Fitness For Life
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDF958 |
| Author: | Bharat & Shalan Savur |
| Publisher: | Jaico Publishing House |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2004 |
| ISBN: | 8172246013 |
| Pages: | 246 (B & W Figures: 32) |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 9.5" X 7.0" |
Book Description
The authors drop a pebble of enthusiasm into the vast ocean of the self, and you view the widening whirlpool of Your extending personal boundaries. Starting with their own exhilarating experiences, they motivate you into the Fitness lifestyle. The crisp, clean directions stimulate you to cross every milestone, demolish myths, and tune you Into your mental dynamics.
In a comprehensive A-to-Z questionnaire, no pains are spared to include everything for everyone.
A detailed How Fit Am I? Survey heralds your self-awakening on all fronts. Exercising becomes an energizing Fitness match-as result-oriented as one-day cricket, your aerobic runs build up a stamina score where you lose Weight permanently, strengthen your cardiovascular system and soar into spiritual realms.
An unrestricted no-diet approach uncovers the flavours of a tasteful thali complete with fat-free recipes. Your Changed attitude towards food revitalizes your body's smart-cells.
Abdominals flatten our stomach and strengthen your back; light weight-training shapes up stubborn sports' Stretching exercises elasticate limits and eliminate stress.
And all along, you never lose the over-view. Chapter after chapter unfolds your inner potential, re-shapes your Perceptions, awakens you to your dormant powers. Until a positive awareness anchors itself with a healing click to your unique inner specialness.
This book is a truly valuable guide, blending scientific facts and eternal truths with practical tips. It revolutionizes your outlook with its holistic approach. Always inspiring, extremely motivating, awesomely effective, a must for every Indian in the quest of self-discovery and fulfillment.
| AN INTRODUCTON TO FITNESS The Muhammad Ali within: by Bharat Savur My first time: By Shalan Savur |
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| 1 | MANTRAS OF MOTIVATION Fitness is a friend do not keep up with yesterday Your fitness milestones Fitness cuts down fat fills Rebuild your body temple |
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| 2 | TO BE FIT IS YOUR NATURAL RIGHT The god within you. Built for action The 'I can ' philosophy |
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| 3 | DISCOVER YOURSELF Be number one with yourself You are your own role-model The three little bowls of fitness Rewrite your stars Your inner song |
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| 4 | KNOW HOURSELF Your weighing machine can lie What should be your ideal weight? How fit am I? A personal survey Lung power Happy haemoglobin Becoming your own blood donor the mystique of metabolism Your resting pulse rate |
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| 5 | PULSIHG TO YOUR CREATIVE SELF What exactly should exercisers aim for? Where or when does the aerobic effect start? Why does one need to exercise for a minimum time-span? How do I know I am getting the aerobic effect? What should be my aerobic pulse beat? Your pulse is your personal monitor Why I the resting pulse rate so important? Does not exercise endanger your heart? |
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| 6 | HOW TO SCORE FITNESS RUNS Ashik Desai's odyssey Aerobic power Only aerobics give you energy A few precautions How to get the best from aerobics Aerobics is a spiritual experience Aerobics is addictive Kissing goodbye to calories Feel free to choose, choose to be free Thoughts, suggestions and mind-setters Your personal score card Score sheets |
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| 7 | HOW TO CLIMB UP THE FITNESS LADDER Jogging Swimming Cycling walking Indoor inchstepping A few more tips Ladder of fitness Wait for weight Loss through the waist-to-hip ratio Losing fat weight and practical food tips |
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| 8 | TUNE YOUSELF INTO MENTAL DYNAMICS From indifference to Fascination Flexing physical and mental muscles Right your wrong thinking Inside the body of a Non-exerciser and when you exercise your mind and you the power of change the new Reality The journey to health Hungry for what? |
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| 9 | HOW TO FLATTEN YOUR STOMACH Your stomach and you Your path of progress King Stomach The chest-waist difference Back pain, varicose veins, constipation, hernia Four tummy trimmers The constant-correction course Is not it sufficient to do only abdominals? Can I skip the abdominals? Abdominal exercises make you eat less |
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| 10 | DO NOT DIET-ITS'S NOT YOU Dieting curbs your freedom Your Body-the energy generator Muscle tissue How dieting makes you weak and keeps you fat How to eat and lose weight Starch makes you energetic Pulses build your muscles Sugar does nothing For you Fat only make you fat Salt adds water to your body What about alcohol? Make fitness Your personal Philosophy |
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| 11 | YOU'RE YOUR BODY'S SMART CELLS How you can sprout with energy What can you sprout? Easy sprouting you're your smart cells clock Is non-vegetarian food unhealthy |
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| 12 | DELICIOUS ENERGY-GIVING RECIPES Slurpy soups Rice duets Delicious dals Vegetarian-vowers Singing salads Ravishing raitas Chutney dips Snack track Tall talktails Dreamy desserts |
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| 13 | ADDIING MORE MUSCLE TO YOUR FITNESS Give yourself a fair Chance you are a natural weight-trainer Weight-Training is asexual Spot-shaping plus Understanding spot-shaping Spot-shaping for women Spot-shaping for men Weight-training tips Weight-training versus freehand exercises |
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| 114 | YOU A-TO-Z FITNESS QUESTIONNAIRE Aerobic Zone Age< Anaerobics Bloating Bloating Caffeine Cholestrol The Common Cold Constipation Cramps Depression Exercise Fatigue Genes High blood Pressure Immunity Knees j Longevity Massage Metabolism Nutrition Oils Periods Plateau Quadriceps Running shoes Sleep Squash Stationary bike Stress Sweat Time Ulcers Vacation Weight-training S-rated Exercise Yogic Wisdom Zest |
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| 15 | YOUR FITNESS LIFESTYLE IN A NUTSHELL Aerobics Abdominals Sensible eating and drinking Weight-training |
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| 16 | REDISCOVERING: YOUR UNIQUEJ SPECIALNESS The metaphysics of Physical fitness those open spaces Prisms, not prisons The birth of two planes Looking for Answers Avenues of healing The magic of happiness The inner world Rediscovering your Specialness |
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