With so many of us staying at home these days, we know how important and challenging it can be to stay healthy and active. Dodge the “Quarantine 15” with these fitness books that can help motivate you to eat healthy and keep moving (even in tight spaces).


The Living Room is the New Gym:

You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises by Mark Lauren and Joshua Clark

From an elite Special Operations physical trainer, an ingeniously simple, rapid-results, do-anywhere program for getting into amazing shape—for men and women of all athletic abilities!

As the demand for Special Operations military forces has grown over the last decade, elite trainer Mark Lauren has been at the front lines of preparing nearly one thousand soldiers, getting them lean and strong in record time. Now, for regular Joes and Janes, he shares the secret to his amazingly effective regimen—simple exercises that require nothing more than the resistance of your own bodyweight to help you reach the pinnacle of fitness and look better than ever before.

Armed with Mark Lauren’s motivation techniques, expert training, and nutrition advice, you’ll see rapid results by working out just thirty minutes a day, four times a week—whether in your living room, yard, garage, hotel room, or office. Lauren’s exercises build more metabolism-enhancing muscle than weightlifting, burn more fat than aerobics, and are safer than both, since bodyweight exercises develop balance and stability and therefore help prevent injuries. Choose your workout level—Basic, 1st Class, Master Class,and Chief Class—and get started, following the clear instructions for 125 exercises that work every muscle from your neck to your ankles. Forget about gym memberships, free weights, and infomercial contraptions. They are all poor substitutes for the world’s most advanced fitness machine, the one thing you are never without: your own body.

Available in Trade Paperback and eBook Editions.

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Check Out the Companion Cookbook!


7-Minute Body Plan: Quick Workouts and Simple Recipes for Real Results in 7 Days to Become Your Best You by Lucy Wyndham-Read

Whatever your body shape, fitness level, or age, feel amazing after just 1 week of 7-minute workouts, recipes, and Lucy’s positive mindset to help you believe in yourself and love your body.

Find just 7 minutes a day over a week and follow one of Lucy Wyndham-Read’s workouts daily to shape up and feel your best self. Try her supporting recipes for even greater impact. No equipment is needed, the exercises are easy and effective whatever your body shape and fitness level, and “yes,” you really do only need 7 minutes a day.

Lucy wants us to all to love our bodies and feel our best quickly and easily. The seven workouts—all exclusive to the book—speak to real women: Melt Off Belly Fat, Little Black Dress Workout, Love My Legs, Super Health Fix. They are demonstrated with illustrations of women of all ages, shapes and sizes—no unattainable skinny models. Try one for a week and you will want to do more.

The quick, healthy recipes (7 breakfasts, 7 lunches, 7 smoothies, 7 dinners)—which Lucy shares for the first time—are optional, but follow these too and your results will be even more impressive.

Available in Trade Paperback and eBook Editions.

Click for 900+ Workouts on Lucy Wyndham-Read’s YouTube Channel.

Follow Lucy Wyndham-Read on Instagram for More Workouts and Motivational Tips: @lucywyndhamread


Tone It Up: 28 Days to Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous by Katrina Scott and Karena Dawn

A 28-day program that incorporates brand-new fitness routines, delicious recipes, and mental and spiritual practices and will help you transform your body, your attitude, and your life to bring out the gorgeous goddess within you!

Katrina Scott and Karena Dawn, the founders of the Tone It Up fitness and health brand, have taken the world by storm with their fun, energetic, girlfriend-to-girlfriend approach to getting in shape. To them, being fit isn’t just about looking smokin’ hot in a bikini, but a whole-body, whole-life way of being that starts with respecting your body and taking care of your beautiful, amazing self, inside and out.

In just 28 days, Katrina and Karena will help you get:

  • Fit. With daily fitness challenges, workout plans, healthy-eating tips, and delicious recipes, you’ll be on your way to the strong, sexy body you’re after.
  • Fierce. You’ll align your mind and body through visualization exercises, daily meditations, confidence-boosting tips, and dares to move outside your comfort zone.
  • Fabulous. This is the fun stuff: beauty, friendship, inspiration, joy, and all the things to give you that unmistakable glow so you radiate from the inside out.

Available in Trade Paperback and eBook Editions.

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Follow @ToneItUp on Instagram for Live Workouts.

Follow @ToneItUpNutrition on Instagram for easy and nutritious recipes.


The 3D Body Revolution: The Ultimate Workout + Nutrition Blueprint to Get Healthy and Lean by Donald Driver

Featuring 25 recipes and 36 exercises illustrated with clear step-by-step photos, The 3D Body Revolution shares the secrets of the world’s most elite athletes for getting super strong, super lean, super fast.

Beloved, record-setting wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers Donald Driver retired in 2012 and since then has won Dancing with the Stars (2012) and written a bestselling memoir, Driven. Known for his power on the field, he took a break from his intense workouts after retiring—and found himself sluggish and unhappy.

He took it upon himself to get back into the best shape of his life—and along the way has become THE go-to guy for training other pro athletes as well as regular people just looking for a great workout at his Dallas gym Driven Elite Fitness and Health Center. With his trademark motivational energy and charisma, he now shares his 3D’s: the determination to eat for weight loss; the discipline to achieve high-intensity, muscle-building workouts; and the drive to push yourself to your best.

Whatever your starting level, this workout blueprint will guide you to peak performance, with targeted nutritional and motivational advice for each of its 3 levels.

Available in eBook.

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Go for a Run:

Run for Your Life: How to Run, Walk, and Move Without Pain or Injury and Achieve a Sense of Well-Being and Joy by Mark Cucuzzella, MD

For beginning runners and experienced marathoners—a book by a leading pioneering running doctor and athlete, creator of the Air Force’s Efficient Running program—that shows us in clearly illustrated and accessible text how easy it is to run efficiently and injury-free, whether you’re in your twenties, sixties, or seventies.

Despite our natural ability and our human need to run, each year more than half of all runners suffer injuries. Pain and discouragement inevitably follow. Cucuzzella’s book outlines the proven, practical techniques to avoid injury and reach the goal of personal fitness and overall health.

In Run for Your Life, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella gives us a straightforward, easy-to-follow look at the anatomy, biomechanics, and nutrition of running. With clear drawings and black-and-white photographs, the book provides illustrated exercises designed to teach healthy running, along with simple progressions and a running schedule that shows the reader how to tailor their training regimen to their individual needs and abilities.

Available in Hardcover, Trade Paperback, eBook, and Audio Editions.

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Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook.


Marathon, Revised and Updated 5th Edition: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons by Hal Hidgon

Now completely updated and revised—a new edition of the long-running marathon training guide that has helped more than half a million people reach their goals.

Marathon running has changed in the seven years since the fourth edition–there are more runners than ever before, the popularity of half-marathons has grown immensely, and guidelines for best recovery and diet practices have changed. This revised fifth edition includes a new chapter on ultramarathons, along with material on recovery techniques, several new training programs, and advice on how to win a Boston qualifying race and improve your personal record. At its core remains Hal Higdon’s clear and essential information on injury prevention, training, and nutrition. Marathon demystifies the marathon experience and allows each runner to achieve peak performance without anguish or pain, taking the guesswork out of marathon training, whether it’s for your first or fiftieth. With Higdon’s comprehensive approach and tried-and-tested methods, any runner will learn how to optimize their training and achieve their marathon goals.

Available in Trade Paperback and eBook Editions.

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Don’t Forget to Stretch:

Even the Stiffest People Can Do the Splits: A 4-Week Stretching Plan to Achieve Amazing Health by Eiko

Whether you spend your days running marathons or slouching over a keyboard, everyone can benefit from stretching and the increased flexibility that comes along with it. With only five minutes of stretching a day, you’ll be doing perfect splits in four weeks and experiencing a host of health benefits such as better circulation, fewer joint injuries, toned muscles, improved balance, and much more.

With world-renowned yoga teacher Eiko’s revolutionary program, people of any age and fitness level can say goodbye to those mysterious aches and pains that are caused by stiff, contracting muscles, and see unbelievable results. All you need is this book, two legs, and a floor, and you’re on your way to doing the splits!

Also Available in Spanish: Hasta la gente menos flexible puede hacer estiramientos.

Available in Hardcover and eBook Editions.

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