Fitness After 40


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With Fitness After 40, regain the energy and physique of a teenager in no time. Your body is getting older, those stairs are looking steeper, and your bones are cracking louder. The unavoidable fact is that your body is aging. However, that doesn’t have to impact your fitness level. Forget how many candles were on your last birthday cake--if you exercise smarter, you can remain youthful, energetic, and strong. As an academic orthopedic surgeon and internationally recognized authority on active aging and mobility, Dr. Vonda Wright has created a unique medical program designed to target the fitness and performance needs of mature athletes. In this invaluable resource, Wright reveals how anyone can use flexibility, aerobic exercise, and strength training to maximize the benefits of their fitness regime. You will learn how to: Understand your body, and approach exercise in a new way Maximize your fitness while minimizing injury Gain flexibility--no matter your age Benefit from aerobic exercise Build strength through resistance training Improve balance Fitness After 40 for all maturing adults includes “20 Minutes to Burn” workouts, a six-week total-body plan, and the latest information on nutrition, injury prevention, joint preservation, and the mind/body connection for all maturing adults.




Strength Training Over 40


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Improve your quality of life with this over 40 strength program There are many reasons to maintain and build muscle mass. Metabolism levels, hormonal health, and even a sharper mind are all connected to the strength of your muscles, tendons, and joints. But most importantly, maintaining mobility as you age is essential to your quality of life. Resistance training can help you continue to move freely throughout your life for years to come. Inside Strength Training Over 40, you'll find detailed, realistic goals within a training program you can stick with. Focused on well-balanced, full-body training, you'll be able to increase muscle mass with or without gym access. This six-week comprehensive strength training program prioritizes safety with effective, easy tutorials and illustrations to help guide you to a stronger, better you. Strength Training over 40 is: Flexible—You can customize or modify your workout, making adjustments that work for you. This program adapts to gym or home, even small spaces like apartments. Motivational—A positive, non-critical voice infuses the book. Weekly inspirations, goals, and self check-in worksheets will help keep you on track and committed to your program. Safe—Tutorials and safety tips help you get the most out of each exercise without putting your body at risk. Step-by-step workout instructions and less intense alternatives are available to fit your current fitness level needs. Sustain overall health when you build total body strength with Strength Training over 40.




Body for Life for Women


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The author adapts her "Body-for-LIFE" program for the specific requirements of women to create a resource designed to produce a lifetime of fitness.




Total Fitness After 40


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Finally discover the secrets to fitness that will transform your body and mind, even if you've never worked out a day in your life... How do you feel when you look in the mirror? Are you trapped in a body that leaves you unhappy and disappointed with what you see? Are you strong, in good cardio shape but feel stiffer and less mobile as the years roll on? With the NIH estimating that more than 1 in 3 adults are overweight, you're not alone. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you've resigned yourself to the thought that this is what life will be from now on. Society tells you that midlife is the time when you start to slow down and lose your physical potential, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. The truth is, you have the power to change. According to researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, it's never too late to start reaping the rewards of physical activity -- regardless of your age. While it isn't possible to reverse aging entirely, taking the right approach to your health can have you looking and feeling younger than ever before. You might have heard the phrase, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," but that limiting mentality won't get you anywhere in life. Instead, recognize your own abilities as you discover the secrets to healthful living. In Total Fitness After 40, you will discover: ● The research-based approach to fitness that has been identified as the most effective anti-aging exercise strategy ● Strategies for overcoming negative self-talk -- and how reprogramming your mind will optimize your physical and emotional health ● How to learn to love exercise and embrace your new fitness regimen with excitement rather than dread ● An exercise database with simple, easy to follow instructions and a bonus full weekly fitness plan ● How you can increase your strength level by up to 40% in just 12 months without any prior experience with resistance exercise ● What the FITT principle is and how you can use it to create the ideal workout program for your specific fitness goals and abilities ● Everything you need to know about nutrition, from building a balanced meal plan to calculating your exact caloric needs without using complicated math ● The key to setting yourself up for success with goals that are measurable and realistic -- and the crucial phrasing that will make all the difference And much more. If you've been waiting for a sign that it's time to change your ways and stop making excuses, this is it. You don't need time-consuming exercise classes or expensive personal trainers -- all you need is the right perspective and understanding. Your mentality and motivation are incredibly powerful tools when wielded correctly, and you can kickstart your fitness journey starting today.




Fit and Fabulous After 40


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America’s favorite fitness expert presents a breakthrough program to win the war against aging—a battle she has personally fought and won. We all know that aging is inevitable–but how gracefully you age is up to you. Scientific research shows that we can turn back the clock through a targeted regimen of age-busting exercise and nutrition. Now, in Fit and Fabulous After 40, award-winning fitness expert Denise Austin presents her own revolutionary, sure-fire plan to help you stay healthy, strong, slim, and fabulous–no matter what your age! By exercising for just thirty minutes a day, using cutting-edge techniques such as yoga and Pilates-based exercises, and eating for maximum health and vitality, you can build strength, shed extra pounds, improve flexibility and balance, and look years younger. Fit and Fabulous After 40 includes: • Easy-to-follow workout plans for every day of the week • Fat-blasting, toning exercises to target specific areas of the body • Weekly nutrient-packed meal plans with delicious slimming recipes • Denise’s personal vitamin and supplement regimen • Invaluable advice on common health concerns for women, such as menopause, breast cancer, and heart disease • Special beauty tips–including anti-wrinkle exercises! Designed to fit even the most hectic schedules, and easily tailored to individual health concerns, Fit and Fabulous After 40 offers a modern, realistic fountain of youth for every woman.




Maximus Body


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Men's Health magazine's #1 personal trainer delivers cutting-edge, high-intensity workouts to help you pack serious muscle and become unstoppably fit. From the man responsible for the gym that trained the actors in the movie 300 comes cutting-edge fitness strategies, 100 workouts, and a training plan that has successfully transformed A-list actors and actresses, elite special-forces soldiers, all-star athletes, and everyday men and women. With Bobby Maximus’s guidance you too can become one of the most insanely fit people the world has ever seen. The diets and workouts that promise easy results in minutes per day have tricked masses into wasting their money on false promises. Supplements, smoothies, and 4-minute workouts aren’t getting people any fitter. Getting that shredded body requires real commitment and real work—and Bobby can show you how. Maximus Body features circuit-style workouts that will push you to your limits and work your whole body. With a plethora of exercises like “Don’t Ask Me About Your Abs,” that work your core with a combination of sit ups, push ups, pull ups, and even leg raises, you can develop an exercise routine that fits your needs. Whether you are overweight and trying to get back into shape, or a high-level athlete trying to gain that extra edge, Maximus Body offers up thousands of once-secret ways to burn fat, add lean muscle, reveal a shredded 8-pack, and build mind-bending physical fitness.




Your Best Body at 40+


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Discover the secrets to the fittest, healthiest, wealthiest years of your life! The decade of your 40s is "the crucial decade"--the greatest opportunity you'll ever have to shed pounds, build new muscle, and discover a leaner, fitter, happier you. Revolutionary new science shows that you can build and maintain your best body ever--and outlive, outwit, and outlast men half your age--if you tap into the special powers of you in your prime. That's why we've created Your Best Body at 40+, your step-by-step guide to meaningful and lasting changes that will sculpt your body and prepare you for the prime of your life. Looking and feeling 10 years younger is within your grasp! Here's what you can expect to gain in as little as 4 weeks: • You will build muscle and lose up to 15 pounds of flab. • We'll tell you why it's easier now than ever! • You will strip away stress and reduce your risk for age-related health problems. • High cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure--they're preventable, even reversible, say our experts! • You will look trimmer in your face and waist within 12 days! • Just get to know the 10 foods you should eat every day. • You will feel energetic and athletic, and you'll look better than you did in your 30s. • All it will cost you is 20 to 30 minutes a day! • You will have the best sex of your life, and more of it! • Discover the secret sexual powers of the 40+ male body and how to unleash yours! • You will be happier, achieve greater success, and sleep more restfully than you ever imagined! • Employ the mind-centering breathing trick before every important moment. Packed with tons of useful advice; no-gym, no-crunches workouts; tasty recipes with fat-fighting superfoods; plus a troubleshooter's reference guide to body maintenance and repair, Your Best Body at 40+ is the ultimate handbook for reinventing your life.




Your 40-Day Transformation


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Janella Purcell, one of Australia’s foremost authorities on natural health and healing, provides a comprehensive program to restore vibrant health. • There is a vast amount of confusing health advice available today. • What are the best foods to eat? What are the bestlifestyle choices for you to make? • What if there was a way to restore, revive and reboot your wellbeing and get back to feeling good, naturally? Janella Purcell, one of Australia’s foremost authorities on natural health and healing, has created a comprehensive guide to rediscovering your vibrant health. 21st century health conditions are complex, and need to be treated with greater understanding and care. You may have tried searching for answers and experimented with all sorts of different remedies, and yet you still don’t feel well. Drawing on her years of experience as a nutritionist, naturopath and wholefood chef, Janella offers simple and approachable information onthe many health challenges women are facing, and the natural solutions to treat them. When we allow our bodies time and the right circumstances to do its job, healing will most often occur naturally. Your 40-Day Transformation offers a reset program that includes recipes, monthly planners and strategies to achieve your optimal health. You will finally know what’s beneficial to your wellbeing and be on track to becoming a more vibrant, healthy and happier you.




Body For Life


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Mention the name Bill Phillips to any of the people he's helped transform and you will see their faces light up with appreciation and respect. These people include: Hundreds of thousands of men and women who read his magazine for guidance and straightforward information about exercise, nutrition, and living with strength. Elite professional athletes, among them John Elway, Karl Malone, Mike Piazza, and Terrell Davis ?ho have turned to Phillips for clear–cut information to enhance their energy and performance. People once plagued by obesity, alcoholism, and life–threatening ailments who accepted a personal challenge from Bill Phillips and, with his help, have regained control of their bodies and their lives. When you begin to apply the information in this book, you will be proving to yourself that astounding changes are within your grasp too. And, you will discover Body–for–LIFE is much more than a book about physical fitness ?t's a gateway to a new and better life, a life of rewarding and fulfilling moments, perhaps more spectacular than you've ever dared to dream before. Within 12 weeks, you too are going to know ?ot believe, but know : that the transformation you've created with your body is merely an example of the power you have to transform everything else in your world. In language that is vivid and down–to–earth, Bill Phillips guides you, step by step, through the integrated Body–for–LIFE Program, which reveals: How to lose fat and increase your strength by exercising less, not more; How to tap into an endless source of energy by living with the Power MindsetTM; How to create more time for everything meaningful in your life; How to trade hours of aerobics for minutes of weight training ?ith dramatic results; How to make continual progress by using the High–Point TechniqueTM; How to feed your muscles while starving fat with the Nutrition–for–LIFE MethodTM; How thousands of ordinary people have now become extraordinary and how you can, too; How to gain control of your body and life, once and for all. The principles of the Body–for–LIFE Program are surprisingly simple but remarkably powerful. So allow yourself to experience the force of the information in this book, allow yourself to take your mind, your body, your life to a higher point than you may have ever dreamed you could. All in as little as 12 weeks.




The Nia Technique


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the strength of Pilates, the flexibility of yoga, the muscle tone of strength training, and top-notch aerobic fitness—all through the revolutionary pleasure-based fitness program that gets you in shape from the inside out! The hottest new trend in mind-body wellness, Nia—which stands for Neuromuscular Integrative Action—is the most advanced form of fusion fitness, blending martial arts, healing arts, dance, and spiritual self-healing to create a high-powered, synergistic workout that no isolated exercise technique can match. Created by fitness pioneers Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas, Nia presents an entirely new philosophy of exercise—one that will not only keep you in fantastic shape, but will also help you rediscover the joy of movement and being at home in your body. The Nia Technique is the first and only book to share the workouts so popular at gyms and spas across the country, outlining the basic Nia moves—or katas—that can be performed easily at home and adapted to your own level of fitness. With moves drawn from nine fitness disciplines, including tae kwan do, tai chi, yoga, Feldenkrais™, jazz dance, and modern dance, Nia promotes strength and muscle definition without the use of weights, and its freeing, dance-like regimen provides a medium for self-healing. You’ll tighten, tone, lengthen, strengthen, and lose pounds and inches—and have fun doing it! You’ll learn to follow “the body’s way”—a breakthrough fitness concept that teaches you to move in the way that most benefits your individual body; and you’ll learn to use visualizations and vocalizations that enhance the benefits of each workout. The overall regimen is phenomenally effective because its holistic approach unites the body and the mind, and creates an exhilarating path that anyone can follow toward a healthy, fit physique, lasting weight loss, and an unlimited sense of your fitness potential. With simple, step-by-step instructions, The Nia Technique also shares the inspiring stories of people whose lives have been transformed by the practice of Nia. With Nia, a new body is just the beginning—the ultimate goal is a new life!