Product Description: Stretch your way to a younger, leaner, and healthier body! It’s one of the most efficient ways to acquire good muscle tone, flexibility, and stamina, and Superstretch shows time-pressed exercisers how to do it anywhere and achieve noticeable results in as little as an hour a week. Yoga and pilates expert Jacqueline Lysycia demonstrates exercises for every part of the body, making sure to offer an excellent selection for every age and fitness level.  She explains how to warm up, release muscular tension, prevent stiffness and injury in common trouble spots, improve balance and coordination, and use stretches to enhance performance in other sports.  Choose from seven different routines, all fully illustrated with step-by-step color photos.

Superstretch: Create a Longer, Leaner, More Flexible Body in Only 1 Hour a Week! (Paperback)

Product Description: All you need to get fit is your own two feet--and a copy of Mark Fenton's classic Walking book, now fully revised.

The Complete Guide to Walking, New and Revised: For Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness (Walking Magazine) (Paperback)

365 Ways to Get Fit (Paperback)

Ultimate Core Ball Workout: Strengthening and Sculpting Exercises with Over 200 Step-by-Step Photos (Paperback)

Product Description: Growing older does not mean accepting diminished fitness. Two of the nation's top physical therapists show how to assess your fitness levels and create a specific profile to achieve optimum physical health. THERE IS NO DOUBT that our bodies change with age, as the baby boomer generation is now learning firsthand. But many of the problems attributed to inevitable age-related changes are in fact not inevitable and are often lifestyle induced and reversible. In this new book, Moffat and Lewis show how to overcome the aches, stiffness, and unsteadiness in your muscles and joints. Using their simple, self-administered tests, you will assess your level of physical performance in these five critical domains: posture, balance, strength, flexibility, and endurance. The authors help you develop a personal profile, according to the results of these tests. Easy-to-follow strengthening and stretching exercises, based on the latest clinical research, are included along with a Thera-Band ® resistive exercise band for use in some exercises. More than a simple how-to book, Age-Defying Fitness encourages you to take responsibility for your physical well-being, and offers an easy everyday approach to achieving better health.

Age Defying Fitness: Making the Most of Your Body for the Rest of Your Life (Paperback)

Product Description: A career as a fitness professional can lead to an exciting and rewarding future with room for advancement. Certified Fitness Instructor/ Personal Trainer helps candidates get started on the path to fitness career success. This guide includes descriptions of the wide variety of jobs in the fitness industry, including the many sectors where instructors and trainers are employed. The book provides essential information on a range of training programs, and how to earn certification. In addition, there are helpful tools for financing education, conducting a successful job search, and uncovering the steps to proficiency and the path to success. Important tips on client and management relations, information on liability issues, and keeping current with the latest changes and trends in the fitness industry round out this excellent guide.

Certified Fitness Trainer Career Starter (Paperback)

Did you long ago learn to fear and dread stretching because of overbearing P.E. teachers who forced you to touch your toes? It doesn't have to be that way anymore. Stretching is a powerful tool that can bring you new ease of movement, an increase in your physical capabilities, and deep composure that requires you to do nothing more than breathe. You can always have access to it—and best of all, it's free!

Stretching for Dummies shows you that stretching is actually easy to do—and reveals how you can reap the amazing benefits of stretching anywhere, anytime. It explains in simple terms how you can stand taller, look thinner, keep stress from getting the best of you, keep your muscles from feeling achy, and nip injuries in the bud. You'll discover:

• The why’s, where’s, when’s, and how’s of letting loose and snapping back

• How to keep from hurting yourself

• The benefits of stretching with a partner

• How to target specific areas: such as head, shoulders, knees, and toes

• The art of breathing correctly

• How to use stretching to sooth lower back pain

• Stretches to start and end your day right

• Stretches you can do at your desk

• Stretches for various stages of life—including stretches for kids and seniors

Stretching For Dummies (For Dummies (Health & Fitness)) (Paperback)

Product Description: Based on the belief that individuals over 50 can do most of the same things as 20- and 30-year-olds, 50+ Stretching shows how to maintain and improve flexibility by incorporating additional stretching into one's life. Covering all the muscle groups of the body, the author offers specially designed programs catering to every level of fitness.

Among the book's exclusive features are the "supereasy" variations designed for the 60-and-older crowd or individuals with limited mobility. By incorporating helpful props such as a chair, sofa, or elastic strap, these stretches are a safe way to begin gaining flexibility and are the perfect stepping stone to the book's other stretches.