Fitness for Everyone: 50 Exercises for Every Type of Body
An exercise book for every “body”! No matter who you are or what body type you have, there’s the perfect exercise waiting for you in this incredible exercise guide.
You want to get into shape but feel limited by your weight, age, or ability. You want to workout but think that the exercises seem too difficult. You’re looking for a workout routine that is simple, flexible, and effective. If this sounds familiar, then Fitness for Everyone is perfect for you!
Inside the pages of this motivational exercise guide, you’ll find:
– 50 exercises that have modifications for every body type
– Step-by-step instructions showing you how to do each exercise
– 10 fitness routines for specific physical and mental benefits
– Expert advice on how to incorporate fitness into your everyday life
Personal trainer and fitness coach, Louise Green, is on a mission to change the way we think about exercise! Gone are the days of restricted eating programs and high-intensity training workouts that are unsustainable in the long term. This book will show you how fitness can benefit your daily life – no matter your shape, size, age, or ability.
Whether you’ve been working out for years or you’re just getting started, you’ll find something new, challenging, and exciting throughout the pages of this self-help book. The exercises included have variations for people of all body types and abilities. From pushups and burpees to planking and tricep dips, you’ll soon start saying, “I can do every exercise in this book!”
Yes, You Can Exercise!
This inspirational book will empower you, motivate you, challenge you, and change you. It’s your opportunity to reconnect with mind and body to enjoy the many benefits of an active lifestyle, physically and mentally. All you have to do is turn the page and start your journey!
Pilates for Everyone: 50 Exercises for Every Type of Body
Pilates benefits every body–including yours!
Pilates is exercise for your mind, body, and spirit, but what if your body won’t cooperate? How can you take advantage of all Pilates has to offer–strengthening your core, enhancing your flexibility, and even improving your posture–if you think you’re too old or too big or too physically unable to perform the Hundred, the Shoulder Bridge, or the Double-Leg Stretch?
No matter what your age, size, or physical ability is, you can do every exercise in Pilates for Everyone. Each Pilates exercise shows the typical movements for gaining the physical and mental benefits from that exercise. Then each exercise offers at least three variations performed by people just like you to help you find the right modification that fits who you are. This way, no matter which version you perform, you’re going to reach similar goals.
Pilates for Everyone includes these features:
• 50 step-by-step exercises for specific body areas
• Step-by-step modifications for every exercise
• 10 routines that combine exercises from the book for maximum benefits
• Expert advice from Micki Havard on how to get the most out of your practice
Yoga For Everyone: 50 Poses For Every Type Of Body
Yoga can benefit every body, including yours! Discover how to take advantage of all yoga has to offer with this all-encompassing yoga guide.
No matter who you are or what your abilities are, Yoga for Everyone includes a fabulous 50 poses proving something for everyone to love. From plus size yoga and pregnancy yoga, to yoga for the elderly or disabled, you can explore variations and modifications to much-loved yoga poses, from the comfort of your own home. Every exercise utilizes the essential elements of yoga to ensure you can gain all the physical and mental benefits, and will also allow you to perform all 10 sequences, which combine different poses into one singular experience and focus on specific health benefits each pose has on your body.
Dive straight in to discover:
– A visually illustrated yoga guide showcasing diversity in people and their mixed fitness abilities
– 50 yoga exercises with a minimum of 3 modifications for varying body types
– 10 sequences that combine the above-mentioned exercise
– Expert information in Yoga and how to incorporate these exercises into everyday life
For years, books on yoga have asked readers to bend over backward (literally!) to conform to their physical demands. At DK, we believe it’s time to change that! Why not allow for readers to demand that yoga conform to their individual needs instead? This is yoga for real people!
Once you familiarise yourself with the yoga exercises that best suit you and your abilities, you’ll begin to notice the benefits of yoga and positive changes they have on your body, whether it’s your enhanced flexibility, your improved posture or your stronger core. What a rewarding experience for readers!
Yoga for Everyone aims to teach readers that with a little modification, anyone can practice Yoga, perfect their poses and become stronger and more confident as you go. Whether you want to structure your sun salutation or demand more from your downward dog, this all-encompassing yoga book will be your one-stop guide to achieving perfection with each pose no matter your physical ability, and learn some top tips on yoga anatomy and yoga science along the way.
A must-have volume for those who want to take up yoga but don’t know where to begin, or simply those seeking to start a low-impact exercise, Yoga for Everyone can be tailored to your individual fitness needs, so you make the most out of your poses! Why not stretch yourself, literally, this New Year and try something new? Your mind, body and soul will thank you!
The book shows yoga techniques for all age groups and abilities. Traditional yoga and chair techniques, too
The exercises are clear and ...dare I ....fun!!! Bravo!!! I love it ❤️
The pictures are your guide. The models in the pictures are people with real life challenges.
Fantastic for anyone trying to become more fit, or for a therapy group.
Recommended.
My thanks to author Louise Green. This book is a keeper!
I'm in a wheelchair and can get down on the floor fast enough (I fall real good) but have a horrid struggle, even with help, sometimes it take s call to 911 for the firemen to help, to get back up so floor exercises are a big no no. I've been limited in how many types of exercises I can do so having more options I great!
Having a disability and being in the disability community, I totally know that many people choose not to see us and may be offended at some of the photos. But, we are in the world and want to be included in it. Being welcomed to be physically fit with photos of like people in this book is so refreshing. It's terrific not to be left out or have disability addressed in a patronizing manner.
Even the disabled like to look and feel good. We who are disabled don't look at what we can't do, we look at what we CAN do. We are the Enabled. And this book enables us even more!
There are 7 models .. each with a "story page" peppered throughout the book.
One is an amputee, another wheel chair bound, ... overweight, pregnant, older ... these are not super models, they are a variety of people at different stages of life and ability. It kind of takes away the excuse when you see someone without a leg doing the exercise.
Each exercise is presented with picture steps "How To" ... then variations based on abilities ... do you need a chair, to be on the floor?
There are so many things to try out. All of these are doable and low impact but they can be vital to range of motion and strength building.
I really like that the people in the photos look "real" and not "beyond me" beautiful. Seeing that someone "not perfect" doing these makes it easier to try and keep doing.
Easy to follow exercises for all physical types and levels. There is something for everyone. Low impact and onward. You can tailor a workout plan by mixing and matching the exercises.
I am happy to have found this book and highly recommend it.
There is room for everyone in yoga. One of the beauties of this books is that it has photos of real people doing real yoga. I find this much more accessible and inspirational than line drawings because after all, it is easy to twist a line drawing into a pose but not so easy to twist a person into a pose.
Pub Date 02 Apr 2019.
Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are mine.
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Yoga for everyone and every body type. Seriously!
So many variations and well-photographed pictures that show you exactly what to do.
I always felt bad when trying yoga (numerous times), because I could never achieve the poses showed by the instructors. Yes, they said I could modify it because I am a newbie, but I didn't know how to go about the modifications.
And this is the main reason why I think this book is so amazing. It fills a gap that needed attention. It helps those of us that are not "fit" just yet.
Besides all the modifications, seeing all those different body types is so helpful and encouraging, empowering even. It literally goes beyond telling yoga is for everybody, to actually showing you that yoga can be learned and perform by anyone.
I read this book as someone that wants to learn to do yoga, but I can see this can also help yoga teachers to show their students how to go about adopting yoga poses and practices as beginners with less strength as flexible as a teacher that is probably practicing yoga for years and might not quite remember how it is intimidating for a newbie to see all those poses and balancing performed by a professional.
Yoga for everyone also shows you that the people in the book are not just models posing for the photographs. They are real people practicing yoga. Some even instructors themselves.
This book is truly a valuable resource for anyone trying to learn yoga.
I enjoyed the way the author displayed the original yoga pose, then on the next page, gave several variations depending on your body makeup, of poses that are unique to your individual needs. She covers all the basics of yoga, with 50 poses in this well written book, as well as sequences in the back you can include in your daily routine. Each is labeled to a particular personnel need you might have. The pictures instruct the reader with such clarity, that this is a great book for an at home yoga self-taught experience.
I have been teaching yoga for 10 years now, and will be recommending “Yoga for Everyone” by Dianne Bondy to my clients, to reaffirm that they CAN do yoga.
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I absolutely love this book!! This book truly demonstrates that yoga is for everyone, The book illustrates 50 yoga poses and shows adjustments that can be made to accommodate people with different body types or physical challenges or age categories.
It is very refreshing that the illustrative poses are done with models that have different body types and not just what society considers the "Perfect Body" as is marketed by most yoga publications.
I will place my order for my own physical copy. as this is a great reference book to have as a practitioner of yoga!
Yoga for Everyone is such an incredible guide for anyone wanting to try yoga. Author Dianne Bondy shows, with beautiful full-page pictures and clear instructions, how everyone can get into 50 yoga poses. She shows multiple variations of each pose to accommodate every body type regardless of age, size or disability. This really breaks the image that yoga is only for young, fit, flexible people. I highly recommend Yoga for Everyone!
First, I love the cover and the title, how it is for all people, not just us "curvy" friends, but people of different abilities and shows this without calling anyone out. There have been other yoga books I've glanced at in bookstores, but wouldn't have purchased because the cover and titled called out my own insecurities.
I love the permission this book provides. Find what you love and do it. Don't love something, just don't do it. It's made me feel more confident to try different things.
I've loved practicing with this book. I love all of the real people shown throughout the pages and learning their stories. I've already ordered a physical copy of the book to use as I continue my practice. It's amazing how seeing someone you can identify with on the pages of a book gives you the confidence that lack to do something you've always been interested in.
I received a digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I've since ordered my own personal, physical copy.
I love this yoga book and would love to see a video to go with it! The message I get from this book is that yoga IS for EVERYONE! I love it!
The first section has all kinds of good information about the benefits of yoga, as well as how to set up your own individual practice of yoga.
Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
This book has gorgeous photos showing many different ways to make a pose work for you, which makes yoga truly accessible for everyone.
The writing is beautiful, I don’t want to put this book down.
It should be required reading for every yoga teacher out there.
So forget what you've heard. Yoga isn't just for the privileged few. It's meant to be enjoyed by everybody and every body. Yes, you can do yoga—and Yoga for Everyone will show you how!
This book teaches you that yoga really is for every body type! I've always been afraid to try yoga thinking I was "too big" for it or that I was going to do it wrong and hurt myself but with this easy to follow guide I was able to try yoga successfully. It does take some practice, but this book was a great resource to learning yoga.
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Pub Date: 02 Apr 2019
I always wanted to try yoga but was reluctant to try a class or even do yoga with a friend. This book gives me the confidence that I can do yoga in my own home safely and at the stage I need.
I suffer from a variety of afflictions, including fibromyalgia. It is difficult for me to perform some of the positions yoga requires. This book, however, show additional positions to be used by those who are unable to perform the normal pose. It offers four ways that are acceptable to doing yoga.
I have begun to participate in yoga. I used the adapted forms. I have not seen a change in my abilities because it has only been one week. I have found slight advances in my stretching ability. This is very promising!!!
I love this book. It was definitely written for everyone.
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion. That in no way affects my opinion or rating of this book.