The Joy of Feeling Fit

'Fitness makes for joy in living,' says Nicholas Kounovsky. 'Exercise should be fun.'

To Kounovsky, no exercise plan should lead to exhaustion. You should feel good while exercising, and you should get from your exercises a sense of well-being and increased energy in your everyday life.

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Sixometirc tests, which he originated, Kounovsky's exercise programme is tailored to fit the individual. Kounovsky is so confident of the success of his methods that at his studio the tradition is to bet a bottle of champagne on the student's achieving a particular goal that seemed impossible at the start.

Repeated urging by his sudents and by several doctors led Kounovsky to write this book. The Joy of Feeling Fit details more than 300 'engineered exercises' you can do at home, adapting the Kunovsky studio programme to private use for the very first time.

Born in Odessa, Russia, and educated in France, arrived in New York from Paris in 1940. Trained as both a gymnast and aeronautical engineer, he combined his interests by devising a system of engineered exercise, called 'Sixometry,' based on similarities beween human anatomy and machines. He has lectured and taught his method throughout the United States, and has frequently appeared on television. As an exponent of physical fitness, he has served as consultant to various national and international organizations, foundations, schools, and publications.

'Kunovsky's theory on exercise is so sensible and scientific that it hardly sounds revolutionary-which it is.'-Harpers Bazaar

'The acknowledged dean of the leotard set...'-New York Magazine

'Kounovsky counts six factors of physical well-being...and any system that stresses any one at the expense of the other is wrong.'-Fortune

'Physical fitness, says expert Nocholas Kounovsky, is like a good cocktail...ou don't know how good it is until you taste it.'-Newsday

'Nicholas Kounovsky corrects figure faults-stimulates the exhausted, relaxes the tense. He is quite unique in his work.'-Vogue

'Nicholas Kounovsky is an outstanding physical educator. His theories are sound, his practices are sensible, his byword is moderation.'-Town & Country

Contents

1 Intoduction
2 Fitness a la carte
What is fitness?
3 The harmony of the body
Body density
Body types
Vive la difference
4 Children and adolescents
5 How do we function?
Your center of gravity
Posture and gait
How do we move?
6 Personal programming
Exercise dosage and procedure
Warning signals
Relaxation
7 Physioological check-up
The go-ahead signal
8 Take a look at yourself
9 Aesthetic tests
10 The sixometric tests
Endurance
Suppleness
Balance
Strength
Speed
Coordination
11 Psychological evaluation
Mental fitness: an interior examination
12 The factors of success
13 Befor you begin
Exercise aesthetics
Planning your personal dosage
Programmed fitness
14 Engineered exercises (Gynmaks)
Dosasge for the beginner
Dosage for the intermediate
Dosage for the advanced
15 Fitness session
Setting-up exercises
Posture exercises
Waistline and back exercises
Balance and relaxation
Strength exercises for women
Strength exercises for men
Stretch exercises
16 Sixometrics
Minimum daily sixometrics
Medium daily sixometrics
Maximum daily sixometrics
17 Special exercises
For Winter
For Spring
For Summer
For Autumn
18 Prenatal exercises
19 Postnatal exercises
20 Fitness for beauty
21 Fitness extras
22 The facts of life
What and how we breathe
Up in smoke
Never say diet
You are largely what you drink
Sleep
Bathing in nature
Logging to judo
Loving

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