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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023
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Whether you want to explore remote beaches and mountain lochs, improve your confidence in open water, refine your swimming technique, or have a race or long-distance swim challenge coming up, 'How to Wild Swim' offers the perfect practical foundation to help you find your perfect adventure and achieve your goal.
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Kyle Books
Pub. Date
2022
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Suitable for all fitness levels, these 10-minute mini workouts are each designed for a different part of your day - morning, noon and evening. Lynne's programme features more than 100 illustrated step-by-step exercises, many of which are brand new to pilates. As well as increasing your strength and flexibility, there are dedicated exercises to boost your immune system and improve the efficiency of your breathing. You'll also discover how pilates can...
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2023
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As home working becomes the new normal we are all at risk of seizing up, losing muscle functionality, and developing aches and pains from increased sedentary living. Yet with a regular programme of varied stretch workouts, everyone can reach and maintain their maximum mobility. This book will help you stay flexible, avoid injury, and keep active.
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Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2022
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Fit exercise into your busy life with short but effective stretching programmes. Do the demands of modern life leave you feeling stiff and sore? Do you struggle to find time for exercise? Stress no more: these four 15-minute programmes for beginners offer the versatility and ease of use that busy lifestyles demand. Build these 15-minute stretching routines, that you can do at home with just a mat, into your week to get leaner, more flexible, and stronger...
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Lisa Lanceford's life was transformed through the power of fitness. After a failed personal relationship and suffering from anxiety and body issues, the daily habit of working out and eating better led to improvements in her mood, confidence and personal life. Today she feels strong, loves her body and is happier in her relationships. Her videos, photos, and advice on Instagram have inspired millions of women across the UK. Written with Lisa's characteristic...
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Publisher
Watkins
Pub. Date
2022
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Most of us sit still for the majority of the day at our desks, not to mention hours binge watching Netflix. No self-respecting cat gets up without stretching, but humans have forgotten this need for regular movement. Back ache, migraines, RSI and even digestion issues can be aggravated by sitting still for too long. 'Move More At Your Desk' shows you how to improve your sitting posture, strengthen, stretch and improve flexibility, to counter the issues...
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Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2022
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No one can say they're a better all-around athlete than Mat Fraser. Weightlifting, gymnastics, kettlebells, running, swimming, rowing, Strongman: he's relentlessly trained them all, so you don't have to. In this book, Fraser reveals the secrets of his success to help you transform your own body and mind. Structured into sections on strength, endurance, speed, coordination, mental and recovery, Mat shares workouts, illustrations, techniques, recipes...
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Publisher
Thorsons
Pub. Date
2021
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TV personality Mark Wright introduces readers to his fitness philosophy, a simple formula for a healthy lifestyle: live well, eat well and exercise well. Mark is a big fan of the home workout and firmly believes you can lose weight, keep fit and build strength without going to the gym. Healthy habits for life can begin with small changes - getting enough sleep, eating nutritious but tasty meals at home, developing a positive attitude to wellness and...
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Publisher
Headline Home
Pub. Date
2022
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Based on her own experiences, Gemma Atkinson wants to help other new mums ease their way back into exercise and nourish themselves with the right kinds of food. This is not about weight loss or dieting, or unachievable workout routines. Instead, it's a book that keeps things real, with a focus on safe post-natal exercises that have been divided into those you can do at home and those you can use to build your confidence when returning to the gym....
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Publisher
Thorsons
Pub. Date
2023
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Staying active during pregnancy has vast physical and mental health benefits, but it's also a subject that's fraught with fear, myths, and misinformation. We're told by doctors to exercise, but we're not given the tools with which to do so. Personal trainer, pre-and-postnatal exercise specialist and mother of two, Hollie Grant provides trimester-by-trimester plans on what you can safely do at each stage, guidance about the physical shifts you can...
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Publisher
Green Tree
Pub. Date
2022
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Motherhood is the most important job in the world, and it's also the most demanding. It calls upon your every resource - mental, physical, spiritual - and while it is frequently a source of unmatched joy, it is also often depleting like nothing else. Naomi Annand shows you how yoga can help you navigate its emotional highs and lows, how to tap into the creativity of motherhood and also how to nurture yourself so that you might nurture others. Using...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Ross Edgley has spent decades perfecting the principles and practice of extreme fitness to achieve the impossible. Following a career-threatening injury in 2018, Ross was forced to reassess his training and take the next steps in a lifelong journey of redefining what the human body is capable of. In 'Blueprint', Ross shares the cutting-edge training program that empowered him to rebuild his body from surgery and a doctor's gloomy prognosis in just...
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Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2023
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We all live busy lives, so let Joe Wicks, the nation's favourite body coach, show you how just 15 minutes a day can make all the difference. Featuring simple and nutritious recipes, awesome, mood-boosting home workouts, quick health hacks and small daily wins, this guide to a feel-good life shows how everyone one of us can make a positive change in just fifteen minutes.
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Thorsons
Pub. Date
2016.
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Includes 100 recipes for healthy meals, to be eaten in conjunction with work-out plans. From the author of the bestselling }The Body Bible{, it uses 7 deconstructed food plates from a post-work out plate to a rest day plate. Alice's Instagram following now tops a quarter of a million.
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Quadrille Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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Face yoga combines exercises and massage techniques to work different areas of the face and enhance your skin's overall firmness and luminosity. With exercises to reduce bags and dark circles, to lift the eyelids and open up the eyes, or to reduce a double chin or lines around the lips, each movement is illustrated with step-by-step illustrations and accompanying photos.
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Publisher
Quadrille Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
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'Yoga Happy' is an essential companion to help you through life, whether you're a complete yoga beginner or wanting to deepen your home practice. In this full-colour book you will find everything you need to build your inner strength and resilience, and help you find the calm and happiness we all need in order to navigate the modern world.
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Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2022
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Did you know that performing Pilates can strengthen your core, improve flexibility and posture, and help to reduce stress and anxiety at the same time? Backed by scientific research, learn how Pilates exercises benefit every system in the body. 'Science of Pilates' reveals the facts, with annotated artworks that show the mechanics, the angles, how your blood flow and respiration are affected, the key muscle and joint actions working below the surface...