Exercise Nutrition

Discover the secret to losing weight with the endomorph diet and finally get the results you’ve been looking for! Have you given up on losing weight after trying so many diets and exercise programs? Do you envy your friends who eat more than you do and yet hardly gain weight? If your answer to these questions is a resounding “yes”, you’re most likely an endomorph, meaning you gain weight easily and fail to lose it no matter how hard you try. Knowing this, it’s time to try a different strategy.

"Tuck your tailbone to protect your back." "Increase your breath." "Pull your abdominal muscles into your backbone." Following these movement cues is often believed to benefit your yoga practice and protect your body when entering and holding poses. However, what may seem like a helpful correction can actually lead to injury or physical harm. In Yoga Myths, Judith Hanson Lasater draws on almost fifty years of experience as a yoga instructor and physical therapist to address the most common mistakes in our yoga practice and provide clear instructions for correcting these errors.

From renowned yogi meditation teacher and author of Do Your Om Thing Rebecca Pacheco comes Still Life, offering an in-depth exploration of mindfulness and meditation misconceptions to arm the listener with inspirational and practical tools for cultivating a consistent mindfulness practice.

More than just physical poses on a mat, yoga can be a profound path of self-realization. Lit from Within encourages listeners to pursue yoga in its fullness, examining conscious and unconscious habits, connecting to our inner landscapes, and freeing us to relate to ourselves and our world with a sacred outlook.

Yoga Beyond Belief offers a unique vision of contemporary yoga. It integrates scientific and practical approaches providing a much-needed integrative perspective that complements existing yoga books for all levels and styles of yoga students. Serving up a collection of valuable insights gleaned from a lifetime of exploration, practice, study, and teaching by one of America’s pioneering and leading teachers of yoga, the book assists listeners in making sense of the many discordant claims and teaching techniques that currently exist in the yoga world.

The Yoga Sutras, a foundational text of yoga philosophy and practice, written by the guru Patanjali over two thousand years ago, are made up of 196 aphorisms that offer potent teachings on how to deal with loss and pain, and guidance on how to lead a healthy and fulfilling life. Kelly DiNardo and Amy Pearce-Hayden offer an entrée to this yoga training for the mind and spirit by introducing a sutra or group of sutras on a related theme.

La faim, l'appétit, le besoin, le désir et l'envie : que recouvrent ces mots ? Quelle réalité résonne avec une telle intensité dans nos corps, nos peurs et nos imaginaires ? Pourquoi le désir devient-il urgence ? Quel "manque" vivons-nous que la nourriture ne comble que de courts moments ? S'appuyant sur les dernières données physiologiques, neurologiques, métaboliques, le Dr. Marie Thirion analyse les mécanismes de la faim, du plaisir et de la satiété. Mais également la tonalité affective et émotionnelle de nos comportements dans un environnement nutritionnel donné.

Award-winning rapper, producer, and champion of healthy living — Khnum Ibomu, widely known as ‘Stic’ from the revolutionary but gangsta hip-hop duo, dead prez, has inspired millions with his music and lifestyle. But he wasn’t always the people’s champ of healthy living in hip-hop.

Featured in the best-selling book Born to Run, coach and performance guru Eric Orton has spent a lifetime learning and thinking about running and about the limitless possibilities of the human body and mind. In The Cool Impossible, Orton shares his wealth of knowledge in an inspiring step-by-step guide that will open up a new world of achievement for runners of all levels of ability and experience. The truth is: Athleticism is awareness. That simple phrase is at the core of The Cool Impossible.

An in-depth beginner's guide to fat loss and muscle-building, written to help you transform your mindset to be stronger and more dedicated. A healthy mindset is crucial to your fitness journey, and if you conquer this first, you can conquer anything else. I have included exercises and nutrition tips to guide you on your journey, as well as basic fundamentals to focus on like progressive overload. The intention of this book is to give you the most simple formula to getting in shape while building a healthy relationship with fitness.

Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offer 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself. Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions.

With 20 years of training in the field of bariatrics, trusted dietitian Sameera Khan shares strategies toward a balanced, stress-free weight-loss journey so that you can feel confident, powerful, and successful. Regain Be Gone is the only resource you will need to help you keep weight regain at bay after bariatric surgery. Weight regain is a manageable setback that can be reversed with a little effort and guidance. The longer you ignore it, the harder it is to regain lost ground.

Are you sick of spending hours a day at the gym and still not seeing the results you’d like? Maybe you just don't vibe with all the “meatheads”, the screaming, and the "pump"? Or perhaps you simply don't have enough time to sacrifice commuting to the gym, finding parking, fighting for equipment, and finally getting back home to your family or work. Did you know you can increase your strength without lifting a single weight?

One of the most popular Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi Chuan, is also one of the most effective stress relievers available. In China, it is also used extensively for the prevention and treatment of illnesses, and its beneficial effects for health and fitness are now widely recognized in the West. The Complete Book of Tai Chi Chuan is a comprehensive and fascinating guide to the practical application and potential benefits of Tai Chi Chuan.

Let Chalene Johnson turbocharge your habits, your diet, and your life with the updated, enhanced edition of PUSH. With a brand new chapter, PUSH distills Charlene's hard-earned wisdom and expertise into a totally unique 30-day system that will help you reset your priorities, develop new habits, and lose weight for good.

Though "chakra" meant little to the author in 1999, when she was in her 20s and diagnosed with thyroid cancer, it became a fundamental aspect of her healing. Fondin explored the fifth chakra, which included the thyroid gland. She came to understand previous illnesses and psychological circumstances in ways that explained - and helped heal - her illness. Fondin, a teacher, healer, and author known for plain explanations of Eastern practices here puts the power of chakras in the hands of listeners, whether they are facing a particular illness or interested in optimizing wellbeing.

Connaît-on bien notre corps et son cycle ? Quel incroyable potentiel recèle-t-il ? Quelles influences a-t-il sur notre forme et sur nos émotions ? Cet ouvrage aborde de façon concrète chaque étape du cycle, les énergies et les besoins qui le caractérisent. Alimentation, plantes, relaxation, mais aussi maux et affections, contraception, protections hygiéniques... Des explications claires et des solutions naturelles pour être au top tout au long de son cycle !

Whether you’re a new flexitarian or you’ve spent 8 years on the WFPBD (whole food plant-based diet), this book’s got you covered. There’s something for everyone. Even if you don’t consider yourself an athlete, you shouldn’t let your diet ruin your training efforts.

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.

Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his life. He was studying Bikram Yoga (or “hot yoga”) when a run-in with a master and competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive subculture—a group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice a day in 110- degree heat was just the beginning.