Central Skagit Library District

"Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human body is not meant to endure chronic pain. Miranda Esmonde-White has spent decades helping professional athletes, ballet dancers, and Olympians overcome potentially career-ending injuries...

Bob Harper, superstar trainer and co-host of NBC's reality show "The Biggest Loser," distills his knowledge of nutrition, weight-loss strategy, and human nature down to twenty simple, nonnegotiable principles and offers a month's worth of menu plans and more than 90 rule-abiding recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks to keep you cooking and eating skinny.

"Created with inspiration, imagination and a kids-eye-view, Silly to calm engages lively young minds and bodies and ingeniously segues from energetic activities to calming basic yoga movements. With this program kids can express, release and refocus excess vim and vigor--challenging muscles and thinking skills at the same time."--Container.

Includes warm-up, a 20-minute strength-training routine that targets soft spots, a 20-minute interval-based workout as alternative to the treadmill, and a cooldown.

"This title takes a look at the importance of keeping active and eating a balanced diet. It also offers helpful suggestions on how to make healthy lifestyle changes. Features include an ask the expert section, tips on being healthy, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Publisher's website.

Presents a reference guide of exercise for every part of a man's body, including 612 core exercises, more than one hundred workouts, a four-week diet plan, and a listing of fat-fighting snacks.

"Over 99% of people who try to lose weight don't succeed. They don't get slender and they don't stay slender long term. The average dieter spends a significant amount of money and makes four or five new attempts each year. Four or five new attempts each year with almost no hope of success. Only 1% of people will get down to their goal weight on traditional diets. Susan Peirce Thompson. Ph. D., suggests that there's something fishy going on here, something...

Teaching the power, beauty, and potential that exists in every body.

Provides trainers and athletes with functional training exercises for improving speed, strength, and power during sports performance.

Yoga presented in a clear and accessible manner specifically with the golfer's needs in mind.