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James Smith is back to challenge everything you thought you knew about the path to fulfilment and happiness. With hard-hitting home truths and a helping of tough love, be prepared to reset your outlook, redefine your goals and truly consider: What does success truly mean to you?

This is not a diet book. Are you ready to change your life? Welcome to the James Smith revolution. Self-confessed disruptor of a billion-dollar diet industry, James is armed with every tool you’ll ever need to achieve incredible results from dieting, training and staying in shape to identifying the fads, phonies and nonsense that get in the way of genuinely lasting progress.

For runners, cyclists, triathletes, swimmers, and cross-country skiers, getting older doesn't have to mean getting slower. Drawing from the most current research on aging and sports performance, Joe Friel—America's leading endurance sports coach—shows how athletes can race strong and stay healthy well past age 50. In his groundbreaking book Fast After 50, Friel offers a smart approach for athletes to ward off the effects of age. Friel shows athletes how to extend their racing careers for decades—and race to win.

Despite the immense popularity of yoga today, there is surprisingly little knowledge of its roots among practitioners. This book brings together the core teachings of yoga in the words of their authors, rather than in the secondary versions of modern interpreters. Including key passages from the Upanishads, the Buddhist and Jaina traditions, the yoga sections of the Indian Tantras, and many texts that are being critically translated for the first time, Roots of Yoga provides a comprehensive and immediate insight into the essential texts of the Indian traditions of yoga.

Tiredness. Pain. Stress. They affect your productivity. They rob you of precious time with your loved ones or your hobbies. They decrease the quality of your life. Could you imagine what it’s like to be free of these complaints more often than not? You’ll walk into the office with a spring in your step and deliver top-notch work. Then, you’ll get together with friends or do personal projects for hours. The good news is, you don’t have to resign yourself to merely imagining these outcomes.

What if the ability to look, feel, and perform at peak capacity wasn’t the stuff of lore but instead was within easy reach? In Boundless, the New York Times best-selling author of Beyond Training and health and fitness leader Ben Greenfield offers a first-of-its-kind blueprint for total human optimization. Boundless guides you every step of the way to becoming an expert in what makes your brain tick, your body work, and your spirit happy.

That the average adult spends 50 to 70 percent of their day sitting is no surprise to anyone who works in an office environment. But few realize the health consequences they are suffering as a result of modernity's increasingly sedentary lifestyle, or the effects it has had on society at large. In Get Up!, health expert James A. Levine's original scientific research shows that today's chair-based world, where we no longer use our bodies as they evolved to be used, is having negativeconsequences on our health.

In today’s fast-paced world, we’ve never been busier. We’re surrounded by pressures from work, family, study and social media. It can feel like there’s never time to truly switch off and relax. But the answer is simpler than you think - and it’s within you. Through simple, easily learned techniques The Book of Rest reveals how to find a moment of peace even in the busiest of days, and a path to a calmer, happier and more relaxed you.

Nicknamed 'Mountain Man' by the Sunday Telegraph, James Forrest is the record-breaking adventurer who climbed every mountain in England and Wales in just six months - the fastest ever time. Solo and unsupported, he walked over 1,000 miles and ascended five times the height of Everest during his 446-peak challenge. And he did it all on his days off from work, proving it is possible to integrate an epic adventure into your everyday life.

Without the right mindset, no one will reach their health and fitness potential, and that's exactly what James Atkinson focuses on in this book. James Atkinson knows what it takes to set a goal, and only through sustained, consistent motivation will that goal ever be met. This book is for anyone who wants to make a change in their life but doesn't know where to start, or doesn't think they have the motivation to meet their goals because after all, motivation is a shared quality in any type of fitness goal.

Long distance running is much like any other fitness training. If you want to improve, you need a good plan that has a progressive nature. If you are new to this game, you need a solid foundation to build on. Having a running program is not the only thing that you need. Sound advice and running tips should be taken from someone who has "walked the walk", or in this case, "ran the run".

How would you like a fitness and weight-loss plan that's easy to start, fun to do, personal to you, and is guaranteed to give you real fitness results that will change your life forever? What if you could finally achieve long-term weight loss or other fitness goals? What if you could easily implement mindset tricks, small diet tweaks, and quick exercise routines to enhance your whole lifestyle? Imagine making small, simple, positive changes to your lifestyle that will have a huge impact and last forever!

Recovering from Training is the ultimate guide to the theory and practice of recovery from training. It will allow the dedicated athlete and coach to plan out training, diet, and recovery strategies for optimal results. If you can recover better, you can train more, train harder, and make better gains over time.

Have you been dreaming so long about having toned and well-defined muscles? Do you have no idea how you can start achieving the body of your dreams? The good news is that this book can show you how! Bulking up and maintaining a toned physique cannot be easily accomplished without the right plan and discipline. Most of all, a definitive guide can go a long way in walking you through the steps you need to take to achieve your bodybuilding goals.

So many gimmicks and fads exist in the world of exercise today. It's tough to know what to look for in a great workout. We all know a person or two who lost a bunch of weight or built up a ton of muscle with one program or another, but the program just didn't work for you or doesn't focus on your fitness goals. As our understanding of health and wellness improves, we have learned that staying fit and active plays an important role in how our bodies function. Yet, despite this understanding, we struggle with committing the time and effort it takes to work on a critical component of our health.

Why do people race in Ironmans? Only a person whose good sense was severely impaired would decide to do a race marked by such agony and suffering - a race that makes no sense to normal people. Russell Newell would find out when he signed up for the second oldest Ironman in the country: Lake Placid, in the idyllic Upstate New York village nestled in the Adirondacks. Russell would then question his sanity and test his resolve as he attempted to finish the 2018 Ironman Lake Placid...despite almost drowning, crashing on his bike, and more.

Change your life in just 15 minutes. Joe Wicks, the nation’s favourite Body Coach, teaches you how best to harness your day with life hacks, tips and tricks to help you feel your best.

Your fitness and weight-loss journey starts right here! Find the empowerment you have been seeking. It really has been a life-changer for many people, helping them not only to find a progressive beginner workout routine, but also helping to create a mind-set that will drive them to achieve their fitness and weight-loss goals. Now, it's your turn!

Strength training does not mean you need to spend hours in a gym. You can literally use your own body weight in the comfort of your own home and at your own pace. The exercises start at a beginner level and can be customized to your fitness level. As you progress, a series of carefully crafted routines helps take you through a series of workouts suited to your needs, complete with warm-ups and cool-downs too.

The New York Times bestselling author and human performance expert tests his knowledge and theories on his own aging body in a quest to become an expert skier at age fifty-three.