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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Healthy Stretching
The author demonstrates how to become more flexible through using his daily programme of simple exercises for each part of the body. In addition, he shows which exercises are best for different lifestyles, and how parents may train their own children to increase their strength and abilities.
Complete Idiot's Guide to Jogging and Running
Collier on Bankruptcy has been a critical research source for bankruptcy law and practice over the years. The 15th edition revision, written and edited by the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, provides a useful bankruptcy tool. The text focuses on the state of the law, with coverage of historical developments. Chapters are organized with descriptive captions enabling you to find specific information more efficiently. The expert authors and editors provide their considered opinions on issues that are unclear or unsettled, giving you the authority you need to take a position. The appendix volumes include all bankruptcy-related legislation and legislative history.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Stress
A guide that includes self-tests for identifying sources of stress, and tips for de-stressing the home and office. Also included are tips on time management and organization, as well as exercises for de-stressing the body and mind, along with advice on setting priorities and simplifying your life.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga
For the millions who are stressed out, this easy-to-use book will help them live easier, breathe easier, and heal ailments. THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO YOGA will remove the complexity factor from yoga by explaining how basic stretching, meditation, and breathing exercises increase body flexibility, relax tense minds and muscles, and improve life productivity and self-satisfaction. Containing step-by-step, easy-to-follow diagrams of standard yoga moves, this book also explains in layperson's terms the philosophies behind the positions and who created them.
The Gale Encyclopedia Of Fitness
The Gale Encyclopedia Of Fitness covers 300 topics on physiology and fitness, including coverage of Healthy People 2010 / 2020, the nationwide initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve the nation's health, as well as topics on diseases and conditions related to fitness.
Harvard Medical School Special Health Reports
Harvard Medical School Special Health Reports provide thorough insight into common conditions, diseases, and wellness issues. Each report focuses on a specific health concern and provides helpful tips for readers to further understand how to address and improve their health.
Mindfulness and Meditation: Your Questions Answered
This book is an approachable introduction to the topics of mindfulness and meditation as they relate to teens and young adults. The information, guidance, and resources offered make it a valuable tool for anyone curious about this trending topic. Although mindfulness and meditation have been practiced for millennia, modern neurobiologists and psychologists are only just beginning to understand their full potential for improving physical and emotional well-being. Part of Greenwood's Q&A Health Guides series, Mindfulness and Meditation: Your Questions Answered provides clear, concise information for readers interested in the contemporary practice of, and research behind, mindfulness and meditation. It explores definitions of mindfulness and meditation, offers solutions for successfully incorporating them into our often-chaotic lives, and explains their many practical applications and benefits for practitioners. Each book in this series follows a reader-friendly question-and-answer format that anticipates readers' needs and concerns. Prevalent myths and misconceptions are identified and dispelled, and a collection of case studies illustrates key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. The book also includes a section on health literacy, equipping teens and young adults with practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information both on and off the Internet--important skills that contribute to a lifetime of healthy decision-making. Makes the subject accessible to readers by means of a simple Q&A format Helps readers hone their research and critical thinking skills in a Guide to Health Literacy section Provides real-world examples of concepts discussed in the book through case studies Dispels popular misconceptions in a Common Myths section and directs readers towards accurate information Points readers towards additional books, organizations, and websites for further study and research in an annotated directory of resources
Principles of Sports Medicine and Kinesiology
This volume introduces students and researchers to the science of human performance and health. It focuses on how a healthy human body works during exercise and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance, ranging from the cellular level to whole body perspectives. Coverage also includes exercise physiology, sports psychology, human anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, biokinetics, diet, the nature and pathology of sport injuries, and injury rehabilitation.
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
Presenting ways in which Restorative Yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers, therapists and practitioners to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It aids in the process of uncovering, examining, and healing one's own emotional wounds and offers insight into avoiding wounding or re-wounding others. The book describes how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a more targeted approach to treatment is necessary, as well as what can trigger it. It also considers the implications of an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse and global yoga community, as well as the importance of creating conscious yoga communities of support and connection, where issues of race and ethnicity are discussed openly, non-defensively and constructively. By providing a therapeutic structure that assists those directly and indirectly impacted by ethnic and race-based stress and trauma, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma provides valuable tools for aiding in the processing of stressful experiences and in trauma recovery.
Wellness Culture : How the Wellness Movement Has Been Used to Empower, Profit and Misinform
Wellness has become synonymous with yoga, meditation, and other forms of self-care. Over the past 60 years, what began as an alternative to mainstream medicine has coalesced with consumer culture and has been commercialised to such an extent that the term is now synonymous with an industry of exclusive products and services. This book traces the emergence of wellness culture as a countercultural movement to a trillion-dollar industry, examining the social, economic and political conditions that enabled wellness to assume mainstream cultural significance. It explores the role of the internet in making wellness more accessible to consumers, while simultaneously questioning who wields influence in these digital spaces. A must read for anyone interested in learning about wellness and its online penetration, Wellness Culture offers an in-depth yet accessible examination of how wellness has been weaponised during the COVID-19 pandemic to spread medical misinformation, conspiratorial thinking and political extremism.
Yoga XXL : A Journey to Health for Bigger People
Yoga XXL shows you how to create a safe, enjoyable, and effective yoga practice no matter what your age, size, shape, or physical fitness level. Yoga is not just for the lean and limber. With modified postures and props, everyone can experience yoga's many health benefits including increased flexibility, strength, stamina, balance, energy, and calm. For the person who has never done yoga before or the regular practitioner looking to refine their practice at home, Yoga XXL includes: Practical information about clothing, mats, and equipment. Over 50 postures in a variety of positions including seated, lying down, and standing, chosen specifically for people with larger bodies and those with limited mobility. Variations to accommodate every body shape, size, and fitness level to ensure comfort and safety.
Postures to ease back aches, tight muscles, and joint stiffness. Quick daily routines to help recharge and relieve stress throughout the day. Detailed instructions and photos illustrating each pose, and much more. With Yoga XXL you'll have everything you need to bring yoga - and more health and wellness - into your daily life immediately."
Your Best Body Ever
Your Best Body Ever is the first fitness program for balancing the three elements of optimal fitness - flexibility, strength, and stamina. It features the breakthrough Goa System: a dynamic exercise program that combines the benefits of weight training, yoga, and aerobics for increased weight loss and body toning, improved posture and balance, and relief of lower back and joint pain. If you practice yoga, aerobics, or weight training, you don't need to abandon your existing program of exercise. You can enter the program from start or add to your existing exercise routine, easily integrating the additional elements for maximum fitness and long-term effects, while accelerating the benefits of the exercise program. balance, prevent injuries, and optimize overall shape by reducing fat and adding muscle. Whether you're lean with six days a week to work out or heavyset with only one day available, this book works with your personal goals and needs. It also works for people at all levels of athletic ability. The book presents alternate versions of every exercise so that readers can ease into the more difficult exercises, while still feeling accomplished as they work towards their goals.