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    Strength is Ageless
    Strength is Ageless
    Strength is Ageless
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    Strength is Ageless

    By Kriss Brooks

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    Usually, they've got impeccable fitness and physical power, and as an athlete and an author I know how they maintain and improve their strength. But it is the mind that is really what runs the race. For many athletes, self-determination has always been taken for granted until, one day: they reach their own individual wall of fear.

    What Kriss Brooks has created with the Options program, I wish a trainer would create for these
    athletes. She combines the heart, the mind and the body in her course of training. She honors the power of each and harnesses it for the good of all.
    Bodybuilding for women is still a difficult concept for much of the health establishment to grasp. Why? It goes against decades of stereotype. We think 55 and we see an aging mother figure in an apron. But that's wrong, for so many reasons. And Kriss knows it. She thinks 55 and sees one of her clients: a woman coming into her own life for perhaps the second time, empowered by a life of experience and surviving, watching her muscles grow, her energy build, her skin glow. This, Kriss asserts, and I believe her, makes women happy.
    I've watched medical colleagues perpetuate the myth that female aging is a negative, inevitable process. Even in the face of comprehensive studies that prove otherwise, how many women are told to steer clear of weight training? Nothing could be better for a woman's body than careful, focused strength training the "Options" way. That's where Kriss comes in: where no one else has.
    Kriss is a storehouse of knowledge in the areas of women's fitness and strength training, and has a deep understanding of women's fears and motivations. She's brought spirituality and intelligence to "Options" producing a singularly effective program that enables women to get strong and stay strong, inside and out. She's a woman's woman and a trainer's trainer: compassionate, passionate, fit and forceful, feminine and feminist, a fitness diva, in a black cat suit and leopard pumps, who embodies ageless strength. It's time the rest of the world to benefit from her immense experience and knowledge, her unique talent for helping women renew their own lives, whether they're 35 or 85- or beyond.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKriss Brooks
    Release dateMay 17, 2014
    ISBN9781310493164
    Strength is Ageless
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    Kriss Brooks

    Kriss Brooks is a nationally recognized fitness consultant, personal trainer, businesswoman, journalist and community organizer. As the founder and CEO of Options Personal Training Center, she has run international classes and demonstrations from California to the West Indies, to the Junior League and to the corporate world as well.She holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an M.B.A. from California State University and Pepperdine, and is a feature writer on wellness for a range of publications.She competed as a bodybuilder from 1982-1986, winning Ms. Oakland, Ms. Alameda County, the Warner Classic Northern California Championship, the Northwestern American Gold Cup and the West Coast Superbowl. Her elegant signature posing style has made her in demand from California to Paris.Brooks' passion for fitness extends widely: she is the winner of several highly competitive local and federal grants to bring strength and fitness training to women and girls in under-served communities. The power of her training style is testimonial to the fact that she has had some of the same clients for more than thirty years, coaching them through changing lives and lifestyles.She is not presenting a quick fix, nor is she obsessive about her diet and training. As she says, "Just like those I train and mentor, exercise is not what drives me. What drives all of us is to be better--NOT PERFECT--one day at a time, to get our lives in shape and be in our lives."Strength is Ageless is the most recent accomplishment for Brooks, using the personal computer to bring accessible and affordable world-class coaching to every corner of the globe.

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      Book preview

      Strength is Ageless - Kriss Brooks

      Strength is Ageless

      The Options Bodybuilding Guide for Women 40 and Over

      *build a better body *muscle up your mindset *awaken the spirit within

      By Kriss Brooks

      Founder of the Options Program for Women’s Fitness and Wellness

      ~~~

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 by Kriss Brooks. All rights reserved.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Publisher’s Notes

      Preface by Charles Garfield, PhD

      Special Thanks

      Introduction - Working Out Means Working Within

      Chapter 1 - My Story: Mastering the Metal and Me

      Chapter 2 - The Long Road – Women of Strength: Then and Now

      Chapter 3 - The Strength/Age Connection

      Chapter 4 - Getting Started

      Chapter 5 - The Fundamentals of Pumping Iron The Freedom of Free Weights

      Chapter 6 - The Options Bodybuilding Guide To Strength Fitness

      Chapter 7 - Living Truths

      Putting It All Together

      About The Author

      -CHAPTER 1

      My Story: Mastering the Metal and Me

      I describe my journey from illness to fitness and what I discovered about women’s strength and how it changed my life.

      -CHAPTER 2

      The Long Road – Women of Strength: Then and Now

      History has given us some remarkable women as role models – women who transcend society’s definition of real womanhood. Meet some of them here.

      -CHAPTER 3

      The Strength/Age Connection

      A presentation of the undisputed medical research studies on weight training; how our bodies respond to it, and why it is the best way to combat the symptoms of growing older

      • Exercise is the Right Prescription

      • Building Bones and a Better Body

      -CHAPTER 4

      Getting Started

      An introduction of strength training to beginners, including all the gear needed and tips on how to lift safely and avoid trouble

      • Training tips

      • Avoid trouble

      • The Essentials (equipment)

      -CHAPTER 5

      The Fundamentals of Pumping Iron

      The introduction to strength training continues on using free weights for strength training and how they give you the flexibility of training at home with little financial investment. You learn how to lift and what all those terms like sets, and reps really mean.

      • Freedom of free weights

      • Why dumbbells are best

      • Lifting principles

      • Weight training terminology

      -CHAPTER 6

      The Options Bodybuilding Program

      This is it: the 90-day Options program to build ageless strength. The exercises, you learn, are the core foundation exercises that all lifter perform. These are the exercises that all your other lifting programs are based around. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and include training tips and precautions.

      • Lock In the Routine! (month one)

      • Don’t Stop Now! (month two)

      • Crossing the Line (month three)

      • Workout #1

      • Workout #2

      -CHAPTER 7

      Living Truths

      Of course it’s scary to face real change. Read the stories of two Options women who took up weight training and how it helped them conquer their worst fears.

      • Gill Hart: Becoming an Options Woman

      • Louise Fortmann: Becoming an Options Woman

      -CHAPTER 8

      Putting It All Together

      Stay inspired and motivated! I’ve used some wonderful quotes throughout this book – by writers, thinkers, men and women. Here are the principles and mantras you may use to cultivate an Options woman’s positive attitude, clarifying and committing to your goal of achieving ageless strength.

      • Mindset Over Mind

      • The Journey

      • The Wind of Change

      Publisher’s Notes

      Disclaimers

      This publication is intended to provide helpful and informative material. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any health problem or condition, nor is intended to replace the advice of a physician. No action should be taken solely on the contents of this book. Always consult your physician or qualified health-care professional on any matters regarding your health and before adopting any suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it.

      The author and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss or risk, personal or otherwise, which

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