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A leading fitness expert offers a ten-week plan for a total-body makeover, using a sensible diet plan and a different exercise routine for each week that is designed to improve cardiovascular health, reduce weight, and sculpt a slimmer body. Amazon.com Review
This is a 10-week beginner’s program and training log for women. It’s designed to improve muscle tone, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility and body composition, and to allow you to keep track of every repetition of every exercise. Each week on the program features new exercises and focuses on a different aspect of nutrition–fat, protein, water, vitamins. The program is well-organized, clearly outlined, and easy to follow. Best of all, unlike the authors of other eponymous fitness books, Kathy Smith doesn’t get in your face on every page; she seems to have presumed you’ve picked up the book because you want to get in shape first and because she’s Kathy Smith second. Good choice, good book.
Kathy Smith’s Fitness Makeover: A 10-Week Guide to Exercise and Nutrition That Will Change Your Life
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- Features 191 full color pages
- Includes over 100 exercises and 250 photographs for maximum use of your exercise ball
- Features 15-30 minute work out routines at end of book
- Use an exercise ball and the Pilates approach to strengthen, tone and condition your abdominals
- Includes basic, intermediate and advanced level moves
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Innovative abdominal exercises to help tone the abdomen, improve posture, and build a strong back using the Swiss exercise ball.
- Offers a 10-minute and 20-minute workout for all levels of fitness.
- Shows how the mobility of the ball targets underutilized muscles.
- Shows how traditional sit-ups and “ab” machines limit how much abdominal muscles can be trained and also aggravate lower back pain and neck tension.
The exercise ball has long been recommended by doctors, physical therapists, and Olympic coaches for people suffering from back pain. Now Colleen Craig, author of the bestselling book Pilates on the Ball, reveals why the exercise ball is unmatched as a tool for building superb abdominal strength. She presents a selection of over 80 innovative exercises, including some of the key powerhouse-builders from the Pilates Method, all of which she has adapted specifically to the ball.
Craig shows how traditional sit-ups and “ab” machines actually limit the degree to which abdominal muscles can be trained and can even aggravate lower back pain and neck tension. In contrast, the very mobility of the ball targets underutilized muscles, recruiting both deep and superficial abdominal muscle fibers to enhance results.
Abs on the Ball includes exercises for all ability levels that show how to properly use the breath and how to activate the correct muscles during a workout–from the core exercises of the Waterfall, Oblique Curls, and Full Abdominal Curls to the more advanced Side Twist Plank, the Teaser, and Backward Crunch. The author also offers a 10- and 20-minute workout designed not only to build the abdominal core, but also to strengthen and train deep muscles in the back and hip in order to soothe lower back pain and increase overall body strength, balance, and coordination.
Abs on the Ball: A Pilates Approach to Building Superb Abdominals
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