Physical Fitness

These fun and easy exercises from the best-selling Keep Your Brain Alive fight the effects of mental aging and keep the mind fit to meet any challenge. And now they are available on audio. Co-author Manning Rubin is your personal trainer, providing lively narration to guide you through the exercises.

Bad posture puts unnecessary stress on your muscles and joints, causing pain and fatigue. It also creates imbalances in your body, where muscles become tight, inflexible, and weak, leading to potential injuries. Poor posture can alter the shape of your spine and create neck pain, back problems, heartburn, slowed digestion, poor balance, headaches, and breathing difficulties. In most cases, you can reverse poor posture, regain your health, and feel better. The information and exercises in this book help guide you to take care of yourself at home to create a healthier lifestyle.

Do you know Atkins diet is perfect for busy lifestyles? You can stick with Atkins at work, at home, on vacation, when you're eating out - wherever you are. Atkins is about eating delicious and healthy food - a variety of protein, fat, greens, and other vegetables, nuts, fruits, and whole grains. You don’t have to be a super chef to be able to follow this diet, and you don’t need to spend a fortune on expensive ingredients - many ingredients for this diet are already in your fridge, freezer, or kitchen cupboards.

Gluten-free lifestyle made easy, exciting, and fun! Discover how much variety you can enjoy on a gluten-free diet so that you never feel deprived again. Your guide to eating healthy and gluten-free while keeping your taste buds satisfied!

Beat sugar cravings, lose weight, and take control of your hunger and your life. This audiobook will set you free of sugar addiction with a 30-day sugar detox diet, including recipes and a meal plan.

It’s hard to know what’s meant to be healthy. If you read the news, you’ll see headlines praising a food one day, and then condemning it the next. You’ll see people selling you miracle cures for conditions that they’ve invented. You’ll realize that powerful industries control the information that’s given the most airtime, and that ultimately, you’re better off trying to find out the truth for yourself.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation according to Jacobson: Tense muscles are often the result of stress or anxiety. This audiobook, supported by soothing music, will teach you the technique of tightening and relaxing specific muscle groups in sequence. All exercises are explained in great detail. Beginner and advanced level.

Ever been tempted to try a marathon? Maybe you’ve just started running, perhaps you’re gaining confidence, or are you already well on your way to conquering the iconic distance? Whatever stage you’re at on your journey, join marathon man Vassos Alexander as he shows us why we shouldn’t...

How does focusing on your outbreath help create a new, healthier you? In Just Breathe Out, you learn how practicing the BreatheOutDynamic system (BODs) energizes and relaxes you - the beginning of creating your very own user-friendly body. Respiratory therapist Betsy Thomason, BA, RRT introduces listeners to a life-changing way of breathing that focuses on breathing out instead of breathing in. Learning and using the BreatheOutDynamic system improves everything from management of pain to athletic performance and overall health.

If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you! A recent CDC study found that less than one in four people get enough exercise. This is a very significant stat as physical exercise is hugely important in maintaining both physical and mental well-being. Without exercise, as we age we experience energy loss, stiffness, aches, and general weakness. These can be worsened if other medical issues come in to play, such as osteoporosis or arthritis. Combined, this can lead to loss of independence and a reduced quality of life.

Whether you're a professional athlete, dedicated to your personal goals for fitness, or a newcomer looking for fitness inspiration, you shouldn't overlook the mind body connection when it comes to exercise and mental health. Moving your body and having a diet of balanced nutrition not only changes your physical body, but can improve your mood and give you that much needed memory boost. Start focusing on yourself by nurturing your body and mind. When it comes to our physical and mental health, there is always room for improvement.

Want to lose weight, reduce inflammation, and cleanse your body? Want to sleep better? Want to have more energy and better mood control? These are just a handful of benefits that can be achieved when a person embarks on a sugar-detox journey. In this insightful and functional guide, Keller teaches listeners to consider the scientific ramifications of detoxing from sugar.

Blood sugar is an essential measure of your health. Poorly controlled blood sugar levels can lead to health complications. Over several years, it can damage blood vessels in the body and can ultimately cause a heart attack or stroke. Mayo Clinic staff recommend that eating healthy, exercising, and taking medication, if necessary, will help you keep your blood sugar levels within their target range.

Did you know that the vagus nerve in your body has a direct role in alleviating depression and stress? Explore the simple and general information on one of the most crucial nerves present inside your body. Take a deep breath and step into a world of factual knowledge gathered from the professional and personal experiences of Theodore O'Malsomighi.

Yoga Nidra allows you to experience a deeply relaxed daydream state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. This meditation will guide you through eight steps: intention setting, sound, body, breath and thought awareness, creative visualization, gratitude, and surrender. Your entire body, mind, and nervous system will gently get guided to a coherent state of deep relaxation, as your brain-wave activity will lower to alpha, delta, or theta brain frequencies, triggering the relaxation response and the functioning of your nervous and endocrine system.

Dr. Steven Laureys has conducted groundbreaking research into human consciousness for more than 20 years. For this best-selling book, he explores the effect of meditation on the brain. He uses hard science to explain the benefits of a practice that was once thought of as purely spiritual. The result is a highly accessible, scientifically questioning guide to meditation, designed to open the practice to a broader audience.

Explore your amazingly adaptable body. Tight hip flexors, rounded shoulders and a hunched back are all products of our daily lifestyles. We are adaptoids; our bodies are designed to adapt to our surroundings, and understanding this is the key to unlocking perfect performance. Adaptive Training takes you through the fundamentals of understanding adaptive training while providing a detailed physical fitness program to help you build an environment that facilitates a healthy and empowering new lifestyle fitness journey with new lifestyle fitness equipment. Unlock your true potential.

As we grow older, we naturally start losing muscle mass every year. Even if you don’t feel anything now, eventually you’ll wake up one day and be surprised that you’re struggling just to get up from your chair or are simply not as strong as you used to be. Over time, problems with your physical health can take a toll on your mental well-being and discourage you entirely from taking necessary steps toward a healthier and more youthful lifestyle.

An in-depth beginner's guide to fat loss and muscle-building, written to help you transform your mindset to be stronger and more dedicated. A healthy mindset is crucial to your fitness journey, and if you conquer this first, you can conquer anything else. I have included exercises and nutrition tips to guide you on your journey, as well as basic fundamentals to focus on like progressive overload. The intention of this book is to give you the most simple formula to getting in shape while building a healthy relationship with fitness.

Physical fitness for women of all ages who want to maintain their curvy figures while performing certain workouts.