Download or read book Get Fit Through Gardening written by Jeffrey P. Restuccio and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Fit Through Gardening A Fun Program to Get Your Body Fit, Your Food Fresh, and Your Mind Calm A new approach to gardening that shows how gardeners can get the maximum amount of health benefits from planting and tending to their garden Gardening is traditionally thought of as a gentle hobby suited for the weekend–not as exercise. It’s time to turn over a new leaf with Get Fit Through Gardening. Thousands of gardeners worldwide will benefit from this unique exercise program that will emphasize strengthening their backs and knees to prevent injury. It also introduces this novel approach to fitness enthusiasts everywhere, suggesting that the way to fitness may just be a Saturday afternoon spent weeding and raking. Get Fit Through Gardening is completely different than traditional gardening. It’s all about the gardener’s needs, health, and muscles–not the needs of the plants. What you grow becomes secondary to how you grow, and the focus is on getting the maximum amount of health benefits as possible from your exercising. Inside, you’ll learn how to: • turn your garden into your own personal fitness center • properly assume one of eight stances to protect your back and knees • stretch properly, before and after your gardening exercise • alternate hands and tools to get a complete body workout in 30 minutes a day, 3 times a week You can grow vegetables or flowers, or just use the techniques inside to monitor your perfect lawn. Either way, it’s up to you to reap what you sow: a fit and healthy body.
Download or read book Gardening Your Way to Fitness written by Ron Kness and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isn't it time to get outdoors? The gym is a great place to stay fit during the colder seasons, but once the temperature turns warmer you want to spend more time outside. Plus, you'll have the benefit of fresh wholesome produce to enjoy by growing vegetables in your backyard garden.Does this sound like your situation?* You sit for hours at a desk at work. * The hum of the overhead lights is a constant reminder you never go outdoors.* Often you skip workouts because you want to spend the time with your family.* Everyone in the family is overweight.* You worry about declining health and are on edge and anxious.* You know exercise would help, but you just don't have the energy or motivation.Does it seem as if your destiny to live constantly indoors breathing recycled air under artificial lights?Why not combine fitness and gardening to accomplish your healthy lifestyle goals?Working in the garden provides a well-rounded workout.Think about all you accomplish with a workout in the garden: * Gardening tasks improve your endurance, flexibility and strength. * The food you grow is fresh providing wholesome nutrition for the family.* Your family learns the process of planting, nurturing and harvesting the food they eat.* A 30 minute garden workout burns more calories than 30 minutes running.* Everyone enjoys the satisfaction of participating in a project from start to finish.People are turning to hobby gardening as a way to burn off stress while getting back in touch with the basics of living. They also find that gardening tasks like raking, hoeing and digging is very slimming! But there are benefits beyond burning calories and firming muscles. Outdoor activity reduces anxiety, too. Studies have shown a link between ADHD and insufficient outdoors time. Senior living homes include an outdoor sanctuary where residents benefit from simple gardening activities to keep mind and body engaged.And you do it all without drugs... Introducing "Gardening Your Way to Fitness - The Fun Way to Get Fit and Provide Beauty and Healthful Bounty for Your Family."
Download or read book Eden s Way The Garden s Path to Wellness written by Patricia Binkley-Childress and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your journey to ultimate health and fitness doesn't require a doctor, a gym, a trainer, or a diet! While it is impossible to escape exposure to all toxins, illness is not mankind's intended destiny. With the right tools, knowledge, understanding and commitment, being healthy can be a reality. Eden's Way sifts through all the trends and conflicting ideas in the marketplace to provide the specific information needed to design a personal nutrition and exercise program that is safe, effective and fun. Today, with Eden's Way, you can attain the wellness that was intended for all. I found Eden's Way refreshing and a delight as Patricia brought creation into our diet and general well-being. It is so well written and researched that you can rest assured the information is accurate. Don't let the opportunity to read Eden's Way pass by, as you will find it to be a rewarding experience and I guarantee you will be helped. - Reverend Willard D. Boswell Patricia is a dynamic thinker who writes outside the box of today's conventional approach to sickness and disease and countless numbers of people can attest to her philosophy and approach to wellness.The impact of applying her sound common sense approach to health and preventative action will create renewed health, vitality, and the prevention of diseases that most people consider genetically inevitable. -
Download or read book Garden Your Way to Health and Fitness written by Bunny Guinness and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2008 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading landscape designer joins forces with a physiotherapist to provide a guide that combines gardening with health exercises and furnishes step-by-step sequences, based on Pilates, that emphasize safe gardening techniques, boost fitness, and avoid stresses and strains, with tips on planting designs for time-pressed gardeners, how to use daily cultivation methods to promote varying activity levels, and more. Original.
Download or read book Fitness the Dynamic Gardening Way written by Jeffrey P. Restuccio and published by Balance of Nature Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FITNESS THE DYNAMIC GARDENING WAY is the result of two-&-a-half years of research & interviews with dozens of the nation's leading fitness specialists, psychologists, horticultural therapists & physicians. THE DYNAMIC GARDENING WAY both expands & integrates the exercise, nutritional & psychological benefits of organic gardening. Combined, they create a health & wellness lifestyle where success is measured in seasons, years & decades. Home-grown fruits & vegetables are less expensive, better tasting & more nutritious than store-bought produce. THE DYNAMIC GARDENING WAY is a fitness program flexible enough to be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of their age or athletic ability. Gardening is used as a tool to learn how to enjoy the moment & build self-esteem. "Anyone following this well-conceived program will lead a wholesome, vigorous & rewarding lifestyle." - Charles Norelli, M.D. Author Jeffrey Restuccio is the Southeast regional new varieties tester for ORGANIC GARDENING magazine & the founder & past president of the Mid-South Organic Network (MIDSON). To Order, call Publishers Distribution Services (1-800-345-0096); FAX at (616) 929-3808.
Download or read book Exercising Your Way to Better Mental Health written by Larry M. Leith and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book of its kind to reveal the link between physical fitness and psychological well-being. Dr. Larry Leith, renowned exercise scientist, shares with the reader how exercise can fight depression, ease stress, and brighten one's mood. The book includes many practical strategies designed to improve the reader's enjoyment of and adherence to an exercise program.
Download or read book The Wellness Garden written by Shawna Coronado and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your garden a healing place. If you love to garden but also worry about the physical strain, or if you are in search of ways to promote a healthier lifestyle, and even combat specific chronic health issues, then noted garden author and speaker Shawna Coronado has good news for you! You can stay active, fight chronic pain, and keep the garden you've worked so hard to cultivate. In The Wellness Garden, Shawna details exactly how she has learned to use her garden as a key tool in her battle with osteoarthritis and other chronic pain issues. In this inspiring but highly practical book, you will learn from Shawna's life-changing garden experience how to create your own Wellness Garden—and gain the healthier lifestyle you desire and need. Shawna's Wellness Garden Program: Grow and eat produce with specific healing benefits Use ergonomic tools and methods to redefine garden chores as beneficial exercise Redesign your garden as a space for beauty and relaxation
Download or read book Pedometer Walking written by Mark Fenton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Fenton, television personality and author of the best-selling Complete Guide to Walking, teams up with top exercise researcher, David R. Bassett, to help readers get moving. These guys know what works, and they've got pedometers on the brain. During the last ten years, pedometer use has grown exponentially. "Step counting" broke into the exercise vocabulary when Oprah started sporting her own pedometer, and the mania has only grown. Ten years ago there were five pedometers on the market; today there are dozens. But what to do with them? Hearing the cries for solid information, authors David R. Bassett and Mark Fenton have stepped up. Covered in this guide are a history of step counting--Jefferson was a fan, and a pedometer was designed by Leonardo da Vinci--advice on choosing a pedometer, and a guide to starting a pedometer program, with looks at successful ones in the U.S., Australia, and Europe. Most important may be the chapters treating the tremendously successful 10,000-steps-per-day programs initiated in Japan, as well as the modifications it needs to work for children and senior citizens. Aside from the pedometer itself, Pedometer Walking may be one of the most important exercise tools in years.
Download or read book Find Your Path written by Carrie Underwood and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie Underwood's instant New York Times bestseller on honoring your body, fueling your soul, and getting strong—a great gift idea for fans of fitness and the megastar country singer. "I want to be healthy and fit 52 weeks of the year, but that doesn't mean I have to be perfect every day. This philosophy is a year-round common-sense approach to health and fitness that involves doing your best most of the time—and by that I don't mean being naughty for three days and good for four. I mean doing your absolute best most of the time during every week, 52 weeks of the year."—Carrie Underwood Carrie Underwood believes that fitness is a lifelong journey. She wasn’t born with the toned arms and strong legs that fans know her for. Like all of us, she has to work hard every day to look the way that she does! In FIND YOUR PATH she shares her secrets with readers, with the ultimate goal of being the strongest version of themselves, and looking as good as they feel. Carrie’s book will share secrets for fitting diet and exercise into a packed routine—she’s not only a multi-Platinum singer, she’s a businesswoman and busy mom with two young children. Based on her own active lifestyle, diet, and workouts, FIND YOUR PATH is packed with meal plans, recipes, weekly workout programs, and guidelines for keeping a weekly food and workout journal. It also introduces readers to Carrie's signature Fit52 workout, which involves a deck of cards and exercises that can be done at home—and it sets her fans on a path to sustainable health and fitness for life. Fit52 begins with embracing the "Pleasure Principle" in eating, making healthy swaps in your favorite recipes, and embracing a long view approach to health—so that a cheat a day won't derail you. Throughout the book, Carrie shares her personal journey towards optimal health, from her passion for sports as a kid, to the pressure to look perfect and fit the mold as she launched her career after winning American Idol, to eventually discovering the importance of balance and the meaning of true health. For Carrie, being fit isn't about crash diets or a workout routine that you're going to dread. It’s about healthy choices and simple meals that you can put together from the ingredients in your local grocery store, and making the time, every day, to move, to love your body, and to be the best version of yourself.
Download or read book The Big Book of Health and Fitness written by Philip Maffetone and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your healthcare into your own hands create a personalized diet and exercise plan to keep you fit, healthy, and active throughout your...
Download or read book The Ruth Stout No Work Garden Book written by Ruth Stout and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you really have a productive garden without plowing, hoeing, weeding, cultivating, and all the other bothersome rituals that most gardeners suffer through every growing season? "Sure," says Ruth Stout, a prolific author and writer at 80 years young. The reason that Ruth can throw away her spade and hoe and do her gardening from a couch is a year-round mulch covering, 6 to 8 inches thick, that covers her garden like a blanket. Thousands of curious gardeners have visited her Redding, Connecticut garden, including university scientists and horticulture experts. The experts have been dazzled by the technique used by the queen of mulch! But the results of 41 years of gardening experience can't be denied. The Ruth Stout No-Work Gardening Book gives Ruth's unique advice on growing techniques and tells how she has escaped the bugaboos that haunt most gardeners. Her poison-free method of combating slugs and other insects, her scheme for growing tasty vegetables all year, her method of foiling both drought and frost -- these and many other growing secrets are revealed -- secrets that have brought this perky organic gardener season after season of growing pleasure. If you're tired of being a slave to your garden, yet still want to enjoy it without the bother of sprays, weeding, hoeing or other toilsome garden chores, The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Books has the information you need. It's completely tested gardening method, perfected during more than 40 years experience and reported in the pages of Organic Gardening magazine, eliminates gardening strain and toil, and does it organically with no dangerous chemical fertilizers or toxic sprays. Take it easy. Put nature to work in your garden.
Download or read book Exercised written by Daniel Lieberman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising—not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing. “Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit, and enthusiasm.” —Bill Bryson, New York Times best-selling author of The Body • If we are born to walk and run, why do most of us take it easy whenever possible? • Does running ruin your knees? • Should we do weights, cardio, or high-intensity training? • Is sitting really the new smoking? • Can you lose weight by walking? • And how do we make sense of the conflicting, anxiety-inducing information about rest, physical activity, and exercise with which we are bombarded? In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the story of how we never evolved to exercise—to do voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. Using his own research and experiences throughout the world, Lieberman recounts without jargon how and why humans evolved to walk, run, dig, and do other necessary and rewarding physical activities while avoiding needless exertion. Exercised is entertaining and enlightening but also constructive. As our increasingly sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases such as diabetes, Lieberman audaciously argues that to become more active we need to do more than medicalize and commodify exercise. Drawing on insights from evolutionary biology and anthropology, Lieberman suggests how we can make exercise more enjoyable, rather than shaming and blaming people for avoiding it. He also tackles the question of whether you can exercise too much, even as he explains why exercise can reduce our vulnerability to the diseases mostly likely to make us sick and kill us.
Download or read book The Joy of Movement written by Kelly McGonigal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback. The bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based book that doesn't tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement. Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it's a chore. But, as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn't have to be. Movement can and should be a source of joy. Through her trademark blend of science and storytelling, McGonigal draws on insights from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and evolutionary biology, as well as memoirs, ethnographies, and philosophers. She shows how movement is intertwined with some of the most basic human joys, including self-expression, social connection, and mastery--and why it is a powerful antidote to the modern epidemics of depression, anxiety, and loneliness. McGonigal tells the stories of people who have found fulfillment and belonging through running, walking, dancing, swimming, weightlifting, and more, with examples that span the globe, from Tanzania, where one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes on the planet live, to a dance class at Juilliard for people with Parkinson's disease, to the streets of London, where volunteers combine fitness and community service, to races in the remote wilderness, where athletes push the limits of what a human can endure. Along the way, McGonigal paints a portrait of human nature that highlights our capacity for hope, cooperation, and self-transcendence. The result is a revolutionary narrative that goes beyond familiar arguments in favor of exercise, to illustrate why movement is integral to both our happiness and our humanity. Readers will learn what they can do in their own lives and communities to harness the power of movement to create happiness, meaning, and connection.
Download or read book Grow the Good Life written by Michele Owens and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, passionate argument for the backyard vegetable garden, drawing on science, history, and stories from the author's garden. Our parents saw supermarkets and processed foods as the height of convenience. But nothing is more convenient than grocery shopping in the backyard. A vegetable garden offers the best defense against rising food prices, the most environmentally sound way to eat, and better exercise than any gym. It will turn anyone into a wonderful cook, since nothing tastes more vibrant than homegrown. And it can take less time every week than a trip to the supermarket. In Grow the Good Life, Michele Owens, an amateur gardener for almost two decades, makes an entertaining and persuasive case for vegetable gardens. She starts with two simple but radical ideas: Growing food on a small scale is easy, and it is absurdly rewarding. With her wry, funny, and accessible approach, Owens helps beginning gardeners overcome obstacles that keep them from planting a few seedlings every spring. She explains why dirt isn't dirty; the health benefits of growing one's own food; and that vegetable gardens are not antithetical to the frantic pace of modern life, but simple and undemanding if intelligently managed. Grow the Good Life is not just another how-to. Instead, it will teach you the true fundamentals of vegetable growing: how to fit a garden into your life and why it's worth the trouble.
Download or read book How to Grow written by Marcus Bridgewater and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this transformative guide, TikTok’s most popular gardener, Marcus Bridgewater—aka Garden Marcus—offers lessons for growth rooted in lessons from the plant world to help cultivate the soul. Marcus Bridgewater has been compared to Bob Ross and Mister Rogers for his soothing TikTok videos that relate botany to humanity. A gardener “who shares tips about caring for one’s plants and oneself” (New York Times) and “is not only a trove of information if you’re looking to flex your green thumb, but a balm for the pandemic-induced chaos happening in the world” (Vogue), his soothing observations on plants and life have made him a social media star. In caring for over 600 plants, Marcus has gained invaluable wisdom. Life inside us yearns to grow; like plants, humans maximize their potential when presented with the right conditions. Through care and attention, he reminds us, we can successfully cultivate growth. Centered on a trinity of wellbeing—Mental Health, Physical Fitness, and Spiritual Awareness, How to Grow weaves together insights from the garden with stories from Marcus’s life to help you foster personal development. With lessons rooted in his experiences gardening—from how a replanted flourishing sweet potato vine is a reminder that all living things benefit from a change of scene, to how to embrace patience to foster growth—this inspiring guide helps you do “the dirty work” (pun intended) to discover kindness, patience, and positivity within. “We cannot make anything grow,” he advises. “But we can foster an environment where it may grow.” How to Grow isn’t a gardening book. It is a self-help book that draws inspiration from the garden. Original, timely, and filled with nurturing wisdom, it takes perennial knowledge from plants to teach us about ourselves and opens our eyes to what we are capable of achieving.
Download or read book Beginner Gardening Step by Step written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you surrounded by weeds? Is your lawn forlorn? Are your bushes diseased? Do you long to create an outdoor space you can enjoy with friends – a garden you can proudly show off? Beginner Gardening step by step shows you the basics needed to get your green space under control and keep it that way. Drawing on the world-renowned expertise of the Royal Horticultural Society, the book is packed full of creative ideas with lots of simple step-by-step instructions and clear images to help you realize your garden’s potential, no matter the size and scale. Get to know your garden and choose plants that will grow well in particular soil types and conditions year after year. From planting and training decorative climbers to designing seasonal hanging basket displays and growing your own tomatoes, these are the small jobs that will make a huge difference to how your garden looks and feels. Get your gardening gloves on and dig in to discover: -Bitesized visual content broken down into sections such as flowers, lawns, shrubs, and herbs, the book contains over 100 photographic step-by-step sequences. -A gardening book ideal for first-time gardeners looking for guidance and inspiration as they start out on their own gardening Take the anxiety out of planting, potting, and pruning, and make the most of your precious patch of land.
Download or read book Walking for Health and Fitness written by Frank S Ring and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine my surprise when walking solved my major health problem! -Watch my video below for the complete story- Are you like me? Or, should I say like I was in the recent past. Injured again from running, not exercising due to the injury, my body not recovering as quickly as it did when I was younger, and feeling a little depressed. I needed help to get in shape during the rehab from my back injury. I found walking is the easiest way to get in shape and stay in shape. Why should you be enthusiastic about Walking for Health and Fitness? Walking is free. Walking is easy to do. Walking is easy on your muscles, joints, and bones! Walking for Health and Fitness gives you specific steps to take to get moving today and keep you moving well into the future. Its 170-pages were designed to be read quickly, highlight the benefits of walking, and most importantly... get you out the door walking! Each of its 22 chapters ends with "Your Next Step"; a very simple plan-of-action to follow as you begin your walking exercise. Discover the benefits of listening to audiobooks with the FREE DOWNLOAD of the Walking for Health and Fitness Audiobook. An investment in yourself! Doctor's visits, lost time at work, and the lessened quality of life due to preventable illness all add up to a significant sum of time and money. This book is an investment in yourself! What could be better than that? Your health, happiness, and life depend on it! There's no question walking is good for you. Think about the tortoise and the hare. When you take a long-term view of the benefits of walking for health and fitness, you'll see it makes sense to slow yourself down and to continue to walk for fitness to stay healthy well into old age. Also, let me show you how to get in shape after 50. The book is organized into 4 sections: Getting Started Basic Training Beyond the Basics Mindset Don't become a statistic! Health care costs steadily increase with body mass Obesity is one of the biggest drivers of preventable chronic diseases Heart disease and stroke cost America nearly $1 billion a day Low back pain has a major economic impact with total costs related to this condition exceeding $100 billion per year. Your Next Step: You must decide right now not to become a statistic. You have it within yourself to take control of your health! After a back injury forced me out of work for four months, I began walking for exercise as a way to get in shape. Being out in the fresh air, feeling the rhythmic movement of the walking stride, and using walking meditations to get deeper into my thoughts with a walking meditation. As a walker I've: Slowed down and improved my mindset Done Walking meditation Listen and absorbed audiobooks Take pictures Recorded my thoughts into my iPhone Looked forward to my walks Also, I supercharge my walk with bodyweight exercises and I've used walking to lose weight! In contrast, when I was a runner and worked out at the gym I'd have to get myself psyched up just to get out the door and I usually used the little annoyances in life as an excuse to not work out. Walking has worked wonders in my life so let me show you how to get in shape and use walking for exercise to improve your health and fitness. Discover how to get in shape the easy way. Watch my video below and read the Look inside preview! Walk on, Frank S. Ring
