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Are you in good shape but struggling with those last ten to twenty pounds that stand between looking perfectly okay and looking knock-their-eyes-out great? Do you have an event on the calendar where youd́ love to make jaws drop? Or do you just want to see for yourself what it would be like to have the best body youv́e ever had in your life? Then you need this book. Making the Cut is a unique, intense thirty-day program from TVś toughest fitness...
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"This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding its...
6) Yin yoga
Publisher
Razor Digital Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Includes three yin yoga practices, each one deeper, more focused, more liberating.
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Wiley
Pub. Date
c2002
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xxiii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Once the secret fitness weapon of professional dancers, athletes, and movie stars, Pilates is sweeping the country with a vengeance. And if even half of what its many fans claim is true, then it’s easy to see why. Combining elements of yoga, dance, gymnastics, and boxing, along with many original movements, Pilates exercises build muscle tone, improve flexibility and balance, lengthen the spine, increase body awareness, and repair past injuries....
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Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2003
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143 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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English
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Pilates redefined! This easy-to-follow program, based on health and lifestyle expert Ann Crowther’s development of the Joseph Pilates System, offers a unique combination of exercise, diet, and positive living. She explains the principles of traditional Pilates and her own adaptations: how to complement any exercise routine with sensible, nutritious eating habits; and how to harness the healing power of the mind to improve concentration, motivation,...
11) Yoga & pilates
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
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1 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A new and highly effective form of exercise that blends the flexibility, meditative and weight loss elements of Yoga with the muscle strengthening and toning of Pilates. Includes a five-minute introduction to breathing and two workouts. Workout One focuses on lying down and sitting, the center of the body, abdominals, lower back and pelvic floor muscles. Workout Two strengthens the midback muscles and spine to improve posture, as well as toning the...
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2015.
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Though we talk about wanting to “age gracefully,” the truth is that when it comes to getting older, we’re programmed to dread an inevitable decline: in our health, our looks, our sexual relationships, even the pleasure we take in living life. But as Christiane Northrup, M.D., shows us in this profoundly empowering book, we have it in us to make growing older an entirely different experience, both for our bodies and for our souls. In chapters...
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Shambhala
Pub. Date
2002
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xiv, 194 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Iyengar developed a form of yoga that focuses on developing strength, endurance, correct body alignment, as well as flexibility and relaxation. The Iyengar method integrates philosophy, spirituality, and the practice of yoga into everyday living. In The Tree of Yoga, Iyengar offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects including family life, love and sexuality, health and the healing arts, meditation, death, and Patañjali's Yoga...
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At one point or another, nearly every person who works out wonders: Am I doing this right? Which class is best? Do I work out enough? Answering those questions and more, The First 20 Minutes helps both weekend warriors dedicated to their performance and readers who simply want to get and stay fit gain the most from any workout. With the latest findings about the mental and physical benefits of exercise, personal stories from scientists and laypeople...
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Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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1 videodisc (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rev up your body's metabolism and melt away the fat! Whatever your level of fitness, THE ULTIMATE FAT BURNER is a one-stop, balanced workout that blends heart-strengthening cardio and muscle-toning circuit training for a mega-calorie burn! DENISE AUSTIN will keep your body challenged with a variety of short all-out bursts of fun exercises from basketball, skiing, skating, kickboxing and core training. And by changing your intensity levels, you'll...
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Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
2004
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1 videodisc (69 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bridging together two of the most effective training systems available today, host Shelly McDonald and co-host Jenn Tilley deliver three workout specially designed to add more flexibility and longer, leaner muscles to any body type. With over an hour of workouts, Core Pilates concentrates on strengthening the core muscle groups.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
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xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Joe De Sena designed the Spartan races to test overall conditioning: strength, flexibility, endurance, and speed. His signature take-no-prisoners approach to achieving physical and mental fitness has taken the endurance world by storm and inspired millions. Now in Spartan Fit!, De Sena breaks down that approach and gives readers the tools they need to conquer the course — and life, including: • A 30-day workout and diet plan to prepare for the...
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