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As a fitness professional I wanted to applaud you for your incredible comprehensive pre&postnatal fitness book. None are as complete. — Moji Doyle from Delray Beach, FL. Founder of Prenatal Fitness & Beyond I really believe if every pregnant woman did your program that they would have much better outcomes of pregnancy. — Karla Damus M.D. – Senior Medical Research Director March of Dimes This book should be standard issue for all mothers to be! February 06, 2001 — Eden M Venti from Bear, DE USA”Birgitta always encouraged me to work to my capacity during my twin pregnancy. This included listening to my body and resting when necessary. Exercise during pregnancy is a metaphor for life. It can be difficult at t

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For more than 20 years the leading guide to self-management for people with arthritis-more than 500,000 copies in print Offering a practical program to help people with arthritis and fibromyalgia manage their conditions, The Arthritis Helpbook provides techniques proven to reduce pain and increase dexterity, helping sufferers to regain control of their lives. Along with complete information on all over-the-counter and prescription arthritis medicines, The Arthritis Helpbook shows readers how to exercise for both flexibility and aerobic fitness and how to build a calcium-rich diet, thus maintaining their all-around health. Completely revised and updated with new illustrations and photographs, The Arthritis Helpbook, the

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An essential survival guide for parents whose children suffer with persistent and often debilitating painApproximately ten million children are living with chronic pain. Most people would be surprised at such numbers, but for the parents of these children, the challenge of helping a pain-stricken child live a normal life is a frightening and frustrating reality. Chronic pain in children can manifest as abdominal, migraine, or facial pain. It also stems from a wide variety of disorders such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and childhood cancers. No matter what type of chronic pain the child suffers with, a parent must be armed with an understanding of how a child’s expression and experience of pain di

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HydroRobics will help anyone improve flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, and cardiovascular conditioning while minimising muscle soreness and stress injuries. The book also includes: 50 different exercises for all parts of the body; sample HydroRobics workouts; tips on weight Reduction. HydroRobics is also the perfect exercise programme for elderly, overweight, pregnant, or physically impaired individuals because it takes advantage of the natural buoyancy of the water.

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From Library Journal
Katz, an accomplished swimmer and educator, offers this update of her 1981 book of the same title ( LJ 3/15/81). She presents a graduated program to learning the basics of swimming, beginning with lessons for novice, intermediate, and advanced swimmers and progressing to demanding super workouts for the competitive swimmer. Within each level are ten detailed sublevels, plus variations, warm-ups and cool-downs, advice on physical problems, equipment, racing, and fitness. The treatment is comprehensive, clear, and detailed, though it could have benefited from more illustrations or photographs. Katz’s book offers better coverage than Marianne Brems’s Swim for Fitness (Chronicle, 1979), or Katherine Vaz and Chi

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