Get GardenFit: Take Care of Your Body While Taking Care of Your Garden

From the hosts of the hit PBS series GardenFit comes the most comprehensive, body-smart guide to preventing aches and pains while gardening—so you can enjoy the garden you love for years to come.

Your garden isn’t the only thing that needs tending. Your body is your most important gardening tool! Lifelong gardener and creator of the PBS show GardenFit Madeline Hooper joins forces with personal trainer, gardener, and co-host Adam Schersten, to show gardeners how simple changes in the way they move can make gardening enjoyable for many years to come.

Built around the GardenFit principles of Form, Balance, and Habit, this beautifully illustrated guide teaches easy, body-smart techniques for every essential gardening task—from weeding, digging and planting to mulching, raking, watering, pruning, and more. You’ll discover practical movement strategies, restorative stretches, and lifelong habits that help reduce strain, improve strength and balance, and keep you gardening comfortably through every season.

Drawing on years of teaching gardeners across the country—and visits to the gardens of celebrated amateur and professional gardeners including Alice Waters, Frances Palmer, Renny Reynolds, and Bunny Williams—Hooper and Schersten combine expert instruction with warmth, encouragement, and infectious enthusiasm. Filled with vibrant photography, full-color illustrations, and easy-to-follow guidance, Get GardenFit is the essential companion for every gardener who wants to grow a healthier garden—and nurture a healthier body.

“Madeline and Adam’s energy is contagious. Their focus on proper form and simple reset stretches gave me immediate relief and inspired me to develop new habits while caring for my flower farm.”—Jenny Elliott, floral designer and farmer