Garden Your Way to Health and Fitness: Exercise Plans, Injury Prevention, Ergonomic Designs
- ISBN-10
- 088192881X
- ISBN-13
- 9780881928815
- Category
- Gardening
- Pages
- 215
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Timber Press (OR)
- Authors
- Bunny Guinness, Jacqueline Knox
Description
A leading landscape designer joins forces with a physiotherapist to provide a guide that combines gardening with health exercises and furnishes step-by-step sequences, based on Pilates, that emphasize safe gardening techniques, boost fitness, and avoid stresses and strains, with tips on planting designs for time-pressed gardeners, how to use daily cultivation methods to promote varying activity levels, and more. Original.
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