Using Your Exercise Ball for Weight Loss or South Beach Heart Health Revolution

Using Your Exercise Ball for Weight Loss

Author: Lucy Knight

• The exercise ball is the next yoga...a universal fitness craze that not only trims and tonesrange of movement than floor based programmes and can therefore isolate, strengthen and stretch every muscle in your body.
• This is the first ball book to combine core stability workouts, toning exercises, cardiovascular aerobics, delicious recipes and a sensible eating plan to help you achieve gradual, sustainable weight loss.
• With regular practice, results can be gained quickly. Working out with an exercise ball will soon give you long, lean muscles and the enviable posture of a dancer.
• The exercise ball prevents and aids back and postural problems by strengthening our core stability muscles — it is an essential piece of equipment for all health and fitness professionals.
• American actress Ming-Na of hit TV series, ER, insists that it was the 30 minutes a day on the ball that helped her regain her figure, post pregnancy. Supermodel Naomi Campbell is also a convert.
• Exercise balls are fun, versatile, easy to store and cheap and available to buy on the street or in your local health and fitness centre.

Lucy Knight is a professional fitness consultant and trained dancer. Over the years, she has managed a busy health centre and built up her portfolio of health and fitness qualifications to include ballet, gym instruction, yoga, pilates, reflexology and diet and nutrition. She has written and presented eight gymball programmes on video and DVD and acted as a fitness consultant to Avon Cosmetics, Kellogg's Special K and Marks and Spencer. Her media profile is ever growing and she has featured in magazines such as Best, Slimmer Magazine and Mother and Baby.

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South Beach Heart Health Revolution: Cardiac Prevention That Can Reverse Heart Disease and Stop Heart Attacks and Strokes

Author: Arthur Agatston

Heart disease is the numberone killer of men and women in this country. This year alone, 865,000 people will have a new or recurrent heart attack, and another 700,000 will have a stroke. Don’t become a statistic—heart attacks and strokes can be prevented!

Assess your cardiac risks, avoid unnecessary surgery, and beat the odds of suffering from cardiovascular disease with this groundbreaking book. Let pioneering cardiologist and #1 bestselling author Dr. Arthur Agatston teach you:

Why your cholesterol level may not accurately indicate your risk for heart attack

How a simple noninvasive heart scan can reveal if you are a cardiac time bomb

How you can have a negative stress test and still be at risk for a heart attack

Why belly fat can be deadly—and what you can do about it

What you need to know about life-saving state-of-the-art blood testing, heart imaging, medications, and more

How to transform your lifestyle with a satisfying heart-healthy eating and exercise program that’s easy to integrate into your daily routine

...and more with The South Beach Heart Health Revolution. Change the way you treat your health, your heart, and your approach to living well—now!

“Dr. Agatston has been a guest on my show with this book. Unfortunately, it was too late to help me but, maybe, not you. The doctor is here with a revolution that can save your life.”
—Regis Philbin

Jennifer Johnston Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information - Library Journal

Agatston (medicine, Univ. of Miami; The South Beach Diet) adds yet another book to his successful series. A cardiologist for more than 30 years, Agatston focuses his expertise on what he knows best: maintaining a healthy heart. He espouses four preventive techniques: diet, exercise, diagnostic tests, and medications. The first half of the book includes Agatston's reasoning for utilizing these preventive measures, documented studies and patient testimonials, a gender-specific questionnaire, and information on when invasive surgeries such as angiograms and angioplasties might be necessary. The second part is devoted to Agatston's four-step plan, with a basic overview and sample meal plans from the South Beach Diet, a detailed workout regimen of walking and Pilates-based exercises, and discussions of which medical tests are most important in monitoring one's heart and which prescription and over-the-counter medications (and supplements) are most beneficial and why. Those previously reluctant to take medications won't necessarily be persuaded by Agatston's confidence, and the diet chapter is too slight for most to grasp—but ultimately, Agatston's popularity makes this a necessary purchase for public libraries.