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The Psychology Behind Fitness Motivation: A Revolutionary New Program to Lose Weight and Stay Fit for Life

Are you wanting to tone up and drop weight? Do you have a special event that is coming up that requires you to look your best?  Do you want to gain motivation to exercise more often and more consistently? Or do you simply want to obtain the body of your dreams?

Grounded in evidence-based research, The Psychology Behind Fitness Motivation offers cutting edge insight on how to obtain and maintain fitness motivation.  If you haven’t found the key to unlock your fitness potential it’s not your fault…now you will in The Psychology Behind Fitness Motivation.  This book guides you through every step of the way to reach your ultimate body and fitness peak for life. 

Readers will discover the mind body effects of exercise and why exercise is an essential ingredient in your life.  The Psychology Behind Fitness Motivation will get you to:

· Improve your overall health 
· Control your mind and body and heighten peace of mind 
· Learn psychological techniques that are shown to increase fitness motivation
· Realize the powerful effect your mind has on your emotions and health and that you have the ability to realize the strength that is within you 
· Feel confident and ready to embrace new opportunities 
· Visualize your way to success
· Achieve weight loss and fitness goals
· And much more! 

This book is not just about obtaining fitness motivation. By learning to work-out regularly, you will also feel more energy and joy, feel more confident, more optimistic, and cope better with life’s stressors. You will enjoy being around others and they will enjoy being around you. There are endless possibilities of life improvements that can occur after learning and applying the valuable and evidenced-based tools waiting for you in this program.

Find out today why The Psychology Behind Fitness Motivation is your first and final stop on your path to the new incredibly fit you!

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Now Habit Motivation Cards (Tarcher Inspiration Cards)

In his perennial bestseller The Now Habit, author Neil Fiore provided the first comprehensive strategy to help people overcome the causes of procrastination and eliminate its deleterious effects. His techniques can help any busy person get more done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by failure to meet the pressing deadlines of the workplace.
 
The Now Habit Motivation Cards offer essential pieces of wisdom and inspiration from Fiore’s successful program, to help anyone—from college students to busy professionals—conquer the common and disabling habit of procrastination.

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The Weight Loss Prayers: 30 Daily Prayers for Weight Loss Motivation

During her own 85-pound weight loss journey, Kimberly Taylor discovered that she needed God’s strength to stay committed when her weight loss motivation started to fade. In The Weight Loss Prayers: 30-Day Prayers for Weight Loss Motivation, Kim shares her secret success weapon – the prayers she wrote to enlist God’s help during the process, from dealing with temptation to handling stress. You can use these same power prayers, inspirational scriptures, and practical devotions with your weight loss program, or on their own. An ideal companion to Kim’s best-selling book, The Weight Loss Scriptures, The Weight Loss Prayers will give you supernaturally-inspired motivation to finally succeed in reaching your ideal weight and maintain it.

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Enhancing Adolescents’ Motivation for Science: Research-Based Strategies for Teaching Male and Female Students (Classroom Insights from Educational Psychology)

 

Address gender differences and positively influence male and female science participation and achievement with these research-based strategies. Includes classroom vignettes and a robust companion website.

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Motivation and Leadership At Work

Intended to be of use for upper-level and graduate courses offered either in management or psychology departments, this work provides an analysis of major contemporary theories, research and applications in the area of motivation and work behaviour. As in previous editions, this volume introduces the core topics, reviews several prominent theories, discusses specific topics and concludes with a summary. Topics new to this edition include cross-cultural influences, “high involvement” management and learning organizations.

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Motivation: Theory, Research, and Applications (with InfoTrac)

With a new evolutionary theme, Petri’s book covers the biological, behavioral, and cognitive explanations for human motivation. The advantages and drawbacks to each of these explanations are presented, allowing students to draw their own conclusions. Students want to know why they behave the way they do. To help students understand the processes that activate their behavior, Petri uses examples drawn from such contemporary topics as sexual behavior, aggression, eating disorders, and obesity to capture and keep students interested. To help students master and retain the information covered, this edition builds upon the text’s simple and direct language with expanded pedagogy-including preview questions at the beginning of every chapter, end of chapter summaries, key terms, Web links, and suggestions for further reading.

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Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental Plus MySearchLab with eText — Access Card Package (4th Edition)

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A complete overview of motivation and emotion.

 

Well-grounded in the history of the field, the fourth edition of Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental combines classic studies with current research. The text provides an overarching organizational scheme of how motivation (the inducement of action, feelings, and thought) leads to behavior from physiological, psychological, and environmental sources. The material draws on topics that are familiar to students while maintaining a conversational tone to sustain student interest.

 

This text is available in a variety of formats — digital and print. Pearson offers its titles on the devices students love through Pearson’s MyLab products, CourseSmart, Amazon, and more.

 

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:

Define motivation and emotion. Understand the psychological aspects of motivation. Examine how the environment is a large source of motivation. 

0205961096 / 9780205961092 Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental Plus MySearchLab with eText — Access Card Package

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0205239927 / 9780205239924 MySearchLab with Pearson eText — Valuepack Access

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Motivation: Theories and Principles (5th Edition)

This experimentally-oriented book provides a critical examination of research and theory with a topical approach. It covers a broad range of motivational concepts from both human and animal theory and research, with an emphasis on the biological bases of motivation. Chapter topics include the nature of motivation theory; species-specific behaviors; eating and taste; thirst, temperature regulation, addiction, and reproduction; drive and activation; rewards as both reinforcers and incentives; escape, fear, avoidance, and punishment; frustration, anxiety, stress, and coping; aggression and altruism; personality and individual differences; attitudes and cognitive consistency; interpersonal attraction; and applications of motivation theory. For individuals interested in the motivation of humans and animals.

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WOD Motivation: Quotes, Inspiration, Affirmations, and Wisdom to Stay Mentally Tough

WOD inspiration from CrossFit Journal contributor and New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Brown!

You know WODs are tough–on your body and on your mind. You know that when your legs are shaking and you can barely breathe, it takes more than physical strength to make it all the way to–and through–the final rep.

WOD Motivation is here to help you build the mental toughness you need to finish every workout with pride. You can use the motivational quotes and affirmations in this book to face your WOD with discipline and determination, and to boost your mental strength when you need it most.

Whether you’re blasting through burpees or knocking out deadlifts, WOD Motivation supports you as you power through to your new personal best.