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Unlock your SUPERPOWER in 12 weeks by combining Strength Training, Pilates and Eating Healthy in one routine! This book is a step-by-step guide with clear exercises by week that progress as you become stronger and more able. It is also a step-by-step guide to eating the right foods in the right amounts that will ensure you hit your weight loss goals.

Detailing her own account of completing her first 100-mile ultramarathon, Jen brings to the fore the harshness, humour, and personal sacrifice of ultra-running. Interweaved with this are unprecedented interviews with some of the greatest ultra-women of the past 40 years, including Jasmin Paris, who triumphed in a 268-mile winter Spine Race despite stopping to express milk for her baby, and Eleanor Adams, the first woman to complete a 153-mile Spartathon ultramarathon despite opposition from male organisers.

How women can improve their productivity, happiness, and physical well-being by keeping their natural cycles in mind and working with them (rather than ignoring them). In the FLO teaches women how to use their 28-day cycle to optimise their life by letting their internal clock and natural rhythms guide time management, diet, fitness, etc.

Conquer the complexity of bone health: Learn how women can turn what may seem like an uphill battle into an empowering journey in just weeks. Do you feel overwhelmed by the complexities surrounding women's bone health? Do you yearn to take control of your bone health and prevent potential conditions?

If you are a woman over 40 and are looking for practical information on how to keep your body strong and functional in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, this is the show for you!- Do you want to learn how to exercise in a way to increase muscle and lose fat so you look and feel great today while preparing your body for the decades ahead? - Do you want to start lifting weights?- Do you want to understand the hormonal changes that are going on in your body during menopause (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and cortisol) and how those affect how you should be working out?Lynn ...

Anna was never anything like those "real" runners on telly, but when she read about New Zealand’s 3,000-kilometer-long Te Araroa Trail, she began to wonder...perhaps being a "real" runner was overrated. Maybe she could just run it anyway? The Pants of Perspective is a witty, colorful, and at times painfully raw account of a journey to the edge of what a woman believes herself to be capable of. It is a coming-of-age story that will lead you on a roller-coaster ride through fear, vulnerability, courage, and failure.

Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, the mountains have always been home for Jenny Tough. Travelling the world, she's always discovered commonalities with mountains—and mountain people. Her major project is to run solo and unsupported across a mountain range on every continent where indigenous mountain people live isolated from the outside, urban world. Running solo and unsupported comes with obvious logistical as well as physical challenges, but running is also a common language.

Running is the one thing that we all like talking about. Every week on the award winning Women’s Running podcast, we talk all things running, women, health and fitness with our own brand of happy, irreverent chat. Esther and Holly talk through their training highs and lows, and all the bits and pieces in-between. Every so often, we invite an expert to join us to help us figure out the confusing worlds of training, recovery, nutrition, health and more. And sometimes we get to talk to an incredible woman from the world of running, from Anna McNuff to Paula Radcliffe, Susie Chan to Nicky Spinks...

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter—who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England—to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed.

Yes, you can look good and feel good again! And contrary to what you may have heard from some menopausal celebrity, you don’t need to do long, intense workouts six times a week or subsist on a cup of bone broth until dinnertime. Yes, your body is changing, and you need to do things differently—and strategically—but that doesn’t mean it has to be hard or complicated. Midlife fitness expert and Instagram influencer Cara Metz gives you the how, what, why of exercise, eating, and lifestyle.

Are you ready to take control of your weight and feel leaner and more energetic in as little as seven days? Tailored specifically for women over 40, this book unveils 33 simple and practical hacks to help you curb cravings, gain energy, lose weight, and live a healthier lifestyle.

The book we've all (certainly every woman between 25 and 75) been waiting for. Classy, chic, convincing, funny, wise, well-written and very timely. It's the ultimate non-diet book, which nonetheless shows us how to eat with balance, control and above all pleasure. Chuck out all the radical diet books, think about what you eat and why, and then enjoy eating the right things (and some of the wrong ones) intelligently, and in smaller portions. Eat, like a French woman, with your head not your stomach.

Turn your body into a fat burning machine - without exercising most of the week or following a boring, bland diet! Transform your body - and finally get in the best shape of your life! Marc McLean, online personal trainer and fitness author, combines his top-selling books Strength Training for Women: Burn Fat Effectively...and Sculpt the Body You've Always Dreamed Of along with Strength Training Nutrition 101: Build Muscle and Burn Fat Effectively: A Healthy Way of Eating You Can Actually Maintain to help you finally achieve your fitness goals.

How to get fit in your 50s: What really works and why you don’t need to train as hard as you think. In 7 X Your Strength Gains Even if You’re a Man, Woman or Clueless Beginner Over 50, you will discover: 7 main reasons why bodyweight training is just right fora you even if you are over 50, why the “no pain no gain” attitude might is the biggest lie in the fitness industry, the most common mistakes in strength training and how to avoid them, and much more!

Have you caught yourself giving up training because you’re too busy? If so, then you must know one thing - you have the wrong conception of fitness! It’s not all about pouring gallons of sweat in the gym six days a week. It’s not about eating only dry chicken with plain rice for the rest of your life, and you won’t need expensive equipment and personal trainers to reach your goals.

When Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences. Running across moors and mountains used to help her feel at home in her body and the world, but now she becomes painfully aware of her inability to run without being cat-called or followed by strange men, or to walk alone at night without fear. Her eyes are opened to injustices facing women in sport, from men who push her off paths during races, to male bias in competition regulations, kit and media coverage.

The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women is a fun training manual for women who don't believe that running is their biological destiny but who dream of crossing the finish line nonetheless. Dais' audiobook features a realistic training schedule and is chock-full of how-to's and funny observations, which she felt were lacking in the guides she had consulted.

This comprehensive guide, tailored specifically for women, reveals the secrets of Wall Pilates, a revolutionary exercise method that harnesses the power of a wall to maximize your workouts.

Running for Women is a complete handbook for women who run. It provides an overview of the unique aspects of women’s running and contains research-backed training advice for races of all distances. This how-to guide will teach women how to reach all of their running goals. Intermediate-level female runners who have been consistently running at least three days per week will find this book to be useful in their training. It includes specific training advice for 5k, 10k, half marathon, and marathon races.

Sabrina Verjee is an ultrarunning phenomenon. In June 2021, on her fourth attempt, she became the first person to climb the Lake District’s 214 Wainwright hills in under six days, running 325 miles with a colossal 36,000 meters of ascent. Where There’s a Hill tells the story of an outsider who was never picked for a school sports team yet went on to become an accomplished modern pentathlete and adventure racer. After switching her focus to ultrarunning in her 30s, Sabrina moved to the Lake District, where she could hone her mountain-running skills on the local fells.