Based on his own experience transforming himself from a degenerate bar fly into a dedicated runner who qualified for the Boston Marathon, Ben Kaplan provides a week-by-week training program, split into four sections, each concluding with a race from 5km to a full 26.2-mile marathon. With wit, self-deprecation, and the input of experts from around the world, he provides critical information on nutrition and hydration, selecting shoes, race strategy, pacing, proper form, motivation, and how to stave off injuries while continually crossing new finish lines. He shares running music recommendations provided personally by a variety of pop and rock stars, including Paul Simon, Justin Bieber, The Black Keys, Ghostface Killah, Willie Nelson, Feist, and Norah Jones. Kaplan's infectious enthusiasm about running — and music — inspires the most recalcitrant runners to lace up their shoes and hit the pavement.
This easy-to-use, practical guide helps runners safely build strength and endurance, get motivated and set realistic goals, choose the proper footwear and clothing, eat right, and avoid injury. Completely updated, this fourth edition contains a wealth of new material. A revised RunWalk program gives runners a choice between running 10K or covering the distance by running and walking. A whole new chapter on preparing for charity runs reflects the popularity of getting fit while giving back to the community. There are expanded and enhanced sections with cross-training options such as trail running and bootcamp sessions; information on running through pregnancy; facts about barefoot running, minimalist shoes and shorter strides lengths, plus links to online sources of information and running communities. Combining advice from the experts, training tips and testimonials from runners of all ages, The Beginning Runner's Handbook is a step-by-step road map for achieving running success.
In this hard-hitting indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, Ray Moynihan and Allan Cassels show how drug companies are systematically using their dominating influence in the world of medical science, drug companies are working to widen the very boundaries that define illness. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness, and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD.Selling Sickness reveals how expanding the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt national healthcare systems all over the world. This Canadian edition includes an introduction placing the issue in a Canadian context and describing why Canadians should be concerned about the problem.
Popular physician and personality Art Hister's practical, humorous guide to reaching a ripe old age in the best of health. Dr. Art Hister is well known for his authoritative, common- sense, and very funny books about how to stay healthy. Following on the heels of the highly successful Midlife Man, this book presents Hister's advice for avoiding disease and living well, now and into the golden years. Taking a straightforward approach, Dr. Hister tells you how to eat, drink, exercise, sleep, and not smoke your way to good health and long life. He also leads you through the maze of conflicting information about diet, weighs the pros and cons of alcohol, and discusses various exercise programs and stop-smoking techniques. In addition, Dr. Hister looks at non-traditional therapies such as acupuncture, naturopathy, reflexology, and herbal therapies, and gives advice about when to see your doctor. Authoritative, up-to-date, and written in Dr. Hister's trademark humorous style, Dr. Art Hister's Guide to Living a Long and Healthy Life contains a plethora of practical, down-to-earth information for anyone who cares about his or her health.
As earthquakes have struck around the world with alarming frequency, millions have realized they are unprepared for similar catastrophes close to home. Online disaster plans and older books—heavy with seismic science and a survivalist focus—leave the average reader overwhelmed with details and anxiety. How much water will I need? What if I’m driving? How do I protect my six-year-old? The questions go on—and in this book Maggie Mooney answers them. Her four-week readiness program includes straightforward instructions, forms, and checklists. Mooney explains what to expect during a quake, and what to do when the shaking stops. She also addresses both aftershocks and tsunamis.Use this guide and the checklists inside to get ready:Find your safe spots at home, at work, at school, and outdoors.Develop your emergency communication plan.Shake-proof your home.Assemble emergency supplies. By following the steps in the four-week readiness program described here you can avoid injury and ensure you have the food, water and other essentials you need to be prepared rather than scared.
Whether you're a longtime outdoorsperson looking to get your kids involved in the activities you loved B.C. (Before Children), or have no outdoor experience but want to enjoy a new sport alongside your children, Extreme Kids will take the whole family on an adventure. Learn the basics of outdoor sports, some extreme (whitewater rafting, kiteboarding, backcountry skiing), and some less so (day hiking, peak bagging, flatwater canoeing), and how to share them with your kids. The book also includes practical and philosophical reasons for family outdoor adventuring. It's never too early to hit the trail (or the river, or the vertical wall) with your kids–each section has an easier version of an extreme sport to get the family's feet wet before diving in.
This book facilitates an all-encompassing journey of personal empowerment and spiritual growth in 7 essential steps. Taking a peek into the subtle realms, sharing ancient wisdom and consulting ground-breaking science, it offers fascinating new insights and readers will experience powerful transformational shifts, emerging from stress and fear to empowerment. The 7 Steps process is designed to serve as a guide on your path toward your own development, growth and enlightenment. Buddha taught that this world is an illusion. As we awaken and grow in consciousness, we begin to see through the illusions. This book explores the nature of these illusions. With each of the 7 Steps, we will be lifting another veil of illusion. When a veil of illusion is lifted, you will find yourself in a whole new plane of existence, perceiving everything very differently than before. This 7 Steps process is unique in that not only is it informative, interactive and experiential, it is also hugely transformational. Narina Riskowitz is an experienced Transformational Therapist and Soul Coach. She runs spiritual development courses, embraces energy healing and works holistically with groups and individual clients. She has developed her own healing modality, combining regression journeys with energy healing for complete results. A firm believer in the mind-body link, most of her work is aimed at releasing negative emotions and limiting beliefs and so restore her clients' natural health and inherent confidence. Her ground-breaking course material resulted in her signature soul coaching tool: Lifting the Veils of Illusion , now captured as this enriching 7 Steps book.
In <em>Alchemy for the Mind: Create Your Confident Core</em>, Rhian Sherrington, life coach and behaviour change specialist, draws upon neuroscience, positive psychology and theories of behaviour change to offer a concise and informative way to create and nurture a ‘confident core’ to enable you to succeed and flourish in your life.
A wonderful fiction debut, Being Esther gives voice to Esther Lustig, an extraordinary woman who has lived a conventional life, in this touching exploration of aging. In spare, unsentimental prose, Miriam Karmel provides readers with one of literature’s finest portraits of the last months of a woman’s life. Sad and amusing, unpretentious and ambitious, Karmel’s prose brings understanding and tremendous empathy to the character of Esther Lustig, a woman who readers will recognize and embrace. Born to parents who fled the shtetl, Esther Lustig has led a seemingly conventional life — marriage, two children, a life in suburban Chicago. Now, at the age of 85, her husband is deceased, her children have families of their own, and most of her friends are gone. Even in this diminished condition, life has its moments of richness, as well as its memorable characters. Being Esther reflects the need, as Esther puts it, for better roadmaps for growing old.
Ежедневно мы являемся свидетелями того, как мир вокруг нас стремительно изменяется. Как найти возможности использовать происходящее себе во благо? Вы научитесь: – видеть собственные ресурсы и способности; – определить пути совладания с неопределенностью и турбулентностью текущей ситуации; – найти возможности использовать происходящее себе во благо. Максим Гончаров, врач-психотерапевт, кандидат медицинских наук, держатель европейского и всемирного сертификатов по психотерапии (ECP, WCP), директор Adidas Academy.