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Stay strong and feel great as you move through the decades of your life with Age Strong: A Woman's Guide to Feeling Athletic and Fit After 40! Internationally renowned personal trainer Rachel Cosgrove will help you increase metabolism, lose body fat, decrease osteoporosis risk, boost stamina, and increase self-confidence as you move toward and through menopause.. With Age Strong you'll get pumped about setting goals, eliminating excuses, and meeting the aging process head on. Read about real clients of the author and how they built muscle and confidence through strength training. Get detailed instructions, accompanied by full-color photos, on how to safely perform 73 traditional strength exercises and 41 mobility and warm-up movements that will help strengthen your core, lower body, and upper body and help you develop power.
About the Author
Rachel Cosgrove owns a facility with her husband in Southern California called Results Fitness. At Results fitness they currently work with over 200 members, 70% of which are female, ranging from soccer moms to triathletes to fitness competitors. These clients are real people who have demanding jobs, families and a limited amount of time to commit to a fitness program, yet Rachel and her team consistently deliver results and drive her clients to reach their potential physically and mentally. This hand's on practical experience with the women at her gym is what inspires her and keeps her continuing to fine tune her methods, documenting every workout and the progress the clients make at Results Fitness. She thinks of it as their own laboratory where she can figure out exactly what works best to achieve the ultimate fit female body, getting feedback and seeing the progress her clients are making daily. A competitive fitness competitor, Ironman triathlete and power lifter, Rachel, draws from her own experience as an athlete, and combines it with science and modern training methods to help her clients achieve their goals. She has learned how to push herself and therefore knows how to motivate and get the most out of her clients and other females. Rachel not only has the education, professional experience and her own athletic pursuits, but she is also a woman who has struggled with her own weight and her own body image issues and has grown through it and is now on the other side. Over the years she has worked hard to reach her potential physically and emotionally, and it wasn't easy and still isn't, but it is worth every effort. She has floundered for years in search of the best ways to get and stay fit, lean, build muscle and have optimal health herself. She has read every book, talked to every expert and attended numerous seminars on the subject and continues to do so. She has been on a constant quest to discover what works for females to be fit and above all feel good about themselves. Her passion is sharing this knowledge with other females who have had the same struggles and give them the confidence and tools they need.Rachel is in high demand as a featured 'expert' in magazines with her own column in Women's Health Magazine and features in Muscle and Fitness Hers, Oxygen, Shape Magazine, Fitness Magazine, Men's Health, and Men's Fitness. She is also a highly sought after fitness and motivational speaker. She has her own website at www.rachelcosgrove.com geared specifically for women. And a website set up to support those who read her book at www.thefemalebodybreakthrough.com.
