Product Description: Research in the last ten years has made it clear that a woman's body should be exercised differently from a man's, and that her training programme should be adjusted to suit her body type and transformations as she moves through the various life stages. "Anatomy & Strength Training for Women" is unique guide, reference and graphic education tool suitable for any woman interested in understanding her own body and formulating a personal exercise programme.Over 90 exercises, involving gym weights, free weights and stretching, are featured in detail, grouped by chest, back and shoulders, legs and hips, arms and abdominals. Each exercise incorporates a full-body illustration plus instructions on proper execution and technique. Start and finish positions are shown, and supplementary information is included by way of hints and tips. A method of assessing your own fitness is also provided, which you can use to help you choose the correct type of programme for your life stage and shape. Sample programmes illustrate how you can choose a programme based on the needs you have established in the assessment.

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd (January 25, 2008)
• ISBN-10: 1845379527
• ISBN-13: 978-1845379520
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
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Anatomy and Strength Training for Women (Hardcover)

Product Description: Muscle & Fitness HERS magazine has provided a program of rapid-fire core workouts for those seeking to "get moving" on a weight-training fitness program or for those who wish to expand, freshen-up, and enhance their workout regimen. There are 101 fully photo-illustrated workouts presented almost one per every page spread. This concept allows the enthusiast the opportunity to glance at the photo during a workout to check their faithful following of the routine. Whether one is a novice or an experienced weight trainer there is a chapter that focuses on a workout plan just for your progress level. And there is a guide to designing your own personalized workout system. Your fitness and well-being are considered with section presenting a cardio primer and there's a feature on basic fitness nutrition, as well. 101 Workouts For Women provides a complete one-stop get-fit package for fitness enthusiasts.

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Triumph Books (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600780237
• ISBN-13: 978-1600780233
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
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101 Workouts for Women: Everything You Need to Get a Lean, Strong and Fit Physique (Paperback)

Product Description: Practical, visual, and clear, the best-selling WEIGHT TRAINING FOR LIFE, Ninth Edition is ideal for anyone interested in learning about weight training. Preparing readers to plan their own weight training programs for a lifetime of fitness, this book builds a solid foundation of current knowledge and practice in weight training for men and women of all ages and skill level. The book contains hundreds of full-color photos demonstrating exercises and proper techniques. It also contains forms for writing goals, planning a personal weight-training program, and recording circumference, strength, and muscle endurance measurements. Seeing that weight training done properly can be a fun and beneficial activity, readers learn how to design and maintain a safe, personalized, effective, and enjoyable weight-training program.

• Spiral-bound: 178 pages
• Publisher: Brooks Cole; 9 edition (February 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0495559091
• ISBN-13: 978-0495559092
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Weight Training for Life (Spiral-bound)

Product Description: Develop a lean and strong physique in just 30 minutes a day! Building Strength & Stamina will teach you how by using the same principles used successfully in conditioning programs of 10 NFL teams and the U.S. Navy. The unique approach combines both strength and endurance training to build muscle and cardiovascular fitness--fast.

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• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers; 2 Sub edition (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0736045155
• ISBN-13: 978-0736045155
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Building Strength & Stamina (Paperback)

Product Description: Inside the pages of this beautifully-presented book are the narratives of twenty women of color who are social work educators in predominantly White systems and institutions. Women of Color as Social Work Educators brings to life the voices of women of color and illuminates their unique experiences as contributors to the betterment of social work education. Their stories reveal them as scholars who are change agents and enlighten and inspire all educators to work toward collective unity and justice. Each woman's story is told in her own voice and describes the personal and professional challenges that lead her on the path toward social work education. This book is ideal for faculty, students, and practitioners in the fields of social work education, women studies programs, ethnic studies programs, and research programs.

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: CSWE Press (September 14, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872931250
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Women of Color as Social Work Educators: Strengths and Survival (Paperback)

Product Description: If you're already fit, now is the time to get ULTRAFIT! Cindy Whitmarsh, fitness expert and president of Ultrafit, Inc., has developed high-intensity workouts that keep your muscles (and your determination) challenged. This book is for people who eschew gimmicks in favor of elite exercise programs that push their bodies to the limit. Perfect for athletes, fitness trainers, and workout enthusiasts, Ultrafit will take your workout to the next level...and beyond.

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press; Pap/DVD edition (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592331750
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UltraFit: Challenging Workouts -- Amazing Results (Paperback)

Product Description: Imagine an exercise that works every major and minor muscle group, burns 600 calories an hour, builds balance and flexibility, requires no investment beyond $25 to $35, and makes you feel exuberant, delightful, sassy, and sexy. And is so much more like play than work that you want to keep doing it.

That's right, what goes around comes around—the Hula-Hoop, which burst into fad-dom fifty years ago, is hot all over again, but this time for enormously beneficial reasons. Christabel Zamor, credited with reviving the Hula-Hoop with her HoopGirl Workout, is leading what Time magazine calls "the inventive new wave of fitness...that is catching on in health clubs across America." Hooping brings the best of HoopGirl into a full-color, fully illustrated book plus a 40-minute instructional DVD. Here's how to get started—where to find and how to use the larger, heavier "sticky" hoops; stretches and warm-ups; and what to wear. And then more than 50 step-by-step exercises that focus on the core (abs, back, butt), upper body, lower body, and overall well-being. The exercises are as fun as they sound—Limbo, Booty Blitz, Float Up, Wildwest—and each group comes with a recommended playlist of music, plus "challenges" for going further.

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Pap/DVD edition (June 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761152415
• ISBN-13: 978-0761152415
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Hooping: A Revolutionary Fitness Program (Book & DVD) (Paperback)

Product Description: Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationships between physical activity, health and disease, and explores the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and cancer.

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (May 18, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415421985
• ISBN-13: 978-0415421980
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches
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Physical Activity and Health 2E: The Evidence Explained (Paperback)

Product Description: Every day scientists learn more about how the body adapts to the stress of running—and how various body systems contribute to running performance. Leading the charge is a fresh generation of brilliant young exercise physiologists including Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas, whose work has demolished many long-standing beliefs about running. Now Tucker and Dugas, whose blog, Science of Sport, has already created a devoted readership, join with esteemed fitness author Matt Fitzgerald to provide a captivating tour of the human body from the runner’s perspective. Focusing on how runners at all levels can improve their health and performance, The Runner’s Body offers in a friendly, accessible tone, the newest, most surprising, and most helpful scientific discoveries about every aspect of the sport—from how best to nourish the runner’s body to safe and legal ways to increase oxygen delivery to the muscles. Full of surprising facts, practical sidebars, and graphical elements, The Runner’s Body is a must-have resource for anyone who wants to become a better—and healthier—runner.

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (May 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605298611
• ISBN-13: 978-1605298610
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,578 in Books

Runner's World The Runner's Body: How the Latest Exercise Science Can Help You Run Stronger, Longer, and Faster (Runners World) (Paperback)

Product Description: ChiRunning is the solution we've all been looking for to maintain high performance and avoid injury.

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Fireside; Rev Upd edition (May 5, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416549447
• ISBN-13: 978-1416549444
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #981 in Books

ChiRunning: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running (Paperback)