Product Description: Trying to keep ourselves fit and healthy is a challenge at the best of times. It seems that there is always someone ready to give us a piece of advice on how to exercise, lose weight, or have a more nutritious diet. But how much of what you are told can you believe and how do you know which pieces of advice to take seriously? If I exercise my tricep muscles, will I lose my bingo wings? Why do I need to supplement my diet with vitamin C when I eat three oranges a day? Do you burn as many calories walking a mile as you do running a mile? Does drinking beer give you a beer belly?

• Paperback: 258 pages
• Publisher: John Blake (July 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844546985
• ISBN-13: 978-1844546985
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 inches
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From Flab to Fab: Britain's Top Personal Trainer Explodes 150 Diet and Fitness Myths (Paperback)

Product Description: In the new 5th edition of “In Fitness and In Health,” Dr. Phil Maffetone describes how to self-manage your own personal health-care program. For more than three decades, Dr. Maffetone has been treating and advising patients, coaching athletes, lecturing worldwide, and writing books about the importance of self-health care. This edition contains new information about organic foods, sunshine, gut health, and more. With this valuable book, you'll learn the real truth about optimizing your diet for physical and mental performance and making healthy dietary choices, obtaining the best nutrition from real food, avoiding disease, learning to listen to your body, the dangers of common dietary supplements, fat-burning exercise for weight loss and health, recognizing and eliminating sources of stress, increasing energy levels for all aspects of life, using music to improve brain function and awareness, controlling inflammation and hormonal imbalance and much more.

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (May 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439232822
• ISBN-13: 978-1439232828
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
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In Fitness And In Health (Paperback)

Product Description: We've all heard the mantra, "exercise for good health." In fact, exercise, or lack of it, may be the most important factor in avoiding, or surviving and recovering from, the top three killers across developed countries--heart disease, cancer, and stroke. But few of us understand exactly how different forms of exercise work--physiologically speaking--to keep us healthy and prevent or treat disease. Here, two nationally known exercise experts lead a stellar team explaining, in reader-friendly terms, what exercise does to our bodies and how it spurs beneficial biological actions.

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Praeger Publishers (April 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275994945
• ISBN-13: 978-0275994945
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #349,503 in Books

Understanding Fitness: How Exercise Fuels Health and Fights Disease (The Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Living) (Hardcover)

Product Description: In this easy-to-follow program that blends into a mom's new (and busy) lifestyle, LaReine, a fitness expert, model, and exercise guru, emphasizes realistic weight loss, positive self-image, and renewed overall fitness, helping new mothers feel great and energetic. Detailed photos walk the reader through the step-by-step process of weight loss, featuring exercises that jumpstart fitness while targeting specific problems like losing tummy fat and toning upper arms. Stressing minimum effort and maximum results, moms gain strength, flexibility, and endurance from quick ten minute sessions that can be accomplished in their homes without expensive equipment or a babysitter.

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: M. Evans and Company, Inc. (March 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590771028
• ISBN-13: 978-1590771020
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #140,799 in Books

Lose That Baby Fat!: Bouncing Back the First Year after Having a Baby--A Mom Friendly Fitness Program (Paperback)

Product Description: Finally, a book written especially for busy moms who want to boost energy, lose weight, and look great! You'll find mom-specific support, inspiration, tips, workouts, and RESULTS! Look no further for simple, quick, and effective workouts that get results and motivational help to overcome the challenges moms face in sustaining an exercise routine. If you've been spinning your wheels for a long time, you'll appreciate the core message of this book: how to make this time different from all of the other times you've tried to stick with an exercise program.

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Fitness InSight; 1 edition (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976780003
• ISBN-13: 978-0976780007
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #829,226 in Books

The Busy Mom's Ultimate Fitness Guide (Paperback)

Product Description: Gaines presents a water aerobics program based on a series of 90 pool exercises, which offer a new fitness alternative combining excellent conditioning with relatively stress-free impact on muscles and joints. The author, an applied exercise physiologist and teacher, covers all aspects of the water workout, from warmups and cool downs, muscle toning and conditioning, to peak intensity aerobics using flotation devices.

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 2 edition (November 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736068082
• ISBN-13: 978-0736068086
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #220,076 in Books

Fantastic Water Workouts (Paperback)

Product Description: In this new book, Moffat and Lewis show how to overcome the aches, stiffness, and unsteadiness in your muscles and joints. Using their simple, self-administered tests, you will assess your level of physical performance in these five critical domains: posture, balance, strength, flexibility, and endurance. The authors help you develop a personal profile, according to the results of these tests. Easy-to-follow strengthening and stretching exercises, based on the latest clinical research, are included along with a Thera-Band ® resistive exercise band for use in some exercises.

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Peachtree Publishers; 1st edition (September 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561453331
• ISBN-13: 978-1561453337
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #58,530 in Books

Age Defying Fitness: Making the Most of Your Body for the Rest of Your Life (Paperback)

Product Description: The Real Deal Workout Drill is 3 books in 1. Fitness experts Dothard and Oye provide the reader with a One-Minute Drill, Nutrition Guide and Workbook to track progress. A must-have to guide beginners, and shake up experts fitness plans.

• Spiral-bound: 104 pages
• Publisher: Hilton Publishing (August 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980064929
• ISBN-13: 978-0980064926
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #526,486 in Books

The One-Minute Workout: Real Deal Fitness and Nutrition [ILLUSTRATED] (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: Initially designed as stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Mindful Movements became so popular they’re now an integral part of his retreats. Based on yoga and tai chi movements, these simple, effective exercises reduce mental, physical, and emotional stress. The book Mindful Movements introduces the program to the general public.

• Spiral-bound: 62 pages
• Publisher: Parallax Press (July 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888375795
• ISBN-13: 978-1888375794
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,837 in Books

Mindful Movements: Ten Exercises for Well-Being (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: Add structure and variety to your walks with specific programs and 60 workouts to use on your path to improved fitness and health. Fitness Walking offers a full menu of walks from which you can choose the duration, distance, speed, and nature of the walk you prefer each day while staying on track to meet your overall fitness goals.

In addition to the specially designed walks, you’ll find clear-cut training advice, instructions for creating your own walking schedule, and useful tips from one of America’s foremost authorities on the topic. Fitness Walking is like having a personal trainer striding alongside you every step of the way. It’s the best way to ensure you get the physical benefits and enjoyment you deserve out of every trek you take.

• Paperback: 177 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 2nd edition (April 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736056084
• ISBN-13: 978-0736056083
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #295,303 in Books

Fitness Walking (Paperback)