Dimensions
275 x 290 x 15mm
What are your health and fitness goals?
This book will help you discover them and provide you with the tools for lifestyle change. Emphasizing that all movement counts - whether in your garden, on the beach or in a gym - it aims to empower you to make choices according to your goals, lifestyle and preferred type of activity.
Comprehensive but easy to understand, it presents essential information about body types and muscles, explains how to assess your lifestyle, behaviour and current fitness levels, and suggests how to set future goals.
It also details the what, why and how of torso stabilization, resistance training, flexibility training and cardiovascular training, providing insight into the benefits of each. Learn, too, how to assess your exercise preferences, as well as to set goals and implement an action plan. The bulk of the book comprises clearly illustrated step-by-step exercises targeting every part of the the body, with variations for beginners, intermediate and advanced, whil a special section helps to demystify the gym, explaining 'gym lingo' and illustrating how to use many of the major pieces of gym equipment.