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No matter if you're shopping for a woman in your life or for your own fitness needs, we've picked out the best fitness books for women to make your shopping easy. From strength training to yoga to cardio and core training, find the best books and ebooks for a strong, healthy body.
Stay strong and feel great as you move through the decades of your life with Age Strong: A Woman’s Guide to Feeling Athletic and Fit After 40. Internationally renowned personal trainer Rachel Cosgrove will help you increase metabolism, lose body fat, decrease osteoporosis risk, boost stamina, and increase self-confidence as you move toward and through menopause.
Women's Muscle & Strength - Starting a fitness journey doesn’t have to be daunting. This book will help you cut through the noise and show the way to a stronger you as it is packed with 80 exercises that cover every area of the body. Exercises are broken down by movement type to help you better understand how and why to put them together, as well as what types of movements are associated with major muscles of the body. And because each body is different, you’ll find modifications, progressions, variations, safety reminders, and tips to help choose what works best for you.
Functional Core for Women - Written by the 2022 IDEA Fitness Instructor of the Year Kia Williams, this book shows you how to perform more than 45 ab and glute exercises that are proven to improve physique, function, and strength. Derived from a variety of disciplines—including traditional weight training, Pilates, barre, and yoga—the exercises feature step-by-step instructions, variations, equipment options, safety cues, and progressions and regressions. You’ll also find 6 sample workouts to quickly get you started, along with the guidance you need to create and customize your own program.
Total Body Beautiful - With combined decades of experience and dozens of fitness certifications and credentials, the expert team of authors, Andrea Orbeck, Desi Bartlett, and Nicole Stuart, have worked with hundreds of celebrities, supermodels, and ordinary women to develop workout and wellness solutions to stay active and feel good in their own skin—and they can do the same for you. More than an exercise guide, Total Body Beautiful explores the changes that women experience during and after pregnancy, during perimenopause, and during and after menopause. You'll learn how hormones affect your physical body and emotional wellness, the effects of exercise on the brain, and how nutrition affects the way you look and feel. You'll find insider tips and client stories from celebrities and clients who the authors have worked with.
Yoga for Menopause and Beyond In recent years there has been a surge in awareness surrounding the challenges experienced by menopausal women, along with impassioned calls for more specialized support from health and wellness professionals. In this book, author Niamh Daly shares how yoga teachers can help answer these calls and how yoga practioners can create their own relevant and supportive yoga practice as they journey through menopause and into the postmenopause years.
Written in an open and heartfelt conversational style, this book is a reimagining of yoga viewed through the lens of menopause. It will help you understand which elements of yoga are already ideal, what may be unhelpful, and what you might add to support symptom relief, health, and self-esteem.
Big & Bold: Yoga for the Plus-Size Woman - With clear instructions for safely performing 43 poses (asanas) in a variety of seated, kneeling, standing, reclined, and restorative positions, each pose features multiple options for body positioning and prop usage, so you can choose the variations and make the adjustments that work best for your body. Discover how yoga can be an empowering and wonderful way to move your body and celebrate what it can do at any size.
Eat. Lift. Thrive. - Eat healthy. Exercise. Be happy. It sounds easy enough, so why is it so difficult? Because, as millions of women know, it's not easy. There are challenges and obstacles, and health programs are not one size fits all. In Eat. Lift. Thrive. author Sohee Lee empowers you with tools and strategies to make your own change and establish healthy relationships with food and exercise for long-term results.
Your Strong, Sexy Pregnancy - With the 3 + 1 Total Body Fitness philosophy, women will learn to combine yoga, resistance training, cardiovascular training, and nutrition to nurture their mental well-being. Manage the emotional highs and lows of each stage of pregnancy and postpartum recovery, feel great in your body, have the strength to deliver your baby, and recover quickly.
Breakthrough Women's Running - Breakthrough Women's Running is written just for women who have big goals and need a plan to achieve them. Told with engaging storytelling and packed with colorful images and practical recommendations to improve your running, Breakthrough Women's Running offers 5K, 10K, half-marathon, marathon, and run-walk training plans to suit your current distance or pacing goals. With the strength and mobility workouts included in the plans, you don't have to wonder where and how to fit in these important (but often overlooked) components of a successful running training program.
Big & Bold: Strength Training for the Plus-Size Woman - Unlike books that target weight loss as the ultimate goal, Big & Bold: Strength Training for the Plus-Size Woman emphasizes why strength training and movement are important for women of all sizes and how progress is not tied to a number on the scale. Find clear and simple instructions on how to safely perform 83 exercises to make them more effective for larger bodies, plus tips for clothing and equipment needs.