Pocket Guide to Fitness:
What You Need to Know to Start Working Out Effectively
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Written by Louiza Patsis, this book is a well-written, easy-to-understand guide for the beginning to intermediate fitness enthusiast. It asserts that fitness is more than the physical body exerting itself in a workout - it is also one's mind/body connection that is the determining factor in the journey to fitness transformation.
The book is fifty-nine pages long and covers a variety of step-by-step guides in sections such as:
- Your Spirit and Your Work Out: Be Non-Attached
- Perfection Context and Being Straight with Yourself
- Success = Getting Up, Over and Over Again
- Learn to Listen to Your Body
- Interval Training
Louiza Patsis explains the mental, spiritual, and physical requirements used in working out alone or in a gym with gym equipment and certified personal trainers. The Pocket Guide to Fitness will provide individuals a road map for a spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical journey to health and wellness resulting in a joyful, balanced life. She combines concepts that can be found in the newly-popular The Secret (written before this book's publication) to practical science facts shown in sections such as: Metabolic Equivalent (MET), One-Rep Maximum, Oxidative Respiration for Muscle Energy, and Some Easy Food Substitutes for Dieting. In the book, Patsis shows what you need to get and to stay on the road to fitness, from the mental attitude, to reading clues from your body, to nutrition facts, to exercise plans.
Mrs. Patsis shows how a middle-of-the-road approach combining principles of believing in oneself, scientific knowledge, spiritual strengths, and proper thoughts can gear you into the road for lifetime fitness. With nutrition tips, practical workout tips for every day, concepts such as what fitness really is, commitment, and loving your body, and programs from beginning to advanced for different muscle groups such as abdominal muscles, arm muscles and leg muscles, this book is a comprehensive and simple fitness guide in a nutshell. When read and digested, this book can serve as a guide to lifetime fitness in the context of love for your body, connection to your body, and responsibility for your body's health.
Mrs. Patsis has a Bachelor's of Arts in Chemistry and Masters of Science in Biology from New York University. She has been certified as a personal trainer by the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine and the International Sports Sciences Association.
Pocket Guide to Fitness: What You Need to Know to Start Working Out Effectively (ISBN: 978-1-4259-5675-2) is available through www.authorhouse.com, www.amazon.com, www.bn.com and www.louizapatsis.com. It is also available through special order at your local bookstore. |
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