Product Description: Written by a leading practitioner of both disciplines, Pilates & Yoga combines the best of both in one unified exercise approach. The resulting safe and gentle workout produces strength, suppleness, and weight loss, while promoting emotional balance and a sense of wellbeing. Using inexpensive resistance bands instead of Pilates machines, this unique system is ideally suited for home use.

Personal Trainer: Pilates & Yoga: The At-Home Fitness Class to Improve Core Strength, Balance and Flexibility (Paperback)

Product Description: This is the book that people tell their friends about, that trainers suggest for virtually every sport and activity, and that medical professionals recommend to people just starting to get back in shape. Stretching first appeared in 1980 as a new generation of Americans became committed to running, cycling, aerobic training, and workouts in the gym — all of which are commonplace now. It features stretching routines specific to a variety of people, including sports enthusiasts, travelers, children, gardeners, and people in wheelchairs.

Stretching: 30th Anniversary Edition [Deluxe Edition] (Paperback)

Product Description: Flextastics is the total flexibility and stretching program for Dance, Cheer, Drill, and Color Guard squads with Mary Gambordella

Flextastics: Dance, Cheer, Drill, Color Guard Flexibility and Stretching Program (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Product Description: A guide to strengthening and repairing the tendons to reverse the effects of aging

• Shows how strengthening the tendons can lead to more energy, healthier organs, and prevention of arthritis

• Explains how to practice the postures alone or with a partner

• Includes the Mung Beans hitting practice, which repairs damaged tendons and joints; relieves constipation, stomach cramps, and headaches; and aids in detoxification

Healthy tendons are the foundation of true strength in the body. Strong and supple tendons and open joints allow more space to store raw energy, which can then be transformed into higher creative and spiritual energy. The eight postures of Tendon Nei Kung are specifically designed to open the joints and fortify and grow all the tendons in the body, strengthening them as a unit. Like the practice of Iron Shirt Chi Kung, Tendon Nei Kung cultivates the ability to move the earth force up from the ground, through the feet, and into the body, in this case raising it to nourish the tendons.

Tendon Nei Kung: Building Strength, Power, and Flexibility in the Joints (Paperback)

Product Description: Athletes have different needs than the typical yogi. They come to the practice with more tightness from hours spent training, little time for lengthy sessions, and at the height of the season they often abandon yoga classes altogether for demanding sport-specific training. In this accessible guide, yoga teacher Sage Rountree makes it easy for athletes to reap the benefits of the practice year-round. Designed to complement a rigorous training schedule, the book includes quick, five-minute warm-ups to prepare for daily workouts; strength sessions for the off-season and base periods; flexibility sessions as training grows more demanding, including 20-minute flexibility routines to follow workouts; and focus sessions incorporating breath exercises and meditation to improve restoration and sharpen mental toughness for competition.

The Athlete's Pocket Guide to Yoga: 50 Routines for Flexibility, Balance, and Focus (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: This book gives you all the information you need to undertake a safe, health-improving exercise regimen. These ancient Chinese exercises are fun and low impact and help to alleviate the pains of arthritis, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, and many other "senior" diseases. The book presents an overview of the practice of t'ai chi-from the principles of the movements to the history of the art itself. It discusses various positions and helps you understand what you can hope to accomplish. Plus, methods outlined in this guide can be performed standing or seated with no previous experience necessary, and taking into consideration limited range of movement.

T'Ai Chi for Seniors: How to Gain Flexibility, Strength, and Inner Peace (Paperback)

Product Description: No time to exercise? No problem! With fold-out exercise charts and an exercise DVD, the 15-Minute Fitness Series gives readers everything they need to squeeze regular exercise sessions into even the most hectic day. Stretching is one of the most important-and most neglected-components of every workout. With the 15 Minute Stretching Workout you can learn to stretch like a pro!

15 Minute Stretching Workout + DVD (Paperback)

Product Description: This book offers a scientific approach to understanding the practice of hatha yoga. Through four-color, three-dimensional illustrations of major muscles, tendons, and ligaments, Ray Long describes the practice and benefits of hatha yoga. Specific anatomical and physiological descriptions highlight the agonist, antagonist, and synergist muscles that come into play with each pose. Volume I of the series describes the key muscles of hatha yoga and how they are utilized. From beginners to experts, this book will become a constant companion.

The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys, Volume I (Paperback)

Product Description: Do You Feel You Cannot Exercise Because Of Your Ultra-Busy Schedule? Do You Feel You Are Losing Out On Your Health? Is Daily Stress Taking It's Toll On You? Fret Not! Help Is Around The Corner... At Last! A Complete Fitness Guide That Provides You With All The Secrets To Maintain A Body That Is The Personification Of Fitness! You Can Now Instantly Get Tips That Make You An Energy Powerhouse...!

Complete Body Fitness (Paperback)

Product Description: Groundbreaking research has made the shocking discovery that static stretching, a traditional mainstay of athletes’ warm-ups, has a measurable negative impact on performance. Holding a stretch for 30 seconds or longer doesn't prepare a muscle for exercise, it weakens the muscle. Already, many top athletes and trainers have abandoned static stretching in favor of dynamic stretching. Now Dynamic Stretching teaches athletes and exercise enthusiasts everything they need to know. The book explains the physiology behind this breakthrough in sports performance. Then it presents a complete catalog of dynamic stretches with detailed instructions and step-by-step photos of each sequence.

Dynamic Stretching: The Revolutionary New Warm-up Method to Improve Power, Performance and Range of Motion (Paperback)