The Strength Training Bible for Seniors

Author: Karl Knopf
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1646047486
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
Stay strong. Stay active. Stay healthy. "It’s never too late to lift weights: Older bodies can still build muscle" (Washington Post). The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors is the only book you need to be fit and feel young in your fifties and beyond. Science shows us that an active lifestyle helps us flourish and is one of the keys to a long life. Strength training–whether in your core, arms, legs, or back–is an essential component of a fitness routine regardless of your age. The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors covers all your workout needs: stretching, core strength, weight and resistance training, and kettlebell workouts to help you build muscle, tone your body, be flexible, and be your best. The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors presents functional exercises carefully adapted and tested to provide comprehensive and customizable total-body workouts for people 50 years and older. Step-by-step photos and explanatory captions make it easy for anyone from the fitness novice to the lifetime athlete to train smart and stay fit for life. These progressive programs provide everything you need to: Get stronger Build muscle Avoid injury Improve posture Develop low-back health Foster core stability and flexibility Increase hand-eye coordination Boost mind-body awareness Enhance sports performance The exercises and workout programs in The Strength-Training Bible for Seniors will help you build and maintain strong muscles in the abs, obliques, back, arms, legs, shoulders, and butt. What are you waiting for?

The Functional Training Bible

Author: Guido Bruscia
Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Verlag
ISBN: 1782550453
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
Discover functional training like you’ve never seen or experienced! This training is easy, fast and fun and it will revolutionize your health and athletic performance. It will become a new way of life! Functional training is a scientific method for personal training, workouts at the gym, at home or outdoors. The book is divided into three parts: The first, theoretical part explains the ‘why’ at the foundation of functional training; the second, practical part contains bodyweight exercises and exercises with various tools (sandbags, medicine ball, kettlebells). The final section proposes several specific training programs for strength, hypertrophy and weight loss. Welcome to the revolution in functional training! Get your focus and follow it!

The Cycling Bible

Author: Chris Sidwells
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN: 1839811226
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
The Cycling Bible by renowned cycling author and journalist Chris Sidwells is a comprehensive guide to help you get the most out of cycling, whether you go road cycling, gravel riding, mountain biking or enjoy any other kind of two-wheeled fun. Based on the author's extensive experience and research, this book collates the knowledge you will need to specifically train for the technical, physical and mental aspects of cycling training. It includes riding positions, strength and conditioning, endurance training, the psychological side of training, tailoring nutrition to your goals and bringing it all together to create your own training plan. It also deals with choosing the right bike for you, making essential safety checks and carrying out maintenance. Extensively illustrated, packed full of action photos, The Cycling Bible will help and motivate you to improve and develop as a cyclist and find even more joy in this fantastic sport.

Fast Bowler's Bible

Author: Ian Pont
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847975364
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
This fascinating book reveals the secrets of fast bowling and explains how it is possible to simultaneously bowl fast, straight and accurately. The Fast Bowler's Bible is a very practical, easily accessible bowling manual that any seam or swing bowler playing at any level can understand. It contains explosive new information being used by the world's best cricketers."I wish that I had met Ian Pont, the bowling coach, ten years before I did... Ian is an expert in his field and has got some excellent ideas on how to engineer a bowling action." Ronnie Irani, Essex and England. Written by one of the world's best fast-bowling coaches.Well illustrated with sixty photographs and thirty-four diagrams and drawings.Explains what part of your body generates pace and why holding onto the ball longer is far more effective.Unravels the mysteries of advanced biomechanics as they apply to bowling.Reveals how to bowl crushingly effective bouncers and yorkers every time.Discusses what to do in practice and what to avoid.Analyses how to train and exercise in order to produce the best results.Illustrates all the correct grips for each delivery so that you get it right every time.Describes how to increase pace effortlessly, how to adopt the correct mental approach, how to deal with pressure, how to apply it to the opposition, and much more.This invaluable book tells you everything you need to know about how to bowl fast.Packed with tips and tricks, it is essential reading for bowlers of all ages as well as their coaches.Well illustrated with sixty black & white photographs and thirty-four diagrams and drawings.Ian Pont is an expert in his field and one of the world's best fast-bowling coaches.

The Old School Back Training Bible

Author: Dave Yarnell
Publisher: Dave Yarnell
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
A large volume complete with many pictures and illustrations on Old School training methods and techniques for building a stronger back

The Calorie, Carb and Fat Bible 2011

Author: Juliette Kellow
Publisher: Diet and Fitness Resources
ISBN: 9781904512097
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
This guide is designed for quick reference and ease of use. It contains full nutritional information, including individual serving sizes, for each food listed. It covers healthy diets, exercise, diet myths and advice for losing weight safely.

The Cycling Bible

Author: Robin Barton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408196077
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Whether you are a novice, a mountain-bike enthusiast, a competitive cyclist or one who rides for fitness or pleasure, this book provides all you need to know to get the best out of your bike. Beginning with the anatomy of the bicycle, it explains what to look for when buying a bike so that you get the right one for you, whether it be a folding bike, tandem, electric bike, track bike or BMX. There's plenty of information on the right kit - for women as well as men - and clear explanations to help you tackle maintenance and repair jobs with confidence. The basic principles of riding, negotiating cities and riding off-road are explained, and it also covers how to ride safely and comfortably. For all those who want to take their cycling further, there's information on competitive riding and training, and even a stunning international touring section packed full of recommended rides in breath-taking locations. Fun, inspiring, beautifully illustrated and easy to use, The Cycling Bible is the perfect companion for riders of every level, whatever they want from their bike.

Power Isotonics

Author: Karen Pang
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781453845257
Category : Isometric exercise
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Power isometrics is a modern take on Isometric exercise, which has been around for thousands of years, andis utilised in such disciplines as Yoga and the Martial arts.

Power Isotonics Exercise Bible

Author:
Publisher: Self Resistance
ISBN: 9781927558591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

Book Description
THE ULTIMATE POWER ISOTONICS BIBLE THE BEST SELF RESISTANCE WORKOUTS TO BUILD MUSCLE, BURN FAT AND SCULPT A LEAN BODY FOR LIFE! Do it anywhere, any time, it is the perfect exercise plan all without weights and machines. Build the body of your dreams today. The unique muscle-building exercises in this book will get you growing like crazy because they push your muscles with muscle-building-enhancing exercises and routines with-60 to 90 seconds of tension, which muscles need to increase strength and size. In this easy-to-read book, you will see illustrations that explain each program--and you will finally see why almost everyone is doing self resistance wrong and why their growth is so painfully slow--Marlon Birch knows the "secrets" on getting amazing muscle size and strength in record time. He is the ONLY self resistance trainer to take the original Charles Atlas type exercises, enhance them in Hy-brid fashion and became the first ever Professional Bodybuilder using only these exercises to accomplish that goal. Finally, build muscle without weights and smash the myths, this book will show you the truth, then you learn the proven techniques and methods that will get you MUSCULAR in record breaking time! You will build muscle, burn fat, and sculpt the body you want, any time, anywhere, whenever you want all without weights or equipment-let the world's respected fitness trainer and 3-time natural pro bodybuilder be your personal trainer today.

The Healing Power of the Bible

Author: Agnes Sanford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description