| It used to be just aerobics, jogging and weightlifting, but now the ever-growing band of fitness devotees demand something new all the time and this book gives it to them. It is a compendium of the various methods to improving and achieving fitness, from the well-known to the exotic, from boxing to belly dancing, from power boarding to psychocallisthenics. There is also a section on nutrition, sports clothing and massage – everything for anyone wanting a ‘new’ body. Each exercise is rated according to its value to beginners or experts.
Author Peta Bee has been the foremost chronicler of the new fitness boom.
She writes for the award winning Sunday Times Style section as well for The Express, Daily Mail, The Times, Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard. Peta also writes for Marie Claire, Health and Beauty, Health and Fitness, Top Sante and GQ Active magazines among others.
A graduate in Sports Science from Carnegie College, Leeds Metropolitan University, Peta is 32 and lives in Surrey.
FANCY a workout with a nine iron, or maybe Moggie looks a bit flabby and both of you could do with a perk-up? Just some of the home exercise suggestions contained in an authoritative quide to the workout world put together by Peta Bee, journalist (valued contributor to the Standard, among others) and exercise expert. Cat-flexing and Golfacise, it’s true, feature in the “weird and wacky" section Elsewhere, she features more regular sweat-generators, tips on nutrition, and useful contacts for whichever workout you're into And it helps that the lady writes like a human being - “Dodging the opposite sex is reserved purely for the hours of play,” she says of the strange mixed sport of Korfball. Almost makes you want to go out and do something.
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