The Best Free Training

Topic: Comprehensive Health and Medical Information
Format: Website with a comprehensive online collection of brief (under 2 minute) videos, brief articles, links, and more
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

Do you have questions about a specific health issue or medical condition? If you’ve got a minute or two, you can go to Web MD’s amazing Health Videos A-Z collection and get a fast-paced, authoritative micro-lesson that will prepare you for a more informed, intelligent conversation with your doctor.

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Topic:  Yoga and fitness
Format: Downloadable 20-minute MP3 audio files with coordinated pose sheets showing proper body positions [free registration required]
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

From the website:  “Yoga Download.com … offers audio files of guided online yoga classes and other fitness workouts, with professional music accompaniment, playable on your iPod or other mp3 player, CD player or computer. The classes are in MP3 format and you can download them straight from our website to your computer in a matter of minutes. Each online yoga class also comes with a printable companion pose guide so that you can see exactly what each pose looks like.”

What a great idea! Downloads are simple. And the audios and the pose sheets (showing proper body positions) are clear, simple, and professionally produced. If you ever wanted to learn yoga, these 12 free downloadable classes will get you off to a great start!

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Topic: Nutrition, physical fitness, and wellness including coaching and support groups
Format: website with videos, articles, slide shows, and other training, coaching, and progress tracking tools [free registration required]
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

This is a comprehensive collection of free tools and resources that will help you achieve your diet, exercise, and general wellness goals. From the website: “At SparkPeople, our mission is to SPARK millions of PEOPLE to reach their goals and lead healthier lives. We offer nutrition, health, and fitness tools, support, and resources that are 100% free, while other sites like Weight Watchers and eDiets.com charge their members for similar services.”

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Topic: Introduction to the study of aging and its implications for families, society, and health care
Format: Website with PDF files of slides from lectures, suggested readings, links, and reference list
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

Given the huge and aging baby-boomer population, health-care institutions and society in general face some trying times. As voters, as children with aging parents, as older citizens in need of quality health care, we all need to know more about the issues involved so we can help determine the fate of these institutions. This free course from Johns Hopkins: “Introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons.”

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Topic: Science behind normal mechanisms of weight control and how weight loss diets are constructed and work
Format: PDF files of slides from lectures; suggested readings and reference list
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

Ever wonder if your diet or weight loss strategy is scientifically defensible? In this free course from one of the top medical institutions in America (Johns Hopkins) you will “examine the science behind normal mechanisms of weight control, and how weight loss diets are constructed and work.” You will also find suggestions for conducting your own research project related to diets and dietary supplements.

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Topic: meridian endpoint tapping to balance energy and emotions, manage pain
Format: 87-page downloadable PDF manual, newsletter, email support messages
Reviewer/email: Julie.G.L / email: feedback@bestfreetraining.net

I was a total skeptic until I tried the techniques to rid myself of chronic pain plus other negative emotions and IT WORKED. I downloaded and printed the entire free 87-page manual and signed up for their free emails. (Which I haven’t had time to read). This could seriously change some people’s lives. I already have my doctor (a licensed MD and naturopath and an incredibly intelligent woman) telling people about it, since I’m the third person to tell her how great it worked.

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Topic: self help (physical fitness, transforming your consciousness, improving your life)
Format: 25 minute MP3 download & 6-page PDF file
Reviewer/email: Mike G – greers_pm@yahoo.com

In Strength for Life: The New and Faster Way to Shape Your Body, Sharpen Your Mind and Energize Your Life, author Shawn Phillips writes: “Where health is no more than the absence of disease; Strength is the presence of abundant energy – a capacity and reserve to be a force in your world. It’s … being healthy and flowing with energy, power and confidence.” In this Philosophers Note, Brian Johnson writes, “This is definitely the most powerful book on transforming your strength—the true vitality and power with which you show up in the world—that I’ve ever read.” This pair of freebies (25 minute MP3 & 6-page PDF) will acquaint you with the “big ideas” behind Shawn’s work. (Continued in Comment.)