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The BackSmart Fitness Plan
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71881
EAN: 9780071443388
Edition: 1
ISBN: 007144338X
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: March 09, 2005
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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Editorial Review:A complete, full-body fitness program specifically designed to strengthen and protect the back
More than 50 percent of the 20 million Americans who join health clubs quit within the first year, mostly for one reason alone: back pain. Written by Adam Weiss, a chiropractic physician and fellow back pain sufferer, The BackSmart Fitness Plan presents a revolutionary program designed to target, protect, and strengthen the back. Employing his unique BackSmart Method, Weiss lays out a complete fitness program to provide readers with a variety of exercises designed to enhance their physical strength, flexibility, balance, endurance, and appearance, all without injuring themselves. The book includes:
- Hundreds of exercises emphasizing proper form and balance
- Proper use of free weights and machines
- Modified Pilates exercises
- Swiss ball movements
- Stretching
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Rating:  - You Can Have A Better Back!
Before I started The Backsmart Fitness Plan, I was experiencing chronic pain for years in my upper back/neck area and having small children didn't help that situation. I started doing these exercises as often as I could. The more I did it, the more I saw results. If I have a setback, I always start with the wall stretch and work my way to the other exercises. There is nothing complicated about these exercises, but you have to do them! I know that my posture has improved and I can see that my overall ... Read More
Rating:  - Too Time Consuming
While the concepts in the book seem sound, following the program is way too time consuming for those that have jobs and family. I might be able to complete the workout schedule described if I had no job; but even then most of my day would be spent working out. The author himself is a self-confessed fitness junky and this carries over into the recommended workout schedules. Your best bet would be to mix and match concepts from this book with concepts from other books concerning back and total body fitness ... Read More
Rating: - Sports medicine
Runners, weight lifters, bikers, golfers, and other exercise buffs (I'm a runner) need serious guidance about injury prevention and how to improve your performance. I found this to be a great guide, not from an amateur enthusiast, but from a doctor who has seriously taken on the problem, even beyond the typical exercises I was familiar with from physical therapy over the years. And yes, they told me I'd likely have to do exercises for the rest of my life. And that's what makes this book so handy, you don't have ... Read More
Rating:  - Backsmart book
I have had recurring back issues for quite some time (12 years) and have done lenghty research to help aleviate pain and improve performance. With that being said, I found this book to be entirely too basic for me. Much of what's covered are sretches and abdominal and bicep exercises.....very little lower/upper back exercises. If you're an athlete or somebody who's been active consistently, you probably won't find your answers in this book. However, for older or non-exercising individuals, this book has decent ... Read More
Rating: - Great addition to any training library
No matter what type of exercise program you are doing or starting, this book will help you do it better. The pictures really help to get your mind focused on what's happening during specific exercises and everyone seems to agree that is a good thing. Great layout. When you are ready to vary your routine this book can help you by identifying substitute exercises for those you are unable to perform the exercises yet due to back or neck weakness/ pain or simply don't yet have the strength to perform them yet.
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