physical fitness

Outlines a twelve-minute, everyday workout program designed to help readers strengthen the heart and lungs, increase energy, and burn fat. Includes black-and-white photographs demonstrating how to perform various exercises.

Offers an exercise program that focuses on using swimming to lose weight, tone muscles, and build endurance and includes a diet plan.

Provides an illustrated guide for learning pilates, beginning with mat exercises and eventually moving to standing exercises, that will improve posture, increase flexibility, and lose weight.

Offers a choice of thirty-two workout programs for men and women, designed to fit any schedule or skill level, each incorporating stretching, lifting, and moving.

Presents nutrition tips for those who work out regularly, discussing supplements and eating right for one's age, fitness level, specific activity, and health problems, such as diabetes or chronic fatigue.

Presents sport-specific training programs designed to help swimmers increase their speed, eliminate fatigue, and prevent injuries.

Presents training programs for twenty-six sports, from skiing and cycling to golf and martial arts, with suggestions for improving strength, speed, endurance, agility, and coordination.

Contains a beginner's guide to body toning including tips on nutrition, six exercise programs, and fully illustrated warm-up, stretching, and toning techniques.

Presents instructions for healthy activities for kids and parents, one for each day of the year; examples include "Youngster Yoga" and a "Health-Spa Birthday Party.".