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[back cover] Fitness fads come and go, but one habit you should pick up and stay with for a lifetime is core training. Strengthening your body's core musclesthose muscles that keep you upright, and which are located around the abdomen and spineincreases flexibility and joint mobility. It also ensures good posture as you go about your day-to-day activities. Keeping your core strong is vital because core muscles come into play nearly every time you move. Drawing the best exercises for core strengthening from regimens such as yoga, Pilates, weight training, and fit ball, Total Core Fitness is your handbook for building a healthy core, no matter whether you're 16 or 60. It's about the quality of your exercise, not the quantity. Total Core Fitness will help you feel fitter and perform all normal daily activities with ease. Improved health, well-being, strength, and flexibility are all within your reach. [front flap] Wouldn't you like to wake up every morning feeling fitter than you are now? You can when you use this book as your guide. Designed to help you elevate your body to function at top efficiency, Total Core Fitness is unlike any other fitness program. Its emphasis is not on repetitions and bulking up muscles, but on helping you attain a fitter, more functional body, which moves fluidly and performs daily activities with ease. Total Core Fitness takes the best stretches and exercises for building core strength from tried-and-true regimens, such as: Yoga Pilates Weight training Stability ball Follow the workouts suggested and in no time at all, you'll feel stronger, stand taller, and experience a deeper level of relaxation. [back flap] Kathy Corey is a Master Teacher of the Pilates Method and is the Director of the West Coast Pilates Certification Program in California. She co-wrote Powers Pilates with Stefanie Powers, and is a contributor to Pilates Style magazine.Corey, Kathy is the author of 'Total Core Fitness Stronger, Leaner, And Fitter to the Core' with ISBN 9780764133213 and ISBN 0764133217.
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