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The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding: The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised
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From elite bodybuilding competitors to gymnasts, from golfers to fitness gurus, anyone who works out with weights must own this book -- a book that only Arnold Schwarzenegger could write, a book that has earned its reputation as "the bible of bodybuilding". Inside, Arnold covers the very latest advances in both weight training and bodybuilding competition, with new sections on diet and nutritio
Brain Training For Runners: A Revolutionary New Training System to Improve Endurance, Speed, Health, and Results
Matt Fitzgerald · 562 pages
Based on new research in exercise physiology, author and running expert Matt Fitzgerald introduces a first-of-its-kind training strategy that he's named "Brain Training." Runners of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels can learn to maximize their performance by supplying the brain with the right feedback. Based on Fitzgerald's eight-point brain training system, this book will help runners:Resis
The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing
Philip Maffetone · 528 pages
Are you a runner, cyclist, swimmer, cross-country skier, or other athlete seeking greater endurance? Then you will want *The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing*. Dr. Philip Maffetone offers expert advice on how to stay healthy, achieve optimal athletic potential, and be injury-free for many years. His "individualized" approach is a unique system refined over three decades of training athlet
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Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
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Serve To Win: The 14-Day Gluten-free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence
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In 2011, the author had what has been called the greatest single season ever by a professional tennis player. He won ten titles, three Grand Slams and 43 consecutive matches. This book recounts how he survived the bombing of Belgrade, rising from a war-torn childhood to the top tier of his sport.
Run Fast. Eat Slow.: Nourishing Recipes for Athletes
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From world-class marathoner and 4-time Olympian Shalane Flanagan and chef Elyse Kopecky comes a whole foods, flavor-forward cookbook that proves food can be indulgent and nourishing at the same time. This cookbook for runners that shows fat is essential for flavor and performance and that counting calories, obsessing over protein, and restrictive dieting does more harm than good. Packed with more
The Feed Zone Cookbook: Fast and Flavorful Food for Athletes
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Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle
Tom Venuto · 360 pages
A smart, energizing program to help you shed fat, build muscle, and achieve your ideal body in just 30 days! A huge success as a self-published ebook, Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle is the bible of fat loss that will allow any reader to get his or her dream body. Tom Venuto has created a program using the secrets of the world's leanest people,although it's not about getting ripped; it is about maxi
Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
Tom Rath · 256 pages
Author Tom Rath argues from personal experience and wide reading that health improves when eating, moving and sleeping are considered as interacting elements which must work together, rather than be treated in isolation.
The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin
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The Metabolic Effect Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest
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50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!
Dean Karnazes, Matt Fitzgerald · 304 pages
Discover the secrets for super endurance-from one of the fittest men on the planet!Dean Karnazes has run 350 continuous miles through three sleepless nights, ordered pizza during long runs, and inspired fans the world over with his adventures. So what does a guy like this do when he wants to face the ultimate test of endurance? He runs 50 marathons in 50 states-in 50 consecutive days.With little m
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Vinnie Tortorich · 244 pages
"For decades, Vinnie Tortorich has been Hollywood's go-to guy for celebrities and athletes looking to get fit fast. Now, in this hilarious, R-rated memoir, Hollywood's most outrageous personal trainer exposes the fitness world while getting you into shape."--Page 4 of cover
Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life
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Few things in life are simple and straightforward, and losing weight is no different — it's not easy, and anyone who says otherwise is trying to pull a fast one. Winning by Losing is a comprehensive, inspirational, and real solution to your weight problems. Taking a triple-threat approach, Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels identifies and illuminates the three keys to health and lasting weight
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The 4-Hour Body is the result of an obsessive quest, spanning more than a decade, to hack the human body. It contains the collective wisdom of hundreds of elite athletes, dozens of MDs, and thousands of hours of jaw-dropping personal experimentation. From Olympic training centers to black-market laboratories, from Silicon Valley to South Africa, Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times bestselling autho
Running Like a Girl
Alexandra Heminsley · 220 pages
"In her twenties, Alexandra Heminsley spent more time drinking white wine than she did in pursuit of athletic excellence. When she decided to take up running in her thirties, she had high hopes for a blissful runner's high and immediate physical transformation. After eating three slices of toast with honey and spending ninety minutes on iTunes creating the perfect playlist, she hit the streets--an
The Beginning Runner's Handbook: The Proven 13-Week Walk/Run Program
Ian MacNeill, The Sport Medicine Council of British Columbia, Sports Medicine Council British Columbia, The Sports Medicine Council · 240 pages
At the core of this popular guide is "the program" — a 13-week walk - run plan designed to turn anyone into a runner, without injury. Originally developed by sports medicine physicians and refined through three years of clinics and responses from runners, it explains precisely how the beginner should train every day for the first 13 weeks. Every part of the process is covered, from equipment to st