Collins Gem - Keeping Fit Book

If you thought keeping fit was all about lycra and designer gyms, Collins Gem Keeping Fit is out to prove you wrong. Starting with general fitness, the handy pocket-sized guide explores the many medical reasons for cultivating a fit body--respiratory, cardiovascular, muscular, fitness during pregnancy, old age and childhood. Basic guidelines follow, explaining why and how you should warm up and down, how to achieve different kinds and levels of fitness and how to prepare for a lifetime of exercise. A variety of different ways of exercising then follow--the usual suspects of jogging, cycling, working out, aerobics and weightlifting are interspersed with the more novel, such as t'ai chi, line dancing, salsa, boxing and yoga. If all this sounds too much like hard work, the chapters on chilling out, the feel- good factor and optimum vitality are what you need. Filled with colour photographs, this small but perfectly formed guide is neat enough to slip into any training bag.Read More