"ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription is a unique book within the exercise science market. The book presents a series of guidelines for assessing fitness (testing) and prescribing exercise prescriptions). These guidelines are based on the latest primary research and change slightly - and changes are all evidence-based - with each new edition. The book is published with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and is written...

"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...

Falling Is Not an Option: A Way to Lifelong Balance is an instructional manual describing a trademarked form of balance-improving exercise called Postural Retraining and derived from T'ai Chi. The book begins with an introductory discussion of balance: its inherent beauty, its elusive source, its necessity, and its common loss late in life in modern sedentary society. The author describes the movement of bone and muscle when engaging the postural...

Get Fit While You Sit is aimed at anyone who wants to get or stay in shape. In keeping with the trend toward low-impact exercise, this total body workout can be done right from a chair, anywhere -- at home, work, or while sitting in traffic. This is a perfect program for always-busy Baby Boomers, frequent travelers, the young at heart (who may not be so young in body), and the increasing number of people with special conditions, for whom traditional...

Lisa Whelchel (The Facts of Life) is an author, mother, actress, motivational speaker, and singer who recently appeared on NBC's hit show Survivor. With the help of her trainer, Lisa leads these two workouts geared towards beginners with a friendly, encouraging vibe.

An updated edition of the eye-opening guide to anti-aging, with a new chapter on fascia, which will publish in time for Miranda Esmonde-White's PBS pledge drive in June 2018 focusing on the topic. "Every day, we have a very clear choice: We can grow older or we can grow younger." In recent years the field of aging research has exploded with new clinical findings. Many widely accepted ideas about aging-including those about the inevitability of our...

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A 30-day anti-aging program for rapid results using the fundamental movements and principles of the bestselling Aging Backwards, featuring an accelerated program for turning back the clock. The field of aging research has exploded with new clinical findings. Many misconceptions about aging-including the beliefs that disease, immobility, and pain are inevitable-have been debunked. Today, we know that the choices we make, from what we eat to how much...

This time saver DVD allows you to choose from over 12 beginning level routines that are 10 - 30 minutes, perfect for any busy lifestyle.