Here is where we take a unique and comprehensive stance on the anatomy of exercise. These pages are full of useful information and made accessible to anyone who exercises, including weight watchers, bodybuilders, fitness fanatics and sports people.
These pages include exercise types typically overlooked in similar works, such as aerobic activities, stretches and stability work. The pages take into consideration the ways in which the body's systems depend upon one another to generate movement.
There is an enormous amount of variation to these exercises that can be made, since for any one single exercise there are perhaps four or five different ways to altar the stimulus by changing grip, foot position, speed of movement and so on. These pages include some of these variations for many exercises.
EXERCISE: YOGA: PILATES:
1) Warm Ups 1) Breathing Basics 1) Introduction
2) Stretching 2) Warn Ups & 2) Principles
Cool Down
3) Legs & Hips 3) Basics
3) Standing Poses
4) Back 4) Stretchers
4) Forward Bends
5) Chest 5) Beginner
5) Backbends
6) Shoulders 6) Intermediate
6) Seated Poses
7) Arms & Twists 7) Advanced
8) Core 7) Arm Supports
& Inversions The Art Of Weight Loss
& Weight Gain
8) Yoga Sequences
The best use of these pages is as a reference manual for understanding both positioning and muscular involvement of exercises, and should stimulate some thought when performing a given exercise about how the rest of your body plays a part in any particular movement.