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Dr. Franco Columbu, internationally known bodybuilding champion, has written a book that provides a commonsense approach to training with weights - whether for competition or just to get into shape. In the audiobook, Franco answers many questions to update his training advice and tells stories about what life was like during the Golden Age of bodybuilding. The audiobook contains priceless stories about the young Franco and his best friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese kung fu in the world today, with more than four million practitioners. This guide will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the martial arts, from beginner to master. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than 300 years. Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art's techniques are presented and performed the way they are.

In The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick McKeown combines his successful breathing exercises with techniques designed to simulate high-altitude training in a highly successful programme that will significantly improve anyone's health but will also empower athletes to improve their sports performance. These scientifically validated exercises have the potential to drastically improve your overall fitness, whether you are a habitual couch potato or an Ironman triathlon champion. 

Many people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Famously, Liddell would not run on Sunday because of his strict observance of the Christian Sabbath, and so he did not compete in his signature event, the 100 meters, at the 1924 Paris Olympics. He was the greatest sprinter in the world at the time, and his choice not to run was ridiculed by the British Olympic committee, his fellow athletes, and most of the world press.

"Arnold Schwarzenegger's Golden Six Workout" is a comprehensive guide that delves into the fitness philosophy and regimen that catapulted Arnold Schwarzenegger from a budding bodybuilder into a global icon. This book offers readers an unprecedented look into the training principles and exercises that laid the foundation for Arnold's legendary physique and enduring success in the bodybuilding world. Structured in a clear and engaging manner, the book begins with an introduction to Arnold's journey, setting the stage for the evolution of bodybuilding and its impact on the sport. It then ...

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it - and how it has helped his own family cope with serious adversity.

Sadhguru, fundador de la Fundación Isha, es un yogui, místico y maestro espiritual con una diferencia. Su vida y su obra, una fascinante mezcla de profundidad y pragmatismo, nos recuerdan que las ciencias internas no son filosofías esotéricas de un pasado obsoleto, sino una ciencia contemporánea de vital importancia para nuestros tiempos.

Dondequiera que vas encuentras gimnasios, videos y libros de ejercicio anunciando cómo pueden ayudarte a ponerte en forma de manera rápida y fácil. Incluso es probable que ya hayas invertido dinero en ellos, prometiéndote que este será el ano en que por fin te pondrás en forma, rebajarás esos kilos de más, y te convertirás en la persona llena de energía que sabes que se oculta en tu interior. Desafortunadamente, la vida cotidiana se interpone y caes en el hábito de "Voy a empezar manana". Cómo construir la autodisciplina para el ejercicio es una guía práctica y concisa para introducir y mantener el hábito del ejercicio en tu vida.

Transform your health, boost your vitality, and reconnect with the ancient wisdom of heat and cold – all without expensive treatments or medical interventions! Here’s a glimpse of what’s within this audiobook: The rich history of sauna and cold plunge therapy – how these practices have evolved from ancient rituals to modern science-backed therapies. A comprehensive guide to their health benefits, with detailed explanations of how sauna and cold plunges boost physical health, mental clarity, and emotional resilience.

Along the path to any goal - completing a marathon or a thesis paper, winning a medal or a contract - familiar mental hurdles arise: We may fixate on the odds of failure or find our interest flags two-thirds of the way through. That’s when elite endurance athletes - top performers in running, cycling, and swimming - turn to their rich arsenal of cognitive strategies to overcome self-doubt and unlock peak performance.

Do you wish to lose unnecessary weight but somehow get pulled back to craving sugar and junk food? It is time to stabilize your eating patterns. It’s time to put an end to this vicious cycle. This edition of the audiobook brought to you by the Self-Help-Guide, includes the best of various programs, distilled into one carefully-designed plan. Also included are a lot of beginner-friendly initiation exercises to get you started quickly. If you don’t take action now, the resistance is only going to increase later in life.

Every golfer wants to know the critical secrets to bombing drive and dropping strokes from their game almost overnight. But most golfers are looking in the wrong places. That’s where The Small Book of Million Dollar Golf Tips comes in.

Elizabeth Clor wanted nothing more than to qualify for the prestigious Boston Marathon. Dead-set on achieving this goal, she found herself bound up in a vicious cycle of perfectionism and anxiety that thwarted her at every turn, despite making significant gains in her physical abilities over seven years. Boston Bound is the story of how Elizabeth discovered that her own brain was the culprit, and explains the steps she took to completely overhaul her mindset about her running and her life.

Widely recognized as one of the most powerful healing methods that has ever been developed, bioenergy healing is relatively easy to learn. Csongor's unique writing - as if you were listening to him live at one of his seminars - makes this comprehensive book on energy healing a light yet very informative listen. If you are a fast learner, you may learn to heal in only one day. By the end of the book, you will become a healer for a lifetime.

The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga - 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to other scholars including BKS Iyengar).

How to get fit in your 50s: What really works and why you don’t need to train as hard as you think. In 7 X Your Strength Gains Even if You’re a Man, Woman or Clueless Beginner Over 50, you will discover: 7 main reasons why bodyweight training is just right fora you even if you are over 50, why the “no pain no gain” attitude might is the biggest lie in the fitness industry, the most common mistakes in strength training and how to avoid them, and much more!

Suffering from severe neck and back injuries, Kerry was unemployed and housebound, struggling with depression and even thoughts of suicide. He went from cycling over 600 miles a month to becoming a prisoner in his own home. In the face of unbearable pain and overwhelming panic, he persevered, and along the way, met an adorable yard dog named Max. This is their remarkable, inspiring story.

Mat Fraser is undisputedly the fittest man in CrossFit history for winning the CrossFit Games an unprecedented five times. A student of engineering, Fraser optimized his body like a machine, and his absolute dedication to the training program he designed for himself is now legendary. Fraser became a master of identifying his weaknesses and then seeking out training methods to improve them, and he's idolized in the fitness community for his relentless pursuit of peak performance. It's not hard to see why he achieved so much success - but how is a different question.

Every year, roughly 2 million people participate in marathons and half marathons in the United States, and, no matter what level they are, every one of these runners has likely hit “The Wall,” running out of muscle fuel in the final miles and slowing down precipitously. In The New Rules, renowned fitness journalist and training coach Matt Fitzgerald cuts through the myths, distilling the most up-to date science to help runners overcome the universally experienced nutritional barriers that prevent success in the marathon and half marathon.

Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads to prove it. Exercise - a form of physical activity distinct from sports, play or athletics - was an ancient obsession, too, but as a chapter in human history, it's been largely overlooked. In Sweat, Bill Hayes runs, jogs, swims, spins, walks, bikes, boxes, lifts, sweats and downward-dogs his way through the origins of different forms of exercise, chronicling how they have evolved over time and dissecting the dynamics of human movement.