Miranda Esmonde-White

Aging Backwards: Updated and Revised Edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Every day, we have a very clear choice: We can grow older or we can grow younger.

In recent years the field of aging research has exploded with new clinical findings. Many misconceptions about agingincluding the belief that disease, immobility, and pain are inevitablehave been debunked. Today we know that the choices we make, from what we eat to how much we move, play a critical role in healthy aging.

PBS fitness personality and bestselling author Miranda Esmonde-White created her exercise program, Essentrics, more than twenty years ago. In that time, she has helped everyone from professional athletes to breast cancer survivors to weekend warriors heal and recover from injuries using her breakthrough method of gentle, eccentric stretching and exercise. Now cutting-edge research validates what so many of her clients have learned firsthand: small, consistent movements that engage all of the body's muscles and connective tissues keep us strong, capable, and young.

In this updated and revised edition of Aging Backwards, Miranda offers the tried-and-true program that has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, as well as new insights into the science of aging. In particular, she explains how engaging the fasciathe collagen-rich connective tissue that protects, supports, and literally binds our body togetheris essential for preventing joint problems, arthritis, stiffness, and injury. Using the Essentrics program, readers can build core strength, strengthen and tone muscle, increase flexibility, and speed weight loss, all in just 30 minutes a day. Aging Backwards empowers everyoneyoung and old, athletic and sedentarywith the information and tools to live longer, healthier, happier lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062880536
• Artikelnr.: 52534497

Autorenporträt

Miranda Esmonde-White is a New York Times bestselling author and one of America's greatest advocates and educators of healthy aging. Following her career as a professional ballerina, Miranda developed her own fitness technique, Essentrics® in 1997, and became the flexibility trainer to numerous professional and Olympic athletes and celebrities. Her top-rated fitness TV show, Classical Stretch has been airing on PBS and Public Television since 1999, with workouts are available on DVD and streaming; and she offers fitness holidays and live teacher trainings at locations across the globe.

Esmonde-White's award-winning PBS documentaries, Aging Backwards, Aging Backwards 2, and Forever Painless are revolutionizing the way we understand the role that fitness plays in slowing down the aging process while keeping our bodies feeling young, strong and healthy. She is also the author of Forever Painless: End Chronic Pain and Reclaim Your Life in Just 30 Minutes a Day, which was the recipient of a silver prize Nautilus Award.