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Whether preparing for competition or simply eating on the go, learn how to get maximum benefit from foods and meals.

Access the latest research and applications to build effective prevention and rehabilitation programs for your clients.

Get an intricate look at strength training from the inside out with this book covering over 125 exercises for arms, shoulders, chest, back, legs, buttocks and abdomen.

The months following breast cancer treatment can pose a host of emotional and physical challenges. Now, the groundbreaking dance and movement therapy program hailed by physicians nationwide and adopted by more than 700 hospitals around the World is presented in Thriving After Breast Cancer – an essential guide to healing both body and mind and to recovering pretreatment energy, strength, flexibility, and posture.

This 200-page, twelve chapter book helps personal trainers increase their sales by teaching them the 5 steps to selling PT: prospecting, how to establish rapport, qualifying, product presentation and how to ask for the sale.

This 206-page book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of selling health club memberships. Hundreds of clubs around the world use this book with all new employees having anything to do with club sales.

This book and DVD package presents a detailed overview of the key steps involved in developing a Pilates business. Save $15 when you buy the set.

Most weight loss books just give you another way to eat. This book reveals what goes on in the minds of real women who are struggling to lose weight and shows you what most overweight people won’t confess.

Learn an activity-based program to improve balance and mobility for both fit and frail older adults. Provides more than 130 balance and mobility exercises that consider flexibility, strength, and cardiorespiratory endurance.

Strengthen and firm the torso, flatten the belly and stretch out muscles for a long, lean line. Learn four expertly designed 15-minute abdominal workouts suitable for all levels of fitness.

Learn top tips on how to create success, and how to run a profitable personal training business.

Learn the practical skills you need to be a successful personal trainer in today’s industry.

Learn how to work with all types of clients with the sample programs you’ll get in this IDEA Resource Series.

The new BOSU® Complete Workout System is an all-in-one solution for learning how to use the BOSU Balance Trainer, progress exercises and create workouts that get results. It provides an endless variety of exercises, drills and workout options using the BOSU Balance Trainer, along with other equipment readily available in clubs. It’s the ticket to delivering fun, exciting and effective BOSU programming in any workout setting.

Written for the health and fitness professional, this book filled with exercises and real-world examples will motivate you to grow the successful fitness business of your dreams.

Learn great 15-minute routines to help your clients squeeze regular exercise into their daily lives. Includes four detailed gatefolds for easy, step-by-step instruction, a DVD showing each workout, and a fully-illustrated, fully-annotated book.

Get complete nutritional information on more than 1,000 foods to help choose the right foods for cholesterol control, weight loss, stronger immunity, digestive health, cancer prevention, better blood and stronger bones.

See inside every stretch—and maximize flexibility! Learn how to increase range of motion, supplement training, enhance recovery and maximize efficiency of movement.

Attain the essential core strength that will result in rock-hard abs without doing endless crunches! Rather than focus on endless repetitions of painful crunches, this program uses your entire body to condition your core.

See inside every yoga pose! With clear, expert instruction and full-color, detailed anatomical drawings, Yoga Anatomy depicts the most common poses to provide a deeper understanding of the structures and principles underlying each movement and of yoga itself.

Learn this safe, easy to follow, and amazingly effective 3-step program that systematically rebuilds all four layers of the abdominal wall and prepares new mothers for the almost nonstop physical demands of motherhood.

Pursue your business and personal goals while building a foundation for success with the information you’ll gain from this IDEA Resource Series. Find out how to build, lead and launch successful fitness programs.

These lessons will help you to increase your kinesthetic awareness and apply kinesthetic learning strategies—and the improved movement patterns that automatically result—to your golf swing.

The exercise ball has reached new heights of popularity in both gyms and homes, mainly because it's easy to use, effective and fun! In this book, ball expert Lizbeth Garcia shows you how to use the ball to boost metabolism, build muscle and lose weight.

Less than five percent of all people who begin diets stick to them, and today's busy lifestyles leave little room for regular exercise. On top of that, the diet industry offers quick-fix weight-loss aids that have no staying power. Reality Fitness offers a reasonable, workable alternative.

Learn how to help facilitate weight loss in your clients by understanding the physiological and psychological issues that affect their weight. In this IDEA Resource Series, you’ll find many practical solutions for helping clients change their eating habits, along with information on the role of diet and exercise and their effect on metabolism.

Put the “practical” into the latest scientific principles and theories related to resistance training with proper lifting technique for over 100 upper body, lower body and trunk exercises.

Help expectant mothers stay strong, comfortable, healthy and active throughout their pregnancy. Considered by health professionals as the gold standard of maternity exercise, Motherwell’s medically proven program is designed specifically to meet the needs of women before, during and after pregnancy.

Create prenatal and postpartum exercise programs for beginning, intermediate and advanced fitness levels. Fit to Deliver contains 175 professionally-tailored exercises for core-strength training, walk-run programs, stretching and relaxation, ball-balance workouts, aerobics, water exercise, Pilates and yoga.

Women have special concerns and goals for their exercise programs. Learn how to support women during exercise in this IDEA Resource Series.

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The optimum way to get the most out of your workouts is to tailor an energizing, performance-enhancing nutrition plan for your body's specific needs. Learn how you can enhance your workouts and maximize your results with proper nutrition, safe and effective sports supplements, and beneficial vitamins and minerals.

Work, social and family commitments often make it difficult to fit tasty and healthy food choices into one’s diet. In this book, Evelyn Tribole gives you great tips and strategies for solving the dieting dilemma using her proven expertise concerning all foods, savory and sweet.

Help integrate nutrition and healthy eating into your clients’ everyday diets. Learn more about nutrient timing, vitamins and minerals, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, nutrition coaching and using the FDA’s MyPyramid.

Maximize efforts in both training and performance by learning how to properly fuel the body. This comprehensive guide presents nutritional concepts tailored for application by athletes in any sport.

Today’s fitness leader not only needs training in leading a comprehensive exercise program, but also needs an understanding of the limitations and special needs of those with illness, disability, chronic disorders, or a sedentary lifestyle. This book will assist you in designing an exercise program as part of a general recreation, wellness, restorative or rehabilitation program.

Boost your client’s potential while increasing your knowledge. This IDEA Resource Series will give you the information you need to effectively reach and work with more people.

Young athletes have different nutritional and training needs than adult athletes. This comprehensive book covers common misconceptions on strength training for children as well as basic nutrition for fit kids.

When kids learn to love movement, fitness becomes a part of their lives. If teenagers can keep up an exercise habit, then they can excel in other areas of their lives. It’s all included in this IDEA Resource Series: program development, strength training, working with the community, handling a wild group of kids, nutrition, and working with overweight youth.

Create group fitness classes that draw a crowd with this collection of successful classes and practical ideas from experts in the field. Filled with over a dozen sample classes, this IDEA Resource Series is sure to inspire your creativity.

You know that weight management isn't easy for most people. You can help keep your clients on track by understanding the physiological and the psychological factors that affect their weight.

Incorporate this unique three-step stretch system to improve flexibility, mobility and strength. Combines the best stretching methods from yoga, Pilates, martial arts and sports training to create stretching sequences that challenge, strengthen and balance muscles.

Do you know what your client really wants to accomplish? Use these 10 steps to find out, then meet client goals by combining interval training, periodization, strength training and cardio for great results in a limited time.

Train for strength, definition and muscle size using 65 of the most effective exercises covering all the major muscle groups. This text combines both full-color anatomical illustrations and expert technical guidance to help you better understand how to properly target specific muscles.

Maximize strength, speed and power through the use of resistance bands and tubing. As a complete workout on their own or a supplement to free weights and machines, strength bands are a great tool for customizing workouts and isolating muscles. Includes 106 exercises addressing every major muscle group.