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Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff
Jim Johnson
Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, 2007
Well, it worked
I hurt my rotator cuffs doing some bag work. I waited a long time (I'm a guy) to go into an ortho. He gave me the advice to work on my posture, lose weight and a photocopy of some exercises to do. Told me that how I injured myself didn't matter, fixing it was what ...
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Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, ...
Dagny Scott Barrios
Rodale Books, 2007
Attention women runners (and nonrunners)!
This book is great for getting you off the couch and out into the running world! The author includes her own personal stories of her running adventures and makes you feel like you can do anything. And best of all, it's written by a woman for women: young and old, fat ...
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ACSM's Certification Review
American College of Sports Medicine
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005
Elite Fitness & Nutrition
To experience the Gold Standard in Personal Training, Call 559-696-4207. WE are members of the American College of Sports Medicine
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ACSM's Resources for the Personal Trainer: Techniques, Complications, and Management (High-Yield? Systems ...
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006
excellent!
This book benefits a lot to the initial trainers who even have no idea of how to deal with the training. The book is both practical and praticable to the trainer's learning how to train others with his/her own training experience. Though there are not enough ...
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Treat Your Own Knees: Simple Exercises to Build Strength, Flexibility, Responsiveness and Endurance
Jim Johnson
Hunter House, 2003
Excellent Book
I've never written an Amazon review before, but this little book impressed me so much that other readers should share its benefits.
I damaged my knee in a motorcycle accident and had recurring pain for two years. A string of hospitals, therapists and acupuncturists ...
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ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (ACSM'S Guidelines for Exercise Testing and ...
American College of Sports Medicine
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006
useful resource
This book appears to be a pretty darn good resource for fitness prescription and testing. I have read much of it and it is pretty well written and quite clinical. So if that's what you need, then this book is it.
However, I was intending to get books to study for ...
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The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition
Clair Davies, Amber Davies
New Harbinger Publications, 2004
The Self Treatment Guide
This is an excellent book. The author explains in very clear terms, instructions on how to detect trigger points in various parts of our bodies and the various methods of massage.
I zeroed down on the chapter for hands as I was buying this book as a gift for ...
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ChiRunning
Danny Dreyer
Fireside, 2004
A Life Changing Book
This is a book that can change your life. On the surface this book is about "harnessing chi" to improve your running, but it's more about developing proper technique and developing your run into a meditative experience. This book helps you develop proper foot strike ...
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NASM Essentials of Personal Fitness Training
National Academy of Sports Medicine
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007
Simply the Best
Although I miss the seven phase OPT model of old, the new paradigm has streamlined the structure to progress athletes through the process more efficiently. The illustrations are an upgrade, however there are fewer sample exercises to use. I recommend the NASM program ...
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition
Alice Miller
Basic Books, 1996
A Significant Piece of the Puzzle
Reading books about psychology, especially books dealing with childhood trauma, is a bit like looking into a shattered mirror. Some parts will accurately reflect aspects of one's own psyche; other parts will be too distorted to have any relevance. As far as mirrors go, ...
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Super Healing: The Clinically Proven Plan to Maximize Recovery from Illness or Injury
Julie K. Silver
Rodale Books, 2007
Super Healing is a Super Book!
Imagine you are a person whose life has been upended by illness or accident and you are struggling to return to optimum health and life quality. But you don't know where to turn for reliable scientifically grounded advice. Now imagine that a wonderful young physician ...
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The American Physical Therapy Association Book of Body Maintenance and Repair
Steve Vickery, Marilyn Moffat
Holt Paperbacks, 1999
A Must Have For People In Pain or Those Working With People In Pain
I love this book. The pictures are nice and clear on what you are suppose to do for each exercise. Everything is so easy to understand. I took the book with me to Physical Therapy one day and my Physical Therapist liked it so much he ordered one that same day!!!
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Anatomy and Asana: Preventing Yoga Injuries
Susi Hately Aldous
Eastland Press, 2006
Highly Informative and Well Presented
Anatomy and Asana is quite an accomplishment. I took a university course on yoga, and recommended that this text be added to the required reading. Any serious student of yoga, and all instructors, should have this book as a resource. The information is clearly and ...
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Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
Michael Sokolove
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Protect your daughter and save her health!!!
This book will help you protect your daughter from over zealous coaches. It's an incredibly interesting story. It's wonderful that girls are able to participate in sports like never before. It's not wonderful when they're on the sidelines in crutches.
This book will ...
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Organizing Solutions for People With Attention Deficit Disorder: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of ...
Susan C Pinsky
Fair Winds Press, 2006
WONDERFULL the authour must really know me
this book is amazing, it's like the author took many years to study my living habits. i never knew how much AD/HD affected my home life, i though it only effected school and driving. i bet it probaly effects the workplace too, i wonder if there is any books about that. ...
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