Prime for life : functional fitness for ageless living
Title:
Prime for life : functional fitness for ageless living
Author:
ISBN:
9781594868290
Publication Information:
[Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2009.
Physical Description:
xviii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"The program used at Canyon Ranch."
Includes index.
Contents:
Movement as medicine -- Getting started -- Flexibility -- Muscle strength -- Strong bones -- Your foot and ankle -- The knee -- The hips -- Your back and neck -- The shoulders -- Pain...letting it go -- Making a plan you want to live with...every single day.
Summary:
Pain does not have to be part of the normal aging process. Randy Raugh has taught thousands how to keep their body's muscles, joints, and bones feeling young. Here, he offers his approach to achieving a healthy, long life by focusing on maintaining healthy joints and providing specific strategies for doing so. Using Raugh's techniques and philosophy of body wisdom, readers of all fitness levels will learn how to: prevent injuries and heal physical damage accumulated over a lifetime; achieve better results from exercise while eliminating or minimizing joint and muscle pain; talk to their doctors about surgery and common misdiagnoses; and create a simple fitness plan that fits into their daily routines. Based on cutting-edge research, more than two decades of hands-on experience, and the stories of real people, Raugh provides an innovative exercise program, tips, and tools to build a strong, pain-free and youthful body.--From publisher description.
