Product Description: Do you want to know stretches that relieve pain and ease everyday stresses and strains? Do you want to know how to remodel your body in just 21 days? And counter the affects of aging? Well, then look to the DK Stretching Deck it has clear and concise information about stretching and its benefits. It combines straightforward information with a fresh, clean design in a portable, easy-to-access format.

• Paperback: 57 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; Crds edition (October 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756623642
• ISBN-13: 978-0756623647
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.1 x 1.3 inches
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Stretching Deck (DK Decks) (Paperback)

Product Description: A warm-up routine prepares the athlete for more intense movements requiring speed and strength. It is designed to gradually adjust his/her organism to more effectively cope with relatively high physical demands. Therefore, an adequate warm-up is important for all athletic activities, whether it be a training session or a competition.

In any athletic activity, it is important to gradually increase the intensity of effort, so that the gradually prepared organism is less susceptible to injury of muscles and related tissue, and capable of much higher levels of performance.

All activity necessitates an increased rate of fuel consumption, specifically in the muscles involved. This is above the normal metabolic processes at rest. An ongoing, increased rate of fuel consumption is only possible when the arteries deliver the nutritive material at a faster rate. This can only be achieved gradually by following a well-designed warm-up routine. It is the easily begun, gradually increased activity during warm-up that stimulates the nervous system and gives it time to set into action this delivery process. As the body temperature rises, the heart rate is increased, and the arteries and capillaries are opened with a resultant increase in the volume of blood flowing to the muscles and delivering nutritive material (oxygen and fuel foods) at a higher rate. This brings about an equal response in the nervous system to more quickly remove metabolic wastes from the muscles.

• Paperback: 84 pages
• Publisher: Sport Book Pub (February 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0920905447
• ISBN-13: 978-0920905449
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
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Warm-Up and Preparation for Athletes of All Sports: A Complete Book of Warm-Up and Flexibility Exercises (Paperback)

Product Description: Tens of thousands of athletes know Beryl Bender Birch, Wellness Director for the New York Road Runners Club, as the teacher who showed them that yoga could protect them from injuries and improve their athletic performance. In Power Yoga, the first book on astanga yoga, a unique form of hatha yoga designed to build strength and stamina, Birch brings the ancient spiritual and physical practice to the West. Through anecdotes, detailed instructions, and hundreds of illustrations, Birch provides a total workout plan that's perfect for elite athletes, weekend warriors, and people just starting a fitness program. The Power Yoga workout combines dynamic breathing with a series of strong, flowing movements that create a high-heat, high-energy workout. "It (Power Yoga) will work on your body, your mind, your whole self," says Birch. The end result is a stronger, more flexible body; increased endurance, discipline, and self-awareness; and better overall health and fitness. -- Ellen Albertson

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Fireside (January 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0020583516
• ISBN-13: 978-0020583516
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 37 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #97,005 in Books

Power Yoga: The Total Strength and Flexibility Workout (Paperback)

Product Description: Exercise books often make grandiose claims of improving everything from your sex life to your cholesterol level. At best, these claims are harmless; at worst, annoying. Every so often, however, a program is developed with attention to specific issues, backed up with strong medical knowledge, and presented in a plain and helpful manner. Peggy Brill is a physical therapist who has created just such an exercise program. The Core Program offers numerous ways to improve deep muscle strength in women, which can lead to improved posture, strength, and energy levels.

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553380842
• ISBN-13: 978-0553380842
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
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The Core Program: Fifteen Minutes a Day That Can Change Your Life (Paperback)

Product Description: Healing Back Pain promises permanent elimination of back pain without drugs, surgery, or exercise. It should have been titled Understanding TMS Pain, because it discusses one particular cause of back pain--Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS)--and isn't really a program for self-treatment, with only five pages of action plan (and many more pages telling why conventional methods don't work). According to John E. Sarno, M.D., TMS is the major cause of pain in the back, neck, shoulders, buttocks, and limbs--and it is caused not by structural abnormalities but by the mind's effort to repress emotions.

• Paperback: 193 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (February 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446392308
• ISBN-13: 978-0446392303
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 322 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,187 in Books

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection (Paperback)