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Morning Strength Workouts - Annette Lang
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Morning Strength Workouts
by Annette Lang
NEW, 240 pages
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About Morning Strength Workouts
A strength training routine to fit every morning schedule! You know that exercising in the morning is the best way to exercise regularly, manage weight, and provide a strong start to your day. Morning Strength Workouts describes how to maximize the benefits of your early-day exercises no matter what your energy level is or how much time you have to spare.
Morning Strength Workouts provides 20-, 30-, 45-, and 60-minute workouts designed for endurance, size, strength, power, and general fitness so that you can choose the right workout based on your fitness goals and available time. Whether you’re using free weights or machines, exercising at the gym or at home, this book allows you to customize workouts to achieve your individual strength goals. And, with information on nutrition, injury prevention, and program design, you can be assured that every morning session will be productive. With Morning Strength Workouts, you will never tire of your morning routine again.
Morning Strength Workouts is part of the Morning Workout series, books designed to help you get in tune with both mind and body, stay motivated, and improve your morning exercise experience.
About Annette Lang
Annette Lang has been a Reebok University instructor since 1996, developing education programs for both fitness professionals and consumers. She is a regular consultant for NY Sports, Crunch Fitness, NY Health & Racquet, Bally Total Fitness, Wellbridge, and Equinox fitness clubs. She is a featured speaker at national fitness conventions, including the IHRSA International Conference and IDEA World Fitness Convention. She offers instruction and online courses through www.ptonthenet.com. Since 2000, Lang has served as a judge for Fitness Management magazine's Fitness Business NOVA awards for health clubs. Lang also worked with Peter Greenberg, the travel editor of NBC's Today Show, on his exercise and diet program. Her exercise program and motivational encouragement are also featured in Greenberg's book The Traveler's Diet (Villard 2006). Lang also wrote the Prenatal & Postpartum Training Fan (Benefit Health Media, 2006). She is certified as a personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and American Council on Exercise (ACE), and she has a master's degree in health education. Lang resides in Brooklyn, New York, and does private personal training in New York City.
Reviews of this book
"Annette Lang's expertise will help you understand the importance of strength training. Morning Strength Workouts provides the programs and plans to actually do it! She's a great motivator, and for that I am in her debt."
Peter Greenberg
Travel Editor
NBC Today Show
"Morning Strength Workouts gives you instant access to perfect get-up-and-go routines for the home or gym, whether you have just a few minutes or an entire hour to spare."
Denise Brodey
Editor in Chief, Fitness
About Fitness
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations). Physical fitness is generally achieved through exercise.
In previous years, fitness was commonly defined as the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However, as automation increased leisure time, changes in lifestyles following the industrial revolution rendered this definition insufficient. These days, physical fitness is considered a measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases, and to meet emergency situations.
Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness. It is performed for various reasons. These include strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance and for enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity. It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image Childhood obesity is a growing global concern and physical exercise may help decrease the effects of childhood obesity in developed countries.
Types of exercise: exercises are generally grouped into three types depending on the overall effect they have on the human body. Flexibility exercises, such as stretching, improve the range of motion of muscles and joints. Aerobic exercises, such as cycling, swimming, walking, skipping rope, running, hiking or playing tennis, focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance. Anaerobic exercises, such as weight training, functional training or sprinting, increase short-term muscle strength.
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