Get Fit for Free! Home Workouts: Yoga & Pilates: 80 Step-By-Step Exercises, 140 Personalized Workouts

"Yoga and Pilates" offers step-by-step routines for all ages and abilities that you can do without the need to race out to a gym. Blending yoga and Pilates is the perfect solution to improve flexibility, strength, and endurance while at the same time creating a more balanced inner spirit and heightened self-esteem and coordination. What's more, because of the book's clever split-book format, each workout can be tailored to your personal level of fitness simply by flipping the pages of the full-color demonstrations at the top and choosing which of the suggested routines within the workout listed at the bottom, you want to do. Each exercise also offers advice on how to make your workout either easier or more challenging.
Inside you'll find:
36 different programs and 60 different exercises, adding up to hundreds of personalized exercise routines A list of fitness goals, from weight loss to increased confidence and coordination A self-assessment test to determine your level of flexibility, balance, and stress Step-by-step full-color photographic instructions for all positions and exercises Sample workout routines A guide to gear, from products around the home to optional extras A chart to measure progress For yoga, the focus will be on the general "hatha" style, which offers a full range of physical benefits and concentrates on getting the breathing right. For Pilates, the important "Pilates Principles" will be explained: breathing, centering, coordination, concentration, focus, and precision. The principles of both yoga and Pilates can be applied not only to each exercise but also extended to shape your life.  (Check Catalog)

The Amen Solution: The Brain Healthy Way to Lose Weight and Keep It Off

A breakthrough, easy-to-follow brain-based program to lose weight and keep it off--for the rest of your life--from the bestselling author of "Change Your Brain, Change Your Body," "Magnificent Mind at Any Age," and "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
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Have you tried diet after diet without success? Want to know the two major secrets why most diets don't work?
The #1 secret is that most weight problems occur between your ears, not in your stomach." If you want a better body the first place to always start is by having a better brain. "
Secret #2 is that there isn't just one brain pattern associated with being overweight; there are at least five patterns. Giving everyone the same diet plan will make some people better, and a lot of people worse. "Finding the right plan for your individual brain type is the key to lasting weight loss."
In "The Amen Solution" bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel Amen shares his one-of-a-kind brain-based program that helps you lose weight, improve your memory, and boost your mood at the same time. This is the same program offered at the world-renowned Amen Clinics that has already helped thousands of people lose the love handles and muffin tops. Based on the most up-to-date research, Dr. Amen shows you how to
- Determine your individual brain type so you can find the plan that will work for you
- Say goodbye to emotional overeating to shed pounds
- Curb your cravings and boost willpower
- Improve your brainpower, memory, and mood
- Make small lifestyle changes that have a huge impact on weight loss
- Prepare easy, delicious brain-healthy meals
Packed with insight, motivation, and everything you need to get started right away, "The Amen Solution "will help you lose unwanted weight and teach you the strategies to keep it off for a lifetime. (Check Catalog)

The Strength Training Anatomy Workout

Over one million readers have turned to "Strength Training Anatomy" for strength training's most effective exercises. Now put those exercises to work for you with "The Strength Training Anatomy Workout."
"The Strength Training Anatomy Workout "is your guide to creating the body and the results you want. Strengthen arms and legs; increase muscle mass; sculpt chest, back, and core; firm glutes; increase hip flexibility . . . it's all here, and all in the stunning detail that only Frederic Delavier can provide!
Over 150 full-color illustrations allow you to get inside more than 200 exercises and 50 workouts to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures. You'll also discover how variations, progressions, and sequencing can affect muscle recruitment, the underlying structures, and ultimately the results.
The "Strength Training Anatomy Workout" includes proven programming for strength, power, bodybuilding, and toning that can be used in a gym or at home. You'll find targeted conditioning routines for optimal performance in more than 30 sports, including basketball, football, soccer, track and field, and golf.
Former editor in chief of "PowerMag" in France, author and illustrator Frederic Delavier is a journalist for "Le Monde du" "Muscle" and a contributor to "Men's Health Germany "and several other strength publications. His previous publication, "Strength Training Anatomy," has sold more than one million copies. (Check Catalog)

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

On a cold day in 1667, a renegade physician named Jean Denis transfused calf's blood into one of Paris's most notorious madmen. In doing so, Denis angered not only the elite scientists who had hoped to perform the first animal-to-human transfusions themselves, but also a host of powerful conservatives who believed that the doctor was toying with forces of nature that he did not understand. Just days after the experiment, the madman was dead, and Denis was framed for murder.A riveting account of the first blood transfusion experiments in 17th-century Paris and London, Blood Work gives us a vivid glimpse of a particularly fraught period in history a time of fire and plague, empire building and international distrust, when monsters were believed to inhabit the seas and the boundary between science and superstition was still in flux. Amid this atmosphere of uncertainty, transfusionists like Denis became embroiled in the hottest cultural debates and fiercest political rivalries of their day. As historian Holly Tucker reveals, transfusion's detractors would stop at nothing not even murdering Denis's patient to outlaw a practice that might jeopardize human souls, pave the way for monstrous hybrid creatures, or even provoke divine retribution.Taking us from the highest ranks of society to the lowest, from dissection rooms in palaces to the filth-clogged streets of Paris, Blood Work sheds light on an era that wrestled with the same questions about morality and experimentation that haunt medical science to this day. (Check Catalog)