Health Exercise

Diabetes Weight Loss-Week by Week guides people with diabetes through the steps toward lasting weight loss, better health, and possibly improved blood glucose control. With a week-by-week approach and emphasis on incremental changes, listeners gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence required for permanent weight loss and lifestyle change. Listeners also learn from the triumphs of others by hearing their brief stories.

Fit at Mid-Life is a smart and practical approach to getting active later in life. Drawing from their personal experiences as well as the latest research, Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs deliver a wealth of concrete advice on everything from how to keep bones strong to what types of fitness activities give the biggest returns.

Actress and fitness icon Kate Hudson shares her insights to help every woman become healthy, strong, and beautiful from the inside out in this stunning lifestyle guide.

This breakthrough audiobook delivers to you over 10 hours of the very best recordings of Om chanting meditation music to take your meditation and yoga sessions to the next level. Listening to these healing and almost hypnotic sounds will take you on a journey of peacefulness and calm.

Whether you suffer from arthritis, chronic pain, or other health concerns, chair exercises can help you feel more energized, mobile, and confident. You'll discover a whole new world of fitness that's tailored to your needs. And with clear instructions to guide you at each step, you will start enjoying the benefits of improved flexibility, strength, and balance in no time. All you have to do is sit comfortably and stretch yourself to fitness with confidence!

What if you could easily and joyfully resolve the in-the-moment conflicts that often derail your eating and exercise goals? Much of what we’ve been taught about creating change in eating and exercise is simplistic, outdated, and for many, misguided. Sustainable-behavior-change researcher and lifestyle coach Michelle Segar has devoted decades to the study of how to achieve lasting changes in eating and exercise and other self-care behaviors. Segar explains the surprising reasons why our eating and exercise plans so often crash when they come up against real life.

Do you find that you can't get an erection, or the erection you get is barely hard enough to count as one? Do you ejaculate when you are just starting to have sex, much to the dismay of your partner? Imagine getting strong, consistent erections, and lasting longer in bed without having to resort to expensive pharmaceutical drugs or supplements that come with their own risks. All you have to do is take a few minutes every other day to perform some simple exercises that are easy to learn.

Well, you are not alone! Up to 35 percent of top athletes will suffer from mental health issues at some stage in their careers. Some of the greatest athletes of our time have admitted to facing mental health challenges at one point or another. The thing is, champions somehow find a way, so can you!

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD is a self-help guide to overcoming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with DBT techniques and practical exercises. It offers an explanation of what Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is, how to use it yourself or with your therapist, and much, much more! DBT teaches you how to identify and acknowledge your emotions so that you can then control them and their associated behaviors. It provides a change in habits and behavior to put an end to self-destructive decisions and choosing healthier actions.

El árbol del Yoga es un texto conciso, sencillo y de fácil lectura acerca de lo que el maestro Iyengar entiende por yoga. Iyengar insiste en que el yoga es una senda espiritual que implica algo mucho más hondo que el ejercicio físico. Esta experiencia espiritual se encuentra, no obstante, profundamente enraizada en la práctica. Así, todos los conceptos filosóficos contemplados en el libro hacen referencia directa a la práctica de posturas de yoga o a la respiración.

Drawing on years of experience as both an entrepreneur and triathlete, David Hauser shares a new perspective on achieving and sustaining optimal health. Instead of promoting limited, one-size-fits-all weight-loss plans and workout routines, David provides an open structure that encourages you to experiment with all the factors that contribute to wellness from nutrition and exercise to sleep, yoga, meditation, productivity, and more. Then, he gives you the tools to track and measure the results so you can chart a holistic course to health and vitality.

Much of the Western world was completely unaware of the profound impact of the breath on the body and mind until the 1970s. It was during this time that Swami Rama astonished physiologists by demonstrating perfect control over his heart rate and brain waves. It was something Western scientists didn’t believe humans could possibly achieve. In this audiobook, Swami Rama shares some of the basic breathing techniques practiced by Himalayan yogis so that you too can experience the profound effects of pranayama and breath control.

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.

The immediate message: See iron, lift iron. The ultimate message: Train hard, eat right, and be happy. Don't you just love simple? It's one of the main reasons I chose the sport. No pitcher, no quarterback, no foul ball, and no meddlesome referee. Just you and the iron and the rhythmic sounds of action, the grunts and groans and clanks and thuds.

In India, both yoga and cannabis are considered gifts from the Hindu god Shiva. They are seen as twin currents of wisdom and enlightenment, allies for healing and consciousness expansion. As ethnobotanist and yogi Chris Kilham explains, when wisely and thoughtfully combined, cannabis and yoga offer profound benefits for body, mind, and spirit. Kilham examines the history and lore of both cannabis and yoga, with a special focus on the role of cannabis in Indian and Himalayan yoga traditions where it has been used for thousands of years.

Do you want to reduce your stress levels, boost your memory, mood, and focus, and be more creative? Then it’s time to get moving! In this groundbreaking international bestseller, The Mind-Body Method, acclaimed psychiatrist and mental health guru Dr. Anders Hansen reveals a simple yet effective method for transforming your life: exercise. Dr. Hansen explains the evolutionary reason that exercise can reduce stress and anxiety, boost memory and focus, raise IQ, and even slow down the aging process.

A lot of couples suffer in silence as they watch the fire of their sexual drive die slowly. Many couples are unaware of the little things that can hinder them from having and enjoying a fulfilling sex life. Things as little as your diet and eating habits can severely lower your libido. As someone very passionate about helping couples enjoy their marriage to the fullest and experience all the benefits of a healthy sex life, I have done a lot of research on diet and its effects on the sex drive.

The #1 New York Times best seller Body for Life helped hundreds of thousands of people the world over to build stronger bodies and enjoy a higher quality of life. Now Dr. Pamela Peeke, best-selling author of Fight Fat After Forty, adapts the unique insights of the Body for Life program to the specific hormonal, metabolic, and physiological requirements of women so they can achieve the same rapid, life-transforming results.

When treating a client who has suffered from interpersonal trauma - whether chronic childhood abuse or domestic violence, for example - talk therapy isn't always the most effective course. For these individuals, the trauma and its effects are so entrenched, so complex, that reducing their experience to a set of symptoms or suggesting a change in cognitive frame or behavioral pattern ignores a very basic but critical player: the body.

A team of firefighters fought to save Heidi’s life after a horrific accident that killed her best friend, burned over 53 percent of Heidi’s body, and claimed both her legs. The following year followed countless surgeries, surviving, pain management, fighting, and loss. Until she finally faces the driver who changed her life, Heidi realizes she has one last hurdle: forgiveness.