"Transform your body in just 12 weeks. Take the challenge"--Cover.

Get in shape in no time with this definitive guide to fitness, strength training, and nutrition by the fitness experts at the world-renowned Gold’s Gym. The Total Fitness Manual has everything here you need to get fit and stay fit for life. Take the 12-Week Body Transformation Challenge for dramatic, proven results, or create your own fitness routine from this book’s wealth of information on resistance training, cardio, nutrition, flexibility, and more . . . Cardio: With cardio machines, classes, swimming, or running, you have more choices than ever for getting a heart-pumping workout, and this book outlines your options to help you select the best for your needs. Getting Strong: Whether you are looking to tone up or bulk up using bodyweight alone, gym machines, or a home barbell set, you need to know the correct techniques to avoid injury and know what exercises work which muscles. Nutrition: Hydration and diet are just as important as getting to the gym. Gold’s Gym is here to ensure you have enough calories to burn, have the best post-workout snacks, find the best protein shake for you, utilize crucial hydration tips, and more. Recovery: Stretch properly and know when to schedule a rest day to stay injury free. The Twelve-Week Challenge: Gold’s Gym annually challenges its members to commit to achieving their goals—in just three months. For the first time, this program is available in a book, with clear instructions, and advice on how to tailor the program to your fitness journey. You can also gain inspiration from success stories from past Challenge winners. So, pick up your copy of the Total Fitness Manual and get training today!

Swimming is one of the best, most enjoyable, and most effective forms of exercise available, and this is the classic guide for beginners and expert swimmers alike, completely revised and updated for the '90s. B & W line drawings throughout.

Celebrity trainer and Pilates guru Brooke Siler teams up with the editors of Women's Health to offer a comprehensive, authoritative manual on this proven fitness philosophy. Trained by Joseph Pilates' protégé, Romana Kryzanowska, Brooke is an unparalleled expert and one of the most sought after teachers for her signature body re-shaping techniques. Combining the best of flexibility and strength training, Pilates is the path to the lean fit body every woman craves—and The Women’s Health Big Book of Pilates guides readers in every step (and leg lift … ) of the way. Using the body as the ultimate fitness vehicle, Pilates transforms bodies in record time. From moves targeting trouble zones to cardio circuits that blast fat all over, this go-to manual covers everything including: Tricks to incorporate Pilates at work, in travel, and daily routine What props best boost your workout and what to skip Pilates principles to help combat lower back pain, stress, low energy, and more! From basic mat moves to the right foods that fuel a lean, toned figure, The Women's Health Big Book of Pilates is the go-to guide for beginners and experts alike.

From an elite Special Operations physical trainer, an ingeniously simple, rapid-results, do-anywhere program for getting into amazing shape For men and women of all athletic abilities! As the demand for Special Operations military forces has grown over the last decade, elite trainer Mark Lauren has been at the front lines of preparing nearly one thousand soldiers, getting them lean and strong in record time. Now, for regular Joes and Janes, he shares the secret to his amazingly effective regimen—simple exercises that require nothing more than the resistance of your own bodyweight to help you reach the pinnacle of fitness and look better than ever before. Armed with Mark Lauren’s motivation techniques, expert training, and nutrition advice, you’ll see rapid results by working out just thirty minutes a day, four times a week—whether in your living room, yard, garage, hotel room, or office. Lauren’s exercises build more metabolism-enhancing muscle than weightlifting, burn more fat than aerobics, and are safer than both, since bodyweight exercises develop balance and stability and therefore help prevent injuries. Choose your workout level—Basic, 1st Class, Master Class,and Chief Class—and get started, following the clear instructions for 125 exercises that work every muscle from your neck to your ankles. Forget about gym memberships, free weights, and infomercial contraptions. They are all poor substitutes for the world’s most advanced fitness machine, the one thing you are never without: your own body.