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Yoga for Beginners is the essential guide to getting started with yoga. With a friendly voice and step-by-step instructions, this book offers everything you need to start enjoying yoga's calming and strengthening effects on your life. Complete beginner's guide to getting started with yoga Simple instructions for the 35 essential yoga poses Full-color yoga illustrations 5 restorative yoga meditations Nutrition tips to complement your yoga practice Guide to building your own yoga sequences

Take a deep breath. Yoga for Beginners will do the rest.

We have entered into a new fitness boom characterized by interactive and customizable technology, from active video games such as Wii Fit to fitness apps and 'wearables'. This is the first book to examine these developments through a critical scholarly lens. It argues that human-technology relationships in fitness are now qualitatively different, requiring the consumption and production of information, a shift to 'prosumption' and interactivity. It examines the origins of these trends and implications for wider society, with the new tech rewarding some individuals and groups over others. A...

Physical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are a key concern for governments around the world. This book defines and explores the key policy and practice issues related to physical activity. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on social, economic, behavioural, communication and policy sciences, and covering contexts from the global to the local, it introduces the dominant ideas which inform thinking about physical activity and its study. It examines the use of different forms of evidence in physical activity policy; the role of organisations which advocate...

You're not satisfied with your current condition and want to change. Does thirty days to a new you sound too good to be true? You could eat nothing but meat or drink only juice for thirty days and lose weight. You could exercise three hours per day for the next thirty days. How long do you think you'll keep that up? In thirty days, you can create habits that will make a better you, and in ninety days, you can see a very real difference. The key is making changes by creating habits that are sustainable and enjoyable. Little things add up. Spinning on a stationary bike rather than sitting on...

Do you want hard arms for blocking and striking? How about an iron body to absorb blows from an attacker? In Fundamental Iron Skills, Dale Dugas shows you how to develop these ancient skills in a safe, step-by-step manner. This is the first book to cover all aspects of iron skills training in one volume, including solo training and the use of auxiliary training equipment and herbal liniments and soaks.

In eight chapters containing nearly a hundred photographs, Dugas explains the different ways you can set up your training area with support stands and...