| Smoothies for Runners: 32 Proven Smoothie Recipes to Take Your Running Performance to the Next Level, Decrease Your Recovery Time and Allow You to Run Injury-free (Eat to Run)
| Became a #1 Best-Selling Book in Sports, Running & Jogging, Exercise & Fitness Within 2 Weeks of PublishingWhat People Are Saying About This Best-Selling Book:"I have been a distance runner since high school and college and wish that these recipes had been available back in those days. As someone who is physically active, and diligent about maintaining good health, I know good advice when I read it and this book will be a great addition to my library." - W. Smith...More
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| Exercises Shaolin monks to practice bodybuilding (Secrets of mastery of Bruce Lee)
| This book is devoted to the development of physical force, outside the scope of the common man. These exercises can be used in bodybuilding, in the practice of martial arts and to increase the creative potential of personality. Each of us knows how important psychological adjustment in bodybuilding or martial arts. By focusing on the internal processes in the organism of the person acquires the ability to consciously control these processes. Arnold Schwarzenegger in one of the interviews frankly...More
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| The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
| IN THIS REMARKABLE BOOK ABOUT YOGA, William Broad, a lifelong practitioner, shows us that uncommon states are integral to a hidden world of risk and reward that lies beneath clouds of myth, superstition, and hype.Five years in the making, The Science of Yoga draws on more than a century of painstaking research to present the first impartial evaluation of a practice thousands of years old. It celebrates what’s real and shows what’s illusory, describes what’s uplifting and beneficial ...More
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| Never Let Go: A Philosophy of Lifting, Living and Learning
| Coach Dan John breaks down the most complicated concepts of strength training and high-performance athletics in his personal, no-nonsense, thought-provoking and motivating style. Workout routines, Olympic lifting guidance, Highland Games, track and field and Strongman events are all covered, in addition to weight training philosophy for the general public. You'll learn...How to get stronger, faster and leaner; Simple steps to great conditioning; What it takes to compete at high-level athletics; ...More
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| The Long Run (Kindle Single)
| After nearly twenty years of chasing oblivion, a fight in a bar reveals to a newly sober Mishka Shubaly that he is able to run long distances. Despite his best attempts to dodge enlightenment and personal growth, the irreverent young drunk and drug abuser learns to tame his self-destructive tendencies through ultrarunning. His outrageous sense of humor, however, rages unabated.
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| Lose Weight WITHOUT Dieting (Animal Kingdom Workouts)
| Diets don't work. Studies have shown that only 5 percent of people who go on a diet are able to keep the weight off for more than a year. Yet even with this 95 percent failure rate the weight loss industry continues to flood the market with new diets and useless gimmicks. What's the secret to true, long lasting weight loss? The key is to focus on your habits as they relate to food, not dieting. Unlike animals in nature, human beings acquire a whole host of unnatural habits related to food withou...More
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| Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Vintage)
| An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ev...More
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| The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
| Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read?Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness book. The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and...More
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| The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training For Sports
| The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Sports is the most comprehensive and up-to-date sport-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features 54 sport-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other sports book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and ...More
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| Hardcore Circuit Training for Men: The Bench Workout
| Think circuit training is for the feeble and faint-of-heart? Think again. The Bench Workout is a no-nonsense approach to high intensity fitness training. This workout is intense, diverse, creative, and, most importantly, proven. The exercises in this book will give you the motivation you need to get super fit, and the expertise required to dramatically improve your muscular strength and aerobic fitness. This workout can be done practically anywhere! As long as you have a bench, you’ll be able ...More
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| WALK! Walk your way to great health & long life (Boomer Health Book Series)
| 40% of the American people consider Walking to be their main method of exercise. Now with over 50 million baby boomers needing a fitness solution, "Exercise Walking" will get us “old timers” back into shape and help us maintain it better than any other form of exercise. Furthermore, exercise walking is perhaps the safest and least traumatic workout to aging joints, muscles, bones, hearts and bodies. Exercise walking is sustainable well into our 70s, 80s, 90s, and even into our 100s, longevit...More
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| The Simple Diet: A Doctor's Science-Based Plan
| Lose up to 50 pounds in 12 weeks with a doctor's proven plan for losing weight-quickly, easily, and permanently. No counting, no measuring, no hassle. If you have tried to lose weight and failed, or lost weight and failed to keep it off, you're not alone. Two out of three Americans are overweight, many with between thirty and one hundred pounds to lose. Now Dr. James W. Anderson, a professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky, shares his groundbreaking...More
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| Natural Exercise: Basic Bodyweight Training and Calisthenics for Strength and Weight-loss
| Bodyweight exercise has long been the primary component of the daily training of some of the fittest people on Earth, including military forces, martial artists, and gymnasts. There is no doubt about the benefits you can enjoy from bodyweight exercise and calisthenics, but the important thing is to approach them in the right way--otherwise, you could end up frustrated with exercises that seem too hard, too easy, or for whatever reason just don't seem to be working. "Natural Exercise" will teach ...More
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| The South Beach Diet Supercharged: Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life
| Five years ago, with the publication of The South Beach Diet, renowned Miami cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston set out to change the way America eats. Now he has an even more ambitious goal: to change the way America lives by helping Americans become fitter as well as thinner and healthier . . . for life. In the all-new The South Beach Diet Supercharged, Dr. Agatston shows you how to rev up your metabolism and lose weight faster while following the proven healthy eating princ...More
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| Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (Vintage)
| Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Gary Taubes revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? ...More
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| The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
| The Primal Blueprint is a simple, flexible plan to help you look and feel your best without struggling or suffering, by adapting the simple lifestyle practices of our hunter-gatherer ancestors into modern life. Sisson presents the compelling premise that you can reprogram your genes in the direction of weight loss, health, and longevity by following 10 immutable Primal Blueprint lifestyle laws validated by two million years of human evolution. Weight loss is largely about insulin; moderate your...More
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| Get Fit! (52 Brilliant Little Ideas)
| Most of us want to tone up and get fitter, and there’s plenty of advice out there to help us; a never-ending avalanche of books, magazines, websites and TV programmes. But who’s got the time to wade through this lot to sift the stuff that works from the rubbish? What we need are failsafe short cuts to increased fitness and an improved sense of well-being. Get fit! is the indispensable guide to improving general fitness and getting the most out of your workouts. Packed with down-to-earth, sim...More
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| The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan
| Primal Blueprint author Mark Sisson presents a fun, easy-to-follow, practical guidebook to help you "get Primal" in only 21 days. First, you'll learn eight Key Concepts that represent the most important day-to-day elements living Primally, then tackle five Action Items that will enable you to literally reprogram your genes toward a long, healthy, and energetic life. The Action Items are presented in a fun and life-transforming 21-Day Challenge, featuring daily diet, e...More
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| Starting Strength, 3rd edition
| Starting Strength has been called the best and most useful of fitness books. The second edition, Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, has sold over 80,000 copies in a competitive global market for fitness education. Along with Practical Programming for Strength Training 2nd Edition, they form a simple, logical, and practical approach to strength training. Now, after four more years of testing and adjustment with thousands of athletes in seminars all over the country, t...More
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| 101 Nights of Grrreat Sex: Secret Sealed Seductions for Fun-Loving Couples
| OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! Find out why, Read this!THIS BOOK GUARANTEES GRRREAT SEX. TWICE A WEEK EVERY WEEK FOR ONE FULL YEAR!YES, I KNOW that’s a lot to ask from one little book! But I promise you it works. Here’s how Once a week, you and your lover each pick a sealed page and tear it from the book. There’s no turning back now and no peeking at each other’s seduction! Just follow your secret instructions, and sometime durin...More
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