Fitness For Everyone

50 Exercises For Every Type of Body

No matter who you are, you can perform every exercise in this book.

You want to get into shape but feel limited by your weight, age, or ability. You want to exercise but think everything seems too difficult. You want to develop a fitness routine but don’t want to be forced into something. You want simple, flexible, and effective.

You know that exercise can benefit you physically and mentally, including lowering stress, increasing energy, and, yes, burning fat. But you also know that if you’re not exercising consistently, you’re not giving yourself the best chance to bring your body into balance.

Fitness for Everyone can help you with these goals and many more. This book offers these features:

• 50 exercises that have modifications for every body type
• 10 fitness routines for specific physical and mental benefits
• Expert fitness advice on how to incorporate fitness into your everyday life

If you thought you couldn’t do a pushup or a jumping jack or a burpee, Fitness for Everyone has the right modification for you to allow you to do these exercises and dozens others. And you’ll soon start saying “Yes, I can do every exercise in this book!”

Big Fit Girl

In Big Fit Girl, Louise Green describes how the fitness industry fails to meet the needs of plus-size women and thus prevents them from improving their health and fitness.

By telling her own story of how she stopped dieting, got off the couch, and unleashed her inner athlete—as well as showcasing similar stories from other women—Green inspires other plus-size women to do the same. Green also provides concrete advice, based on the latest research, about how to get started, how to establish a support team, how to choose an activity, what kind of clothing and gear work best for the plus-size athlete, how to set goals, and how to improve one’s relationship with food.

And she stresses the importance of paying it forward—for it is only by seeing plus-size women in leadership roles that other plus-size women will be motivated to stop trying to lose weight and get fit instead.

“Positive representation of diversely sized athletes is the key to the future of women of size in sports. When we see ourselves pictured in magazines, on television, and in advertisements, we feel invited, inspired, and motivated to join in.”

"Louise Green tells it like it is: the fitness industry does not meet the needs of plus-size women, but that should not stop you from getting fit - in the body you have. Inspiring and empowering." - Taryn Brumfitt, Producer & Directory Embrace the Documentary, Body Image Movement

"Finally - A Fitness book for the rest of us! Louise Green is the fitness hero of my dreams, and this book is sure to usher in a new generation of tough, curvy athletes." - Jessamyn Stanley, author of Everybody Yoga

"I'm thrilled to live in a world where Big Fit Giril will be a part of the Health section. Thank you Louise - it's time for every person of every size to have access to this information!" - Jes Baker, The Militant Baker

"Big Fit Girl impressed me tremendously, Green combines compelling storytelling with practical tips - true to what we know about science - in a unique way that will get you moving" - Lindo Bacon, PhD, scientist, and author of Body Respect