Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription 7th Edition With Online Video
By:"Heyward, Vivian H.","Gibson, Ann"
Published on 2014-04-23 by Human Kinetics
Built around physical fitness components, this text shows how to assess each fitness component and then how to design exercise programs based on that assessment. It bridges the gap between research and practice for exercise science students and fitness professionals.
This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword fitness.
Principles and Labs for Fitness and Wellness
By:"Wener W.K. Hoeger","Sharon A. Hoeger"
Published on 2015-01-01 by Cengage Learning
PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS, 13th Edition challenges students to meet their personal fitness and wellness goals, and perhaps teach others to do the same. Fully updated by fitness experts Hoeger and Hoeger, this text emphasizes behavior modification through sensible approaches and provides a strong focus on the practical ways students can incorporate changes into in their daily lives. Chapters are written in a student-friendly tone with supporting features such as My Profile, Behavior Modification Planning, and “FAQs,” all designed to highlight important practices. PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS, 13th Edition also offers interactive learning tools such as exercise videos, online labs, and self-assessments that bring topics to life and help students maintain their new healthy lifestyles. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword fitness.
Theory and Practice of Yoga : 'Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson
By:"Knut A. Jacobsen"
Published on 2008-01-01 by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
This collection of original essays providesfascinating insights into yoga as a historical and pluralistic phenomenon flourishing in a variety of religious and philosophical contexts. They cover a wide variety of traditions and topics related to yoga: Classical yoga, Samkhya, Tantric yoga, Bhakti yoga, the Guru, Indic Islamic traditions of yoga, yoga and asceticism in contemporary India, and the reception of yoga in the West. The essays are written by eighteen professors in the field of the history of religions, most of them former graduate students of Gerald James Larson, Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington and Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, an internationally acclaimed scholar on the history of religions and the philosophies of India, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the Samkhya and Yoga traditions. The publication is in honour of him.
This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword yoga.
Jaina Yoga
By:"Robert Williams"
Published on 1991-01-01 by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
This book describes what the Jainas considered to be the way of life proper to a layman. It attempts to examine the contents of the principal Jaina Sravakacaras. As these texts are not well known and often not easily accessible, some information about
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword yoga.
Kokoro Yoga: Maximize Your Human Potential and Develop the Spirit of a Warrior--the SEALfit Way
By:"Mark Divine","Catherine Divine"
Published on 2016-04-12 by St. Martin's Griffin
Kokoro Yoga, by New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Mark Divine, is an integrated physical, mental, and spiritual training, designed initially for the nation's elite special-ops soldiers and now taught to anyone seeking to develop the heart and mind of a warrior. Kokoro, the Japanese concept of warrior spirit—or merging heart and mind into action—is the central focus of Divine's new approach to teaching yoga. Coach Divine's yoga sequences are focused to adapt to all physical and mental capabilities, combining breathing, meditation, and visualization into both traditional poses as well as cross-training/combat-conditioning exercises. His decades of experience with amateur and professional athletes, active and aspiring Navy SEALs, and wounded warriors uniquely qualifies him as an expert motivator and teacher. With Kokoro Yoga the practitioner will: * Get an unbeatable full-body workout through body-weight functional movements that can be done at home or on the on go * Increase flexibility while building long, lean muscle mass * Improve physical and mental balance, focus, and control at all levels—including a special segment designed for those recovering from PTSD * Find emotional, intuitional, and spiritual harmony to achieve peak performance Coach Divine’s methods have been tested by the toughest warriors in the world. Use this book as a guide to experience the profound power of yoga as a developmental system that will allow you to break through any barriers holding you back.
This Book was ranked 21 by Google Books for keyword yoga.
Yoga Mala
By:"Sri K. Pattabhi Jois","R. Sharath"
Published on 2010-07-06 by Macmillan
YOGA FOR EXERCISE. One of the great yoga figures of our time, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois brought Ashtanga yoga to the West more than thirty years ago. Based on flowing, energetic movement coordinated with the breath, Ashtanga and the many forms of vinyasa yoga that grow directly out of it have become the most widespread and influential styles practiced today. \
This Book was ranked 10 by Google Books for keyword yoga.
Fitness Motivation
By:"Walter J. Rejeski","Elizabeth A. Kenney"
Published on 1988 by Human Kinetics
Understanding why people are motivated to be fit is the key to preventing participant dropout. Don't wait until you are faced with an attrition problem: prevent problems now with this systematic approach. Fitness Motivationbrings together sport psychology research and in-depth case studies to provide authoritative advice on how to motivate exercise participants to want to keep fit. . . and tells how you can put this groundbreaking information to work immediately. In their pioneering research on exercise compliance in cardiac rehabilitation, the authors discovered powerful lessons that could be applied far more widely. Fitness Motivationis the book that makes these lessons available for the first time. Whether you work in a health club, YMCA, hospital, college or corporate wellness program, you will discover the 10 key components of any sound motivational program and how to put them to use in your program. Based on the techniques developed in such major programs as Lifefit, AT & T's Total Life Program, Champions for Life, and PEP, authors Rejeski and Kenney show how leaders in the field motivate for lifetime fitness. Become a better fitness instructor by understanding and applying the latest knowledge in exercise psychology. Learn techniques of effective goal-setting. . . when and how to give feedback. . . how to tailor individual programs. . . and hundreds of other practical ideas from the experts. Every chapter of this conversational, easy-to-read volume is filled with vital facts needed for turning a hit-or-miss approach to fitness motivation into an ongoing system.
This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword fitness.
