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Fit at mid-life : a feminist fitness journey / Samantha Brennan & Tracy Isaacs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextCopyright date: ©2018Description: ix, 274 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1771641673
  • 9781771641678
Subject(s):
Contents:
Feminist fitness and fittest by 50. Introducing the fittest by 50 challenge ; Older and wiser ; Feminist fitness is for everyone ; The FB50 challenge: the first six months, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Motivation: Why get fit?. Sure, let's get fit, but fit for what? ; Love your body now: moving beyond body hatred, food deprivation, and yo-yo dieting ; Competitive? Who, me? ; The FB50 challenge: six months to one year, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Method: A how-to for feminist fitness. Hey, girl! The feminization of fitness ; Exercise in everyday life ; Let's move! Taking care of our cardio health ; The FB 50 challenge: one year to 18 months, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Maintenance: Fitness into your future. Muscles, strength, and mobility ; Families and fitness ; Keeping it realistic: achieving a sustainable routine ; The FB50 challenge: the last six months, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Epilogue: life after 50 and reflections on the FB50 challenge.
Summary: "In this empowering, invigorating book, Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs prove that fitness in a feminist issue. Inspired by a personal challenge to become the fittest they'd ever been by age fifty, the long-time friends, both feminist university professors and co-founders of the blog Fit Is a Feminist Issue, offer a new approach to athleticism--one that champions strength, health, and personal accomplishment over weight loss and aesthetics. They share their own experiences of getting active and explore the many issues women face when seeking fitness at mid-life. Finally, the authors show how women can best take charge of their health--no matter what their shape, size, age, or ability."--Back cover.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 613.0424 B838 Available 33111009213691
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A uniquely feminist approach to how women can break free from what society thinks and get active in their forties, fifties, and beyond.

What if you could be fitter now than you were in your twenties? And what if you could achieve it while feeling more comfortable and confident in your body than ever before?

In this empowering, accessible book, bloggers and professors Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs offer a new approach to fitness?one that champions strength, health, and personal accomplishment over weight loss and aesthetics. They share their own experiences of getting active later in life and explore the many challenges, questions, and issues women face when seeking fitness in their forties, fifties, and beyond. Drawing from the latest research and their popular blog Fit Is a Feminist Issue, they deliver a wealth of concrete advice on everything from how to keep bones strong to what types of fitness activities give the biggest returns.

Taking a feminist perspective, the authors also challenge society?s default whats, whys, and hows of every aspect of getting fit to show how women can best take charge of their health?no matter what their shape, size, age, or ability.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274).

Feminist fitness and fittest by 50. Introducing the fittest by 50 challenge ; Older and wiser ; Feminist fitness is for everyone ; The FB50 challenge: the first six months, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Motivation: Why get fit?. Sure, let's get fit, but fit for what? ; Love your body now: moving beyond body hatred, food deprivation, and yo-yo dieting ; Competitive? Who, me? ; The FB50 challenge: six months to one year, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Method: A how-to for feminist fitness. Hey, girl! The feminization of fitness ; Exercise in everyday life ; Let's move! Taking care of our cardio health ; The FB 50 challenge: one year to 18 months, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Maintenance: Fitness into your future. Muscles, strength, and mobility ; Families and fitness ; Keeping it realistic: achieving a sustainable routine ; The FB50 challenge: the last six months, Tracy's and Sam's stories -- Epilogue: life after 50 and reflections on the FB50 challenge.

"In this empowering, invigorating book, Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs prove that fitness in a feminist issue. Inspired by a personal challenge to become the fittest they'd ever been by age fifty, the long-time friends, both feminist university professors and co-founders of the blog Fit Is a Feminist Issue, offer a new approach to athleticism--one that champions strength, health, and personal accomplishment over weight loss and aesthetics. They share their own experiences of getting active and explore the many issues women face when seeking fitness at mid-life. Finally, the authors show how women can best take charge of their health--no matter what their shape, size, age, or ability."--Back cover.

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