Books on Healthy Living & Wellness

For centuries, women never concerned themselves with fitness or staying active. They dieted to lose weight and the most exercise they got came from chasing their children. There were of course, exceptions to this rule. There were women who participated in physical games with their kids or maybe a bike ride with their husbands. But for the most part, women, once they were grown, didn’t make it a point to exercise. Only a few women understood why fitness is important to women.

1]The 12-Week Fitness Project

Lose inches. Gain health. Sleep better. In just 12 weeks. Want to get fit but don’t know how to start? Let India’s #1 nutritionist and health advocate Rujuta Diwekar help you. In this ground-breaking book, based on the ‘12-week fitness project’, one of the world’s largest and most successful public health projects, she will guide you step by step, giving you one simple guideline to follow each week. By the end of three months you will have transformed your habits in twelve crucial ways. The result? You’ll find you have lost inches and have better sleep and energy levels, lesser acidity, bloating and sweet cravings and reduced PMO and period pain.

2]Strength Training Bible for Women: The Complete Guide to Lifting Weights for a Lean, Strong, Fit Body 

Experts agree the fastest and most effective way to build strength and enhance muscle tone is to lift weights. Written by top strength training professionals and created specifically for women, Strength Training Bible for Women is the comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to mastering the basics of weight lifting and barbell training.

Divided by fitness levels, Strength Training Bible for Women shows you how to craft powerful workouts that are tailored to your unique goals. Designed to minimize risk and maximize results, the Strength Training Bible for Women program combines the best elements of strength training and weight lifting in a program you can do at home or in the gym.

With the Strength Training Bible for Women program you will:

- Build muscle and definition while increasing endurance and energy
- Achieve perfect form with detailed, step-by-step exercise instructions
- Turn your home work space or garage into a fully functional weight room
- Reach long-time fitness goals and maintain definition year-round
- Stay motivated with helpful tips from professional powerlifter and physique competitor Julia Ladewski
- Get the body you’ve always wanted—in record time!

Stop looking for the “perfect program” and start working towards your goals with an exercise regimen created to help you reach the next level in physical fitness. It’s time to take the first step towards your physical peak with Strength Training Bible for Women!

3]Own the Bump 

Motherhood is a life-changing event in a woman's life. Keeping in mind the fast-paced lives of nuclear families and sometimes unhealthy lifestyles, Bollywood's most celebrated yoga expert, Payal Gidwani Tiwari, brings to fore the importance of preparing the body and soul for such a change. From pre-pregnancy to post-natal, Gidwani utilizes her age-old knowledge of yoga and provides essential advice to take care of oneself before, during and after the birth. Her workout sessions are especially designed for modern parents

4]Delavier's Women's Strength Training Anatomy Workouts

This is a new title from 2.5 million bestselling author. Delavier's Women's Strength Training Anatomy Workouts has the exercises, programming and advice needed to achieve the results readers want. Based on the anatomical features unique to women, this new guide sets the standard for women's strength training. Full-colour illustrations allow readers to see inside 40 exercises and 42 programmes for strengthening, sculpting and developing arms, chest, back, shoulders, abs, legs and glutes. Step-by-step instructions work in tandem with the anatomical illustrations to ensure understanding of how to maximise the efficiency of each exercise. Readers will see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations of movements can isolate specific muscles and achieve targeted results.

5]Women and The Weight Loss Tamasha

Women and The Weight Loss Tamasha is based on the health and nutrition fundamentals and principles. This book by renowned nutritionist, Rujuta Diwekar, helps women in losing weight, toning their bodies, bringing the glow on their faces and some sort of wisdom in their brains. The women have to concentrate on their weight issues right from their puberty, marriage, pregnancy to menopause. The body weight fluctuates with these hormonal changes in their bodies.

The author gives details about all the changes that a woman goes through during these phases. Indian women have to consider many other factors- hormonal, in-laws, children, career, maid and what not! Also, women’s overall well-being is directly related to her body weight. There are 4 tactics of Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep and Relationships that the author has emphasized on. Special stress is given on the lifestyle disorders such as PCOD, hypothyroidism and diabetes.

6]Women's Strength Training Anatomy

With information on strengthening and toning the legs, buttocks, abs, and back, "Women's Strength Training Anatomy" provides full-color, detailed anatomical illustrations of exercises for these hard-to-shape areas. What makes this book unique is that readers can see the muscles at work during each exercise, like an X ray of the body in motion. Are there definite anatomical differences in the way men and women should build their bodies? According to the best-selling author and illustrator of "Strength Training Anatomy", the answer is an overwhelming yes! Exercise variations based on a woman's unique anatomical features are also covered, helping to isolate muscles and make each exercise more effective. Make your workouts work harder for you! If you work out to strengthen and shape your body or if you help women get stronger and more defined, this is one book you need for understanding the female form and getting the most from your exercises.

7]Delavier's Sculpting Anatomy for Women

In this book, bestselling author Delavier introduces exercises for slimming, shaping and toning. Bestselling author Frederic Delavier brings his singular style to active women serious about slimming, toning and shaping their bodies. Like having an X-ray as you work out, Delavier's "Sculpting Anatomy for Women" features full-colour photographs and detailed anatomical illustrations of exercises for slimming, shaping and toning the core, bottom and legs. Whether looking to eliminate love handles, tighten glutes, or add definition to the legs, Delavier's "Sculpting Anatomy for Women" presents the exercises, programming and advice for the results you want. It's all here and all in the stunning detail that only Frederic Delavier can provide! Step-by-step instructions work in tandem with the anatomical illustrations to ensure a clear understanding of how to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of each exercise. You can see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations can make each exercise easier or more intense.