Aging Fitness

This is your guide toward loving your body and feeling empowered in midlife. If you are a woman over 40 and tired of being unhappy with your body when you step on the scale or look in the mirror, then Release is the one book you must listen to before your next diet. This is not another weight loss book, another diet trend or magical secret you have not tried yet. Instead, Release is a rebellion against hating our bodies and trying to change who we are. After all, your body has got your back!

Chair yoga eliminates the barriers often associated with traditional exercise routines. With no need for complicated equipment or large spaces, listeners can easily integrate these exercises into their daily lives, whether at home, in the office, or even while traveling.

While the market is full of books on dieting and weight loss, Change Your Mind, Change Your Body helps you navigate your weight loss efforts to create a new healthy lifestyle. This audiobook identifies the basic patterns and belief systems that hold you back from living a more energized and happier life. It gives you insights to manage your relationship with food in a more productive way.

It's time to turn back the clock! In 20 Years Younger, Bob Greene offers listeners a practical, science-based plan for looking and feeling their best as they age. The cutting-edge program details easy and effective steps we can all take to rebuild the foundation of youth and enjoy better health, improved energy, and a positive outlook on life. The four cornerstones of the program are: an exercise regimen for fighting muscle and bone loss, a longevity-focused diet, sleep rejuvenation, and wrinkle-fighting skin care.

In Fast Asleep, Dr. Michael Mosley brings together the latest, groundbreaking science to explain exactly why it is so important that we regularly get enough sleep. Prone to insomnia, he has taken part in numerous sleep experiments and tested every sleep remedy. Combining personal insight and in-depth research, he explains why so many of us struggle with sleep, what works and what doesn’t, and shares his own myth-busting program to help you achieve a good night’s rest.

Elevate your health and mobility with simple, effective chair exercises in just 21 days, transforming your senior years into a time of vitality, strength, and balance — all from your chair.

Rediscover vitality, strength, & inner peace in your golden years without even leaving your chair. If you’re tired of feeling stiff & achy & want a gentle way to address your body pains, chair yoga could be the solution. Many seniors struggle with mobility & balance & feel intimidated by most forms of exercise. Chair yoga offers a simple exercise perfect for seniors, bringing benefits like improved mobility, pain relief, better posture, enhanced circulation, & better digestion.

Whether it's taking a stroll through the park or traveling to exotic destinations, physical limitations can make it difficult to explore the world and engage in the activities that once brought you joy. But just because your body is changing doesn't mean you have to give up on your passions—with the right mindset and exercises within this guide, you can continue to stay active and embrace life's adventures at any age.

Horrified by the thought of breaking off his life-long love-affair with running, Richard Askwith began to think seriously about a question with profound implications for every enthusiastic runner: how can you keep running, happily and well, for the rest of your life—ideally, well into your nineties and beyond? Askwith's quest for the secrets of running longevity takes him on a long, mystifying journey: to laboratories and running tracks, cities and remote mountain villages, on several continents.

Liz Koch seeks to dissolve the objectification of “body” in order to reconceptualize human beings as biologically intelligent, self-organizing, and self-healing. Specifically addressing educators and therapists, she delves into the conceptual framework of core by decolonizing the popular mechanistic thinking of psoas as muscle, inviting the listener on a journey toward reengaging with life’s creative processes. The book illuminates the limitations of the predominant paradigm of body and actively explores psoas as a vital, intelligent messenger that links us to an expansive network of profound possibilities.

Renowned Osteopath David Vaux unveils decades of scientific research on strength and the musculoskeletal system. He explains why getting stronger is one of the simplest, cheapest and most life-changing things you can do - and unveils a simple ten-step strength plan that will empower you to embark on your journey towards a stronger and healthier life. Stronger is the definitive guide to unlocking a life full of vitality and health, explaining the what, why and how strength is key to longevity right up to your last day on this planet.

Never mind the high-profile cases of athletes Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong. Steroids and other pharmaceuticals are being sold and consumed in life-threatening quantities online and through the backrooms of gyms and fitness centres, and the people buying them range from teen girls trying to look good on Instagram to middle-aged men who can't say goodbye to their youthful physiques. This is a vivid, eye-opening and compassionate journey alongside a young doctor as he discovers an underworld of misinformation and misdirected ambition, drug abuse and lives cut short.

Medical doctor and researcher Dr. Kris Verburgh is quickly emerging as one of the world's leading research authorities on the science of aging. The Longevity Code is his authoritative guide on why and how we age and on the four most crucial areas we have control over in order to slow down - and even reverse - the aging process. We learn why some animal species hardly age at all while others age and die very quickly and about the mechanisms at work that slowly but definitely cause our bodies to age, making us susceptible to heart attack, stroke, cancer, pneumonia, and dementia.

One-third of our lives - that's 3,000 hours a year - is spent trying to sleep. The time we spend in bed shapes our moods, motivation, alertness, decision-making skills, reaction time, creativity...in short, our ability to perform, whether at work, at home, or at play. But most of us have disturbed, restless nights, relying on over-stimulation from caffeine and sugar to drag us through the day. The old eight-hour rule just doesn't work, and it's time for a new approach. Endorsed by leading professionals in sports and business, Sleep shares a new program to be your personal best.

Did you feel your age suddenly creep up on you once you hit the big 5-0...and now you’re wondering if you can do anything to keep health issues at bay? One minute, you’re going about your day like you always do, and the next...the floor seems a little farther away than it used to be, and that pen you dropped is a bit harder to pick up. You’re feeling random aches and pains all over, and you’re tired all the time, but you can’t sleep.

There’s something terribly broken in our industrial food, medical, and pharmaceutical systems. What’s going wrong? Can we really avoid the leading causes of death just by changing our diet? Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn, creators of the revolutionary What the Health and the award-winning Cowspiracy documentaries, take listeners on a science-based tour of the hazards posed by consuming animal products - and what happens when we stop.

From Yale University's dermatological and anti-aging, expert Nicholas Perricone, M.D., comes the all-natural program that has already helped tbousands -- including top Hollywood stars. This antioxidant plan revitalizes your skin from the outside and inside, reducing and effectively erasing wrinkles and blemishes, no matter your skin color or type, no matter your age.

Sometime in your 40s, you may start feeling like your body just isn’t the same. You can no longer eat what you want, you aren’t losing weight the way you used to, and you have developed a spare tire around your waist that you can’t shift. You aren’t feeling old quite yet, but you’re not feeling young either. There could be other annoying changes like finding it difficult to read fine print, gray hair appearing everywhere, brain fog, hair loss, a leaky bladder, and your first hot flashes.

The first and only guide to shinrin-yoku for the outdoor adventurer! With techniques tailored for hiking, mountain biking, paddling, climbing, trail-running, and cross-country skiing, this is the definitive guide to applying the healthy and rejuvenating practice of forest bathing to your favorite activities.

The New York Times best-selling author of Clean offers a groundbreaking program to eliminate minor and major health problems - from extra weight, chronic pain, and allergies to heart disease, inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and depression. All of today's most diagnosed ailments can be traced back to an injured and irritated gut. The gut is an intricate and powerful system naturally designed to protect and heal the body every moment of every day.