Author: Peg Jordan
Publisher: East West Books
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 235
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186852905
Description
The fitness Instinct presents not just the most effective way to get healthy exercise but also a whole new way of thinking about your body and its needs.
Forget expensive gyms and ridiculous workout programs! Forget wafer-thin models and all those unattainable bodies that Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and television love to depress us with! In fact, forget everything you've ever learned about exercise and fitness! Because Peg Jordan is going to show you a whole new way to tap into your natural instinct for movement to achieve the best body of your life.
Based on more than 20 years of research by one of the fitness industry's most respected leaders, The fitness Instinct blends the best current thinking on exercise with the wisent of natural, mind-body theories to teach each of us how to take fitness and wellness into our own capable hands.
With Peg Jordan as your guide, you'll discover your own fitness personality- the way your unique body prefers to move. You'll stop thinking in terms of must-do exercise regimens and will fall into a lifestyle of can't-do-without movement, be it dancing, stretching, sprinting, or strolling.
Follow Peg's 11 step plan, and you'll learn:
1. Ways to spread moments of healthy movement throughout your day
2. How to still your body for calm and refreshment
3. The times of day when your particular body most needs to move
4. How to make movement and fitness more spiritually enriching
5. How to integrate stretching, strengthening, and aerobic movements more naturally into your day
Contents
Introduction: The Path to Instinctual Fitness
CHAPTER 1
Why the Fitness Bandwagon Has Passed By So Many
CHAPTER 2
Discover Your Fitness Personality
CHAPTER 3
Free Yourself from Old Myths
CHAPTER 4
Fire Your Bad-News Chorus
CHAPTER 5
Cultivate Your Still Point
CHAPTER 6
Awaken Your Seventh Sense
CHAPTER 7
Move to Your Internal Clock
CHAPTER 8
Explore Alternative Moves
CHAPTER 9
Gather 30 as You Go
CHAPTER 10
Reclaim Your Inner Trainer
CHAPTER 11
Find Your Hidden Motivation
CHAPTER 12
Quick Fixes: Let Your Instincts Guide You
Epilogue: Unleashing your Seventh Sense
Index
About the Author