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Boomers and Others Fitness
by Thomas A. Busch
148 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0129; ISBN 1-55212-730-3; US$19.95, C$19.95, EUR14.00, £10.00
A complete boomers guide to fitness including exercises in strength training / weight training, nutrition supplements, cardio, injuries, etc.
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About the BookA one-stop shop book for all you need to "get fit" including (strength training complete with pictures, nutrition, supplements, cardio, injuries and more). This information is for all of you who are 20-90 and also includes special sections on tips for the Baby Boomer Generation. As well as regaining your vitality, energy, vigor and lust for life, you are ensuring you will be leading a healthy lifestyle well into the new millennium where statistics show we are going to live longer than we ever thought‹how does 70-100 years sound? Are you going to be fit or just living? Now is the time to start! You won't need another book unless the basic principals are changed and the world changes as we know it! I wrote this book so that it did not read like your favorite dictionary but more on the light side, so you can pick it up and put it down and start again without having to start all over. However, don't mistake this book as being light on the information side, it contains all you need and more. I would like all you out there reading the book to take to heart its essential overriding message which is, one of hope, that each of us can reach our goal no matter our personal fitness level is no matter our age and no matter what our life experiences have taught us to date. |
About the AuthorThe author was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the heart of the oil and gas industry and cattle ranches in Canada, the American equivalent of Texas, where after one too many snow falls, he moved to beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, an island off the BC coast and our answer to LaLa land. It is truly a city where cultures of all kinds abound. It is everywhere and after several years, I began to succumb to the siren call (very dramatic-eh!). Now, in addition to writing, I have begun to try my hand at painting, God, what next? Click here to visit Tom's web site.www.Boomers AndOthersFitness.com |
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Sample Excerpts
Exercises
Standing Hammer Dumbbell Curls (biceps):
Stand with your feet about shoulder width and your arms, holding dumbbells, hanging at your side with your palms facing in, see figure 17. Curl the dumbbell straight up with no twist and at the top of the movement, squeeze the biceps, and keep your elbows glued to your sides so that the biceps have to
do all the work. An additional benefit to this is that it is an excellent forearm movement also.
Supplements
Bromelain - this acts like a little Pac Man and goes to the joints scar tissue and like it's namesake, eats away at the scar tissue which is causing the pain.
Nutrition
Proteins:
proteins account for approx. 40-50% of the material in your body. Although this may seem low, I continue to advocate that your muscles require good quality protein in large amounts, in order for them to grow when talking in a strength training sense, keeping in mind that what our body is composed of is not the same as what it needs to be healthy. My suggestion is between 1.8 and 2.0 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day for those involved in training.
