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Workouts For Dummies

Workouts For Dummies


By Tamilee Webb, Lori Seeger

ISBN: 978-0-7645-5124-6
Format: Paper
Pages: 384 Pages
Pub. Date: December 1998

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Price: $21.99
Description
Author Information
Table of Contents
Introduction.

PART I: Getting Started.

Chapter 1: Motivate Your Mind, Exercise Your Body.

Chapter 2: The "Where" and "Wear" of Working Out: Shoes, Clothes, and More.

Chapter 3: Warming Up, Cooling Down, and Stretching.

Chapter 4: Listening to Your Body: Injury Prevention.

PART II: My Body Type's Best Workout.

Chapter 5: The Mesomorph Body Type.

Chapter 6: Life as an Ectomorph.

Chapter 7: The Endomorph Body Type.

Chapter 8: Your Personalized Workout Program.

PART III: Upper-Body Workouts.

Chapter 9: Cardiovascular Exercise.

Chapter 10: Flex Your Pecs: Arm and Chest Exercises.

Chapter 11: Carry the Weight of the World: Back and Shoulder Exercises.

PART IV: Lower-Body Workouts.

Chapter 12: Crunch Time: Awesome Abdominal Exercises.

Chapter 13: Strong, Fit Legs: Leg Exercises.

Chapter 14: I Love My Thighs: Inner and Outer Thigh Exercises.

Chapter 15: Firm Those Buns: Bun Exercises.

PART V: Special Workouts at Home, on the Road, in the Office, or at the Gym.

Chapter 16: A Home Workout with an Exercise Band.

Chapter 17: Hotel and Travel Workouts.

Chapter 18: Working Out at Work.

Chapter 19: Working Out at the Gym.

Chapter 20: Special Workouts for Special Needs: Pregnancy, Seniors, and Kids.

PART VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 21: My Ten Favorite Exercises and Why You Should Do Them.

Chapter 22: Tamilee's Top Ten Workout Videos.

Chapter 23: My Ten Favorite Fitness Books.

PART VII: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Exercise Program Chart.

Appendix B: Finding Fitness on the Web.

Index.

Book Registration Information.

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