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Balance Training: Stability Workouts for Core Strength and a Sculpted Body
: :Thanks to the incredible popularity of the exercise ball, millions of Americans have discovered the benefits of stability training— simultaneously strengthening primary muscles, stabilizer muscles, and the body's core. But the ball was just the start. This book takes balance training to the next level by offering a full range of exercises, including those incorporating cool, new pieces of equipment such as the balance cushion, the BOSU, the Balance Board and the wobble board. By working various muscle groups in coordination with one another, amazing results can be produced in ...
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Six-Week Bikini Countdown: Tone your butt, abs, and thighs fast combining Pilates with select strength and cardio interval training workouts
: :With a minimal time commitment any woman can sculpt away her body trouble spotsThere isn't a woman on the planet who doesn't dream about looking great in a bikini-until they are faced with the huge amount of time and sweat equity involved in reaching swimsuit cover model shape. Feeling intimidated and overwhelmed, they give up before they start. However, readers can get a bikini body-not by working harder, but by working smarter. Exercise guru, Karon Karter, featured on The Natural Wellness Channel's 'Pilates for Real Bodies' program, takes the best ...
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The Core Strength Workout: Get Flat Abs and a Healthy Back
: :The perennially popular yoga, ballet and pilates all owe their success to what has become the latest buzzword in fitness: Core Strength. Core strength refers to the torso muscles - from the glutes and abs to the back and neck - those muscles that literally keep you standing tall, strong and erect. Athletes and dancers have always understood the importance of core strength, and as our population ages everyone is beginning to herald workouts that concentrate on these all-essential muscle groups. After years of relying on yoga, pilates, ballet and ...
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Complete Idiot's Guide to the Pilates Method
: :This book teaches the basics of the Pilates method of fitness, a whole body workout that strengthens the abs and back and straightens the posture. Practiced worldwide by dance companies, physical therapists, and health clubs, the method is especially good for pregnant women, for people who have special fitness needs because of chronic back pain, joint stress, or obesity, and for anyone wishing to prevent osteoporosis.
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Pilates Lite: Easy Excercises to Lose Weight and Tone Up
: :Always wanted to try Pilates but thought it was too hard? Think again! Karon Karter has developed a form of Pilates that even beginners can master to firm up and get fit. Based on her successful Dallas classes of the same name, Pilates Lite shows readers how to burn fat and tone their core muscles with simple Pilates moves. Illustrated in lavish full-colour throughout, this book is the perfect introduction to Pilates. Chapters include: The Five Principles of Pilates - Concentration, Control, Centering, Flow and Breathing; Ten 15-Minute beginner workout ...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing
: :With The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing, there's a new way to get the body sweating. This guide covers the ancient art and modern kickboxing, Kickboxing gear, and how to build leaner legs and a better butt. Learn power punches--cross, hook, upper cut, overhand, as well as the spinning back fist, stabs and slashes. Idiot-proof steps guide you through footwork, target practice, and stretches, allowing you to tailor beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts. Covers every level in the ring--lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight, super heavyweight.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Body Ball Fitness Illustrated (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
: :Get fit and have a ball doing it. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Body Ball Fitness Illustrated is just the thing to introduce readers of all fitness levels to the latest fitness craze. The stability ball keeps workouts fun and interesting while challenging the body. Karon Karter draws upon her experience as a Pilates instructor to introduce dozens of illustrated exercises that help tighten and tone the body while jazzing up balance and strength training using the stability ball. • Features three complete workouts of 10-12 exercises each, for varying ...
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The Core Strength Workout Deck: Get Flat Abs and a Healthy Back
: :Illustrated with full-color photos, this easy-to-use card deck offers exercises that strengthen the abs and back, giving readers more balance, power, and flexibility in everything they do. Build your core strength with this handy deck! And with 50 cards, you can create your own routines perfectly tailored to your needs, ability, and time.
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Pilates
: :Illustrated with full-color photos, this easy-to-use card deck offers exercises that strengthen the abs and back, giving readers more balance, power, and flexibility in everything they do. Build your core strength with this handy deck! And with 50 cards, you can create your own routines perfectly tailored to your needs, ability, and time.
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Pilates
: :Illustrated with full-color photos, this easy-to-use card deck offers exercises that strengthen the abs and back, giving readers more balance, power, and flexibility in everything they do. Build your core strength with this handy deck! And with 50 cards, you can create your own routines perfectly tailored to your needs, ability, and time.
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