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Books 1 to 20 of 50 – Exercise – workout
Champions Body for Life by Art Carey
The all-new official guide to the Body-for-LIFE Challenge, with success secrets and tips to help you win your own personal Body-for-LIFE Challenge, by challengers and champions from the past 10 years. Champions Body-for-LIFE is not just another diet or fitness book—it’s a book of personal transformation. The Body-for-LIFE 12-week journey has changed the lives of millions. Read how men and women become Champions as you follow the 12-week story of two Body-for-LIFE Challengers. Mark Unger, a major in the U.S. Marine Corps, and Alexa Adair, a college student, share their personal Journeys of Transformation.
, 224 pp, $45.00. Buy
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Lean, Long & Strong by Wini Linguvic
Lean Long & Strong is a tailored strength training program created just for
women. Each workout, designed to be completed in just 12 minutes a day,
incorporates synergy sets, a combination of precision strength training
exercises with specially chosen stretches.
Now top personal trainer Wini Linguvic tailors her precision
body-sculpting methods just for women in workouts that integrate the flow
and stretching of yoga to produce the even more impressive real results of
strength training. Finally, an expert women can turn to for a program
designed to create the fabulously fit, lean, long, strong body that today’s
woman yearns to achieve.
o Features beautiful, large full-color photographs
of the author doing each exercise, ac
Paperback, 240 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Mario Lopez’s Fitness Workout by Mario Lopez
Mario Lopez loves fitness – and it shows. In magazine after magazine, he sports the ripped abs, toned torso, and trim waist that make him America’s best beach body (InTouch). He doesn’t find exercise boring or tedious – and now, neither will his readers. With this book, Mario offers a diverse exercise regimen that brings together sweat, discipline, and excitement to help readers achieve the best body possible with a workout they’ll actually enjoy.With three stages designed to get the body in shape, build and sculpt muscle, and ultimately showcase one’s fit new form, the workout exercises every part of the anatomy – torso, arms, legs, and trouble areas like the thighs and belly. Each stage includes some of the Mario’s favorite activities – a
Hardback, 256 pp, $37.95. Buy
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The Realage(R) Workout by Michael F. Roizen
With his bestselling books, Dr. Michael F. Roizen has helped people reverse their chronological aging by ten, fifteen, and up to twenty-nine years. Now, with The RealAge® Workout, he explains the importance of gradually phasing exercise into your everyday routine, because even the smallest changes in behavior can make you feel, look, and be younger. No matter how busy your schedule, Dr. Michael Roizen will show you how to gain the maximum age-reduction benefits from a minimum amount of time and effort. He’ll help you create an exercise program that meets your needs and he’ll offer tips on how to actually enjoy—yes, even love—exercise. So get ready to achieve optimal health and be as young as you can be!
Paperback, 240 pp, $32.99. Buy
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Personal Best by Peter Fricker and Camilla Brockett
Exercise, diet and lifestyle for men and women of all ages. Get fit and stay fit in only 45 minutes a day. It a practical guide to achieving and maintaining your optimum fitness, and therefore your health, within your already busy schedule. Australian author
Paperback, 208 pp, $34.95. Buy
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No Excuses! Fitness Workout by Harvey Walden
US marine drill instructor, martial arts expert and popular fitness expert on ITV1’s Celebrity Fit Club, Harvey Walden has an army of admirers who have watched him on TV helping overweight celebrities as they attempt to get fit, lose weight and get their lives back on track. Harvey is now offering his expert advice and guidance to civilians with his three-part fitness plan, designed to help you get the body you want. This total body workout is designed to get your heart rate up, as well as tone muscle and burn calories, so it will get you fit and give you a new, leaner physique. ‘Harvey is a hard taskmaster with a heart of gold. He gave me the motivation to lead a healthier lifestyle. Follow Harvey’s advice – this Sagittarian dude knows wha
Paperback, 240 pp, $35.00. Buy
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Prevention’s Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss by Chris Freytag
Getting slim, fit, and toned often seems like a daunting challenge, especially for anyone with lots of weight to lose. That’s why “Prevention”, America’s leading health magazine, has developed proven shortcuts that work – and that will make the journey to fitness much easier by helping women slim down one step at a time instead of changing everything in one fell swoop. Personal trainer and “Prevention” fitness expert Chris Freytag shows how to lose up to 30 percent more weight than you can with traditional exercise programs. The secret is the fat-blasting 10-minute workouts she uses to trim and sculpt the bodies of her grateful clients. The book’s inspiring success stories from the author’s clients demonstrate Chris Freytag’s gift for helpi
Paperback, 368 pp, $30.95. Buy
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Men’s Health Total Body Workout Poster Book by NULL
Sick of looking at the blank walls of your gym? Frustrated by not having a complete view of your workout? Annoyed by those tiny pictures in workout books? The solution is at hand. The Men’s Health Total Body Workout Poster Book gives your workout a boost with 24, full colour posters to take you from flab to firm. Each pull out poster features a complete strength training routine from the fitness experts at Men’s Health – the source most guys turn to for fitness advice. By following the order of the posters, you can do the hard-core work you need to, and have a 20 minute workout whenever your pressed for time.
Paperback, 26 pp, $39.95. Buy
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Stretching by Barbara Templeton and Jamie Templeton
The key to fundamental flexibility. Stretching is the safest way to keep your whole body in balance. Not only is it a great way to warm up, cool down, and prevent injuries, but it can also be used for non-impact toning and strengthening routines. Stretching can be done anywhere, anytime, and can serve as both a stress reliever and therapy for dozens of physical conditions, from strains to sports injuries. This invaluable guide includes: Simple step-by-step instructions Dozens of dedicated stretch routines designed to alleviate specific conditions, such as back pain and TMJ Hundreds of easy-to-follow illustrations Useful for serious athletes and fitness professionals as well as novices
Paperback, 224 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Harvey Walden’s No Excuses! by Harvey Walden
The US Marine drill instructor who has inspired millions through the massively popular TV show, “Celebrity Fit Club”, reveals his star-studded formula for lifelong health and fitness. In ‘Harvey Walden’s No Excuses! Fitness Workout’, he becomes your personal drill instructor for a platoon of one – YOU! All he asks is that you give him half an hour a day, four days a week, to develop a new body, a new attitude – and a new you. With 30-minute workouts for each level of fitness that keep you in motion while taking you through warm-up, cardio, strength training, and cool-down, each stage will hone and tone your body, introducing new challenges as you get fitter. A bonus gym section can take you further still. And Harvey gives his very own perso
Hardback, 288 pp, $37.95. Buy
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LL Cool J’s Platinum Workout by LL Cool J, Jeff O’Connell and David Honig and others
LL didn’t always have a diesel body – he chiselled it the old-fashioned way, with hard work and discipline. Here he shares the secrets of his transformation in a uniquely creative, yet no-nonsense regimen – enlivened with humour and sheer force of personality – that will inspire readers to enjoy working out as never before, while building a body they never thought possible.This book offers four levels of fitness, from Bronze to Platinum, including: a 4-week beginner’s program that takes inches off the waist and boosts energy a 5-week program for intermediates that increases strength while maintaining muscular and cardiovascular endurance an advanced 9-week program that turns the body into a muscle-building and fat-burning machine – complete
Hardback, 256 pp, $39.95. Buy
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Strong and Stable: Develop a Strong, Lean and Toned body with an Exercise Ball by Westlake Lisa
Get fit, get results, get moving. An exceptional workout that can be done anywhere, anytime and delivers fabulous results. Strong and Stable builds on the basic fitness ball exercises of the internationally successful Strong to the Core to take your body to the next level. Over 80 new exercises will help you look good and feel fantastic, giving you a stronger, leaner and injury-free body. The exercises have been designed to suit all ages and all levels of fitness. Develop your core stability, balance; improve your joint mobility and flexibility. Get the most out of training on the ball, enjoy the exercises and celebrate the results.
Paperback, 208 pp, $25.95. Buy
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Men’s Health by Myatt Murphy
For most people, the hardest hurdle to overcome in following a fitness regimen is simply finding the time to do it. But, as this book shows, it is possible to burn fat, build muscle, and stay fit – no matter how much (or little) time one has! That’s the promise fitness expert Myatt Murphy makes in this fantastic new exercise guide – the first book that offers a wide range of workouts catered to any schedule. Workouts are organised by how many days a week individuals have to exercise and subdivided into 10-, 20-, 30-, 45-, and 60-minute exercise blocks. There are four variations on each of the regimens – one for building lean muscle, one for weight loss, one for muscle power, and one that gives the best of all three. All in all, there are 12
Paperback, 352 pp, $30.95. Buy
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The Workout: Core Secrets from Hollywood’s #1 Trainer by Gunnar Peterson
A Hollywood fitness trainer outlines an exercise system designed to promote overall health and a desirable body shape, sharing his own experiences with being overweight while describing how his recommended philosophies about motivation, information, and variety can enable beneficial results. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Paperback, 288 pp, $23.95. Buy
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Abs Diet, Get Fit, Stay Fit Plan – The Exercise Programme To Flatten Your Belly, Reshape Your Body And Give You Abs For Life by DAVID ZINCZENKO
The third book in the bestselling Abs Diet series, featuring hundreds of exercise options to help rev up your metabolism, burn fat, build muscle and sculpt a fit, lean, healthy body. The Abs Diet Get Fit, Stay Fit Plan introduces a new work-out system A: Abdominal exercises strengthen your core – B: Big muscle groups increase metabolism – S: Speed intervals, not slow cardiovascular exercise, burn fat faster – 3: 3 days a week is all you need to see results. Designed to strengthen your core, flatten your gut and get you in the best shape of your life, without the need to spend all your waking hours exercising, this plan is a must for anyone who wants a flexible, efficient exercise regime that works.
Paperback, 256 pp, $35.00. Buy
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WEIGHT TRAINING by Thomas R. Baechle
Over 30 illustrated exercises provide instruction on improving muscular endurance, building strength, increasing muscle mass, toning up and enhancing body composition. Illustrations highlight the muscles utilised
Paperback, 224 pp, $26.95. Buy
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Complete Idiot’s Guide To Weight Training Illustrated by Deidre Johnson-Cane, Jonathan Cane and Joe Glickman and others
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Weight Training, second edition, includes: 300+ all new, larger photos for each exercise depicting the beginning, midpoint, and ending positions of each exercise. A modified layout of all exercise chapters to ensure that each exercise is contained on a two-page spread. Additional exercises for all major muscle groups that incorporate bands, balls, and other non-traditional equipment. New content on working out at home. New information on supplements (many new products and warnings have surfaced since the last edition).
Paperback, 304 pp, $29.95. Buy
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Fitness Ball Deck by Olivia H. Miller
This deck of toning techniques uses one simple and versatile tool – the fitness ball – and provides 50 ways to help tone and strengthen core stabilisers and maintain balance. First used in physical therapy to build resistance and regain strength in particular parts of the body following injury, fitness balls have rolled into the mainstream as popular and effective tools for muscle conditioning and for enhancing any overall fitness program.You’ll have a ball!
Cards, 50 pp, $22.95. Buy
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Stuntwoman’s Workout, The by Danielle Burgio
To perform the dangerous, awe-inspiring stunts and daring feats for Hollywood’s top action movies, stuntwoman Danielle Burgio needs to stay in peak physical condition.Now she shares the exclusive fitness program that allows her to meet any challenge on the big screen and in real life. You’ll learn to: – Shed pounds with cardio exercises and muscle toning. – Strengthen your body with martial arts and gymnastics. – Increase focus, flexibility, and coordination. – Energise workouts with speed and endurance exercises. With more than 50 exercises that build strength, concentration, and wellbeing, The Stuntwoman’s Workout is your ultimate guide to staying fit – and embracing a life full of action.
Paperback, $27.95. Buy
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Sly Movies by Sylvester Stallone
Read what makes Sylvester Stallone fit. Part 1 is a retrospective on Sly’s life and career, from his early days when he used to curl cinder blocks in old junkyards to the grueling training workouts that prepped his body for different movies. Drawing on these experiences, Sly formulates a complete program for getting fit, with Part 2 outlining a plan that includes classic and advanced exercises, and, for those who dare, a hardcore session that will push you to the max. Part 3 offers a stripped-down nutritional regimen that allows you to eat your favorite foods. By seeing how Sly does it, you can find lessons to incorporate into your own life to make you stronger, healthier, happier, and a champion of your own dreams.