Susan Winter Ward and this encouraging vinyasa-style yoga class of Baby Boomers will inspire beginners of all ages to experience the life-enhancing benefits of a yoga practice.

"Connecting the lower spine to the hips and legs, a strong and flexible psoas muscle is vital for everyday movements like walking, bending and reaching, as well as athletic endeavors like jumping for a ball, holding a yoga pose and swinging a golf club. With targeted information and exercises, this book's step-by-step program guarantees you'll transform this vulnerable muscle."--Back cover.

For those who suffer from aches, pains, and creaky joints, this handy reference shows how to keep the body's skeleton young and healthy. Including a series of stretches, this guide explores how muscles, joints, and bones work, how and why they wear and tear, and how to combat stiffness and pain. Treatments focus on the lower back, thoracic spine, neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles, and feet. Further advice teaches the warning signs...

Get healthy without getting hurt with this guide to warming up, getting limber, and preventing injury before you exercise. It doesn't matter if you're a fitness novice or an elite athlete. You should be starting each workout exactly the same way, with a stretching regimen designed to warm up your body and help you achieve a new personal best each time. Without the expertise of a professional trainer and without an expert's understanding of muscle...

"From PBS personality and injury prevention and recovery specialist Miranda Esmond-White comes a ... guide to anti-aging, arming readers with tools they need to turn back the hands of time"--

"End muscle and joint pain. You've probably heard that as you get older, you are guaranteed to have more muscle and joint pain. That's simply not true. These chronic ailments arise from years of decreased activity and poor posture -- not aging. End Everyday Pain for 50+ presents a complete 10-minute-a-day program to correct previous damage, develop healthier joints, and stay pain free at any age. This book's step-by-step approach provides quick relief...

"Get up and get moving with these active animal friends! Teach your little one the power of moving their body each day with these fun yoga-inspired stretches made just for little kids. Each workout is explained on the left side of the page and the corresponding illustrations show kids just what to do." --publisher's website.

"Stretching is the most popular fitness book in the world, having sold over 3ℓ million copies in 40 years. It has been translated into 23 languages. In this new edition there are stretches for improving the bad posture attributable to cell phone usage ("tech neck"), and for people using computers. It features stretching routines specific to a variety of people, including sports enthusiasts, travelers, children, gardeners, and people in wheelchair"--...