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15-Minute Workouts For Dummies offers step-by-step instructions on 26 toning and shaping exercises, combined in an active sequence that makes the most of your time. The exercises are divided into four express workouts that target your arms, abs, thighs, and buns. This program incorporates both standing and floor moves to help you firm and define hard-to-train areas and get the most from your workout time.

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Ease your aches and find relief through the power of touch

Searching for alternative treatments for pain? This friendly, do-it-yourself guide introduces you to the basics and benefits of acupressure and reflexology, showing you step by step how to nurture your emotional and physical well-being and that of someone else. You'll see how to target specific body parts to address your ailments and improve ... Read More

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Whether you want to participate in ballet or just watch it, the ballet experience can excite and inspire you. Ballet is among the most beautiful forms of expression ever devised: an exquisite mix of sight and sound, stunning, aesthetics, and awesome technique.

Ballet For Dummies is for anyone who wants to enjoy all that the dance forms offers – as an onlooker who wants to get a leg up on the forms you're likely to see or as an exercise enthusiast ... Read More

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Basic Ab Workout For Dummies offers step-by-step instructions on the 10 best exercises for training your entire midsection and makes working out at your own level easy. This workout incorporates a progressive abdominal program that continually challenges your abs to give you a sleeker, more toned midsection in no time.

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Basic Yoga Workout For Dummies offers step-by-step instructions for the 12 essential yoga postures and makes it easy to practice at your own level. The program incorporates standing, sitting, and laying down poses to increase muscle tone, enhance flexibility, and provide relaxation. This DVD also includes a bonus intermediate yoga workout for when you're ready to move past the basics.

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Want to turn your passion for fitness into a lucrative career? Each year, more than 5 million Americans use personal trainers to take their workouts to the next level—and this plain-English guide shows you how to get in on the action. Whether you want a part-time job at the gym or a full-time personal training business, you’ll find the practical, proven advice you need in this indispensable resource. ... Read More
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Beyond Basic Yoga For Dummies builds on the foundation you started in Basic Yoga Workout For Dummies and guides you through 12 more postures that pick up the pace. If you're not familiar with the basic yoga program, you can still enjoy this slightly more challenging practice because most poses include modifications that make it easy to work out at your own level. With consistent use, you can improve your posture and increase muscle tone.

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Core Strength For Dummies explores a number of workouts designed to work the different core muscles that stabilize the spine and pelvis and run the entire length of the torso. It also provides information on all of the tools and guidance needed to reach a desired fitness goal. ... Read More
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Anyone can get into a fitness rut. You could be exercising regularly but feeling unmotivated about your current routine. Or you could be enjoying your workouts but not getting the results you really want. You can even be on health club hiatus and looking for a way to get back into exercise-mode. Whatever your situation, cross-training is a practical solution. Cross-training is a well-rounded way of approaching exercise. It allows you to vary your ... Read More
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If you want to shape up or lose weight, get on the ball!

It’s inexpensive. It’s something you can do at home. It’s effective!

However, unless you have a personal trainer, using the exercise ball correctly to get maximum results can be tricky. That’s where Exercise Balls For Dummies comes in. You’ll discover how to turn an ordinary workout into a super workout that builds strength, increases flexibility, and sculpts a great-looking body. The book includes ... Read More

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The Exercise Training Diary For Dummies will get fitness enthusiasts to gear up even more. It includes a 52-week, fill-in calendar you can use to schedule workouts and record progress, plus helpful advice on a full range of health topics. ... Read More
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Fat Burning Workout For Dummies offers step-by-step instructions for the ten basic exercises that make up any aerobic routine and makes working out at your own level easy. The video incorporates both high- and low-impact choices in an effective aerobic workout to help you burn more fat, use more calories every day, and meet your fitness goals.

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Fat-to-Firm Fitness Ball Workout For Dummies offers step-by-step instructions on 15 exercises that work your entire body. Many of the exercises have modifications that make working out at your own level easy. This workout incorporates upper-, middle-, and lower-body exercises to help you strengthen muscles, burn more calories daily, improve your posture, and meet your fitness goals.

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Tired of feeling tired all the time? Do you find yourself thinking wistfully of the days when your belt-size was less than your age...your dress size less than your kid’s last birthday? Remember when the only spare tire you had to worry about was the one in your trunk? Do you find yourself gasping for breath at the top of the basement stairs? If any of this sounds familiar, then you’re ready for an over 40 fitness plan. And ... Read More
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What exactly is new in fitness? In the exercise world, there’s something new in equipment, research, classes, gadgets, videos, and Web sites just about every day. The last few years have also seen the invention and marketing of new schlock—like pills that claim to eliminate cellulite or burn extra carbohydrates and machines that purport to tone your thighs “without any effort on your part.” It’s all too easy to get confused by all the myths and mixed ... Read More
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Call it power walking, fitness walking, or just plain walking. Indoors or out, walking is one of the healthiest and most rewarding forms of exercise available to all sorts of people, young and old. In fact, walking burns about the same number of calories per mile as running (and it's a lot easier on your knees). Walking is one of the most adaptable workout activities around – you can walk for an hour straight to make your walking program effective ... Read More
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Mind-Body Fitness For Dummies is the complete guide to the world of holistic fitness -- from Yoga and Tai Chi to Pilates and Qigong. Get started the smart way with expert advice on the essentials, such as breathing, posture, and choosing a program that best fits you and your fitness goals. Filled with instructional photos and illustrations, this book also features expert advice on warming up and cooling down, as well as taking your workout program ... Read More
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Once the secret fitness weapon of professional dancers, athletes, and movie stars, Pilates is sweeping the country with a vengeance. And if even half of what its many fans claim is true, then it’s easy to see why. Combining elements of yoga, dance, gymnastics, and boxing, along with many original movements, Pilates exercises build muscle tone, improve flexibility and balance, lengthen the spine, increase body awareness, and repair past injuries. Most ... Read More
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This unintimidating program takes you through Pilates standing and floor workout techniques in easy-to-understand language. Not only will you burn calories by using this routine in your weight-loss program, but you may even change your mind about exercise.

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Pilates Workout For Dummies offers step-by-step instructions for 18 popular Pilates mat exercises and makes working out at your own level easy. This program incorporates floor techniques that are taught as part of every Pilates mat class to help you strengthen and lengthen your muscles, improve your posture, and tone and tighten your midsection.

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“Doug Swenson has created a book about Yoga that captures his delightful and unique teaching style.”
—Karen Allen, actress, Yoga Practitioner

“Doug Swenson masterfully presents one of the most physically challenging styles of Hatha Yoga in a way students of any level will find safe, fun, easeful, and empowering.”
—John Friend, founder of Anusara Yoga

In just a few years, Yoga has gone from an obscure spiritual discipline practiced by a handful of the ... Read More

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The training diary that gives you that extra push to hit your stride.

This new, spiral-bound journal is just the ticket to help runners track and monitor their training progres. It features a 52-week calendar that you can customize to your own schedule and needs, plus expert advice on many health-related issues. ... Read More
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Running For Dummies is for everyone with a desire to run. If you’re a reforming couch potato, it helps ease you into a healthier lifestyle. If you have Olympic aspirations, take a look at different ways to improve your training. This easy-to-understand guide is also for those who want to: ... Read More
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Shaping Up with Weights For Dummies offers step-by-step instructions on 12 key exercises and makes working out at your own level easy. This program incorporates both upper- and lower-body exercises to help you tone your muscles, burn more calories per day, and meet your fitness goals.

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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! ... Read More
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