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This highly engaging landmark work, a natural history of exercise--by the author of the best seller The Story of the Human Body--seeks to answer a fundamental question: were you born to run or rest The first three parts of Exercised roughly follow the evolutionary story of human physical activity and inactivity, even as each chapter shatters a particular myth about exercise. Because we cannot understand physical activity without understanding its...

Discover how to use your body in the way it was designed to be used, working a range of muscles concurrently to improve flexibility, balance, and your range of motion. This book shows you how to effectively train your entire body in unison, using movements that we encounter every day to reach optimal fitness.

A Pilates-based exercise system that uses simple, low-impact exercises and high-energy movements to help people improve flexibility, strength, posture, and overall health.

Presents a series of exercises geared toward functional strength that emphasize short, intense, and highly effective sessions, along with compound, multijoint workouts and nutritional guidelines designed to optimize physical well-being.

A program designed to increase overall physical fitness and self-esteem and to foster healthy eating habits to protect children from obesity, heart disease, and cancer.

Yoga provides not only an excellent, low-impact workout, it also helps young people in key areas such as body awareness, flexibility, concentration, stress reduction, and self-expression. The exercises and games in this easy-to-follow guide are specifically designed to fit the needs of teenagers and to show teens how to work out and train their bodies in a relaxed way. It requires no advance knowledge or preparation and can be used by anyone working...