Total Core Fitness : Stronger, Leaner, and Fitter to the Core

The hottest, most sought-after fitness program today, core fitness training focuses on the tranversus abdominus, a deep abdominal muscle that is crucial to maintaining lumbar spine strength. As recommended by sport scientists, physiotherapists, and osteopaths, maintaining core stability through core training strengthens weak muscles and imbalances originating inside the body. This book instructs on the most effective stretches, poses, and workouts, taken from a range of fitness principles that include yoga, Pilates, t’ai chi, and weight training. The end result is an all-around workout of core muscles with benefits that include—

An increase of energy and stamina

Improved posture

Reduction and often elimination of lower back pain

A more trim, better looking body

Increased muscle strength

A boost in the body’s flexibility

The author’s recommended workouts focus on virtually all parts of the body. Detailed exercise instruction is enhanced with more than 100 how-to color photos.

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Fitness fads come and go, but one habit you should pick up and stay with for a lifetime is core training. Strengthening your body’s core muscles—those muscles that keep you upright, and which are located around the abdomen and spine—increases flexibility and joint mobility. It also ensures good posture as you go about your day-to-day activities. Keeping your core strong is vital because core muscles come into play nearly every time you move.

Drawing the best exercises for core strengthening from regimens such as yoga, Pilates, weight training, and fit ball, Total Core Fitness is your handbook for building a healthy core, no matter whether you’re 16 or 60. It’s about the quality of your exercise, not the quantity. Total Core Fitness will help you feel fitter and perform all normal daily activities with ease. Improved health, well-being, strength, and flexibility are all within your reach.

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Wouldn’t you like to wake up every morning feeling fitter than you are now? You can when you use this book as your guide. Designed to help you elevate your body to function at top efficiency, Total Core Fitness is unlike any other fitness program. Its emphasis is not on repetitions and bulking up muscles, but on helping you attain a fitter, more functional body, which moves fluidly and performs daily activities with ease.

Total Core Fitness takes the best stretches and exercises for building core strength from tried-and-true regimens, such as:

Yoga

Pilates

Weight training

Stability ball

Follow the workouts suggested and in no time at all, you’ll feel stronger, stand taller, and experience a deeper level of relaxation.

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Kathy Corey is a Master Teacher of the Pilates Method and is the Director of the West Coast Pilates Certification Program in California. She co-wrote Powers Pilates with Stefanie Powers, and is a contributor to Pilates Style magazine.