A practical, easy-to-follow manual, Gardener's Fitness includes conditioning exercises, postural guidance for moving correctly and safely, therapeutic stretches to relieve discomfort, and a variety of gentle exercises designed to relax tired muscles and restore energy after laboring in the garden.
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Pearlman, the author of four books on fitness, including Workouts That Work for Women Who Work (1988), has over 20 years of experience in the fitness field. Her newest title offers conditioning exercises and stretches geared to gardeners. She discusses the correct way to lift, carry, rake, and perform other garden tasks and includes soothing baths and skin, hand, and nail care, with a final chapter on dealing with minor medical problems like cuts, insect bites, and sunburn. She shares recipes for natural home remedies as well as her favorite commercially available products from skin care to tools to gloves, listing suppliers. For the most part, the exercises are easy to follow, with a few confusing exceptions. This unique book is recommended for public libraries, but one wishes Pearlman could have avoided phrases like your goldenrod years or Im happy as a clematis. (Illustrations not seen.)Sue OBrien, Downers Grove
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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If you want your time outdoors to be productive and injury-free, make sure you do some simple exercises to get your body in shape before the annual dig. (Charles Downey Los Angeles Times Syndicate )
Contains basic tips on how you can maximize your time in the garden without all the pain the next day. Whatever you do, try and keep outdoor endeavors light and carefree. (Better Homes and Gardens )
This book is a well-researched, sound compendium covering just about everything you need to know to garden safely and healthfully. It belongs on every gardener's reference shelf... make sure you follow the advice in it each time you go out to work in the garden. (Nancy Wingate The News Journal )
For answers, we turn to fitness guru Barbara Pearlman, or rather to her new book: Gardener's Fitness. It is a slim, chatty volume that covers everything from strengthening and stretching exercises to proper tools, from remedies for scrapes and rashes to warding off bugs. (Stephanie Cavanaugh The Washington Post )
For answers, we turn to fitness guru Barbara Pearlman, or rather to her new book: Gardener's Fitness. It is a slim, chatty volume that covers everything from strengthening and stretching exercises to proper tools, from remedies for scrapes and rashes to warding off bugs. (Stephanie Cavanaugh The Washington Post )
Most other gardening books help you to enjoy gardening; this one will make you feel good about it. (Lynn Lustberg Garden Showcase )
Pearlman has written a balanced, thoughtful, and very useful book filled with simple conditioning exercises to help our bodies survive the gardening season. (Sarah Robertson The News-Review )
It's not just our gardens that need a spring tuneup. Our winterized bodies could use some help this time of year, too. Gardener's Fitness gives a series of stretching and strengthening exercises designed especially with gardening in mind. (San Diego Union-Tribune )
It's not just our gardens that need a spring tuneup. Our winterized bodies could use some help this time of year, too. Gardener's Fitness gives a series of stretching and strengthening exercises designed especially with gardening in mind. (San Diego Union-Tribune )
An hour of gardening can burn as many calories as a 3 1/2-mile brisk walk, according to Barbara Pearlman, author of Gardener's Fitness. The sport of gardening requires strength, flexibility, and agility. Here Pearlman offers some dos and don'ts for your work in the dirt. (Natural Health )
An hour of gardening can burn as many calories as a 3 1/2-mile brisk walk, according to Barbara Pearlman, author of Gardener's Fitness. The sport of gardening requires strength, flexibility, and agility. Here Pearlman offers some dos and don'ts for your work in the dirt. (Natural Health )
Follow Pearlman's suggestions for warm-ups, and reap all the pleasures made possible by your green thumb, without suffering from a complaining back. Gardening should never be a painful experience. (Victoria )
[Pearlman's] book has easy-to-follow exercises and illustrations that include therapeutic movements to relieve discomfort, conditioning exercises and stretches to relax muscles and restore energy after working in the garden. (Colorado, Springs Gazette )
This unique book is recommended for public libraries. (Library Journal )
Your muscles are on fire... it feels like they've been impaled by red-hot skewers. It's painfully clear you've overdone the gardening thing. [Pearlman's] book offers simple exercises to help you get out of bed the next day. (Dan Vierria The Sacramento Bee )
Owwww, garden elbow. Ohhhhh, the aching back. Pearlman has written a book addressed to the special needs of recreational dirt grubbers. Gardener's Fitness includes therapeutic stretches, correct posture positions, and exercises to relax tired muscles and restore energy. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram )
Owwww, garden elbow. Ohhhhh, the aching back. Pearlman has written a book addressed to the special needs of recreational dirt grubbers. Gardener's Fitness includes therapeutic stretches, correct posture positions, and exercises to relax tired muscles and restore energy. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram )
With proper conditioning, gardening should not wreak havoc on your body. (Columbus Dispatch )
With spring close at hand, I welcome this little book with its dozens of how-to line drawings and its handy advice for making gardening less stressful on our bodies. (Marcella Garcia Moore Eugene Register-Guard )
A good book [Gardener's Fitness] has come out, aimed at conditioning you to minimize the chances of getting hurt while gardening. (Chicago Tribune )
A good book [Gardener's Fitness] has come out, aimed at conditioning you to minimize the chances of getting hurt while gardening. (Chicago Tribune )
Do you have a love-hate relationship with your garden? You love working in it, but you hate the aches, pains, sunburn and bug bites. A new book, Gardener's Fitness, filled with information, has some tips on how to avoid the latter. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )
Do you have a love-hate relationship with your garden? You love working in it, but you hate the aches, pains, sunburn and bug bites. A new book, Gardener's Fitness, filled with information, has some tips on how to avoid the latter. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )
Undoubtedly, Pearlman loves gardening, and her background in fitness makes her the ideal candidate for writing this book, which should appeal to any gardener. [Gardener's Fitness] is an excellent reference book to help people who love to garden continue to enjoy their labor of love. (Marlene Feduris Amarillo Globe-News )
Undoubtedly, Pearlman loves gardening, and her background in fitness makes her the ideal candidate for writing this book, which should appeal to any gardener. [Gardener's Fitness] is an excellent reference book to help people who love to garden continue to enjoy their labor of love. (Marlene Feduris Amarillo Globe-News )
Exercise maven Barbara Pearlman also happens to have a green thumb. In her book Gardener's Fitness, she presents gardener-specific stretching and strengthening moves—along with inspirational quotes and useful illustrations—that will help your body and your backyard into shape. (Health )
Exercise maven Barbara Pearlman also happens to have a green thumb. In her book Gardener's Fitness, she presents gardener-specific stretching and strengthening moves—along with inspirational quotes and useful illustrations—that will help your body and your backyard into shape. (Health )
Okay, gardening may be Grandma's workout, but you still can burn up to 400 calories per hour and strengthen leg muscles digging in the dirt. But if you don't use proper form, you may throw out your back along with the weeds. To do it right, follow tips from Gardener's Fitness. (Fitness )
Okay, gardening may be Grandma's workout, but you still can burn up to 400 calories per hour and strengthen leg muscles digging in the dirt. But if you don't use proper form, you may throw out your back along with the weeds. To do it right, follow tips from Gardener's Fitness. (Fitness )
A handy guide for preventing strain in the garden. (Garden Gate )
No wonder Martha Stewart looks so good: Gardening is a total-body workout that burns between 200 and 500 calories in an hour. But pulling weeds can be tough on your body, so follow these tips from Gardener's Fitness. (New Woman )
No wonder Martha Stewart looks so good: Gardening is a total-body workout that burns between 200 and 500 calories in an hour. But pulling weeds can be tough on your body, so follow these tips from Gardener's Fitness. (New Woman )
Let Barbara Pearlman show you how to garden safely and comfortably with her new book, Gardener's Fitness. Add a little fitness to your garden to-do list, and you'll enjoy working in the garden for a long time to come. (Amy Engelhardt Flower and Garden )
Let Barbara Pearlman show you how to garden safely and comfortably with her new book, Gardener's Fitness. Add a little fitness to your garden to-do list, and you'll enjoy working in the garden for a long time to come. (Amy Engelhardt Flower and Garden )
This health guide for gardeners features conditioning exercises to prepare for the new season; therapeutic movements to relieve discomfort; and stretches that help relax tired muscles and restore energy. (Gardener )
Have you been digging, raking, lifting, and hauling while going along with the theory that gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it? If so, do yourself a big favor and read Gardener's Fitness. It can make you a truly fit and happy gardener. (Nellie Nichols Perennial Notes )
Have you been digging, raking, lifting, and hauling while going along with the theory that gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it? If so, do yourself a big favor and read Gardener's Fitness. It can make you a truly fit and happy gardener. (Nellie Nichols Perennial Notes )
As any serious gardener knows, putting in those plants is no job for pansies. Digging holes, pulling weeds and lugging bags of soil for hours is a serious workout. Pearlman shows gardeners the right moves in her book, Gardener's Fitness. (New York Post )
As any serious gardener knows, putting in those plants is no job for pansies. Digging holes, pulling weeds and lugging bags of soil for hours is a serious workout. Pearlman shows gardeners the right moves in her book, Gardener's Fitness. (New York Post )
Stop and stretch before you smell, or prune, the roses. Gardener's Fitness offers advice on how to garden safely and painlessly regardless of age. (Korky Vann Newark Star-Ledger )
Stop and stretch before you smell, or prune, the roses. Gardener's Fitness offers advice on how to garden safely and painlessly regardless of age. (Korky Vann Newark Star-Ledger )
If you're looking for advice on how gardening can keep you in shape for a lifetime, try Gardener's Fitness. (Florida Times-Union )
If you're looking for advice on how gardening can keep you in shape for a lifetime, try Gardener's Fitness. (Florida Times-Union )
Until recently, I thought the only preventive actions I could take were bending my knees when picking up manure bags and saying nightly prayers. Then I met Barbara Pearlman. (Tovah Martin The New York Times )
Contains basic tips on how you can maximize your time in the garden without all the pain the next day. Whatever you do, try and keep outdoor endeavors light and carefree. (Better Homes and Gardens )
This book is a well-researched, sound compendium covering just about everything you need to know to garden safely and healthfully. It belongs on every gardener's reference shelf... make sure you follow the advice in it each time you go out to work in the garden. (Nancy Wingate The News Journal )
For answers, we turn to fitness guru Barbara Pearlman, or rather to her new book: Gardener's Fitness. It is a slim, chatty volume that covers everything from strengthening and stretching exercises to proper tools, from remedies for scrapes and rashes to warding off bugs. (Stephanie Cavanaugh The Washington Post )
For answers, we turn to fitness guru Barbara Pearlman, or rather to her new book: Gardener's Fitness. It is a slim, chatty volume that covers everything from strengthening and stretching exercises to proper tools, from remedies for scrapes and rashes to warding off bugs. (Stephanie Cavanaugh The Washington Post )
Most other gardening books help you to enjoy gardening; this one will make you feel good about it. (Lynn Lustberg Garden Showcase )
Pearlman has written a balanced, thoughtful, and very useful book filled with simple conditioning exercises to help our bodies survive the gardening season. (Sarah Robertson The News-Review )
It's not just our gardens that need a spring tuneup. Our winterized bodies could use some help this time of year, too. Gardener's Fitness gives a series of stretching and strengthening exercises designed especially with gardening in mind. (San Diego Union-Tribune )
It's not just our gardens that need a spring tuneup. Our winterized bodies could use some help this time of year, too. Gardener's Fitness gives a series of stretching and strengthening exercises designed especially with gardening in mind. (San Diego Union-Tribune )
An hour of gardening can burn as many calories as a 3 1/2-mile brisk walk, according to Barbara Pearlman, author of Gardener's Fitness. The sport of gardening requires strength, flexibility, and agility. Here Pearlman offers some dos and don'ts for your work in the dirt. (Natural Health )
An hour of gardening can burn as many calories as a 3 1/2-mile brisk walk, according to Barbara Pearlman, author of Gardener's Fitness. The sport of gardening requires strength, flexibility, and agility. Here Pearlman offers some dos and don'ts for your work in the dirt. (Natural Health )
Follow Pearlman's suggestions for warm-ups, and reap all the pleasures made possible by your green thumb, without suffering from a complaining back. Gardening should never be a painful experience. (Victoria )
[Pearlman's] book has easy-to-follow exercises and illustrations that include therapeutic movements to relieve discomfort, conditioning exercises and stretches to relax muscles and restore energy after working in the garden. (Colorado, Springs Gazette )
This unique book is recommended for public libraries. (Library Journal )
Your muscles are on fire... it feels like they've been impaled by red-hot skewers. It's painfully clear you've overdone the gardening thing. [Pearlman's] book offers simple exercises to help you get out of bed the next day. (Dan Vierria The Sacramento Bee )
Owwww, garden elbow. Ohhhhh, the aching back. Pearlman has written a book addressed to the special needs of recreational dirt grubbers. Gardener's Fitness includes therapeutic stretches, correct posture positions, and exercises to relax tired muscles and restore energy. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram )
Owwww, garden elbow. Ohhhhh, the aching back. Pearlman has written a book addressed to the special needs of recreational dirt grubbers. Gardener's Fitness includes therapeutic stretches, correct posture positions, and exercises to relax tired muscles and restore energy. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram )
With proper conditioning, gardening should not wreak havoc on your body. (Columbus Dispatch )
With spring close at hand, I welcome this little book with its dozens of how-to line drawings and its handy advice for making gardening less stressful on our bodies. (Marcella Garcia Moore Eugene Register-Guard )
A good book [Gardener's Fitness] has come out, aimed at conditioning you to minimize the chances of getting hurt while gardening. (Chicago Tribune )
A good book [Gardener's Fitness] has come out, aimed at conditioning you to minimize the chances of getting hurt while gardening. (Chicago Tribune )
Do you have a love-hate relationship with your garden? You love working in it, but you hate the aches, pains, sunburn and bug bites. A new book, Gardener's Fitness, filled with information, has some tips on how to avoid the latter. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )
Do you have a love-hate relationship with your garden? You love working in it, but you hate the aches, pains, sunburn and bug bites. A new book, Gardener's Fitness, filled with information, has some tips on how to avoid the latter. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel )
Undoubtedly, Pearlman loves gardening, and her background in fitness makes her the ideal candidate for writing this book, which should appeal to any gardener. [Gardener's Fitness] is an excellent reference book to help people who love to garden continue to enjoy their labor of love. (Marlene Feduris Amarillo Globe-News )
Undoubtedly, Pearlman loves gardening, and her background in fitness makes her the ideal candidate for writing this book, which should appeal to any gardener. [Gardener's Fitness] is an excellent reference book to help people who love to garden continue to enjoy their labor of love. (Marlene Feduris Amarillo Globe-News )
Exercise maven Barbara Pearlman also happens to have a green thumb. In her book Gardener's Fitness, she presents gardener-specific stretching and strengthening moves—along with inspirational quotes and useful illustrations—that will help your body and your backyard into shape. (Health )
Exercise maven Barbara Pearlman also happens to have a green thumb. In her book Gardener's Fitness, she presents gardener-specific stretching and strengthening moves—along with inspirational quotes and useful illustrations—that will help your body and your backyard into shape. (Health )
Okay, gardening may be Grandma's workout, but you still can burn up to 400 calories per hour and strengthen leg muscles digging in the dirt. But if you don't use proper form, you may throw out your back along with the weeds. To do it right, follow tips from Gardener's Fitness. (Fitness )
Okay, gardening may be Grandma's workout, but you still can burn up to 400 calories per hour and strengthen leg muscles digging in the dirt. But if you don't use proper form, you may throw out your back along with the weeds. To do it right, follow tips from Gardener's Fitness. (Fitness )
A handy guide for preventing strain in the garden. (Garden Gate )
No wonder Martha Stewart looks so good: Gardening is a total-body workout that burns between 200 and 500 calories in an hour. But pulling weeds can be tough on your body, so follow these tips from Gardener's Fitness. (New Woman )
No wonder Martha Stewart looks so good: Gardening is a total-body workout that burns between 200 and 500 calories in an hour. But pulling weeds can be tough on your body, so follow these tips from Gardener's Fitness. (New Woman )
Let Barbara Pearlman show you how to garden safely and comfortably with her new book, Gardener's Fitness. Add a little fitness to your garden to-do list, and you'll enjoy working in the garden for a long time to come. (Amy Engelhardt Flower and Garden )
Let Barbara Pearlman show you how to garden safely and comfortably with her new book, Gardener's Fitness. Add a little fitness to your garden to-do list, and you'll enjoy working in the garden for a long time to come. (Amy Engelhardt Flower and Garden )
This health guide for gardeners features conditioning exercises to prepare for the new season; therapeutic movements to relieve discomfort; and stretches that help relax tired muscles and restore energy. (Gardener )
Have you been digging, raking, lifting, and hauling while going along with the theory that gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it? If so, do yourself a big favor and read Gardener's Fitness. It can make you a truly fit and happy gardener. (Nellie Nichols Perennial Notes )
Have you been digging, raking, lifting, and hauling while going along with the theory that gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it? If so, do yourself a big favor and read Gardener's Fitness. It can make you a truly fit and happy gardener. (Nellie Nichols Perennial Notes )
As any serious gardener knows, putting in those plants is no job for pansies. Digging holes, pulling weeds and lugging bags of soil for hours is a serious workout. Pearlman shows gardeners the right moves in her book, Gardener's Fitness. (New York Post )
As any serious gardener knows, putting in those plants is no job for pansies. Digging holes, pulling weeds and lugging bags of soil for hours is a serious workout. Pearlman shows gardeners the right moves in her book, Gardener's Fitness. (New York Post )
Stop and stretch before you smell, or prune, the roses. Gardener's Fitness offers advice on how to garden safely and painlessly regardless of age. (Korky Vann Newark Star-Ledger )
Stop and stretch before you smell, or prune, the roses. Gardener's Fitness offers advice on how to garden safely and painlessly regardless of age. (Korky Vann Newark Star-Ledger )
If you're looking for advice on how gardening can keep you in shape for a lifetime, try Gardener's Fitness. (Florida Times-Union )
If you're looking for advice on how gardening can keep you in shape for a lifetime, try Gardener's Fitness. (Florida Times-Union )
Until recently, I thought the only preventive actions I could take were bending my knees when picking up manure bags and saying nightly prayers. Then I met Barbara Pearlman. (Tovah Martin The New York Times )
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Excellent fpr health and fitness. It got me in to my health.,
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This review is from: Gardener's Fitness: Weeding Out the Aches and Pains (Paperback)
This book, by this most extraordinary woman, is a gift to all outdoor health and gardening enthusiasts. Barbara is also fun to exercise with and to garden with. I have read all, of her books and this is the top of my personal list. It reads so easily yet is full of so much meaningful information.I recently started giving a copy of this book as a gift and am getting rave reviews from one and all.
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Ideal fitness resource for novice and seasoned gardeners,
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This review is from: Gardener's Fitness: Weeding Out the Aches and Pains (Paperback)
Finally there's a book to help you stay in shape for gardening. I found Gardener's Fitness to be just what I was looking for in terms of exercises to save my back, hands and knees--not only to prepare for a season's gardening, but also what to do when your back gives out from lifting bags of fertilizer. To my delight this book was also full of information about health and safety issues related to gardening i.e. what to do about bug bites, sun-burn, nail fungus, grime removal etc. I loved the beauty tips ranging from herbal baths to foot massage. Ms. Pearlman has thought of everything(!)and has written it all down in an informative and clever way. I've already started taking the book into the garden with me!
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Great gift for the baby booming gardeners in our family!,
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We got some great ideas on how to get in shape for the planting season. Although we so look foward to the spring, we all know how sore we are the day after the first planting. This fun book has lot's of great hints on getting in shape and staying in shape for gardening. It will be a great gift for all the gardeners in our extended family. I am going to see if I can get the author - Ms. Pearlman - to speak to our flower club! Please EMAIL me if you can! PS - Great pictures too!!
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