Exercise and Fitness
75 Articles & Excerpts
Roll Your Way to A Better Body
 The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout: The Revolutionary Way to Tone, Lengthen, and Realign Your Body
by Yamuna Zake, Stephanie Golden
Wouldn't you like your body to look and function better, without all the work that most fitness programs require? Body Rolling, an exercise program that you do with a ball, will tone, strengthen, and realign your body in a way that's not only easy
The Search for Sensual Vitality
 Kathy Smith's Flex Appeal: Look Great and Feel Sexy at Any Age
by Kathy Smith
TWO YEARS AGO, having just turned fifty, I set out to write a book about sex. Easier said than done! After exploring the swarm of midlife changes our bodies go through for my book Moving Through Menopause, I'd become aware that questions of libido and sex
What Strength Training Will Do For You. Yes, You Can Turn Back the Clock!
 Strong Women Stay Young (Revised Edition)
by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., Sarah Wernick, Ph.D.
Ask Bernice for help, and she says, 'Sure.' Twice a week she chases after two young boys to give their mom a break. When her church needs a volunteer-whether it's to knit baby hats or to scramble eggs for a hundred people-they call Bernice.
It's A Wonderful Life
 The Action Hero Body : The Complete Workout Secrets from Hollywood's Top Trainer
by Jørgen de Mey
There's an action hero in all of us. Chances are you won't believe that about yourself, but it's true. After reading this book and following the guidelines I offer in it, you'll see the proof in your own transformed physique and sense of well-being.
From Fat To Fittest: Becoming the World's Fittest Man
 The World's Fittest You
by Joe Decker, Eric Neuhaus
'The World's Fittest Man' shares his Guinness World Record-breaking personal training secrets. Joe Decker, who broke the Guinness World Record's 24-hour Physical Fitness Challenge, shows how anyone can get on the road to fitness in just one month.
Living in the Zone
 Body, Mind, and Sport: The Mind-Body Guide to Lifelong Health, Fitness, and Your Personal Best
by John Douillard, Ph.D.
Pele, the great soccer player whose spectacular performance almost single-handedly inspired American awareness and appreciation of his sport, wrote of his experience of the Zone in his autobiography, My Life and Beautiful Game.
The Integrated Exercise Revolution
 The Miracle Workout: The Revolutionary 3-Step Program for Your Perfect Bod
by W. Jackson Davis, Ph.D.
This book is about a revolutionary way to manage your weight, sculpt your body, and reach peak performance, all in record time. The method is proven and easy, and it works regardless of your current physical condition, age, or personal goals.
Personalize Your Program
 Lose Those Last 10 Pounds: The 28-Day Foolproof Plan to a Healthy Body
by Denise Austin
No matter how much weight you lose in the course of your dieting and exercise, those last 10 pounds are always the hardest. Whether you are dreading your high school reunion, have just had a baby, are going through a physical rehabilitation, are under
Nature and You
 Power Mudras: Yoga Hand Postures for Women
by Sabrina Mesko, Ph.D.H.
I was born a child of nature. I would look at every tree very carefully. Is it easy to climb onto? Will I break a branch and hurt the tree? I knew that if a tree branch breaks, the tree cries. I could actually feel the pain and tears of a tree.
Body Stretching
 The Way of Stretching: Flexibility for Body and Mind
by Anne Kent Rush
Agreat new basic guide to stretching-for beginners and seasoned athletes alike-that emphasizes the power of combined mental and physical exercise to achieve and maintain good health. For anyone intimidated by yoga-for anyone who seeks the benefits of
The Exercise Equation, The Triangle of Fitness
 Kathy Kaehler's Celebrity Workouts: How to Get a Hollywood Body in Just 30 Minutes a Day
by Kathy Kaehler
No matter who you are, in order to stay young and healthy, you need to move your body. It's as simple as that. Almost every system in your body, from your cardiovascular system to your muscular and skeletal systems, benefits from regular physical activity
Walk Away Those Pounds!
 Walk Away the Pounds: The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting
by Leslie Sansone
Losing weight has never been easier or more fun than with Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds. For over twenty-five years, Leslie has helped more women get off the couch and onto their feet than anyone else in the fitness industry.
My Story
 Real Fitness for Real Women: A Unique Workout Program for the Plus-Size Woman
by Rochelle Rice
I grew up in front of the mirror. I was a dancer from the age of three, and with each passing year I watched myself more and more critically, scrutinizing my young form for imperfections. As my body began to develop in adolescence into a real woman's body
135-Pound Weakling
 The Little Strength Training Book
by Erika Dillman
I haven't exactly had sand kicked in my face, but I have experienced the independent woman's equivalent: having to ask my boyfriend to replace the five-gallon water jugs on my water dispenser. For years, we had a perfect system.
Reversing the Body's Aging, for Astronauts and for You
 AstroFit
by William J. Evans, Ph.D., Gerald Secor Couzens
My job over the past few years has been to find effective ways to prevent the premature aging of the Mars-bound astronauts. As head of the Nutrition, Physical Fitness, and Rapid Rehabilitation Team of the National Space Biomedical Research Institution
Anti-Aging Pyramid
 Fit and Fabulous After 40: A 5-Part Program for Turning Back the Clock
by Denise Austin
Congratulations! Just by reading these words, you've already taken an important first step toward improving your life and your health: You've made the decision to do it. But now you're not sure what to do next. You know that you need to exercise more.
Vitality Supreme
by Bernarr Macfadden
Inactivity is non-existence. It means death. Our bodily powers and organs were given to us for a definite purpose. Failure to use them brings serious penalties. There can be no real health with physical stagnation.
Maintaining Health
by R. L. Alsaker
Nature demands of us that we use our mental and physical powers in order to get the best results. Man was made to be active. In former times he had to earn his bread in the sweat of his face or starve. Now we have evolved, or is it a partial degeneration,
American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
In a work which aims to influence women to train the young to honor domestic labor and to seek healthful exercise in home pursuits, there is special reason for explaining the construction of the muscles and their connection with the nerves
A Handbook of Health
by Woods Hutchinson
The chief use of exercise in childhood, whether of body or mind, is to make us grow; but it can do this only by being kept within limits. Within these limits it will increase the vigor of the heart, expand the lungs, clear the brain, deepen sleep
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