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A world-class trainer to high-profile athletes showcases his breakthrough core-strength program for women who are serious about performing better in all aspects of their lives. World-renowned strength and performance coach Mark Verstegen has trained top-notch athletes and countless workaday warriors in getting into the best shape of their lives. He's spent years developing a variety of strategies for a wide range of clients, and he knows the essential keys for building lean muscle, increasing strength and endurance, and breaking through plateaus. Expanding on his successful Core Performance brand, Verstegen shares his valuable, revolutionary program tailor-made for women. Core Performance Women is geared toward developing the right mind-set for success, while presenting a targeted nutrition and workout plan to guarantee results. Essential to Verstegen's program is his focused approach to proper recovery and muscle regeneration, which helps athletes gain full advantage of their time in the gym and prevent injury. Verstegen offers his strategies for success, revealing his "non-diet" plan and four new rules for nutrition, including fast-food meal plans for women on the go. Packed with full-color photographs detailing each exercise, along with full workout routines and integrated meal plans, Core Performance Women takes every woman to the top of her game.

Extraordinary things happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.

A revolutionary approach for transforming thoughts and habits from one of the world's most sought-out experts in human behavior. Mostofusdreamofdoingbiggerthingswithourlives.Westriveforstronger relationshipswithfamily, toconquerourbadhabits, ortogetaheadinour careers.Yet, sooftenwefeelheldback, caughtinpatternsofnegativethoughtor behaviorthatpreventusfrommovingforward.Meanwhile, theincreasing demandsofour24/7always-onculturemakeusevenlessabletoperformatour best. FirstpresentedintheHarvardBusinessReview, whereitwasheraldedasa groundbreakingideaoftheyear, EmotionalAgilityisatransformative, research-basedmethodthathelpsusacknowledgethesedifficultfeelingsand experienceswithoutgettingderailedbythem.Emotionallyagilepeople understandthatnegativityisapartoflife.Butratherthangethookedbyit, they areabletoharnessthisreality, acceptsetbackscourageously, andmakesmallbut powerfulchangessotheiractionsalignwiththeirvalues. Drawingonmorethantwentyyearsofresearch, fascinatinginsightsfrom behavioralscience, andpowerfulexamplesfromherconsultingpractice, Harvard psychologistSusanDavidshowshoweachofuscanachievethistransformation. ThousandsofpeoplerangingfromUNambassadorstoparentstocorporate executiveshavealreadyfoundthatEmotionalAgilitygivesthemthetoolsneeded tobreakthroughday-to-dayanxieties, becomemoreproductiveandcreative, and makelastingchangeinthewaytheywork, parent, andlive.Writtenwithwitand empathy, "Emotional Agility" isalandmarkguidethatproveswedon'tneedtobe perfecttoreachourfullpotential

Blurring the line between everyday and special occasion cooking, Nadine Levy Redzepi elevates simple comfort food flavors to elegant new heights in Downtime. When you’re married to Noma’s Rene Redzepi you never know who might drop by for dinner…So Nadine Redzepi has developed a stripped-down repertoire of starters, mains, and desserts that can always accommodate a few more at the table, presenting them in a stylish yet relaxed way that makes guests feel like family--and makes family feel special every single day. Gone are the days when the cook is expected to labor alone in the kitchen while family or guests wait for their meal. In the Redzepi home everyone gravitates toward the kitchen to socialize, help, or graze on tasty bites while dinner is prepared, and Nadine wouldn’t have it any other way. Her culinary mantra – pair the very best ingredients with restaurant-inflected techniques that make the most of out their inherent flavors -- puts deliciousness at home well within reach for cooks of all levels. In Nadine’s confident hands, weeknight mainstays like tomato bruschetta, pan-seared pork chops, slow-roasted salmon, or dark, fudgy brownies feel new again. Each recipe is studded with tips to help cooks build confidence and expertise as they cook, as well as restaurant-ready techniques that contribute precision, flavor, and plate appeal to even down-to-earth preparations. With a newfound mastery of essential building blocks like homemade mayonnaise and beurre blanc, a flavorful tomato sauce, or a genius do-it-all cake batter that can be reinvented in a myriad of ways, creating showstoppers like White Asparagus with Truffle Sauce; Rotini with Spicy Chicken Liver Sauce; or a decadent Giant Macaron Cake – just as Nadine does on a daily basis--soon becomes second nature. Downtime is a celebration of the joys of cooking well –and making it look easy while you do it, an aspirational guide for any cook ready to take their home cooking to the next level without sacrificing ease or enjoyment in the process.

A bold new plant-based plan that challenges popular keto and paleo diets, from an award-winning gastroenterologist. The benefits of restrictive diets like paleo and keto have been touted for more than a decade, but as renowned gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, or Dr. B, illuminates in this groundbreaking book, the explosion of studies on the microbiome makes it abundantly clear that elimination diets are in fact hazardous to our health. What studies clearly now show—and what Dr. B preaches with his patients—is that gut health is the key to boosting our metabolism, balancing our hormones, and taming the inflammation that causes a host of diseases. And the scientifically proven way to fuel our guts is with dietary fiber from an abundant variety of colorful plants. Forget about the fiber your grandmother used to take—the cutting-edge science on fiber is incredibly exciting. As Dr. B explains, fiber energizes our gut microbes to create powerhouse postbiotics called short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that are essential to our health. SCFAs are scientifically proven to promote weight loss, repair leaky gut, strengthen the microbiome, optimize the immune system, reduce food sensitivities, lower cholesterol, reverse type 2 diabetes, improve brain function, and even prevent cancer. Restrictive fad diets starve the gut of the critical fiber we need, weaken the microbes, and make our system vulnerable. As a former junk-food junkie, Dr. B knows firsthand the power of fiber to dramatically transform our health. The good news is that our guts can be trained. Fiber-rich, real foods—with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes—start working quickly and maintain your long-term health, promote weight loss, and allow you to thrive and feel great from the inside out. With a 28-day jumpstart program with menus and more than 65 recipes, along with essential advice on food sensitivities, Fiber Fueled offers the blueprint to start turbocharging your gut for lifelong health today.