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A manual detailing fitness programmes for women of all ages from adolescence to menopause. It offers explanations about why women at specific periods of their lives have specific fitness needs. It also includes information about creating and tailoring safe and effective fitness programmes for pregnant women.

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"" Ann Cowlin is a dance and movement specialist in the athletic department at Yale University and assistant clinical professor at the Yale University School of Nursing. A former professional dancer, she has taught both ballet and modern dance at Yale as well as developed a course for the college seminar program, titled """"Movement and Mind."""" She danced with the Westchester (New York) Ballet Company, Pasadena Ballet Theater, Mesa Civic Ballet, and the Image Guild integrated arts company. She has performed in works by a number of modern dance choreographers and appeared on the NBC Today show as well as other television programs. Ann received her BA in theater from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and her MA in dance from UCLA, taught at Arizona State University, and has pursued interests in kinesiology and the neurology of movement as they relate to women. In 1979, she founded Dancing Thru Pregnancy(R) and in 1984 began providing continuing education for professionals working in pre- and postnatal health and fitness. She is the author of """"Women and Exercise"""" in Varney's Midwifery; is a certified childbirth educator, has spoken at many national conferences on the topic of women and exercise; and has produced women's fitness programs for corporations, health departments, schools, and the U.S. Army. ""

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