progress.
Shaped like a teakettle but heavy as a classic dumbbell, kettlebells are the most challenging and versatile training tools in exercise market. This book shows you how to tap the power of these revolutionary weights to reshape your whole body by employing stabilizing muscles rarely activated by standard gym dumbbells.
Helps you to unlearn the psychic and physical responses to stress that cause discomfort - in less than 15 minutes a day. This title presents the movements that relax and release chronically tight muscles, resulting in a more efficient, coordinated, and pain-free body.
Presents a high-energy, high-heat yoga workout. Based on Astanga, an ancient form of yoga, this book includes a series of vigorous gymnastic stretching, strengthening and breathing positions. It describes 100 positions that should be held for 30-60 seconds each.
Debra Daley looks at more than 50 common health conditions and shows how specific exercises can help to reduce their symptoms and stave off illness. She explains why exercise benefits these conditions, which kinds of movement are best for specific ailments and how often you need to exercise to make a positive difference.
Designed for final year students and graduates studying kinesiology, exercise science, physical education, public health, preventive medicine and human biology, this title looks at the health benefits associated with a physically active lifestyle and a moderate level of fitness versus the potential deleterious consequences of physical inactivity.
Presents practical, easy-to-follow exercises to condition your body for athletic and sports performance. This title - for men and women - provides step-by-step coaching advice and workouts utilizing body weight, fitness balls, medicine balls, plyometrics, resistance bands, stability and speed training equipment.
Offers you the low down on exercise: how much, how often, depending on your age and fitness. This book covers physical activity recommendations for individuals beginning in infancy all the way through older adulthood. It is suitable for exercise scientists, personal trainers, students and medical practitioners.
Addresses the basic problems faced by every fitness aspirant: right breathing, right regimen, right food, right rest, and most of all, the will to continue. This book shows that fitness is not all about weights and high protein diets, but about understanding one's own body and mind and bringing about an increased level of alertness and agility.
The companion volume to Exercising For Two, this book guides women through early postnatal recovery, helping them to slowly recommence activity without causing problems that can be associated with inappropriate choices or going too hard too fast too soon.
With instructions on diet, fasting, internal cleansing, advanced sexual control, and strengthening the endocrine system, Sri S. S. Goswami's classic text presents the complete picture of an advanced Hatha yoga lifestyle for a strong, vital, beautiful body and a balanced, harmonious, happy mind
Includes special sections on Pilates for new mothers and children, and people suffering from problems such as osteoarthritis, back pain and knee injuries as well as Pilates at the gym and the workplace, and for the performing arts and sport. This book explains why this exercise method has gone from cult status to a part of our modern lifestyle.
A guide for introducing yoga in public school and therapeutic settings. It includes information on integrating the Yoga Calm technique with regular classwork, modifications for specific classroom situations, anecdotal examples from the authors' direct experience, and 'emotional first aid tips' to help young people maintain a calm center.
Packed with helpful advice on prevention and treatment of any sports injury, Sports Pilates is a comprehensive sports therapy manual on avoiding and treating a huge range of injuries. In an easy-to-follow format, whatever your age or fitness level, this is an invaluable book for all those who want to maximize their performance.
Employs hardcore techniques to turn motivated athletes into battle-ready warriors. This book uses an unorthodox and rigorous approach to traditional strength exercises for greatly increased muscular endurance. It prepares readers for strength training with specific diet and nutrition plans, and concludes with the Spartan physical challenge.
Presents you with a key to getting the lean and chiselled muscular look. This title provides you with programmes for generating mass, reducing fat and sculpting and maintaining your physique. It offers the specific exercises that professional bodybuilders have used, with step-by-step advice on nutrition and supplements to enhance your workouts.
The use of Mudras, or 'yoga of the hands', has been recognised for centuries as a simple yet effective healing tool, known to prevent and cure illnesses and bring about spiritual regeneration. This book examines Mudras, and teaches how regular practice can rejuvenate your body and mind and transform your everyday life.
Emphasises that every individual has the capacity to experience pure consciousness by practising certain yogic postures and techniques that can purify the impurities lying within the life energy centres of the body, awaken and activate them for spiritual uplift and allow the body to strengthen itself from the energy thus released.
Presents the exercises and routines that are helpful for various types of people. This title lets muscle-bound men really improve their range of motion with exercises like butterflies and cherry pickers, and aerobically conditioned women increase strength with push-ups, squats, lunges and prison dumbbell exercises.
This text integrates research about exercise, nutrition and health within an applied developmental psychological framework. It presents ways of making fitness an enjoyable force in daily life. Although a major focus is on how to get in shape, it also encourages a healthy lifestyle.
A guide that presents the solution for taking control of diet and fitness, guaranteeing healthy changes for life. It breaks down the detailed plan into four cycles, providing supportive guidance for gradually altering eating habits and eliminating harmful substances that promote weight gain.
A home workout book and DVD set that contains 15-minute Pilates, Yoga and Abs Workouts, Back Exercises and Strength-Training programmes. It features at-a-glance photos that show you what to do and the live action 60 minute DVD demonstrates a choice of workouts to suit your fitness needs and mood.
A guide to maximising the use of the popular exercise equipment. It includes tips on getting started, a huge range of exercises for all abilities, stretches, improving postures and meditation exercises. It is suitable for those whose aim is to stay trim and toned.
Offers the information you need to know about exercising for strength and fitness in more than 300 photographs. This title covers the key types of resistance equipment including barbells, dumbbells, machines and weights. It describes how effective exercise is vital for weight loss and weight maintenance.
Presents a daily pull-up schedule for 7 weeks that allows readers to build the strength needed to do 50 consecutive pull ups - and in so doing reshape and sculpt their entire upper body. Starting with instructions on how to perform a proper pull-up and maximise its benefit, this book breaks down the strength-building effects muscle by muscle.
With its allopathic medical vetting, and more than 400 illustrations, this guide is intended for every yoga instructor, mother-to-be, and new mum who wants to continue her practice. It features instructions and hints, notes on the position's positive effects and contra-indications, and advice on "checking yourself" for proper form and technique.
The Complete Guide series gives all the theory and practice sports people, coaches and fitness enthusiasts need to incorporate good technique and improve their training regime. This is the perfect introduction to kettlebell training, a hugely popular piece of equipment with tried and tested results.
Suitable for students of aikido and other movement and martial arts, and for those who seek to live with confidence and self-reliance, to establish clear and compassionate boundaries, and to deepen their capacity for relationships, this title applies the basic principles of aikido to the conduct of everyday life.
A guide to the historical background, practical application, underlying principles and techniques of Qigong, a way of physical and spiritual cultivation, and a way of life. It uses examples to introduce this 24-movement Qigong form, which combines the traditions of ancient shamanism, Confucianism, Daoism, Chinese medicine, and the martial arts.
A guide to using the power of your mind to enhance your martial arts practice. It takes you step-by-step through the correct methods for meditation, visualisation and other methods of mental practice, explaining the scientific reasoning behind these traditional practices.
Created specifically for the postpartum body, this safe and highly effective fitness program enables mum to get back in shape... all while playing with her infant or toddler. It contains the strength exercises and stretches a new mum needs, with one base routine and variations per chapter.
A beginners' guide, which presents step-by-step sequences of key Iyengar yoga poses, along with clear instructions. Useful for a complete novice, It contains 360-degree views of yoga poses and over 250 photographs, which will help teach you the basics.
Practising yoga regularly offers amazing physical benefits: it boosts circulation, supporting the action of the heart; flushes out toxins; speeds up the delivery of nutrients needed for muscle repair; and stills the mind. This title presents 21 traditional Hatha yoga postures.
Iyengar yoga is an effective antidote to the stresses of modern lifestyles. This book explains the origins and philosophy of Iyengar yoga, giving advice on how to begin, when to practise and what equipment you will need. It shows over 100 easy-to-follow yoga sequences in step-by-step detail, in more than 400 photographs.
Shows you how to fit running into your everyday routine. Backed by scientific research, expert advice and the experiences of female runners, this title shows you how to stay motivated, the best food and drink for maximum energy, the optimum stretches for top results and how to keep your programme balanced, realistic and challenging.
PACE is the doctor-designed program proven to help you reclaim a young, lean and effortlessly energetic body in as little as twelve minutes. This book presents the exercise trends by revealing their flaws and offering a natural way of moving our bodies. It shows you how to replace the flawed and ineffective theories.
PACE is a doctor-designed program that helps you reclaim a young, lean and effortlessly energetic body in as little as twelve minutes. This book shows you how to replace the flawed and ineffective theories that have been mistakenly accepted without proof with what really works.
Ha (sun) and tha (moon) imply that Hatha Yoga is a means of balancing and harmonising the body's currents by exercising and stretching, so as to make it a vital instrument of mind and soul, to give it a longer life, and to keep it healthy. This book presents elements that prepare the practitioners for the eventual awakening of the kundalini.
Yoga is beneficial to everyone and with emphasis on a healthy lifestyle, what could be better than carrying out simple yoga exercises with your baby? This book helps to discover simple stretches, poses and massages that can help your flexibility and suppleness, as well as nurture the bond between you and your baby.
Stretching is an essential preamble for sports and activities of all kinds. Here sports and fitness expert Jim Brown details 100 stretches to help any athlete at any level in any sport. Stretching can improve flexibility, enhance performance, prevent injuries and much more -- if done right.
Suitable for those who want to strengthen their torso and flatten their stomach but don't have the time, this set provides 15-minute Abs workout routines. It features fold-out pages that show you what to do and 60 minute DVD that demonstrates each of the four key exercises so you can master techniques.
Applying the wisdom of hatha yoga to weight-lifting exercises, Weight-Resistance Yoga reveals how to transform a strength-training session into a mindful, calm, and meditative yoga practice. Includes 26 fully illustrated exercises and 20 themed meditations.
Brings yoga principles into different aspects of your everyday life. This title offers yoga tips, exercises and wisdom. It introduces the author's method, shares her story, and reveals the secrets of Kundalini Yoga that have helped her and her students to manage the stresses and strains of everyday life.
After Hatha Yoga has purified the body and mind, advanced techniques of Kriya Yoga are used to awaken kundalini in a short time. Suitable for different kinds of practitioners, householders or hermits, this title prsents a set of nearly 20 exercises of Kriya Yoga.
Dancing is the best thing for weight loss. The combination of cardiovascular exercise and music means you work off lots of calories but also release lots of endorphins, so you even have fun at the same time. This title takes all that virtuous pleasure and multiplies it a hundredfold by setting 12 dance routines to 12 of the show-tune hits.
Helps you mobilise your joints, enhance your fitness and improve your posture. This yoga book and DVD set contains easy-to-follow 15 minute yoga routines. It shows you exactly what to do and the live action 60 minute DVD demonstrates each of the four key exercises.
This title introduces the numerous possibilities of how to keep fit in the water with the aqua noodle. In a short theoretical introduction the book explains the characteristics and the areas of usage of the noodle. The practical section gives a variety of exercises, each with two variations.
Featuring all levels of fitness, this book explains why weight training is the best way to get in shape and provides readers with a comprehensive program that will guarantee success. The author dispels the five myths of weight training and details the many benefits of building muscles.
A guide to the historical background, practical application, underlying principles and techniques of Taijiquan. It offers an introduction to a martial art that improves balance, coordination, flexibility, muscle strength and cardiovascular health. It is suitable for students of martial arts, and experienced practitioners.
Helps readers decide which form of yoga is most appropriate for them, presenting the different forms in a clear, accessible way and showing the basic postures and movements of each form. This title covers the five main forms of yoga practised in the west: Astanga; Iyengar; Viniyoga; and Sivananda.
Suitable for yoga practitioners, this guide complements the more comprehensive "Hatha Yoga Illustrated" with visual depictions and movement cues for over 150 classic hatha yoga asanas. It includes asanas that range from gentle yoga for beginners to more advanced physical forms, with each detailed by a four-colour photograph.
The word yoga, first recorded in approximately 4000 BCE, is Sanskrit for 'union'. Typically it signifies a uniting of body, mind, and spirit leading to deepening states of happiness and freedom. This book places this ancient practice in a modern-day context.
A new series of useful books for men from the writers and editors at 'Men's Health' magazine. Men everywhere want to improve their health and fitness and their bodies. This new series of books, 'Men's Health Best', addresses all aspects of a man's physical fitness, from building core strength to managing sports injuries.
Discover how to use Tai Chi to release tension and enhance your well-being. This book describes the history and philosophy of Tai Chi, and explains the basics of this ancient Chinese system, including breathing techniques and the popular Hand Form. It also guides you through the core Tai Chi postures and sequences, showing the benefits of each.
Ever find yourself hanging by the end of your rope? Willing your fingers to hold on and your heart to stop pounding? This book states that by strengthening and stretching the muscles of the body, conditioning the heart and lungs, and improving mind focus and concentration, climbing can be all that you want it to be and more.
A comprehensive guide to Cardio Barre - a dance-based workout that combines cardio, strength training, and stretching, in one fast-paced, fat-burning, body-lengthening session. With no kicking, jumping, or punching, this effective and complete workout leaves participants with long, lean muscles, flexibility, and endurance.
Suitable for serious yoga students and yoga teachers, this title is presented in three sections - Before the Mat, On the Mat, and Into the World, which covers many essential topics, while keeping a focus throughout on the eight limbs of yoga as presented in the original yogic literature.
Targeting mostly women between the ages of 35 and 60, Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) is an often-misunderstood condition that causes muscle pain, fatigue, and numerous other symptoms. This book advice on how to safely and effectively use movement to ease the pain of FMS.
A beautifully photographed, informative and practical guide to the life enhancing practice of the Wu Style Short Form Tai Chi. This ancient art is now emerging worldwide as a simple and accessible aid to coping with the pressures of modern living, and this book covers all aspects of the art.
Talks about a programme that conditions your body and mind and helps you reach a level of fitness. The benefits of this programme include: lean and strong muscles; improved balance; better circulation; and, a calm mind and increased confidence. This work offers exercises; and each step is illustrated with photographs.
The human heart is the sturdiest and toughest organ of the body. It is designed to last a lifetime. But because of wrong eating habits at a young age this important organ of our body refuses to work properly. This book contains a selection of low-fat and low-cholesterol foods.
There is a growing realization that stretching is an important way of helping to maintain a healthy body and mind, and of reducing the risk of muscle injury. This guide brings together classic yoga exercises and stretching training, and presents a programme that can be used for improving flexibility, strength and balance.
Written by a Navy SEAL, this book reveals several no-frills workouts: from stretching through cooldown, including a variety of running and swimming workouts as well as tips on nutrition. It encompasses the physical training regimen required of a Naval Special Warfare Warrior.
A guide to waking the spirit within the body. It tells the inspiring stories of people who have exemplified peak development in each of these areas: Olympians Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph for physical intelligence; Albert Einstein for mental intelligence; and Rumi and his teacher Shams for spiritual intelligence.
Offers an introduction to walking. This title discusses exercise principles and technique. It covers injury prevention, nutrition and weight management. It helps students learn effective motivation techniques to get them started (and keep them going), and help them discover that walking can be fun and lead to greater fitness.
What better way to start the new year than to get fighting fit? This book offers a guide to improving fitness through easy to follow exercise programmes. It also sets out five aspirational challenges for readers to aim for if they follow the exercise programmes including a 10 mile race and the gruelling Fan Dance around the Brecond Beacons.
Introducing students to the health benefits of walking and jogging, this title presents persuasive and logical reasons to include exercise daily. It provides guidelines for beginning and sustaining walking and jogging programs in order to meet health and fitness goals.
Explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of Tai Chi. Designed for practitioners at every level, this book contains step-by-step illustrated instructions for mastering the 13 forms of early Yang-style tai chi, also known as Tai Chi Chi Kung.
Using an exercise ball provides a range of improved alternatives to exercising on terra firma. Training on unstable base facilitates strength, balance and core stability providing a healthy, toned body, inside and out. This title features over 100 exercises.
The long-awaited update of the trusted yoga book A decade since its initial publication, Yoga For Dummies, 2nd Edition has been updated and revised to include coverage of the newest concepts and practices that have emerged in the yoga community over the past ten years.
Contains practical yoga instruction and words of wisdom for health, happiness and a better world. This title shows you what yoga can do for your health, happiness and whole life. Blending wisdom both ancient and modern and practical advice and guidance, it offers an all-embracing way to bring health, happiness and harmony to the way you live
Helps the readers who need to get back on track to a sleeker, healthier body. Based on the research about interval walking and circuit training, this book also helps women: rev up their metabolism; lose up to 12 pounds and 22 1/4 inches in 2 weeks; and, send their energy levels soaring.
Packed with information developed exclusively for women, this book includes: the ABS DIET osteoporosis prevention plan; tips on managing menopausal symptoms without hormone replacement therapy; information on how the ABS DIET can prevent joint pain; details on how ABS DIET can improve female sexual response; and, a postpartum workout for new mums.
Presents you a way of how to transform your body, mind, and rediscover your real spirit as a warrior. This book gives a definite plan of action surcharged with spiritual motivation. It walks you through workouts designed to develop functional strength for life. It is suitable for fit beginners, intermediate, and advanced fitness enthusiasts.
A series of useful books for men from the writers and editors at 'Men's Health' magazine. Men everywhere want to improve their health and fitness and their bodies. Addresses all aspects of a man's physical fitness, from building core strength to managing sports injuries.
* 5-minute workouts for busy people. * Ideal for taking on holiday, where there may be no access to a gym. * Work out cheaply and effectively without wasting money on expensive gym fees. In 5 Minute Fitness, Zen Martinoli guides you through from beginners' exercises to advanced-level training.
Describing yoga postures in the form of fun exercises, this book is an introduction to yoga for children. They should enjoy doing the various animal poses such as a lion, a tortoise or dragonfly and will be able to take a Jungle Walk, a Dolphin Dive or a Moon Meander.
Presents an easy-to-follow and practical programme to improve your health and well-being through a combination of exercise, diet and positive living. This book, based on the Joseph Pilates System, provides an approach that can be developed to suit your ability and fitness level, and worked into your busy lifestyle.
Introduces the various components of fitness, and examines the benefits of training. This book describes and illustrates exercises for developing the following: strength, strength endurance, power, plyometrics, stamina, speed, agility, coordination, posture, flexibility and balance.
In an increasingly competitive professional environment, with the added pressure of media attention, athletes have to perform at increasingly higher levels and still avoid injury. This book helps students prepare for the NASM Performance Enhancement Specialist (NASM-PES) certification.
Helping you in losing weight and inches, this DVD features a special music that is played during a one-on-one workout. In the music, there are positive weight-loss suggestions repeated continually with a technique only your subconscious mind (Sub-Mind) can hear. This technique reinforces the positive behaviours you need to lose weight and inches.
Helping you in losing weight and inches, this DVD features a special music that is played during a one-on-one workout. In the music, there are positive weight-loss suggestions repeated continually with a technique only your subconscious mind (Sub-Mind) can hear. This technique reinforces the positive behaviours you need to lose weight and inches.
Guides massage therapists through each step of delivering a spa treatment - from consideration of the indications and contraindications to scope of practice issues, supplies, room set-up, specific procedure steps, and ideas for integrating massage techniques, and, spa products. This book includes more than 250 full-color photographs.
Bored of aerobics? More people than ever are turning their backs on indoor exercise and discovering the immense physical and mental benefits of the great outdoors. Wild gym workouts can be adrenaline-boosting or serenely calming. This guide covers activities that range from beach running and buggy workouts to recumbent cycling and rock climbing.
Whether your goal is to reduce posture-related back pain or access that vital extra per cent out of your competition horse, Pilates is the solution you have been looking for. This book offers an holistic approach to body conditioning geared towards making you a better balanced, more effective and elegant rider.
Lets you experience the physical benefits and body awareness from hatha yoga - one of the most popular form of yoga. This book presents nearly 650 full-color photos to visually demonstrate 77 standard poses from hatha yoga that apply to major hatha styles including Iyengar, Astanga, Anusara, and Bikram.
Guides you step-by-step through the program of core tai chi postures. Focusing on 200 movements, all shown with photographs, this title shows you how to perform the sequences with ease. It explains how each movement can improve your strength, flexibility and posture, as well as boost your energy levels, self-confidence and overall vitality.
Featuring over 240 photographs and illustrations, this title shows how to use the ancient art of Tai Chi for health, suppleness and well-being. It defines the system as "strength within softness", poetry in motion and "moving harmony". It takes the reader through the Yang-style Short Form Tai Chi movement sequences.