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The Complete Book of Abs for Women: The Definitive Guide for Women Who Want to Get into the Ultimate Shape

Kurt Brungardt

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THE FIRST AB-WORKOUT BOOK CREATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR WOMEN—FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MONUMENTAL BESTSELLER THE COMPLETE BOOK OF ABS

After the phenomenal success of The Complete Book of Abs, Kurt Brungardt now targets the particular needs of women with a workout bible for every stage of life. Fully illustrated and written in a clear, conversational style, The Complete Book of Abs for Women maps the road to a trim and toned stomach, slender hips, and a healthy state of mind. Inside you’ll discover:


• Ab basics: the key concepts, techniques, and principles of abdominal training that are essential for achieving the best results
• A sustainable nine-week ab regimen—divided into three fitness levels—to strengthen and tone your abs, lower back, and deep-core muscles
• Strategies for enhancing both body and mind, from self-image and nutrition to relaxation and performance
• A complete wellness program that includes stretching, cardio workouts, and weight training
• Workouts tailored for busy working women and for exercising with a partner, plus age-specific routines for girls, teenagers, and women over fifty
• A special section on safe exercises for pregnant women—and a program for mothers who wish to get back into swimsuit shape after pregnancy
• routines for every lifestyle: from Pilates- and yoga-based workouts to gym super-sets—even an easy ab office workout that can be done at your desk
• exercises that target specific areas: lower abs, upper abs, and obliques


With a wide variety of routines, nearly 100 exercises, anatomical illustrations, and more than 300 photos, The Complete Book of Abs for Women is destined to become another Kurt Brungardt classic in the field of health and fitness.

The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Women's Edition, Deluxe Edition: The Way to Physical Perfection (Includes DVD) (Body Sculpting Bible)

James Villepigue, Mike Mejia

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The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Women’s Edition
Includes Free DVD

The follow-along DVD designed to help every woman get that toned and slender waistline.

The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Women’s Edition shows women how to get the abs she wants...and her man desires. The abdominal muscles, stomach, and waistline are targeted in this unique book and DVD combo, featuring the best exercises, the best nutrition plan, and the best training schedule out there.

The invigorating 14-day program includes a follow-along DVD to jumpstart the break-in workout. Combining traditional and trendy exercises, this book uses the periodization principle to teach a quick, easy way to burn body fat and create a slender but toned waist. Inside you’ll find:

• just-for-women features like a focus on reducing body fat and motivation techniques

• dozens of specially selected abdominal exercises, from traditional crunches to stability and medicine balls

• an all-new 30-minute follow-along DVD to keep you motivated

The Body Sculpting Bible for Abs: Women’s Edition has everything that made the original editions so popular, without the gimmicks, diet pills, or gadgets.

Women's Guide to Strength and Anatomy Training

Mark Vella

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See How Your Muscles Work Before You Work Your Muscles!

Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Women provides magnificent visual insight into what happens to your muscles when you exercise. You'll be able to isolate specific muscle groups and design the most targeted program possible.

Anatomy for Strength and Fitness Training for Women gives you:

• 100+ muscle-by-muscle illustrations for an inside look at how exercise affects your muscles
• 70+ exercises--ranging from free weights to machines to yoga and aerobics--that will sculpt your entire body and will give you a sexy chest, toned arms and legs, slimmer hips, a strong back and shoulders, and flat abs
• Tips for good form to maximize safety and effectiveness
• Expert commentary on each exercise, covering everything from history to cautions and benefits
• Specific exercise programs for muscle tone and strength
• A difficulty rating for every exercise, ranging from beginner to advanced

Six-Week Bikini Countdown: Tone your butt, abs, and thighs fast combining Pilates with select strength and cardio interval training workouts

Karon Karter

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Not just for Women! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Not just for Women! As a Doctor of Chiropractic I have encouraged patients of both sexes to buy the book. It is filled with great workouts that can challenge people of all fitness levels. Targeted at the muscles needed to stabilize and support your body (the "core"), not only will this help you tone, but strengthen as well.

Karon integrates exercises like Pilates (long a favorite exercise of dancers) with exercises usually only performed by elite athletes like "plyometrics" and interval training (made popular recently in an article published in The Australian Journal of Applied Physiology). Pilates was started by Joseph Pilates as a way to rehabilitate wounded soldiers during World War I. It emphasizes control, strengthening and stretching of key muscles in the body. Plyometrics uses quick short movements to help build strength, and speed. Interval training usually involves high speed workouts along with lower intensity workouts such as sprints, while performing a longer run. Interval training helps burn calories and increases cardiovascular fitness.

Karon's program is FUN! Her writing style is easy to read, follow, and is entertaining. She takes you from the basics, to more advanced exercises as your skills improve. By the time you're done you'll have a better body, not just a better "bikini body."

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With a minimal time commitment any woman can sculpt away her body trouble spots

There isn't a woman on the planet who doesn't dream about looking great in a bikini-until they are faced with the huge amount of time and sweat equity involved in reaching swimsuit cover model shape. Feeling intimidated and overwhelmed, they give up before they start. However, readers can get a bikini body-not by working harder, but by working smarter. Exercise guru, Karon Karter, featured on The Natural Wellness Channel's "Pilates for Real Bodies" program, takes the best Pilates moves and combines them with the most effective leg, butt, and ab firming exercises to get in bikini shape in the shortest amount of time possible. Using targeted routines, women will re-sculpt and firm muscles in key trouble areas. Built around a 6-week timeline, Karon Karter offers a specific course that gives women the shortest legitimate way to sculpt their body to bikini perfection.

3-Minute Abs: Achieving the Look You've Always Wanted in Only 3 Minutes a Day

Kurt Brungardt

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Excellent program 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book gives the essentials for a thorough workout of each section of the abdominal wall: upper abs, lower abs, and obliques. When performed properly, the excercises deeply and thoroughly work each of these areas. The book streamlines the process for realistically sculpting defined abs and includes general advice on diet and muscular concentration.

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Do you think you need special equipment to train your abdominal muscles? Do you think the models you see in fitness magazines look like that all the time? Kurt Brungardt, author of The Complete Book of Abs, dispels those myths in this tiny but information-packed book. He has a radically different idea about exercising abdominal muscles: instead of working them all at once, he believes, you should divide the muscles into three distinct regions--upper, lower, and sides--and work them for three minutes each on separate days. The exercises he recommends are interesting and challenging, and he even includes a few dietary tips, noting that exercise alone won't give someone the much-coveted "washboard" look.

Yoga Abs: Moving from Your Core

Judith Hanson Lasater

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A unique vocabulary exists that ascribes a variety of emotions to the belly: "my guts are in a knot," "I knew it in my gut," "gut-wrenching," and "no guts, no glory." Yet too often, more emphasis is placed on the way the abdomen looks than how it feels and functions - a sterling six-pack can mask true abdominal trouble. Yoga Abs outlines a series of exercises, yoga poses (asana), and breathing practices designed to achieve optimal health for this crucial area, which houses the organs of both digestion and procreation. Drawing on her experience as a yoga instructor and physical therapist, Judith Hanson Lasater discusses the anatomy and philosophical aspects of the abdomen and offers a set of movements that create awareness of important muscles while developing and maintaining abdominal strength. Each exercise and asana lists the props or supports needed, safety guidelines, and practice instructions, and the book includes practical guidelines for moving mindfully through everyday tasks.

Awesome Abs: The Gut Busting Selection for Men & Women

Paul Chek

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Good explanation of anatomy, not a good variety of exercises 2 out of 5 stars.
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This book does a good job of explaining the anatomy and function of the abdominal & back muscles, but it's hard to follow because you have to flip back and forth to get to the correct diagrams. There isn't a good variety of exercises. Many of the exercises require cable machines that aren't available at the gym I go to. Definitely not a book for doing exercises at home.

Pretty good book on ab development, but outdated 3 out of 5 stars.
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I have to give this book credit, it sticks to its topic very well, making the book concise and easy to follow. It opens with the basics of ab anatomy and then moves in to various exercises and programs for strengthening and developing the abdominals. Only at the end does it stray slightly off course and discuss the nutritional aspects of ab development.

The one area where this book stands out (and my reason for purchasing it a while back) is that it focusses on the pelvic tilt associated with improper ab development. For about $... it might be worth it just for this information.

The downside is that this book is out of date. Swiss balls are the current rage in ab developed and the book author has titles devoted entirely to this subject, yet they aren't mentioned once.

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This is an easy-to-read wonderfully illustrated book, packed with awe-inspiring photographs of some of the best-known` bodybuilders.

Fitness Made Simple

John Basedow

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Discover John Basedow's secrets for getting the body you've always wanted

Fitness expert and media icon John Basedow's body-transforming plan is literally Fitness Made Simple. After trying just about every fitness fad and gimmick with little success, John developed this multidimensional approach that is improving the bodies and lives of thousands of men and women, from teenagers to grandparents. Fitness Made Simple is not just about losing weight. It's about changing your entire body composition so that you increase lean muscle mass and decrease body fat. This easy-to-follow program eliminates all the guesswork for building the body of your dreams with John's comprehensive “Fitness Triangle”:

Nutrition: By concentrating on natural protein sources, healthy fats, and slow-digesting carbs, you'll never be hungry, your junk food cravings will disappear, and fat will melt from your body.

Exercise: Utilizing a combination of cardiovascular and weight training workouts, you'll look great, feel better, and strip away fat to reveal those six-pack abs!

Supplementation: Not all supplements are created equal. John shows you which fat loss and muscle building products can actually produce cosmetically significant results, rather than just false hope and a depleted bank account.

Plus, John tells his own inspiring story of how he took control of his body and life, while accumulating years of health and fitness wisdom along the way. His signature “John-isms”--helpful quotes sprinkled throughout this book--will keep you motivated to stick with your new fitness lifestyle.

Bullet-Proof Abs : 2nd Edition of Beyond Crunches

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Discover How to Gain Maximum Muscle-Strength in Minimum Time, Using Breakthrough Techniques That Blow the Roof Off Traditional Ab Exercises

As a former Soviet Union Special Forces conditioning coach Pavel Tsatsouline already knew a thing or two about how to create bullet-stopping abs.

Since then, he has combed the world to pry out this select group of primevally powerful ab exercises—guaranteed to yield the fastest, most effective results known to man.

According to Pavel, "Crunches belong on the junk pile of history, next to Communism. `Feeling the burn' with high reps is a waste of time!" Save yourself countless hours of unrewarding, if not useless—if not damaging—toil. Get with the program. Make fast gains and achieve blistering, rock-hard abs now.

Fry your abs without the spine-wrecking, neck-jerking stress of traditional crunches—using this radical situp designed by the world's leading back and muscle function expert, Professor Janda, from Czechoslovakia.

No one—but no one—has ever matched Bruce Lee's ripped-beyond-belief abs. What was his favorite exercise? Here it is. Now you can rip your own abs to eye-popping shreds and reclassify yourself as superhuman.

When it came to wanting titanium abs yesterday, the Soviet Special Forces didn't believe in delayed gratification. Pavel gave them what they wanted. If you want abs that'll put you in the world's top one percent, this cruel and unusual drill does the trick. Also discover:

How to protect your back and develop exceptional abdominal muscle tone, with a landmark exercise designed for the special needs of Russian ballet dancers and gymnasts.

The secret weapon of an old time strongman famous for his exceptional strength and a sinewy, wiry physique.

How a little known secret from East German research radically transforms the traditional situp.

A drill Russian full contact fighters use to increase their striking power and toughen their midsections against blows. Unlike anything seen in the US!

A Yoga asana which tightens the internal muscles of the abdominal wall and makes your waist smaller—even if you have not lost a pound!

The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker

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