"Exercise doesn't have to be "no pain, no gain." The key is staying active by making themost of the activities you already do. You don't need an expensive gym membership, fancy exercise equipment, or a rigid exercise schedule. The book teaches you simple ways to build activitiy and exercise into your daily routine, with the long-term goal of creating a regular exercise regimen you'll love and stick with. This revised and expanded edition includes...

This is the first pelvic floor health book aimed at ALL women, including trans women, outlining the importance of understanding your pelvic floor and how it impacts on overall health, fitness and wellbeing for life - not just around pregnancy and childbirth. This book outlines symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction, and shows you how to fix them. What is pelvic organ prolapse - which 50% of women will experience - and can it be prevented? Urinary incontinence...

"Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human body is not meant to endure chronic pain. Miranda Esmonde-White has spent decades helping professional athletes, ballet dancers, and Olympians overcome potentially career-ending injuries...

Letting your mind wander as you take a long walk, a slow jog, or a brisk run can give you a powerful, uplifting feeling. Some call it a runners high, others attribute it to endorphins. In this interactive workbook, psychotherapist William Pullen teaches you how to channel that exhilarating energy and use it to make positive change in your life. This radical new approach to obtaining the benefits of mindfulness originates in the body itself. Using...

"PBS fitness personality and creator of the fitness phenomenon The Esmonde Technique, Miranda Esmonde-White offers an eye-opening guide to anti-aging that provides essential tools to help anyone turn back the clock and look and feel younger. Miranda Esmonde-White trains everyone from prima ballerinas to professional hockey players to MS patients: what do they all have in common? All of these people are hoping to heal their bodies, prevent further...

"Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral candidate Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: chronic disease in the African American community. African Americans are heavier and sicker than any other group in the U.S., with nearly half of all black adults suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease. After Adams woke up with severe vision loss one day in 2016, he learned that he was one of the...

This training guide aims to prescribe an exercise programme as part of a general functioning, wellness and/or rehabilitation programme for frail elders and adults with special needs. It also offers advice on how to assess individual needs and develop good leadership skills in exercise classes.

"Now fully updated and revised throughout, Pete Egoscue's breakthrough system for eliminating chronic pain without drugs, surgery, or expensive physical therapy. Starting today, you don't have to live in pain. That is Pete Egoscue's revolutionary message. Developed through his work as a physiologist and sports injury consultant, Pain Free offers a revolutionary regimen of quick stretches and strength-building exercises that will cure chronic pain,...

Our abdominal muscles are rarely broken; rather, their weakness is a reflection of how little we use our entire body. Whether you have diastasis recti, a hernia, are postnatal, or simply have a very weak midsection-this is the definitive whole-body guide to restoring your core! Abdominal muscles have many important jobs; twisting the spine safely, accommodating pregnancy, protecting your abdominal organs, and even breathing are just some of the jobs...

Move more freely with powerful yoga poses carefully designed to help strengthen your back and to reduce chronic pain.