The first edition of this book came out in 2007. In this edition, more exercises are added, and more important spirit-mind-body connection distinctions are included. Specific references are included.

Now you can perform your daily workout from almost anywhere. Ultra Simple 9-Minute Workouts Pocket Guide contains fast, effective exercises in a convenient, portable book. Filled with 9-minute strength-training, cardio, and core-focused exercises, along with helpful photos, this exercise program provides daily variety so you will never get bored. This pocket guide contains all you need to get in shape and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

This book is for therapists involved in exercise therapy for the prevention and treatment of disease. It covers exercise assessment, current prescription guidelines, precautions, exercise design and clinical case studies. The book also includes exercises to increase strength, power, local muscle endurance, range of movement and aerobic capacity and will be relevant to all areas of therapy practice. In addition to the general guidelines, considerations for exercise groups and exercise at home as well as exercise in special patient populations are addressed. This allows therapists who are expert in one area to become familiar with exercise prescription in another. The book underpins therapeutic exercise in general and also addresses specific considerations for particular clinical situations within current guidelines and practical considerations. - Underpinning exercise physiology - Physical principles of exercise design - Guidelines for exercise training - Clinical exercise prescription - Limitations to exercise in common conditions - Example case studies

With the help of instructive photographs shot on location at Gold's facilities, this book on fitness features tips on getting started and staying motivated, warming up and stretching, choosing the right exercises for your specific goals, avoiding injuries, and eating the right food.

Louiza Patsis has been working out intermittently since she was nine years old. She first worked out in a gym at her high school St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, NY. She did not begin to work out regularly in a gym doing cardiovascular work and lifting weights until December 1993. She has not stopped for over 13 years. Ms. Patsis also has a Bachelor's of Arts in Chemistry and Masters of Science in Biology from New York University. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in information science at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science with a dissertation in the topic of telemedicine. She is the President of LP Enterprises. Ms. Patsis in the past has been certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine and the International Sports Sciences Association. Louiza Patsis is the author of The Boy in a Wheelchair, which she wrote at 10 years old. It tells the story of a boy who is physically challenged and bullied, and yet excels in school and plays sports. She is also the author of Life, Work and Play: Poems and Short Stories, a collection of works written in the span of 12 years. To order, call LP Enterprises at (212) 252 6947, or send an email to PocketGuidetoFitness@gmail.com.

Everything you need to know to make fitness easier! Fitness doesn't have to be hard. With easy fitness, you don't have to follow a regimented workout program or dedicate your entire life to exercise. Easy fitness simply means being active, creating and sticking to regular exercise times that work with your schedule, and sleeping and eating well so that your body will thrive—not just survive. Exercise doesn't need to be difficult or complicated to be effective. With The Everything Easy Fitness Book, you will learn what it means to be healthy and fit. This comprehensive guide will show you how to incorporate exercise into your daily life, provide tips for a healthy diet, and implement an easy fitness system that is not only good for your body, but fun.

TWO PROVEN TOOLS FOR SUCCESS IN ONE STEP-BY-STEP POCKET GUIDE Whether you've been using Six Sigma for years or are just starting to, you know it takes hard work to get it right. But WorkOut, developed by General Electric, can increase Six Sigma's success. Rath & Strong's WorkOut for Six Sigma Pocket Guide shows you how, with an action-ready game plan that you can apply to your initiative - right now. Learn how to: Set the stage for Six Sigma's success Find out if you're in trouble - and get back on track Make a good Six Sigma initiative even better See actual results--in less than three months "If you want to bring the power of WorkOut to Six Sigma, this pocket guide is an invaluable tool."--Ron Ashkenas, co-author of The GE Work-Out Six Sigma: A data-driven approach to meeting customer requirements, solving process problems, and achieving bottom-line results. WorkOut: The revolutionary problem-solving program that brings management and workers together to bust bureaucracy. Companies worldwide use Six Sigma to measure and improve performance. Others use WorkOut to get quick bottom-line results and empower their workforce. But few enjoy the enormous success General Electric achieved by combining these approaches. Rath & Strong shows you how to get that synergy, with a handy pocket guide full of charts, checklists, assessment tools, and cases that help you: Prepare for, reenergize, or enhance a Six Sigma initiative Use a fast, simple alternative to Six Sigma Make your culture more participative, data-driven, and customer-focused Engage your front-line workers in Six Sigma

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stop The Insanity! returns with a dynamic motivational guide that makes it easy for anyone, of any age or fitness level, to get off the couch and get lean, healthy, and strong in 28 days.

This is the exercise book for the person on the go. Not too dense with theory, Practical Fitness: a busy person's guide to getting and staying in shape, will help you design an exercise program for your needs without a tremendous investment in time. Learn how to perform the exercises (with pictures and illustrations), how to construct a program, how to keep track of progress, how to troubleshoot, and most importantly, learn the time-tested principals that make any program effective.Designed to allow you to dive right in at any part of the book, you can start using the principals right away, or invest just a bit of time into learning some of the whys and hows of exercise. There's also a brief section on food to help guide you through an effective approach to eating that will compliment your exercise program.The book is designed with all general fitness goals in mind, so those looking to lose weight, add some muscle, improve their overall fitness and health, raise their energy levels, and keep those results without rearranging their entire lives should find what they are looking for here. Serious bodybuilders and athletes will probably not be best served by this book, though many of the principals presented are universally applicable.The author, having worked with hundreds of clients, both women and men, of all ages, and with all different types of goals, pours his 20 plus years of experience as a trainer, and years of research and study, into a book that should be of tremendous value to most, especially if you've been frustrated in your efforts of the past.

Fitness and good health are the result of a change in lifestyle. The 393 commonsense tips in this book will lead to a properly conditioned body, a sound mind, and a contented spirit.