Winter Fitness Guide
A fitness regime for the winters. A tough one, isn’t it?
Staying fit during the winter season is like dieting on a vacation, like staying away from delicacies and savories during festivities and like going out for a run when all you want to do is hit the snooze button and tuck yourself deeper under the blanket. We agree, and we understand.
But imagine, if you can tweak your time around a little bit to squeeze in a few minutes of exercise and show a bit of restraint in terms of your diet, how fit and fab you will look when you shed all the layers (of clothing, and calories of course) as the days warm up.
It’s you against yourself eventually, but here are a few reads to help you take those baby steps (or touch the finishing line, in some cases) in your bid to stay fit during the colder months: Read on…
This book is a comprehensive yet concise handbook on a holistic and healthy lifestyle. In today’s world, where bookstores are filled with health books obsessed with weight loss, Dr Hooda’s stance is clear—she does not want to add another weight-loss book to the pile. Instead, what she wants to and does beautifully is help readers choose prevention as a path to healthy living. This book touches upon subjects ranging from balancing nutrients in food, food myths, challenges posed by the Indian diet, behaviour modification such as stress management and portion control, to the importance of sleep, gut health, hormones and much more. It also provides various case studies to relate to readers across all age groups.
Traditional eating habits are a delicious roadmap to a happier, healthier, kinder you. Our ancestors have a lot to teach us about hearty eating habits that not only focus on health but also the pleasure that food can bring to our lives.
This book is an amalgamation of many of those old-school ideas that modern nutrition is now trying to catch up with. It is an enticing guide to inculcate time-tested food habits so we can develop a healthy lifestyle and even more importantly, rediscover the enjoyment of food.
In The Fitness Currency, Rai asserts that everyone can earn this currency regardless of their age or stage of life. Fitness is the new currency for not just a long and successful career, but also a happier life, and the author uses his own example to demonstrate it. Staying fit is no longer an option, but a means of survival. Running the treadmill becomes doubly important when you are in a frenetic race to the top in your career. This book covers the full gamut of fitness, from mental firmness and balanced diet to ways of exercising. Step-by-step processes reveal ways of overcoming obstacles on the path to fitness. Adding weight to this book are pieces by six leading fitness experts.
This book helps you to stop the war you have with food, labelling some foods as ‘good’ and others as ‘evil’, or bemoaning exercise as something that is too time-consuming for you to fit into your already too-demanding schedule.
Whether you are in your twenties, and this is the first time you’re really trying to do something about your excess weight; or you’re in your thirties, forties, fifties, or older, and you’ve been on one or many diets to no avail, The Fast Track Guide to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off offers a unique time-management approach to this lifetime challenge.
If you are trying to lose a few inches from your waistline, your friends or well-wishers would have suggested at least one of the following:
Extreme low-calorie diet
Protein-rich diet
Lots of salad
Mono diet
Frequent small meals
Stomach stapling
Diet pills
Well, your answer to all the above should be a big NO! Instead, you should be saying a big YES to Yoga!
Unlike most other weight-loss programmes that are partial and superficial in their approach, Yoga is an ancient Indian practice, which, when accompanied by the right kind of food, does magic. And this book shows you precisely that. And the icing on the cake is that, it can all be done in the comfort of your home when the temperature drops outside.
Yoga and Diet for Weight Loss breaks all existing slimming and weight-loss myths, and prescribe certain postures of Yoga, along with the diet one should take in order to achieve better and faster results.
You will still wait for January 1st to take up the regime, won’t you?
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