The Haywire Heart

The Haywire Heart
Author: Christopher J. Case
Publisher: VeloPress
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-04-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1937716872

Too much exercise can kill you. The Haywire Heart is the first book to examine heart conditions in athletes. Intended for anyone who competes in endurance sports like cycling, triathlon, running races of all distances, and cross-country skiing, The Haywire Heart presents the evidence that going too hard or too long can damage your heart forever. You’ll find what to watch out for, what to do about it, and how to protect your heart so you can enjoy the sports you love for years to come. The Haywire Heart shares the developing research into a group of conditions known as “athlete’s heart”, starting with a wide-ranging look at the warning signs, symptoms, and how to recognize your potential risk. Leading cardiac electrophysiologist and masters athlete Dr. John Mandrola explores the prevention and treatment of heart conditions in athletes like arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation and flutter, tachycardia, hypertrophy, and coronary artery disease. He reviews new research about exercise intensity and duration, recovery, inflammation and calcification, and the ways athletes inflict lasting harm. These heart problems are appearing with alarming frequency among masters athletes who are pushing their bodies harder than ever in the hope that exercise will keep them healthy and strong into their senior years. The book is complete with gripping case studies of elite and age-group athletes from journalist Chris Caselike the scary condition that nearly killed cyclist and coauthor Lennard Zinnand includes a frank discussion of exercise addiction and the mental habits that prevent athletes from seeking medical help when they need it. Dr. Mandrola explains why many doctors misdiagnose heart conditions in athletes and offers an invaluable guide on how to talk with your doctor about your condition and its proven treatments. He covers known heart irritants, training and rest modifications, effective medicines, and safe supplements that can reduce the likelihood of heart damage from exercise. Heart conditions affect hardcore athletes as well as those who take up sports seeking better health and weight loss. The Haywire Heart is a groundbreaking and critically important guide to heart care for athletes. By protecting your heart now and watching for the warning signs, you can avoid crippling heart conditions and continue to exercise and compete for years to come.

Protecting Her

Protecting Her
Author: Kira Blakely
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781548627751

Whoever left this beauty for dead will fu@king pay! I was never capable of love. Eternal bachelor is more accurate. What rich guy wants to be tied down? But when I found Elspeth, injured and alone, I knew I would never be the same. I had never seen such frailty and beauty. My inner caveman was fu@king roaring. Now, I have a new purpose. Destroy whoever did this! I'll protect her. And the baby growing inside her. Even though there's a happily ever after, this bad boy will have you begging for more!

Stress-Proof Your Heart

Stress-Proof Your Heart
Author: Eliz Greene
Publisher: Sound Wisdom
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2020-04-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1640951644

Is stress hurting your heart? Do you want to live longer, feel better, and protect your health? A stress-proof heart is immune to the physical impact of unrelenting stress. Diet and exercise play an important role in preventing heart disease, but the most insidious, under-addressed risk factor of all is the one that many of us find the hardest to manage—stress. We can’t alleviate all stress, and we wouldn’t want to even if we could. Some stress is natural and necessary; it is what gives us the zing of energy to get things done. Trouble comes when that zing becomes a constant thrum, continually triggering the stress hormone cortisol to pump into the body rather than allowing it to ebb and flow as we need it. This book provides tools to power a fulfilling life by efficiently processing cortisol out of the body and nurturing a heart resilient enough to withstand high stress, change, crisis—and to bounce back from illness. Author Eliz Greene knows that protecting your heart from stress isn’t a “nice-to-have.” The strategies in this book are essential, life-or-death skills. When she was 35 years old and 7 months pregnant with twins, Eliz survived a massive heart attack, causing her heart to stop for 10 minutes. To reduce her heightened risk of having another heart attack, she’s spent the last 17 years honing practical and implementable strategies to manage stress for herself and the thousands of audience members and readers she reaches each year. Stress-Proof Your Heart contains these strategies and the fruits of her international research study on job stress. Engaging assessments and actionable principles and tools will enable you to evaluate the physical impact of your stress and then offset that impact to protect your heart. Find out how to: Protect your heart from the stress hormone cortisol and avoid countless other unpleasant symptoms such as weight gain (especially in the belly and face), insomnia, muscle weakness, mood swings, and reduced cognitive function. Use everyday activities to help your body efficiently process cortisol of your system, so you can to feel better and function at a higher physical and mental level. Motivate yourself to commit to a healthier life. Includes bonus content to address emotional stress from Eliz’s book Stress-Proof Your Life.

Protecting Abigail

Protecting Abigail
Author: R. R. Banks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-08-19
Genre: Erotic stories
ISBN: 9781725882393

Someone is hunting Abigail. I'm going to make him my prey. I've been a recluse since my wife died. I don't let anyone in. Not to my billions, not to my heart. All I cared about was my little girl. Then my best friend asked me to shelter his sister. A scarred and broken angel, I saw the hurt in her eyes before I noticed her beauty. She woke up the beast I locked away. Seeing her play with my little girl broke down my walls. Protecting her became my purpose. But the bastard who hurt her is still playing games.

Guarded Desires

Guarded Desires
Author: Anna Stone
Publisher: Violet Ocean Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781922685001

A headstrong bodyguard. An heiress who expects to be treated like a queen. A dangerously hot combination. Bodyguard Carmen Torres is a professional. She gets the job done, she doesn't get attached to her clients, and she does not mix business with pleasure. When she gets a job as personal bodyguard to domineering heiress Amber Pryce, she has no intention of breaking those rules, no matter how enticing she finds her client. But Amber has other ideas. As the sole heir to the Pryce family fortune, Amber is accustomed to being treated like royalty. Anything she wants, she takes. That includes Carmen, the stubborn bodyguard Amber hired to protect her from a mysterious stalker. Amber is determined to have Carmen bow to her. And even though Carmen won't allow herself to admit it, she craves the sweet surrender that Amber commands. Engaged in a fiery game of seduction, tensions heat up between the two women. But with an unhinged stalker on Amber's trail, the stakes keep rising, putting both women's lives at risk, along with their hearts.

Protecting What's Mine

Protecting What's Mine
Author: Lucy Score
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2020-01-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781945631566

If you can't stand the heat, don't fall for a firefighter... Fire Chief Lincoln Reed is known for his heroics in the fire department and in the bedroom. Life is a never-ending good time. Until she lands in the middle of the accident scene he's working...and then his backyard. Too bad she's immune to flirty first responders. Flight trauma surgeon Mackenzie O'Neil is on a crash course with burnout. She's got a scar on her face and a shake in her hands. A temporary job as a small-town family physician is just the prescription. She'll learn to meditate. Sleep more. Take up gardening. She definitely won't take her shirtless, firefighting neighbor's hot body for a test drive. But Linc and his tattoos are very persuasive. What's a harmless little adrenaline-fueled fling between neighbors? It's all naked fun and games until the shadows from Mack's past find their way into her present. Can Linc be her hero when she needs him the most or will their scars ruin everything? One thing is certain: Someone is going to get burned.

Protecting Her

Protecting Her
Author: Melony Ann
Publisher: Melony Ann
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2023-07-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 196196631X

I didn't always want to be a cop. That would mean stepping into my father's shoes, and I hate him. Little did I know, choosing the profession would be the best thing that ever happened to me because it led me to the love of my life. Nicole. I fell hard and fast for my girl and the baby she carried. They both quickly became not only everything I wanted, but also everything I didn't know I needed. When Nicole's life is threatened by an unknown gang in my city, I vow to her that she'll be safe. I throw all of my resources at the unknown threat, but come up empty-handed. My wife’s growing fear pulls at my heartstrings. In order to keep her from harm, I find myself crossing lines I'd always been shielded from. But I'll do whatever it takes to protect my family. Even if it means being pulled into a dark underworld I can never come back from. ~ This book is a steamy Cop/Mafia Romance that has dark and violent themes, physical violence, body-shaming, bullying and taunting, is an age-gap, and has strong language that may not be suitable for all readers. ~

Protecting Her

Protecting Her
Author: Mia Ford
Publisher: Mia Ford
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-12-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

The war was my fu*king nightmare. Veronica is my salvation. I’ll do everything to protect her. Even if it means going back to that hellhole to bring her home. I just got home from the war. My nightmare is over, but a new one is just starting. Veronica waited for me, but now she’s leaving on a sh*t assignment. Our second chance is fading fast, but I won’t let it go. Losing my life is nothing. It’s losing Veronica that scares me. Sweet and beautiful… she doesn’t belong anywhere near Afghanistan. The military trained me to fight. Veronica trained me to love. If she goes… then I go. When my worst predictions come true, I’ll go after the ba$tards who took her from me. I’ll fight for her… and the baby she’s carrying. And I won’t come home again without my family.

Protecting His Princess

Protecting His Princess
Author: C.j. Miller
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743646852

With a sexy FBI agent posing as her suitor, Princess Laila of Qamsar is home for the wedding of her brother the Emir. In truth, the beautiful royal and Harris Truman are on an undercover mission: to find the infamous terrorist her brother is suspected of aiding. But once the festivities begin, Laila faces a bigger threat than Al–Adel. Her secret meetings with Harris pose a danger to her safety – and her heart. To gain his love and live in freedom as his equal is her ardent desire. But will she betray her traditions for a man whose kisses are part of a charade?

Into the Fire

Into the Fire
Author: Hildred Billings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781078232777

Their love is too hot to touch.MITCHFormer Marine Michelle "Mitch" Cruise has already lived through the most harrowing moments of her life. Between a kidnapping in Iraq and losing her family's home to wildfires, she's convinced that there is nothing left to harm her.But there is also nothing to fill the void in her dissociative life.It makes her the perfect candidate for a golden opportunity. There is a woman - a rich woman - searching for a month-long girlfriend. Mitch isn't naïve. She knows what this woman wants. So happens that Mitch is in the position to endure it.She never, ever counts on falling in love with reclusive heiress Vanessa - to the point she'll lay down her life for her mistress.VANESSAOne by one, the members of Vanessa's family have disappeared into the afterlife. The man calling the hits has driven her into hiding, where her only friends are her cold-shoulder staff and the husband-wife security team who know everything about her life.Including who she invites into her home.When Mitch arrives, distant and aloof, Vanessa is instantly intrigued. She's never met such a strong woman before, and the electric attraction between them brings new meaning to the kind of domineering love Vanessa has been making. In Mitch she finds the other half she's been searching for. The woman who isn't afraid to face danger while understanding what trauma does to the heart.Too bad Vanessa's oldest threat is so close, it's bursting from within her own sanctuary.Too bad she's dragged the new love of her life into open fire.