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Abs training regimen to help achieve "Abs of Steel"

In Blood Pressure Down, Janet Bond Brill distills what she's learned over decades of helping her patients lower their blood pressure into a ten-step lifestyle plan that's manageable for anyone.

"Walking, running, cycling, swimming, aerobics, dance, resistance training, stretching, Pilates, yoga"--Cover. "More than 200 exercises and home workouts for a healthy, toned body"--Cover.

"Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, a leading scholar and proselytizer for physical well-being, elucidates the political and social implications of America's exercise cult(ure). Delving into the paradox of why so many Americans are physically unfit, despite the power of the exercise industry, Petrzela shows fitness to be both a product and a marker of education, social class, wealth, power, and more. Like much in postwar American life, fitness has been privatized,...

Natalie's team isn't ready for the big race on Field Day, so Ms. Starr teaches them about exercise and stretching to help them prepare.

The author hired a rather unconventional trainer to live with him for a month -- an accomplished Navy SEAL widely considered to be "the toughest man on the planet!" Here he describes those thirty-one days -- Publisher.

There are many ways to be active. Some ways are good for you and keep you healthy. Learn why it is important to be active and discover the fun in sweating for a healthy body.

Shows what to do and what not to do while performing a FIRM workout, based on studies of video users to determine the most common causes of poor exercise results.

Ease into a world of yoga and discover how to incorporate it into your daily routine. Includes warm-up stretches, breathing exercises, standing yoga poses (which can be done with the help a chair), sun salutations and exercises to encourage relaxation.

"Sports nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald has spent nearly twenty years studying the diets of top professional endurance athletes, who are among the fittest and healthiest people in the world. As a result, he has identified five core habits--most of which are contrary to what popular diets advise--that are essential to maximizing workout benefits. The Endurance Diet shares key strategies for optimal health and performance: eat everything, eat quality,...