Dining table stretch for hips, glutes, hamstrings, and calves. Kitchen counter standing plank to improve posture. Featuring simple to follow exercises with no special equipment required (you don't even have to change out of your pjs!), this book makes it fun and easy to get healthy, whether you're in bed easing into the day, in the bathroom brushin your teeth, or in the kitchen waiting for the coffee to brew-- "Improve your strength, tone your body,...

Provides step-by-step instructions for exercise activities and discusses benefits to the body, different types, equipment, and techniques.

Zumba Fitness was created in the mid-90's by Columbian native Alberto Perez, a celebrity fitness trainer and choreographer for International pop superstars. Inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba and merengue music he grew up with, Beto paired his favorite pulsating Latin rhythms with the red-hot international dance steps his clients loved and Zumba Fitness (Spanish slang for "to move fast and have fun") was born!

Dr. Maffetone's unique training system for champions proves that the kinder, gentler approach actually works the best. This fitness regimen has worked for champions and non-athletes alike- because it's based on Dr. Philip Maffetone's deep understanding of how the body works. Maffetone has used that knowledge to develop The Maffetone method, his successful low-stress fitness program, which can be tailored to any individual. It means "training slower

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"Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, a leading scholar and proselytizer for physical well-being, elucidates the political and social implications of America's exercise cult(ure). Delving into the paradox of why so many Americans are physically unfit, despite the power of the exercise industry, Petrzela shows fitness to be both a product and a marker of education, social class, wealth, power, and more. Like much in postwar American life, fitness has been privatized,...

A professional trainer gives a step-by-step tour of the gym, explaining all of the equipment and classes and providing a way to design a personal workout.

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IMPROVE YOUR PHYSIQUE, BUILD LEAN MUSCLE, AND INCREASE STRENGTH
For more than twenty years, Bret “the Glute Guy” Contreras has been on a quest to improve human performance, focusing his research on the gluteus maximus, the largest muscle in the human body. What started as an effort to improve his own weak, flat backside quickly evolved when he discovered the wide range of functional...

"No matter who you are, you can perform every exercise in this book. You want to get into shape but feel limited by your weight, age, or ability. You want to exercise but think everything seems too difficult. You want to develop a fitness routine but don't want to be forced into something. You want simple, flexible, and effective. This book offers these features: 50 exercises that have modifications for every body type, 10 fitness routines for specific...

An introduction the sport of soccer.

Pilates is a unique exercise system that gives rapid, yet lasting results: a leaner, sculpted body,increased abdominal and lower back strength, and improved posture. Full-color, step-by-step photographs of the complete matwork program, plus a selection of complementary exercises.