Book of The Month

 The Definitive Guide to Pilates Exercises The complete Pilates programme includes more than 100 mat and standing exercises for absolutely everyone – beginners to advanced, plus workouts for special needs and groups such as back and neck problems, pregnancy, young people and seniors. All the sequences are easy to follow, fully illustrated and accompanied with .. Continue Reading

Pregnancy should be a positive experience, a natural state when a woman’s body is at its full potential, but many women can find this time unsettling due to increased hormone levels, physical changes and external pressures. Yoga during pregnancy can be a valuable tool, not only as a form of exercise but as way of .. Continue Reading

An introducing practical guide to how to reduce, prevent, and manage stress. Stress is experienced by every one of at us some point in our lives and can be damanging to our personal and work lives as well as our health. Introducing stress management – a practical guide covers a wide range of methods for .. Continue Reading

The Groundbreaking 2-week Plan for a Lean, Beautiful Body The Physique 57 Solution is an innovative workout that’s incredibly effective for weight loss and body sculpting. In just 57 minutes, the workout’s signature sequence of moves (isotonic and isometric exercises, complemented by orthopedia stretches) works every muscle group in the body to systematically lengthen and .. Continue Reading

One Woman’s Quest For a Size Normal | Anne H. Putnam | Faber and Faber | £12.99 For anyone who’s ever avoided the mirror, skipped swimming or got stuck in a dress in a changing room…Almost every woman worries about her weight. For Anne H Putnam, it became unavoidable – by the age of seventeen .. Continue Reading

Regardless of your starting point, past failures, or bad luck with familial genes, you can turn things around quickly – starting with your next meal and next workout. Your genes expect you to be lean, strong, energetic and healthy. Take Mark Sisson’s “21-day Primal Challenge” and watch the pounds begin to melt away. Based on .. Continue Reading

The Autobiography by Sebastian Coe | Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd | £20 One second in time may separate the great athlete from the merely good. Seb Coe has made every second count. From an early age he has been driven to be the best at everything he does. Since the moment Coe stood .. Continue Reading

This title features classic pilates postures for strength, flexibility and toning, on 52 sturdy cards contained within an attractive presentation tin box. It is a complete, practical, easy-to-follow Pilates routine, with step-by-step guidance and postures specially chosen for beginners and intermediates. It features over 170 photographs that clearly show how to follow the exercises, and .. Continue Reading

After facing frustrating, unsuccessful attempts to manage cravings and lose weight, dieters are about to experience a revelation: The key to shedding pounds, as well as banishing bloating, water retention, and headaches, may lie in the types of carbohydrates they are, or are not, eating. Based on an in-depth exploration of a nutritional breakthrough that .. Continue Reading

World-weary, distracted and more often than not the worse for wine, Michael Booth really needed to make some major changes to his life. Instead, he embarks on an over-ambitious, self-indulgent attempt to write the definitive book on Indian food, taking his wife and two young children in tow. They criss-cross India, from mist-shrouded Delhi to .. Continue Reading