Weight Training For Dummies®

Now featuring new quickie, core, and other specialized workouts Fight flab, build strength, increase flexibility, and sculpt your body! No matter what your age or fitness level, weight training has many health benefits. Featuring illustrated step-by-step exercises plus tips on equipment and specialized workouts, this friendly guide shows you how to get started and get results - at home or at the gym, using free weights or weight machines. Praise for Weight Training For Dummies "A fun, easy-to-follow guide. . . . You'll never be intimidated by a weight room again." —Peg Moline, Editorial Director, Shape "Takes you step-by-step through setting up your own gym to developing a training program." —Self "One of the easiest-to-understand, best-illustrated guides to important strength exercises we've ever seen." —Men's Fitness "Solid, comprehensive, and fun. . . . Photos illustrate more than 150 pages of exercises." —Seattle Post-Intelligencer Discover how to Work with free weights or weight machines Select a gym or set up a home gym Exercise each major muscle group Add Pilates or yoga to your workout Use exercise bands and balls

Yoga as Medicine

The definitive book of yoga therapy, this groundbreaking work comes to you from the medical editor of the country?s premier yoga magazine, who is both a practicing yogi and a Western-trained physician. Beginning with an overview of the history and science of yoga, Dr. McCall describes the many different techniques in the yoga tool kit; explains what yoga does and who can benefit from it (virtually everyone!); and provides lavishly illustrated and minutely detailed instructions on starting a yoga practice geared to your fitness level and your health status. Yoga as Medicine offers a wealth of practical information, including how to:?Utilize yogic tools, including postures, breathing techniques, and meditation, for both prevention and healing of illness?Master the art of becoming more in tune with your body?Communicate more effectively with your doctor?Adopt therapeutic yoga practices as either an alternative or a complement to surgery and to expensive, sometimes dangerous medications?Practice safely Find an instructor and a style of yoga that are right for you. With twenty chapters devoted to the work of individual master teachers, including such well-known figures as Patricia Walden, John Friend, and Rodney Yee, Yoga as Medicine shows how these experts have applied the wisdom of this ancient holistic practice to twenty different conditions, ranging from arthritis to chronic fatigue, depression, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, infertility, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, and obesity. Defining yoga as ?a systematic technology to improve the body, understand the mind, and free the spirit,? Dr. McCall shows the way to a path that can truly alter your life. An indispensable guide for the millions who now practice yoga or would like to begin, as well as for yoga teachers, body workers, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Atkins Essentials

Atkins Made Easier!Millions of people around the world have already discovered the Atkins Nutritional Approach? and the remarkable benefits of controlling carbohydrates. Now it's even easier to join the revolution, lose weight, and get healthy the proven Atkins way!With less of the underlying science and more practical information, The Atkins Essentials gets to the meat of the most popular and effective weight control program ever, providing the basic skills necessary to enable you to lose and keep losing unwanted body fat -- and to keep it off forever!Providing clear, concise answers to your questions and concerns, The Atkins Essentials is ideal for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle. For those new to Atkins, it is a quick and effective way to get started -- and for those already on the program, it offers indispensable tips on eating out, stocking your pantry, and more.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Pilates Method

This book teaches the basics of the Pilates method of fitness, a whole body workout that strengthens the abs and back and straightens the posture. Practiced worldwide by dance companies, physical therapists, and health clubs, the method is especially good for pregnant women, for people who have special fitness needs because of chronic back pain, joint stress, or obesity, and for anyone wishing to prevent osteoporosis.

21 Pounds in 21 Days

Detox diets are making news as the quickest, easiest way to shed pounds, boost your energy, and get yourself on a wellness track. Popular in the 1970s, cleansing fasts are again all the rage among celebrities like Gisele Bundchen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, and Madonna. . One of the key advocates of the health benefits of cleansing detoxes is Roni DeLuz, ND, a licensed naturopathic and health practitioner at Martha's Vineyard Holistic Retreat, part of the renowned Martha's Vineyard Inn. The idea behind DeLuz's new detox plan is the belief that the foods we eat (along with the coffee, tea, and alcohol we drink and the air we breathe) contain harmful and toxic substances that accumulate in our bodies and need to be removed in some way. In 21 Pounds in 21 Days, DeLuz offers three different detox programs, including the original and most effective 21–day ''MasterFast,'' which promises a 21–pound weight loss in just three weeks and focuses on detoxification through antioxidants, fasting, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes. Also included in the book are:. Maintenance plans. Dozens of easy, delicious recipes . Real–life tips . An extensive glossary of terms. A guide to supplements . Meals consist of supplement–laden drinks, herbal teas, thick, delicious vegetable purees, and ''live'' juices, along with nutritional supplements, vitamins, and enzymes designed to keep the body's systems stable and its cells nourished while harmful toxins are flushed out. 21 Pounds in 21 Days isn't just for those looking to lose weight; everyone can benefit from this revolutionary detox diet that results in a clean, refreshed system that functions at its best.

Younger You

A nutritionally based program to jump-start brain hormones and reverse the effects of agingFinally, a pivotal piece of the aging puzzle is solved. Dr. Eric Braverman reveals how controlling brain hormones through diet, lifestyle changes, key vitamins, minerals, and nutritional supplements can halt the aging process.In Younger You Dr. Braverman presents his anti-aging life plan designed to help you look and feel years younger. After taking an in-depth quiz to help pinpoint your problem areas, you will discover how to immediately address your most pressing needs. Vital organs like the heart, liver, brain, and lungs will experience the benefits of hormonal balance, so you will live a lot longer and be healthier, too!