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Push: A Guide to Living an All Out Life: The Story of Orangetheory Fitness
Ellen Latham - 2015
And how do you do that? By learning to Push in the Orangetheory Fitness workout. By doing so, you also learn to do the same in your life - to take on new challenges, to pursue your biggest goals, and to become the best version of you.What makes Orangetheory different from every workout you’ve tried? Why is it one of the fastest-growing fitness franchises today? And how can it change your life? In Push, you’ll learn the amazing story behind Orangetheory, the journey Ellen Latham took to create it, and how to apply the elements of Base, Push, and All Out from the workout studio to your own life.
Men's Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide: More Than 21,000 Moves Designed to Build Muscle, Increase Strength, and Burn Fat
Myatt Murphy - 2007
In Men's Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide, Myatt Murphy, a fitness expert and longtime contributor to Men's Health, shows readers how to use dumbbells to develop just about every part of their bodies.For anyone who believes that dumbbells can be used only for arms and shoulders, Myatt Murphy proves them wrong. Featuring 200 photographs, Men's Health Ultimate Dumbbell Exercises demonstrates how to perform a total body workout and get maximum results. There are exercises here—lunges, squats, dead lifts, curls, shrugs, kickbacks, presses, and more—that develop abs, arms, chest, legs, and shoulders, along with innovative new ways to get the most of this versatile piece of strength-training equipment.With instructions for creating literally thousands of dumbbell exercises for the novice to advanced lifter, Men's Health Ultimate Dumbbell Exercises will be an indispensable addition to any home gym.
The Five Tibetans: Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy, and Personal Power
Christopher S. Kilham - 1994
Liberating and enhancing the innate energetic power of the human body and mind, these five exercises take a minimum of daily time and effort but offer remarkable results in the way of increased physical strength and suppleness as well as mental acuity. In addition, these exercises can be a vehicle for enlivening the senses and generating and harnessing energy for the purpose of self-transformation. Regular practice of these postures: Relieves muscular tension and nervous stress Improves respiration and digestion Benefits the cardiovascular system Leads to deep relaxation and well-being Tunes and energizes the chakras The Five Tibetans are explained within the context of traditional yoga, providing a foundation for understanding. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations complement the text and clearly indicate the proper execution of each exercise.
The Cruise Control Diet: The 28-Day Plan for Automatic Weight Loss and Forever Fat-Burning
Jorge Cruise - 2019
Or, as #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrity trainer Jorge Cruise explains: When we eat is as important as what we eat. Building on the scientifically proven but hard-to-sustain day-on, day-off technique known as "intermittent fasting," Cruise simplifies your calendar by dividing every day into two easy-to-remember nutritional zones: a 16-hour evening and overnight "burn zone" (semi-fasting) followed by an 8-hour "boost zone" (eating). To help you crush cravings throughout, he ingeniously introduces foods that can be consumed in either zone to keep you burning fat all around the clock. You'll never be hungry if you don't really ever have to fully fast! Putting the body on weight-loss autopilot, The Cruise Control Diet includes: * 50 recipes for deliciously unexpected boost-zone foods, such as Margherita pizza, spaghetti squash lasagna, and turmeric shrimp;* 15 high-fat, no-sugar burn-zone recipes for craving-quenching foods like chocolate coconut mousse and caramel chai latte;* Weekly menus and handy grocery lists to take guessing out of the equation;* Candid testimonials and amazing weight loss results from Cruise's clients;* An optional burn-zone exercise program with instructional photos.
Yoga for Real Life
Maya Fiennes - 2010
Kundalini is a very direct form of yoga with an immediate effect, combining movement, breathing, and chanting to energize the body and relax the mind, while strengthening the body's nervous and immune system. Through a lively combination of yoga poses and exercises, recipes, massage tips, mantras, and personal stories, Maya demonstrates how yoga practice and philosophy can effectively be incorporated into all aspects of everyday life. Covering such topics as self esteem, staying youthful, love, and relationships, this a book for your handbag, your desk, and your bedside table: your indispensable guide to achieving the most from your daily life—for the rest of your life.
Chakra Balance: The Beginner's Guide to Healing Body and Mind
April Pfender - 2018
Chakra Balance is a practical beginner's guide to identifying energy imbalances, and restoring harmony with powerful, energy healing practices.Chakra Balance offers illustrated, easy-to-follow guidance for using yoga poses, crystals, and essential oils to harness your energy and heal. With in-depth profiles of each of the seven chakras, you'll gain a fundamental understanding of the physical, emotional, and spiritual elements of every chakra.Push past blockages and keep your chakras clear and open with: A symptom reference chart that allows you to diagnose which chakra is blocked based on the emotional or physical symptoms you experience Effective, energy exercises that don't require previous experience and specifically target the chakra in distress through yoga, crystals, essential oils, and other healing practices Straightforward chakra profiles that explain the characteristics and causes of imbalance for each chakraVisual guidance with photos, illustrations, and charts for easy referenceTake a deep breath. Tune into the energy running through you, and feel the connection between your mind and body with this practice-based guide for chakra healing.
Yoga Nidra: The Art of Transformational Sleep
Kamini Desai - 2017
In Yoga Nidra you enter a state of non-doing in which transformation happens from beyond the mind rather than through the mind. In this highly regenerative meditative state you can restore and rejuvenate your body, heal and recover from illness and re-wire your brain for greater mental and emotional balance and resiliency. This comprehensive guidebook explores the core of Yogic philosophy and modern applications of Yoga Nidra backed by scientific research - affirming what Yogis have known for thousands of years. You will receive instruction on the practice of Yoga Nidra and the use of intention. You will discover how unconscious thinking patterns and resulting biochemical states contribute to ill health, stress, insomnia, depression, anxiety, bad habits, trauma and addictions and most importantly, how to neutralize them with the Six Tools of Yoga Nidra.
The Supercharged Hormone Diet: A 30-Day Accelerated Plan to Lose Weight, Restore Metabolism and Feel Younger Longer
Natasha Turner - 2011
The Supercharged Hormone Diet gives us the information we need to get our hormones back on track — in thirty days flat.The Hormone Diet taught us the ins and outs of how and why our hormones play the biggest part in our weight-loss woes — a valuable resource and diet guide to our hormones and how they affect our health. Now, The Supercharged Hormone Diet allows us to start losing weight as soon as we crack open the book.In this busy, fast-paced world, we don't always have time to research the science behind our diets. We want to lose weight sooner and faster. Turner has created an accelerated hormone diet with the same basic principles as the original (eating the right foods to correct your hormonal imbalances) and she's plucked out the most important information from The Hormone Diet. It includes the questionnaires and assessments to get you started, a higher protein detox than the original, the key tips for sleep and exercise, a handy food list, a new two-week meal plan, a work chart to help you stay on top of your goals and many new hormone diet-friendly recipes.The Supercharged Hormone Diet gives us exactly what we need — a quick-start diet plan with a thirty-day time frame.
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-To Book
Dan Harris - 2017
After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange and circuitous journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation’s most vocal public proponents.Here’s what he’s fixated on now: Science suggests that meditation can lower blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and literally rewire key parts of the brain, among numerous other benefits. And yet there are millions of people who want to meditate but aren’t actually practicing. What’s holding them back?In this guide to mindfulness and meditation for beginners and experienced meditators alike, Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, a masterful teacher and “Meditation MacGyver,” embark on a cross-country quest to tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that stop people from meditating. They rent a rock-star tour bus (whose previous occupants were Parliament Funkadelic) and travel across eighteen states, talking to scores of would-be meditators—including parents, military cadets, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues (“I suck at this,” “I don’t have the time,” etc.) and offer up science-based life hacks to help people overcome them.The book is filled with game-changing and deeply practical meditation instructions. Amid it all unspools the strange and hilarious story of what happens when a congenitally sarcastic, type-A journalist and a groovy Canadian mystic embark on an epic road trip into America’s neurotic underbelly, as well as their own.
Aromatherapy for Women: A Practical Guide to Essential Oils for Health and Beauty
Maggie Tisserand - 1996
Maggie Tisserand brings a wealth of practical experience to this book, focusing on women and their particular health and beauty concerns. She shows how the unique properties of specific essences can be used to maintain healthy hair and skin, ease minor complaints, and assist in treating more serious health problems. The author shares her techniques for enhancing general well-being and sensual satisfaction with massage. She also gives advice on how to use aromatherapy during pregnancy and childbirth, and includes a chapter on remedies for children's illnesses. Tisserand's knowledge of aromatherapy is both accessible and comprehensive, providing the reader with excellent guidance to the healing benefits of aromatic essences. Revised and expanded edition of the aromatherapy bestseller.Includes recipes for preparing your own oils, baths, perfumes, masks, compresses, and other remedies. A resource section directs you to reputable suppliers.
Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You
Muktananda - 1980
This invaluable source of wisdom and inspiration for both beginning and experienced meditators sparks enthusiasm for pursuing this practice and its highest goal, self-realization.
The pH Miracle for Weight Loss: Balance Your Body Chemistry, Achieve Your Ideal Weight
Robert O. Young - 2005
How many excess pounds do you need to shed to achieve your ideal, healthy weight-10, 30, 100? Whatever your answer, multiply it by two. You now have the Maximum number of days it will take you to reach your goal, if you follow... Despite what you may believe, weight loss is not about fat grams, cholesterol, carbs, or calories. It's all about acid. According to Dr. Robert Young, renowned microbiologist and nutritionist, reaching your ideal weight is simply a matter of maintaining the delicate pH balance of the blood. In this latest entry in the successful pH Miracle series, Dr. Young and his wife, chef Shelley Redford Young, offer a simple 7-step lifestyle program to balance your body chemistry, change your shape, and slim down to your ideal body weight-naturally and permanently. Best of all, you'll be able to eliminate unnecessary fat cells forever. From the science behind the plan to the dietary do's and don'ts (along with recipes), a detailed exercise plan, and dozens of dramatic real-life before-and-after photos, this program lays the groundwork for long-term success. Discover: How drinking the right water can help you lose weight Why you should ignore the fat phobes and keep plenty of healthy oils in your diet Which common foods make your body more alkaline-and which ones make it more acidic How exercise can actually make you fat-unless you do it the right way The benefits of having your blood analyzed at the microscopic level How you can build lean muscle and maintain healthy bones without loading up on proteins and dairy ... and much more!
The Glycemic-Load Diet Cookbook: 150 Recipes to Help You Lose Weight and Reverse Insulin Resistance
Rob Thompson - 2008
Now, thanks to Dr. Rob Thompson's revolutionary eating plan based on the breakthrough science of the glycemic load, you can prepare fabulously filling meals that actually speed up your metabolism, curb your cravings, and improve the way you look and feel. These surprisingly hearty recipes, created by bestselling cookbook author Dana Carpender, are designed to eliminate the "glucose shocks" that deplete your natural insulin--making it easy for you to lose weight without feeling deprived. You'll be able to enjoy:Robust Breakfasts Spinach Mushroom Frittata, Apple Walnut PancakesLip-Smacking Lunches Oriental Chicken Salad, Oyster Bisque, Ham and Pineapple SlawMouthwatering Main Dishes Sesame Short Ribs, Lemon Mustard Pork Chops, Indian Lamb SkilletDelicious Desserts Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies, Lemon Vanilla Cheesecake
Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing
Vasant Dattatray Lad - 1984
This beautifully illustrated text thoroughly explains history & philosophy, basic principles, diagnostic techniques, treatment, diet, medicinal usage of kitchen herbs & spices, first aid, food aid, food antidotes and much more.
No Nonsense Real Estate: What Everyone Should Know Before Buying or Selling a Home
Alex Goldstein - 2016
straight from an experienced pro that has seen millions of dollars exchange hands at the closing table.” - Peter Voogd, #1 International Bestselling Author of 6 Months to 6 Figures There are countless real estate books on the market today, so why read this one? What sets it apart from all the others out there?Bestselling Author, Alex Goldstein, brings a unique perspective that many others do not. As a successful realtor and investor, Alex has been on both sides of a real estate transaction, so he knows what strategies and techniques will lead to a successful deal, and which ones should be avoided at all costs. That’s why he chose the name, "No Nonsense Real Estate," for his third book.Goldstein offers practical, proven home buying techniques, free of fluff or confusing jargon.This book is for anyone who is getting ready to buy or sell a home and wants to be as informed as possible as they get ready to begin the process so there are no surprises – whether they will be working with a realtor or doing it on their own.
9 REASONS TO READ THIS BOOK NOW:
1. AGENT - Go through the pros and cons of working with a real estate agent, and the two ways that they can add the most value,2. ECONOMICS - You'll understand the fundamental economics of the housing market in the simplest terms possible3. INVESTING - Avoid the top five mistakes (almost) all new real estate investors make4. NEGOTIATIONS - Five critical elements of a successful negotiation5. FINANCING - Possible financing options, from traditional loans to seller financing6. SELLING - Seven secrets that make selling a home as painless as possible7. BUYING - Demystifying contracts and closing costs takes the fear out of the process8. CLOSING - Walk through eight steps involved in a real estate transaction closing9. PRACTICAL - Learn how all the different parts come together in a real life case studyYou also receive three free gifts. Goldstein has put together a special document answering the most popular questions every buyer, seller or investor has during a real estate transaction. You also get special access to an easy-to-understand glossary of the most popular real estate jargon. Last but not least, every reader is access to a free video training that will teach you how to choose the best home for your family.
