Fast Fitness - Which Books to Get for Holiday Shopping Black Friday
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
- All my books have different information. If you get them all you won't go wrong, or repeat the same stuff.
- Limited personally signed copies to you or someone else are possible. I can write something special, with different signing for each person on your list. I can mail them all to you for the same postage, or to different people separately. You can also order straight from retailers instead of me. Links follow below (or click items).
- A reader wrote a comment, angry that his e-book did not print, and that it hurt his back "sitting at the computer pasting screenshots into into MSWord" to print his e-book on fixing back pain. He must have thought it was "Reprimand your way to my heart" day. E-books don't print. That is why they are called "E" (electronic) books. The book company lawyers told me his pain was divine punishment for copyright violation. Also for not following book instructions on healthy sitting. I am working on getting new editions of e-Books complied and uploaded (buggy slow software is keeping me at the desk many days overtime). New e-books should be ready for Christmas orders. New editions will soon be available for Kindle and other readers. The e-books already on my web site download directly to your computer. For portable print books, get the print editions.
If you can only get one book:
Top choice for athletes is Healthy Martial Arts. It is a treasury for all athletes. It teaches how to live and move and be healthy during all action of body and mind, with over 200 photographs. For regular exercisers, or those who want to start and just be healthy and have fun, a good choice would be Health & Fitness THIRD edition - How To Be Healthy Happy and Fit For The Rest Of Your Life. It's an all-in-one book with thirty-one fun chapters of fitness, nutrition, health, disease prevention, fixing back and neck pain, joint pain, functional exercise, "green" fitness, emotional health, brain health, stretching, and fun facts about the body. (Or as they say, "if you only read one book this year, you should read more...")
Best Combo:
With either Healthy Martial Arts or Health & Fitness THIRD ed., add Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs or Surgery.
For the Most "Bang for the Buck:"
Get a bunch, above, and throw in a Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier (200 illustrations) and Ab Revolution™ Third Edition expanded (114 drawings and photos). The Ab Revolution™ is described in: Back Pain From Running and Innovation in Abdominal Muscles
Thank You Anonymous:
Who left this comment on Who We Read - Using Fitness Fixer for More:
"Thank-you for your considerable research and explanations regarding neck and low back pain. Have recently checked out the Stretching Smarter... book you wrote to see if it is better than other posture books. It is infinitely better. Want to buy some books with photos next.
For new parents and grandparents:
Fun items with good kid lifting and carrying to save your back and neck
Mothers Day and New Parents Back and Neck Savers
and How To Remember Good Kid Lifting and Carrying
Water bottle with healthy neck and upper body positioning:
Fast Fitness - Stop Neck Pain From Biking
For scuba divers and diving medicine people on your list:
Diving Physiology In Plain English - all my career work and research in the field of decompression and diving science
and two books summarizing the entire field of Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine.
All books and descriptions - on my web site BOOKS page.
All fun UnCommon sense gifts - Dr. Bookspan's Backsavers.
Related:
Health & Fitness Third Edition at Last
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For personal medical questions - Replies to Medical Questions.
See Dr. Bookspan's Books, take a Class, get certified - DrBookspan.com/Academy.
Read success stories of these methods and send your own. Before asking questions, see if your answers are already here by clicking labels under posts, links in posts, archives at right, and The Fitness Fixer Index. Subscribe to The Fitness Fixer, click "updates via e-mail" (under trumpet) upper right.
For personal medical questions - Replies to Medical Questions.
See Dr. Bookspan's Books, take a Class, get certified - DrBookspan.com/Academy.
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Labels: education, fast fitness, holiday
5 Comments:
At Friday, November 27, 2009 3:29:00 PM, Unknown said…
Can someone recommend which book would be best for someone bedridden due to polyneuropathy, overall weakness (needs help turning, can't sit more than 1 hour) suffering severe back/buttock pain. Therapists won't work on him because he doesn't show progress, docs (ortho/neuro) offer no diagnosis, I'm thinking it's pain from being in bed!
Thanks. I checked the index...
Caregiver Sandy in Texas
At Saturday, November 28, 2009 11:05:00 AM, Dada said…
Dear Jolie,
I bought 5 of your books
(Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs or Surgery,Health & Fitness in Plain English,Healthier Smarter Stretching,
Healthy Martial Arts,Abs revolution)
The contents are great however I will greatly appreciate more pictures and drawings.
Sometimes it is not fully clear for me.
Anyway I had back pain and now I feel good without taking drugs.
That's great.
Thanks !
At Monday, November 30, 2009 12:11:00 AM, Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM said…
Bonjour Dada, Thank you for this and your other good comments on Fitness Fixer. Glad you want even more pictures and drawings. I am working on getting more. For a topic you want to do but are unsure, send me your photos (photo sharing link) of what you are doing. We can discuss until it works for you. I learn what words better explain for future books and articles, and can put your finished photos as one of the role models. Readers and patients are all invited. Also check my web site articles (www.DrBookspan.com/clinical) in French. Perhaps you can translate some of the others :-)
To Caregiver Sandy,
Excellent thinking. While the book Healthy Martial Arts has a whole section on wheelchair athletes, and Fix Your Own Pain has a case history of someone with secondary problems from not moving enough, probably the choice for the person you mention would be Health & Fitness THIRD edition which has sections on why lying in bed and getting out of shape hurt so much, what to do to get started, and several sections on functional exercise out of a gym, back pain, specifics to improve different needed aspects of health, and encouragement to get up and try.
Keep in touch about the situation and how these methods help you keep up your intelligent, needed, and life-saving approach.
At Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:35:00 PM, Dada said…
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At Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:54:00 PM, Unknown said…
Thanks, I'll give it a try, and hopefully he'll improve enough to 'graduate' to the other titles!
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