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The Complete Book of Pilates for Men: The Lifetime Plan for Strength, Power & Peak Performance

The Complete Book of Pilates for Men: The Lifetime Plan for Strength, Power & Peak Performance

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A comprehensive, take-anywhere exercise program designed to improve men’s strength, flexibility, balance, and posture

Have years of office work wreaked havoc on your posture? Could your tennis or golf game use a boost? Do you appear or feel older than your age? Or do you carry yourself in a manner that expresses strength, power, and peak performance to everyone around you?

In recent years, Pilates has become a popular exercise program, especially among women. Many books on the subject show lithe female bodies stretched across their covers. Top Pilates instructor Daniel Lyon Jr. aims to break the preconception that Pilates only benefits and appeals to women. “This couldn’t be further from the truth,” he asserts. “Joseph Pilates was a cigar-smoking boxer, acrobat, and gymnast, and he developed his exercise program from that background for men first.” Likewise, Lyon designed this book specifically with men in mind, as the number of male Pilates practitioners — among them professional athletes, actors, businessmen, and other high-profile personalities — has rocketed to about three million and continues to grow.

For athletes, working stiffs, and men recovering from injuries, Lyon offers the first comprehensive exercise program of its kind. He walks you through forty “traditional mat” exercises and more than sixty “reformer on the mat” exercises — each one brilliantly illustrated — in an inspiring self-guided program that adapts to all experience levels and requires nothing more than floor space, an exercise mat, and the desire to look and feel your best. Using the Pilates method of engaging the strongest parts of the body, or the “powerhouse” (Joseph Pilates’s term for the abdominals, hips, lower back muscles, and buttocks), and integrating all other body parts from this core, Lyon’s program targets trouble spots for men and helps them achieve strong, lean, masculine physiques.

The Complete Book of Pilates for Men will deliver quick and long-term results to any man who seeks optimal fitness and a competitive edge in all aspects of his life.

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The Language of Yoga: Complete A to Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants (Sanskrit and English Edition) Reviews

The Language of Yoga: Complete A to Y Guide to Asana Names, Sanskrit Terms, and Chants (Sanskrit and English Edition)

  • Finally, a tool to help yoga teachers and students pronounce asana names and yoga terms correctly!
  • The Language of Yoga is the definitive A-Y of yoga specific words. (There is no Z in Sanskrit)
  • Useful for yoga teachers and students

This interactive book/cd set includes more than 200 asanas with illustrated yoga postures and 300 Sanskrit definitions. Nicolai Bachman teaches you how to read and pronounce these sacred sounds with precision, and guides you through seven yoga chants with exact rhythm, tone, and pronunciation. This is an indispensable reference guide for any serious student of yoga.

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Complete Taekwondo Kicking

Complete Taekwondo Kicking

The Complete Kicking DVD contains the complete system of taekwondo kicks from beginner to black belt and beyond. Each kick is explained in detail then demonstrated on a target, against a partner and with varied footwork. This DVD is an excellent resource for students of all styles who want to expand their kicking repertoire. You get all of the kicks taught on both the Kicking Fundamentals and Black Belt Kicking videos indexed in an easy to use format. Jump right to the set of kicks you want to work on without fast forwarding or rewinding.

Over 40 kicks taught including front kick, side kick, roundhouse kick, raising kick, ax kick, inside crescent kick, outside crescent kick, jumping kicks,spinning kicks, hopping kicks, double kicks, triple kicks and jumping spinning kicks.

DVD BONUS MATERIAL: Includes short programs on conditioning, stretching, relaxation, meditation, sparring strategy and training tips for kicking.

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Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection

Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection

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1. Energize – Beginner Level
Feel the power. Be the power. Unlock the strengthening, slimming, detoxifying and reenergizing of Power Yoga. Bryant Kest leads you in vigorous workout based on the robust Ashtanga style of yoga.

“If you’re doing the best you can, you’re doing this class perfectly,” Kest explains. After instructions on proper breathing, the session begins, taking you and an on-screen class through a variety of flowing, dynamic exercises (salutation, lungs, balancing, spinal stretches and more) augmented by Kest’s demonstrations of the poses.

2. Tone – Intermediate Level
Challenge your muscular strength aerobic endurance, flexibility, balance and mental stamina with Tone.

An innovative series of lunge moves provides the primary activity in this workout that emphasizes finding your personal edge – the maximal yoga pose that still permits proper yogic breathing. Kest guides you and an in-studio class in a total-body regime that helps maintain flexibility and suppleness while building strength and well-being. Features comprising various poses are described so that you can add elements as you become more adept.

3. Sweat – Advanced Level
Looking for an advanced yoga routine? Then get ready to sweat.

“This program is definitely challenging,” Kest admits about this maximal power-up session that builds upon the strength, stamina and flexibility cultivated in the first two Power Yoga programs, combining a vigorous lung series with extended standing balance and floor stretch moves, the routine flows from one pose to the next while working toward total body/mind harmony. The brisk pace provides instruction, encouragement and commentary to assist you and the on-screen class.Anyone wanting to get in shape like the stars need go no further than Bryan Kest’s videos. Kest teaches wildly popular yoga classes in Santa Monica, California–so popular that stars like Rhea Perlman, David Duchovny, and Elisabeth Shue willingly sweat alongside the hoi polloi in Kest’s packed, ancient loft studio. If you don’t happen to be in the neighborhood, not to worry: Kest’s yoga videos are nearly as good as being there. Volume 1: Energize is a beginner level class that nonetheless is smartly designed to provide challenges for all levels of users. Kest’s Jersey-boy voice at first seems in contrast to the serene environment and inner-peace objectives, but it gradually becomes soothing and hypnotic in its own right. Stretches and strengthening moves are alternated with just enough repose to keep even first timers on track. After mastering Vol. 1, practitioners can go on to Volume 2: Tone or Volume 3: Sweat to further challenge themselves. As long as you keep in mind Kest’s personal mantra–”If you’re doing the best you can, you’re doing this class perfectly”–you and this video should have many satisfying years of workouts together. –Anne Hurley

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Classical Pilates Technique – The Complete Mat Workout Series English & Spanish (Modified Basic / Basic / Intermediate / Advanced / Super Advanced)

Classical Pilates Technique – The Complete Mat Workout Series English & Spanish (Modified Basic / Basic / Intermediate / Advanced / Super Advanced)

Classical Pilates technique videos feature two of the most renowned Pilates professionals in the world, master instructor Bob Liekens and commentator Alycea Ungaro, who uphold the tradition and high ideals of Joseph Pilates original New York City Studio, which began during the 1920s. This DVD serves to preserve the original, classical method in the face of current challenges. Each exercise is performed flawlessly, in real-time, and in correct sequence. If you already have a foundation in the principles of this exercise method, then this is the DVD to buy to further your ability. It’s not watered down, slowed down, or commercialized; it’s just Pilates the way Joseph Pilates created it.While there’s nothing flashy about this DVD, it is an invaluable tool (and the best) for those who are interested in more than the latest fad. Winner of the COMMUNICATOR AWARDS- 2003 AWARD OF DISTINCTION As a winner of this award Classical Pilates Inc. joins an exclusive list of video professionals who are recognized as the best within the industry.

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