Do you know what the biggest problem plaguing people is these days? It's not so much fitness related as it is related to life - and that problem is - in a nutshell - "MAKING EXCUSES GALORE". Oh, I have no time to train. Oh, the neighborhood gyms are too expensive. Oh, those stretches are too difficult. Oh, and ... ah, why not just do it tomorrow? And so forth. Excuses, my friend, are the reason why most folks never get started on that road to super fitness, health and STRENGTH - both from the inside and the outside, and ZERO EXCUSES FITNESS gives you NO CHANCE to make ANY EXCUSES! In other words, its fitness instruction which flat out WORKS, provided you don’t make EXCUSES. NOTHING - I repeat NOTHING - is needed in order for you to do these exercises. NO equipment, NO gyms, not even the much vaunted "Swiss balls" or other "fancy shmancy" abdominal gadgets or gizmos (which ain't worth even the time of day you spend looking at the ads, to be honest). And no, you don't even need a chinning bar for most of the exercises I've shown. Pull-ups are great, but they are NOT required. Stop making excuses - and grab your copy NOW - and watch a whole NEW world open up to you in terms of OVERALL health, fitness, and strength. To your SUCCESS! Rahul Mookerjee

He was born a congenital amputee, his arms ending at his elbows and his legs at his knees. But that didn’t stop Kyle Maynard from becoming a champion, on the wrestling mat and in his life. No Excuses is the inspiring story of Kyle’s battle against the odds. You’ll learn about the family who supported him, the coach who trained him, and the faith that strengthened him to face the toughest fights.

Includes sections on self-discipline and personal success; business, sales and finances; and the good life.

The first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL--and win a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks--relates his story of hard work and determination on his challenging journey to become a professional football player.

Taking responsibility is the key to achievement. Happiness derives from facing challenge with courage. Each failure opens the door to learning. High values, hard work and persistence matter. Success has meaning when it is won through integrity.

Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, made closing the racial gap in education its central goal. An employer hiring the typical Black high school graduate or the college that admits the average Black student is choosing a youngster who has only an eighth-grade education. In most subjects, the majority of twelfth-grade Black students do not have even a "partial mastery" of the skills and knowledge that the authoritative National Assessment of Educational Progress calls "fundamental for proficient work" at their grade. No Excuses marshals facts to examine the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar reforms. Its message, however, is one of hope: Scattered across the country are excellent schools getting terrific results with high-needs kids. These rare schools share a distinctive vision of what great schooling looks like and are free of many of the constraints that compromise education in traditional public schools. In a society that espouses equal opportunity we still have a racially identifiable group of educational have-nots—young African Americans and Latinos whose opportunities in life will almost inevitably be limited by their inadequate education. When students leave high school without high school skills, their futures—and that of the nation—are in jeopardy. With successful schools already showing the way, no decent society can continue to turn a blind eye to such racial and ethnic inequality.

"Eye-popping" – Sunday Times "Brilliant" – Iain Dale *** An unputdownable true account of how a tenacious head teacher led one of the most challenging schools in the country to excellence. No Excuses charts an extraordinary principal's journey from the moment she took over at a failing secondary school in a deprived area, where less than a quarter of children attained five or more A*–C GCSEs, and how she set about the gruelling task of transforming its reputation using her zero-tolerance, tough-love approach. Armed only with a wicked sense of humour, fearless energy and a powerful vision, Alison Colwell put in place a stringent set of rules, including a strict uniform policy and a complete ban on mobile phones, provoking resistance and hostility from some parents, the wider community and on social media. This is the darkly funny, moving story of how, together, teachers and their – often troubled – pupils rebuilt a school and community, with an inspirational head at the helm. Charming, touching and full of brilliant leadership advice, this is the diary of the woman the Daily Mail labelled Britain's strictest head teacher.