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The Yoga Bible Christina Brown Featuring over 150 yogic postures from the main schools of yoga, including Iyengar and Astanga Vinyasa, this guide provides a comprehensive illustrated step-by-step book to achieving the postures and advice on altering them where necessary with easier postures highlighted for beginners. The book also includes more advanced positions for experienced yogists, which will inspired them in developing their practice. In addition to postures, the book includes notes on various types of yoga practices as well as a summary of well-known traditional schools of yoga and how they vary. Also inside is advice from the author on breathing techniques and the benefits of yoga in healing, pregnancy, de-stressing and meditation. Christina Brown qualified as a yoga instructor at the Sivananda Ashram in southern India in 1995. She has also trained in Iyengar Yoga at the Sydney Yoga Centre and in Deradun, India and in yoga therapy at the Yoga Therapy Centre in London. She currently teaches yoga in Sydney, Australia and holds a degree in complementary medicine from the Natural Care College in Sydney. She lives in Sydney, Australia. |
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The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living with Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder Randi Kreger The symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) include severe mood shifts, unfounded accusations and wildly inappropriate displays of anger, a range of self-destructive behaviors, and frantic efforts to avoid abandonment. For the friends and families of people with BPD, The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook supports and reinforces the ideas in its partner book Stop Walking on Eggshells. |
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The Works of Henry David Thoreau (with active table of contents) Henry David Thoreau The works of Thoreau in one collection with active table of contents. Works include:
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
A Plea for Captain John Brown
Walden
Walking
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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10,000 Steps a Day to Your Optimal Weight: Walk Your Way to Better Health Greg Isaacs Many people do not realize that on a daily basis they probably already walk 900 to 3,000 steps, even if they have a relatively sedentary lifestyle. By incorporating fairly modest changes into their day-to-day routine, people can easily increase their walking count to 10,000 steps. This book shows readers how to do just that. It serves as a tool for those who want to reap all of the rewards of walking. This paperback book includes a FREE pedometer. |
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Running and Walking for Women Over 40 : The Road to Sanity and Vanity Kathrine Switzer A consistent program of running or walking is the fastest, easiest, and least expensive road to overall fitness and well-being for women and men at any age. For women over forty it can be the key to the most fulfilling years life has in store.
Katherine Switzer, a pioneer in women's fitness since 1967, when she became the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon is once again blazing a trail with the very first running and walking program designed specifically for women over forty. Now every woman can benefit from Katherine's highly personal, motivational, and step-by-step advice.
"For women beginning fitness programs at age forty, fifty, and beyond, the results can be nothing short of dramatic. For the first time they are reaching the body weight and physical conditioning they've always dreamed of. Women who have been reasonably active off their lives can also firnd a new and exciting road of fitness ahead of them after age forty. Some even find themselves outrunning women half their age!" --Katherine Switzer
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ChiWalking: Fitness Walking for Lifelong Health and Energy Danny Dreyer, Katherine Dreyer A revolutionary program that blends the health benefits of walking with the core principles of T'ai Chi to deliver maximum physical, mental, and spiritual fitnessThe low-impact health benefits of walking have made it one of the most popular forms of daily exercise. Yet few people experience all the benefits that walking can offer. In ChiWalking, Danny and Katherine Dreyer, well-known walking and running coaches, teach the walking technique they created that transforms walking from a mundane means of locomotion into an intensely rewarding practice that enhances mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Similar to Pilates, yoga, and T'ai Chi, ChiWalking emphasizes body alignment and mindfulness while strengthening the core muscles of the body. The five mindful steps of the ChiWalking program will get anyone, regardless of age or athletic ability, into great shape from head to toe, inside and out. 1. Get aligned. Develop great posture and better balance.
2. Engage your core. Make back and knee pain disappear.
3. Create balance. Walk faster, farther, and with less effort.
4. Make a choice. Choose from a menu of twelve great walks such as the Cardio Walk, the Energizing Walk, or the Walking Meditation, to keep your exercise program fresh.
5. Move forward. Make walking any distance a mindful, enjoyable experience, whether you're a beginner or a seasoned walker. |
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Gait Analysis: Normal and Pathological Function Jacquelin Perry MD This book encompasses the extensive work of Dr. Perry and her successful years as a therapist and surgeon, renowned for her expertise in human gait. The text is broken down into four sections: Fundamentals, Normal Gait, Pathological Gait, and Gait Analysis Systems. In addition to the descriptions of the gait functions, a representative group of clinical examples has been included to facilitate the interpretation of the identical gait deviations. The book includes detailed laboratory records and more than 450 expert illustrations and photographs. Gait Analysis is the essential reference for all health care professionals involved in musculoskeletal patient care, and has already been incorporated into many athletic training programs, university physical therapy programs and gait workshops across the country.
Special Features - Clinical significance of the most common pathological gait patterns.
- Patient examples to illustrate elements of normal and pathological gait.
- Over 450 illustrations and photographs with detailed descriptions providing essential information at a glance.
Contents FUNDAMENTALS: Gait Cycle, Phases of Gait, Basic Functions NORMAL GAIT: Ankle Foot Complex, Knee, Hip, Head, Trunk and Pelvis, Arm, Total Limb Function PATHOLOGICAL GAIT: Pathological Mechanisms, Ankle and Foot Gait Deviations, Knee Abnormal Gait, Hip Gait Deviations, Pelvis and Trunk Pathological Gait, Clinical Examples GAIT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS: Motion Analysis, Dynamic Electromyography, Ground Reaction Forces and Vectors, Stride Analysis, Energetics |
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The Complete Guide to Walking, New and Revised: For Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness (Walking Magazine) Mark Fenton All you need to get fit is your own two feet--and a copy of Mark Fenton's classic Walking book, now fully revised.
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Is Walking Good Exercise? Archie Weston Is walking good exercise? Can walking really provide the health benefits normally associated with more demanding fitness programs?
This book makes the case for walking for health and fitness. It suggests that exercise plans based on more demanding activities such as jogging or working out in the gym, far from achieving the health and fitness benefits they promise, fail to deliver for those who need exercise the most by demanding far too much in terms of time and effort. Exercise plans based on regular walking, by contrast, are easy to fit around normal everyday activities, are infinitely flexible and, for those who really enjoy walking outdoors, can be expanded into general leisure activities like walking holidays. The book describes how the most sedentary and inactive among us can quickly draw up, put into practice and feel the benefits from a simple walking exercise program. It also explores how to choose a walking plan to lose weight. And, for further information, a Resources section is included with links to websites on different aspects of walking based activities.
Here is a list of the book contents:
Introduction
Section One-Preamble
Chapter 1 For Strong Stomachs Only!
Chapter 2 Your Emotional Well-being
Chapter 3 Are Blood, Sweat & Tears Necessary?
Chapter 4 Walking: The Great Leveller
Chapter 5 Quick Résumé
Section Two-Preamble
Chapter 6 How Much Walking To Do
Chapter 7 Where To Walk
Chapter 8 Who To Walk With
Chapter 9 Walking Holidays
Chapter 10 Equipment & Clothing
Chapter 11 Planning Your Walk
Chapter 12 The Weather
Chapter 13 How to Find Your Way
Chapter 14 Walking Technique
Chapter 15 Warm Up And Cool Down
Section Three-Preamble
Chapter 16 Walking To Lose Weight
Conclusion
Finally – A Case Study: Me
Appendix 1 Clothing And Equipment Checklist
Appendix 2 Resources |
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Walk Off Weight: Burn 3 Times More Fat with This Proven Program Michele Stanten Walking is America’s #1 form of exercise—and with good reason. It’s easy, cheap, and can be
done anywhere. Now, Prevention magazine takes fun, low-impact walking to the next level with a
new 8-week program that will help you lose 3 times more weight—and keep it off. Designed by
certified fitness trainer Michele Stanten, the program jump-starts weight loss with core and lowerbody
strength exercises as well as special walking routines, including interval walks, which research
shows burn calories twice as fast as regular walking. Women who tried the program for 8 weeks:
- lost up to 22²/³ pounds and 12¾ inches
- lowered their blood pressure and blood glucose levels
- had less back and joint pain
- improved their posture, balance, flexibility, and boosted their energy
Paired with a delicious, well-balanced meal plan and easy strength-training exercises, Walk Off Weight also helps you pick out the perfect walking sneakers and gives you technique tips to increase your speed and avoid soreness or injury. |