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Annotation A leading Harvard Medical School doctor introduces his innovative exercise plan that helps you lose weight through your day-to-day activities Media coverage of health and fitness is at an all-time high. Everyone wants to be fit and healthy but not everyone has the time, energy, or motivation to hit the gym or do laps around the track. "Light" exercise has been recommended by doctors for years, but no one knew how much was enough to make a difference. The No Sweat Exercise Plan offers you a unique point system for tracking how much exercise you are really doing, and giving you a goal to achieve each week. The book features the No Sweat Exercise Pyramids, a set of practical, visual guides that shows the types and amounts of exercise required for good health. An easy-to-follow point system assigns points to such activities as gardening, housework, climbing stairs, and walking. You simply set goals based on their personal needs, then calculate how many points you need to get--and stay--fit In the tradition of Eight Minutes in the Morning,The No Sweat Exercise Plan offers an easy plan to get fit and lose weight, without high-energy workouts The book offers an easy-to-follow point system to ensure success. Based on sound scientific data on calories burned and health benefits, and endorsed by doctors at Harvard Medical School The author is an award-winning professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who has written numerous articles for magazines and newspapers, including Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Scientific American, Ladies Home Journal, Walking, and Woman's World . In addition, his work has been cited or quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, US News & World Report, Chicago Tribune, Reader's Digest, Detroit Free Press, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch Presents A Simple, Get-started Plan To Help Readers Begin Incorporating Fitness Into Their Lives, Covering Self-assessment, Cardiovascular Workouts, Strength Training, And Flexibility And Balance Exercises. Getting Ready -- Exercise, Your Body And Your Health -- A New Look At Exercise -- Your Personal Exercise Needs -- Getting Going -- Cardiometabolic Exercise -- Strength Training -- Flexibility Training -- Exercises For Balance -- Constructing Your Program -- Pitfalls And Precautions -- Going Beyond -- Exercise As Therapy -- Beyond Health -- Beyond Exercise. Harvey B. Simon. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Offers you a point system for tracking how much exercise you are really doing and giving you a goal to achieve each week. This book features the No-Sweat Exercise Pyramids, a set of practical, visual guides that shows the types and amounts of exercise required for good health. It includes a system that assigns points to various activities. With the authors' proven techniques, busy readers can save an average of $500 a month Highlights hidden opportunities not found by casual browsing and warns against potential scams Ideal for the 5.2 million stay-at-home mothers with children under the age of 15 and the 47 million mothers in the workforce who need extra cash fast Presents more than 750 words that have unofficially joined the English language. This title includes entries such as: Bangalored - having been relocated to India, having lost business or employment due to such a relocation, and Paleoconservative - a holder of outdated or old-fashioned conservative beliefs.