![]() | Body, Mind, and Sport: The Mind-Body Guide to Lifelong Health, Fitness, and Your Personal Best by John Douillard
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.51 Read about Warren Wechsler, ordinary guy, who could run a 6 min/mile pace, breathing through his nose, average heart rate of 120 BPM -- he was in the Zone. And he does it every run. Yes, we can learn to enter the Zone, the exercise high, every time we exercise. Actually be healthier and stronger at the end of our exercise. You don't need to recover! Highly recommended.
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![]() | Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey
Buy new: $15.74 / Used from: $10.99 A very easy to read overview of the latest brain research in regards to movement and exercise. You know it handles depression, but movement is the only thing that actually creates new brain cells, so it improves learning, ADD, addictions, aging. Very motivational to get you off the couch.
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![]() | Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
Buy new: $14.47 / Used from: $13.00 What is the secret of the people who run 100 mile races? Could that help your training programs. You bet! The secret has nothing to do with muscles, technique or pain tolerance. An exciting true adventure story woven with startling little-known facts about barefoot running, problems with shoes, and our anthropological imperative to run.
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![]() | The Naked Warrior by Pavel Tsatsouline
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $22.36 Practical explanations and methods of recruiting the nervous system for strength gains. Remember this: even a little old lady has enough muscle mass to lift a car off her grandchild. Typically we only recruit 20-30% of our muscle fibers; elite athletes about 50%. So, if you're interested in real strength, stop focusing so much on your muscles and learn about your nervous system.
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![]() | Power to the People! : Russian Strength Training Secrets for Every American by Pavel Tsatsouline
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $18.99 If you do strength training, this book has the basic principles you need to learn. If you want results, you need this book. I re-read and re-read Naked Warrior and this one -- simple, yet extremely profound.
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![]() | Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Pete Egoscue
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $7.59 My mother had bad shoulder pain for 3 months. MRI showed rotator cuff damage, arthritis, bursitis, and inflammation. Cortisone shots did nothing. Mom did the simple exercises and 15 minutes later she was COMPLETELY out of pain. Sounds like a miracle, but it's not when you understand how the body really works. When you go to this guys clinic, if your pain isn't 90% better, you don't have to pay!
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![]() | Enter The Kettlebell! Strength Secret of The Soviet Supermen by Pavel Tsatsouline
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $23.48 If you don't know about the resurgence of this old-time exercise tool, be thankful you finally heard about it here. Remarkably simple, amazingly effective. Truly the former secret of elite athletes and special military operatives. Cured my chronic back pain, help me avoid back surgery, because it got me moving better (instead of just moving more!).
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![]() | The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. by Daniel Coyle
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $15.42 True fitness requires practice -- not the misconceived state of exhaustion. But a certain kind of practice. Upon closer examination, what separates the great athletes, musicians, etc. from the rest of us is NOT talent. They PRACTICE deliberately and differently than less-achieved folks. I urge my kettlebell trainees to read this book.
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![]() | Staying With It: On Becoming an Athlete (Athletic Classics of John Jerome) by John Jerome
Buy used from: $2.17 Essays written by an old-timer getting into exercise for the first time -- the many facets of training that we must all understand.
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![]() | 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins by Jason Selk
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.81 A little mental exercise goes a long way -- it's much more than just muscles. This is a short and sweet way to apply most of what current research has proven to work. Olympians spend alot longer than 10 mins a day with it -- but maybe they don't need too.
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![]() | Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats by Sally Fallon
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $16.16 If there were people who lived their entire lives without tooth decay, and without all the modern degenerative diseases, would you be curious about what they ate? That's what Dr. Weston A. Price did in the 1930's. The isolated villages (before modern foods) all around the world ate very different foods. BUT . . . all of their diets shared 11 principles that accounted for their exceptional health.
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![]() | Performance without Pain: A Step-by-Step Nutritional Program for Healing Pain, Inflammation and Chronic Ailments in Musicians, Athletes, Dancers. . . and Everyone Else by Kathryne Pirtle
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $3.45 An simplified overview of the Weston A. Price principles and how they got the author out of chronic pain that threatened her livelihood as a musician.
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![]() | Walking Your Talk: Changing Your Life Through the Magic of Body Language by Lavinia Plonka
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $0.98 Yes, your body is an outward reflection of your inner states, such as attitudes and emotions and beliefs.
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![]() | Bodymind by Ken Dychtwald
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.82 More on the emotional, mental aspects of your body shape and posture.
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![]() | Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork (Third Edition) by Deane Juhan
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $15.00 Most anatomy texts are boring. But anyone will enjoy this revelation into the body structure. I took a weekend course by the author that should have been called, "The Body -- Window to the Universe." I was amazed. The book is just as eye opening. Fascinating.
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![]() | Movement for Self-Healing: An Essential Resource for Anyone Seeking Wellness by Meir Schneider
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.36 This guy was nearly blind, then improved his eyesight with the Bates Method. That's his start. He learned how movement and body awareness can cure all kinds of things,including MS and other neurological dysfunctions. Many lessons to improve the lives of us blessed with much less problems. A good story and educational too.
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![]() | Wild Health: Lessons in Natural Wellness from the Animal Kingdom by Cindy Engel
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.49 Biologists that study animals in the wild know alot more about good health than what you are hearing on TV. You'll find out that animals are little different than us in many ways.
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![]() | Jumpstart Your Metabolism: How To Lose Weight By Changing The Way You Breathe by Pam Grout
Buy used from: $4.68 Breathing. Much more to it than you may think. This will get you started.
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