America’s favorite fitness expert presents a breakthrough program to win the war against aging—a battle she has personally fought and won. We all know that aging is inevitable–but how gracefully you age is up to you. Scientific research shows that we can turn back the clock through a targeted regimen of age-busting exercise and nutrition. Now, in Fit and Fabulous After 40, award-winning fitness expert Denise Austin presents her own revolutionary, sure-fire plan to help you stay healthy, strong, slim, and fabulous–no matter what your age! By exercising for just thirty minutes a day, using cutting-edge techniques such as yoga and Pilates-based exercises, and eating for maximum health and vitality, you can build strength, shed extra pounds, improve flexibility and balance, and look years younger. Fit and Fabulous After 40 includes: • Easy-to-follow workout plans for every day of the week • Fat-blasting, toning exercises to target specific areas of the body • Weekly nutrient-packed meal plans with delicious slimming recipes • Denise’s personal vitamin and supplement regimen • Invaluable advice on common health concerns for women, such as menopause, breast cancer, and heart disease • Special beauty tips–including anti-wrinkle exercises! Designed to fit even the most hectic schedules, and easily tailored to individual health concerns, Fit and Fabulous After 40 offers a modern, realistic fountain of youth for every woman.

With Fitness After 40, regain the energy and physique of a teenager in no time. Your body is getting older, those stairs are looking steeper, and your bones are cracking louder. The unavoidable fact is that your body is aging. However, that doesn’t have to impact your fitness level. Forget how many candles were on your last birthday cake--if you exercise smarter, you can remain youthful, energetic, and strong. As an academic orthopedic surgeon and internationally recognized authority on active aging and mobility, Dr. Vonda Wright has created a unique medical program designed to target the fitness and performance needs of mature athletes. In this invaluable resource, Wright reveals how anyone can use flexibility, aerobic exercise, and strength training to maximize the benefits of their fitness regime. You will learn how to: Understand your body, and approach exercise in a new way Maximize your fitness while minimizing injury Gain flexibility--no matter your age Benefit from aerobic exercise Build strength through resistance training Improve balance Fitness After 40 for all maturing adults includes “20 Minutes to Burn” workouts, a six-week total-body plan, and the latest information on nutrition, injury prevention, joint preservation, and the mind/body connection for all maturing adults.

The ultimate guide to living your best life through your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond. An old adage goes that age is all in one’s mind. However, the 40s bring on a series of changes – mentally, physically and emotionally – that we scarcely anticipate and usually deny to ourselves. Instead of viewing it as a turning point to a new, enhanced experience of life, many of us are left bewildered and in ‘crisis’. Applying her wealth of experience as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and a fitness and lifestyle consultant, Dr Sheela Nambiar brings to you this holistic health guide that ensures that the decades ahead of your 40s are the best yet. This book contains: • Tests to assess your current fitness levels and help determine the best course of action for you; • Tools for understanding the inevitable hormonal changes and how to deal with them; • Insights into why we gain weight after 40 and how to control it; • Daily exercises that will help restore vitality and maintain your posture, balance and flexibility; • Ways to improve your sleep patterns and nutritional intake; • Tips to keep yourself and your relationships positive, productive and motivated. Fit after 40 will infuse you with a new sense of purpose and propel you towards living the good life you’ve worked hard to achieve!

A championship runner describes the techniques and methods needed to become a competitive runner after age forty, with information on intelligent training, developing fitness and flexibility, maintaining a healthy diet, and much more. Original. 20,000 first printing.

It's one of the undeniable facts of life. After we reach a certain age, our bodies change. No matter how fit we may have been at 20, we're very different people after 40. But growing older doesn't have to diminish our fitness level. The good news is that not only can we retain the vigor of our youth, we can actually perform as well, if not better, than ever. Dr. Vonda Wright is the creator of a unique medi­cal program specifically designed to target the fitness and performance needs of mature athletes. In Fitness After 40, she shows readers how to use flexibility, aerobic exercise, and strength training to maximize the benefits of their fitness regime. By following her proven program, anyone can learn to: understand their bodies and approach exercise and injury in a new way • make the most of their exercise routine during a busy week • hydrate and understand how to eat right • avoid injury to rotator cuffs, lower back, knees, and legs • maximize stretching, running, and weight training Complete with a nutrition plan and an exercise program for older athletes, Fitness After 40 will help everyone regain the energy of their youth and look and feel better than ever.

Turn a midlife crisis into an opportunity with this inspiring guide to getting—and staying—healthy and vital in mind, body, and soul. It may not always strike on that milestone birthday, but there comes a time in life when you start getting that nagging awareness: You’re not getting any younger! Instead of sinking into the sofa in despair (or trying to learn the latest slang), take this chance to look, feel, and live better. In this book, professional fitness coach Don Nava presents a fun and unique program that enables every person to achieve a totally fit life. With the three unique components of this program—The Team of 3; Dictums; and the Ten-Week Cycles of active follow-through—you’ll discover a powerful combination that will help you achieve and sustain wholeness, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Also included is a chapter on issues unique to women over forty.

The ultimate guide to living your best life through your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond. An old adage goes that age is all in one?s mind. However, the 40s bring on a series of changes ? mentally, physically and emotionally ? that we scarcely anticipate and usually deny to ourselves. Instead of viewing it as a turning point to a new, enhanced experience of life, many of us are left bewildered and in `crisis?. Applying her wealth of experience as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and a fitness and lifestyle consultant, Dr Sheela Nambiar brings to you this holistic health guide that ensures that the decades ahead of your 40s are the best yet. This book contains: ? Tests to assess your current fitness levels and help determine the best course of action for you; ? Tools for understanding the inevitable hormonal changes and how to deal with them; ? Insights into why we gain weight after 40 and how to control it; ? Daily exercises that will help restore vitality and maintain your posture, balance and flexibility; ? Ways to improve your sleep patterns and nutritional intake; ? Tips to keep yourself and your relationships positive, productive and motivated. Fit after 40 will infuse you with a new sense of purpose and propel you towards living the good life you?ve worked hard to achieve!