Adventures in MOTHER NATURE'S GYM The Ultimate Guide to Planning and Leading Your Own Outdoor Fitness Retreats gives you the tools to reclaim that instinctive, wild, and very necessary part of the human experience-outdoor adventure! Whether you are a fitness instructor, work in a clinical setting, or simply want to improve the health of your family, Adventures in Mother Nature's Gym contains a set of tools that everybody can apply to their own practice.
Fitness and adventure travel expert Melanie Webb presents the latest scientific research of how and why being outdoors benefits the human body and mind. She shares how to combine sport specific exercises with real outdoor adventures including hiking, cycling, and stand up paddling. Step by step, Melanie teaches you how to:
- Design, plan, and lead your own outdoor fitness retreats using her Sol Guide Method
- Combine fitness program design with guided outdoor excursions
- Harness the inherent health and wellness benefits of nature
- Develop the essential skill-sets of an outdoor fitness guide
- Enhance your own connection to Mother Nature and the outdoors
BONUS MATERIALYou'll get exclusive access to Melanie's Body-Weight Exercise Arsenal video library, complete with verbal cues for over 40 full body movements that can be performed in any outdoor setting. Built-in journal entries guide you through the creative process of programming your own retreat. You'll also receive activities to help both children and adults reduce stress and rejuvenate.
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ADVANCED PRAISE
"What Melanie Webb offers in her Adventures in Mother Nature's Gym is a program that can help reconnect our patients and clients to an aspect of their being that is undernourished and therefore contributing to their depleted state. Melanie makes being in the outdoors fun, playful, yet pragmatic." - Karen Koffler, M.D., Medical Director of the Osher Integrative Medical Center at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
"Melanie Webb and her program have coached and guided me every step of the way as I launch my new fitness adventure service. As a business owner and a mom, my time is limited and Adventures in Mother Nature's Gym has provided a unique, cutting edge forum to allow me to learn at my own pace." - Chris Kirchoff, MA, ACSM HI-FI and Owner, Kirchoff Fitness
"This course is well thought out and challenges the reader's critical thinking skills by empowering them to put theory into action. Melanie's qualifications alone make the book stand out as a credible resource." - Sarah Anisman, M.S. Kinesiology and Sport Psychology, Owner of Yoga Lab Mammoth
"I've known Melanie for more than a decade and her knowledge of fitness combined with her passion for the outdoors makes her an excellent facilitator for outdoors-based fitness programs." - Pete McCall, Author, Fitness Blogger and Instructor at Mesa College
