Fitness Health Nutrition

How to lose fat, gain muscle, and stay in shape without wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym even if you’ve never touched weights before. Regardless of your age or sex, you can build muscle and functional strength while optimizing your health without having to waste your time or money on the gym membership, expensive trainers, and magic supplements. Whether you are just getting started or have been training your entire life, Strength Training over 40 has you covered.

Making and maintaining lasting changes in nutrition and fitness is not easy for anyone. Yet the communication style of a health professional can make a huge difference. This audiobook presents the proven counseling approach known as motivational interviewing (MI) and shows exactly how to use it in day-to-day interactions with clients.

Everyone knows how important it is to maintain a healthy physique. Often, achieving the ideal body requires you to lose weight and build lean muscle. But how do you do that? To become physically fit, you need to have the knowledge necessary to get you on your way and the motivation required to keep you going. This book will teach you how your body works and what it needs to lose those extra pounds so that you could achieve and maintain a fit and toned physique.

Diet is an essential component of a client's clinical profile. Few therapists, however, have any nutritional training, and many don't know where to begin. In Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health, Leslie Korn provides clinicians with a practical guide to the complex relationship between what we eat and the way we think, feel, and interact with the world. Where there is mental illness there is frequently a history of digestive and nutritional problems. Digestive problems in turn exacerbate mental distress.

In Body By Science, bodybuilding powerhouse John Little teams up with fitness medicine expert Dr. Doug McGuff to present a scientifically proven formula for maximizing muscle development in just twelve minutes a week. Backed by rigorous research, the authors prescribe a weekly high-intensity program for increasing strength, revving metabolism, and building muscle for a total fitness experience.

Along with the many benefits of leisure-class living comes obesity and its attendant ailments. In The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler looks not forward but backward for a solution - to the primal habits of early cultures such as nomads and hunter-gatherers, the Greeks, and the Romans. Based on survival science, this book proposes not ordinary dietary changes but rather a radical yet surprisingly simple lifestyle overhaul.

Apologia’s health and nutrition curriculum covers the physical, nutritional, emotional, social, mental, and spiritual aspects of growing into a healthy adult. Students will study the human body systems, senses, genetics, and temperaments. They’ll also learn one of the most impactful things at work in their lives as young adults: how physical influences impact their thoughts and feelings.

It is imperative that your nutritional needs are met when you live an active lifestyle. Your body will naturally require more nutrients when you utilize fitness on a regular basis. Knowing the basic biological utilization is the first step in evaluating your diet to ensure that it is sufficient. It also helps you to see where you might need to make changes so that your body’s needs are met when you are engaging in a fitness activity. Be informed and also discover a collection of recipes for snacks and your three main meals will make it easier to fuel your body in this guide.

While many Westerners still think of yoga as an invigorating series of postures and breathing exercises, these physical practices are only part of a vast and ancient spiritual science. For more than three millennia, yoga sages systematically explored the essential questions of our human existence: What are the root causes of suffering, and how can we achieve freedom and happiness? What would it be like to function at the maximum potential of our minds, bodies, and spirits? What is an optimal human life?

Psychiatry has made great advances in the past 50 years but needs a new direction. Today's emphasis on psychiatric drugs will not stand the test of time. Recent advances in epigenetics and the molecular biology of the brain have provided a roadmap for the development of effective, natural, drug-free therapies that do not produce serious side effects. Psychiatric medications have served society well over the last 50 years, but the need for drug therapies will fade away as science advances.

Patanjali Yoga Sutras is an age-old treatise written on the four-fold path of yoga. It delves into the workings of our mind, body and spirit. Originally written in Sanskrit, this book is by Swami Vivekananda, detailing each sutra, simultaneously guiding us on ways to reach our goals. Starting from the very basics like concentration and meditation, to higher goals like attaining liberation and self-realization, these sutras are meant to teach us ways that help elevate lives and spirits.

The Art of Expressing the Human Body, a title coined by Bruce Lee himself to describe his approach to martial arts, documents the techniques he used so effectively to perfect his body for superior health and muscularity.

If your child with autism spectrum disorder struggles with common symptoms such as irritability, anxiety, stimming, or gastrointestinal upset, you are not alone—and you are not powerless to help. This groundbreaking book offers the first personalized approach to help improve these disruptive symptoms through your child’s diet, supplying you with the information and resources you need to holistically help them thrive.

You've been hearing it since you were a kid: "You are what you eat." And this wise saying is true! Good nutrition is the key to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight and lifelong good health - no matter how you slice it. Nutrition for Dummies, 6th Edition is a one-size-fits-all guide to nutrition that shows you how to manage your diet so you get the most bang for your buck. This book gives you the know-how to put together a shopping list, prepare healthy foods, and easily cut calories.

Is a vegan diet healthier? Should I try going low carb? Is it always a bad idea to skip a meal? Are superfoods all they're cracked up to be? Is fat still bad for you? Can I eat to improve my chances of conceiving? Recognizing that there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to nutrition, this ground-breaking audiobook has the answers to all your food-related questions, covering every conceivable topic - from gut bacteria to weight management, to heart health and immune support, to vegan diets and intermittent fasting, and everything in between.

In the classic best seller, Introduction to Tantra, Lama Yeshe offered a profound and wonderfully clear glimpse into the sophisticated practices of Tibetan Buddhist tantra. This present book, the last major teachings of this great lama, opens up the world of advanced practices for Highest Yoga Tantra initiates in much the same way his earlier work opened up the world of tantra in general. Lama's own realization of the transformative power of these practices comes through, inspiring his students to discover for themselves their own capacity for inexhaustible bliss.

Widely recognized as one of the most powerful healing methods that has ever been developed, bioenergy healing is relatively easy to learn. Csongor's unique writing - as if you were listening to him live at one of his seminars - makes this comprehensive book on energy healing a light yet very informative listen. If you are a fast learner, you may learn to heal in only one day. By the end of the book, you will become a healer for a lifetime.

For years, you’ve been sold a sugarcoated story: count calories, starve yourself, sweat it out, or pop a pill—and voilà, the pounds will melt away. But here you are, still battling the scale, still dreading the mirror, still wondering why every diet fails. Craig Beck, a man who once hauled around 252 pounds of regret, is here to shatter the myths and hand you the real secret to a slimmer, healthier you. Sugarcoated Lies isn’t just another diet book—it’s a wake-up call, a battle plan, and a promise: you can lose weight, feel amazing, and never go hungry again.

Society tells you that midlife is the time when you start to slow down and lose your physical potential, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. The truth is, you have the power to change. According to researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, it's never too late to start reaping the rewards of physical activity—regardless of your age. While it isn't possible to reverse aging entirely, taking the right approach to your health can have you looking and feeling younger than ever before.

Aside from her rock star looks, Catra Corbett is a standout in the running world on her accomplishments alone. And, unbelievably, she's also a former meth addict. After two years of addiction, Catra is busted while selling, and a night in jail is enough to set her straight. She gives up drugs and moves back home with her mother, abandoning her friends, her boyfriend, and the lifestyle that she came to depend on. Her only clean friend pushes her to train for a 10K with him, and surprisingly, she likes it and decides to run her first marathon after that.