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"Jennifer Heisz shares paradigm-shifting research on how exercise affects the brain, finding that intervals of intense workouts, or even leisurely walks, help stop depression and dementia, lessen anxiety and ADHD, and encourage better sleep, creativity, and resilience. Physical inactivity is the greatest risk factor contributing to dementia and anxiety--it's as much a factor as genetics. In addition, exercise's anti-inflammatory properties make it...
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Bob Harper, superstar trainer and co-host of NBC's hit show "The Biggest Loser," distills his vast knowledge of nutrition, weight-loss strategy, and human nature down to twenty simple, nonnegotiable principles and offers a month's worth of menu plans and more than 90 delicious, rule-abiding recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks to keep you cooking and eating skinny for life.
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"Smarter Not Harder is not a diet nor a fitness plan. It is a system of targeted biohacks aimed at upgrading your metabolic, neurological, and epigenetic systems. Packed with practical, accessible information on better eating; smart workouts that give you more strength and energy in less time; and strategic therapies to reduce stress and boost resilience--Smarter Not Harder will show you how to achieve lasting health in less time"-- Provided by publisher....
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Fitness expert Adam Zickerman presents a revolutionary exercise program—slow strength training—that will forever change the way Americans work out.
Power of 10 seems to contradict nearly everything we’re accustomed to hearing about exercise. Forget hours on the treadmill, and forget daily visits to the gym. Power of 10 is based on a remarkably advanced yet simple discovery: By lifting weights in a series
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"Build muscle, burn fat, and sculpt the body you want--wherever, whenever you want--with the world's most respected fitness experts as your personal trainers. There are no more excuses with "The men's fitness exercise bible, "you will always have time to get in great shape--even if you only have no time at all.""You will always have the equipment you need--even if you have no equipment at all.""You will never grow bored or stop seeing progress--and...
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The New York Times bestseller that explains how groundbreaking scientific discoveries can help each of us achieve our personal best
Every week, Gretchen Reynolds single-handedly influences how millions of Americans work out. In her popular New York Times column, she debunks myths, spurs conversation, and stirs controversy by questioning widely held beliefs about exercise.
Here, Reynolds consults experts in a range of fields to
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Sick and tired of hearing what's wrong with you and your body? You're not alone. It's time for a new conversation-- and a new plan for treating, feeding, and moving your body in ways that build on your strengths inside and out. Cohen and Colina offer a reality-based diet, lifestyle, and fitness program so you can get started on the route to getting leaner, fitter, and stronger.
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"This groundbreaking study demonstrates how the prevalent problems of obesity, ailing health, and lack of energy can all be easily improved simply by using the power of gravity. The survey is based on the author's research into how weightlessness weakens astronauts' muscles, bones, and overall well-being, suggesting ways to incorporate gravity into everyday life and illustrating how it can increase fitness as well as prevent aging. Addressing those...
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"Now fully updated and revised throughout, Pete Egoscue's breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Starting today, you don't have to live in pain. That is Pete Egoscue's revolutionary message. Developed through his work as a physiologist and sports injury consultant, Pain Free offers a revolutionary regimen of quick stretches and strength-building exercises that will cure chronic pain,...
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Tom Brady explains how he developed his groundbreaking approach to long-term fitness, presenting a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to his personal practice. Brady offers the principles behind pliability, which is at the heart of a new paradigm shift and movement toward a more natural, healthier way of exercising, training, and living, and one that challenges some commonly held assumptions around health and wellness. Filled with lessons learned from...
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"Remember Jessamyn Stanley? How could you not? She's the proudly fat, Black, queer yoga teacher and charismatic author of Every Body Yoga, who drops a lot more f-bombs than namastes and refuses to pray at the church of Lululemon. Now she's back, here to take us even further on a personal and provocative journey into what it means to "practice yoga." Where Every Body Yoga, with 59,000 copies in print, taught us how to do yoga, Yoke tells us why. In...
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Losing weight can be simple--get back to basics on your plate, save time and money, and train your body to move, and excess pounds will slip away. The bestselling author of SHRED and The Clean 20 cracks the code for all of us who live in the modern world where we've lost touch with what real food is--and how good it tastes--and what our bodies are designed to do. Dr. Ian wrote Clean & Lean to put what he knows about nutrition and physiology in one...