Highly reviewed physical health books

With Total Immersion, a guide to improving your swimming from a professional with over thirty years of aquatic experience, you will swim faster and enjoy every length. Whether you’re an experienced swimmer or struggling at it, Total Immersion will teach you that mindful smooth movement is more important that muscle or powerin order to be a great swimmer. Total Immersion has significantly changed the physical and psychological experience of swimming for thousands of people of all ages and skills, based on over thirty years of teaching, training and study.

Colleen Saidman Yee shares the amazing story of how she discovered herself in the transformative force of meditation, from a troubled young girl with a risky drug addiction to a globe-trotting fashion designer to First Lady of Yoga. The very first day that Saidman Yee attended a yoga lesson, she left with the feeling that something inside her had changed. She felt so alive that yoga became the core of her life, allowing her to discover her own self and voice. Saidman Yee has been through a lot, dealing with a seizure disorder, struggling with relationships ending up in divorces, and mourning a beloved ones, but on the way discovered that yoga provided him the keys to the biggest struggles in life. Approachable, sensitive, funny and candid, Saidman Yee shares her private experiences with compassion and delivers pragmatic advices about how to adapt yoga to annoyances and stressful situations. Specific sequences of yoga accompany each page, covering everything from hormonal mood changes to detoxification, insomnia, stress, and increased trust and strength. Yoga for Life provides strategies to bring consciousness to any aspect of your physical and spiritual life, helping you to feel fully alive and experience inner peace.

Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha is globally known as one of today’s most comprehensive yoga manuals. This expanded and revised edition includes simple examples of the chakra knowledge step-by-step. To use by physicians and yoga practitioners, a new therapy checklist has been included, integrating updated data from yoga studies. This version effectively takes to the level of a college textbook the practice of yoga.

Would you ever wanted anything so desperately that it was the greatest challenge for your own mind? Elizabeth Clor also tried to qualify for the coveted Boston Marathon. Boston Bound is the tale about how Elizabeth learned how the perpetrator is her own head, and describes the measures she took to change her attitude about her running and her existence fully. The narrative provides practical resources and a helpful guide for finding and overcoming psychological roadblocks for those trying to achieve their full potential.

Keep your running career in the perfect shape with the aid of Daniels’ Running Formula, the guide that Runner’s World Magazine calls the best book for fitness. Premier running trainer Jack Daniels presents you with his iconic VDOT plan to help you to run better, longer and quicker by practicing at just the right pace. Prep for 800 meters, 1500 meters to 2 miles, cross-country runs, 5K to 10K, 15K to 30K, and marathon events. Each plan combines training intensities to help you develop stamina, strength and speed. With Daniels’ Running Formula you will train more consistently and efficiently, and you will maximize your potentail and performances. Whether you are competing or simply training, get the results you’re seeking every time you put your shoes on with the programs detailed in Daniels’ Running Formula.

Do you find support and comfort in food during in hard and stressy moments? The Intuitive Eating Workbook includes a detailed, evidence-based plan to help you build a balanced affinity with food, pay attention to hunger triggers, and establish a meaningful bond to your brain and body. You will enjoy food again, you will notice more natuarlly to the typical signs of hunger and get control of it. The conscientious approach in this workbook, based on the ten principles of intuitive eating, helps you to leave risky weight loss habits, develop better self confidence, and most importantly avoid feeling anxious when seeing food. With all the wisdom you need to eat intuitively, the book will your life meal after meal.

The co-founder of DailyOM’s holistic lifestyle website offers a pleasant and simple guide to transition from unhealthy dependence on medications to simple recovery. Depression and anxiety overwhelmed Madisyn Taylor with persistent health issues that left her looking desperately for remedies. She then made the decision to become unmedicated, heading out to the natural, holistic wellness environment with her life and career on the table. So after years of experience and testing, Madisyn built an integrative lifestyle plan that gets her right into her health’s driver’s seat, and eventually, her existence. Unmedicated is her insightful account of how she broke free to be safe, balanced and successful from restrictive mental bonds and physical ailments; it is also a roadmap for you to adapt her pragmatic methods to your own healing path. Madisyn delivers a daily schedule of simple exercices based on four pillars: clear your mind; strengthen your body; nurture your spirit; and find your people. Whether you need to be happier and stay positive, seek freedom from stress or anxiety, and treat or make a healthier transition, Unmedicated is a gentle, caring and practical path that empowers you to take back your life and live completely.

There is now a personalized weight loss approach, a solution that is not based on unfair food limitations but on what works for you. Developed by retired experimental biochemist, nutrition advisor and bestselling writer Robb Wolf, Wired to Eat delivers a ground-breaking science-based food plan that can stimulate your appetite for weight reduction and potentially help you decide the correct diet. Robb Wolf has helped hundreds of thousands of people shed weight by consuming a low-carb Paleo diet in his bestselling book, The Paleo Method. Begin with the 30-day Reset to help recover blood sugar levels in your body, rebuild your appetite, and reverse insulin resistance. To support you on your journey, there are over 70 tasty recipes, comprehensive menu plans and shopping lists. Wolf also provides food schedules for those suffering from autoimmune disorders and recommendations on a ketogenic diet. The exclusive 7-Day Carb Test will help you decide what levels and types of carbohydrates you can handle after you have finished this stage of the program. Today, instead of depending on a one-size-fits-all diet, you can figure out for yourself what things you can or cannot consume. Change your diet by using Wired to Eat to uncover your personalized method for weight loss.

Cycling is a becoming very trendy and that’s good. Everywhere, city dwellers, from hipsters to earth-conscious riders, take the bicycle to a high new level. Bike Snob presents readers the world of bicycles and their drivers, giving a fascinating look at the ins and outs of cycling, from its past and features to a wide variety of strange experts. While remaning passionate for biking itself, the writer parodies the errors, pretensions, and absurdities of modern bicycle culture. To someone who is or wishes to become a cyclist, Bike Snob is a must-read.

The legendary runner details his historic Boston Marathon victory, in 1975, that started the modern running boom.
This victory made Bill Rodgers a a living legend, changing him from Bill Rodgers to Boston Billy. He immediately became an idole for many runner of the 1970s. Having won four times each for the Boston Marathon and New York Marathon, he is the first marathon competitor to star twice on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Winning the Holy Grail of Marathons in an unprecedented fast time changed Bill’s life forever But his stunning victory in Boston has changed the lives of many others, instilling in many American athletes the hope they might lead in his footsteps, and encouraging thousands of ordinary people to lace up their sneakers and chase their own goals. Twenty thousand men had run a marathon in the United States in the year preceding Rodgers’ win at the 1975 Boston Marathon. Thirty-seven years later, Bill Rodgers still has the same dry, endearing and whimsical attitude that made him one of the most beloved athletes in America. He describes this iconic race in Marathon Man for the first time and the circumstances that took him there.