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Strong

How to eat, move and live with strength and vitality
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Strong by Elsa Pataky offers an inspiring guide to holistic health and vitality, blending fitness, nutrition, and mental strength. Drawing on her experience as an actress and top model, Elsa reveals practical strategies to build strength in body and mind. The book includes effective high-intensity workout circuits designed for home use with minimal equipment, sensible nutrition advice, and healthy, family-friendly recipes. It also addresses common challenges such as managing cravings and muscle soreness, helping readers embrace a balanced, energetic lifestyle.
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This book suits readers interested in health, fitness, and wellbeing, especially those seeking approachable home workouts and sensible nutrition guidance. Fans of celebrity fitness insights and those looking for motivation to lead a balanced, strong lifestyle will find valuable inspiration here.

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Actress and top model Elsa Pataky shares her approach to health and vitality with simple, high-intensity exercise routines, delicious family recipes and practical advice on how to live a balanced and healthy life.

Actress and top model Elsa Pataky shares her approach to health and vitality with simple, high-intensity exercise routines, delicious family recipes and practical advice on how to live a balanced and healthy life.

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Actress and top model Elsa Pataky is well known for her passion for exercise and wellbeing. A superstar in her native Spain and in the US, and now embraced wholeheartedly in her new home of Australia, Elsa frequently graces the covers of magazines around the world - for both fitness and fashion - and what journalists (and readers) most often want to know are her secrets to good health, energy and an incredibly toned and strong physique.

Now for the first time, Elsa reveals her approach to building strength - of body and mind - as a strong mind, body and diet form Elsa's key building blocks to achieving ultimate health and vitality. In Strong, Elsa shares simple ways to overcome mind-traps and other challenges; tips on managing cravings and sore muscles; her favourite high-intensity exercise circuits that can be done in the comfort of your own home with minimal equipment; straightforward and sensible nutrition advice to support your fitness program and fuel your body; and delicious, healthy recipes the whole family will love.

This is your guidebook on how to live a balanced and healthy life. So be inspired to make change today, and get strong!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760782139

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 November 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Plum

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 213.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 892g

Pages: 264

About the Author

A superstar in her native Spain and in the US, and now embraced wholeheartedly in her new home of Australia, actress and top model Elsa Pataky is well known for her balanced approach to exercise and nutrition. As a top model she has graced the covers of countless magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Hola, Women's Health, GQ, Vanidades, Elle and InStyle, just to name a few. Much of her early career was spent on television, then she appeared in Snakes on a Plane in 2006 alongside Samuel L. Jackson. She later hit the big screen in The Fast and the Furious in 2009. She more recently starred in 12 Strong (2018) opposite her husband, Chris Hemsworth, and the Australian series Tidelands (2018).

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