Selene Yeager
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Women are built differently, ride differently, burn different macronutrients as fuel, and have a different relationship with their bikes than men do. It's only natural they should need their own comprehensive cycling book. This book is an instructional manual geared specifically toward women. It breaks the sport of cycling down into easily digestible sections, beginning with the history of women's cycling and progressing into equipment, lifestyle,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Obesity specialist Dr. Levine says America suffers from "sitting disease"--the age of electronics has left us less active, by up to 2000 daily calories, than we were thirty years ago. What we need, he says, is to get moving, or nonexercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT). NEAT is as simple as standing, turning, and bending. Research shows that daily NEAT activity burns more calories than an hour on a treadmill, and can boost metabolism, lower blood...