Product Description

'Back pain was a constant presence until I learned Dr. Weiss' principles. This simple guide will keep you feeling great in the gym or in the office, so you never have to be less than your best' - Martin Boonzaayer, two-time Olympian and seven-time National Judo Champion. 'We are now using the "BackSmart Fitness Plan" with all our patients at each stage of their rehabilitation' - Jose A. Hernandez, D.C., Director, Pacific Spine and Rehab Center. "The BackSmart Fitness Plan" presents a revolutionary full-body program designed to strengthen the back and prevent injuries. Dr. Adam Weiss, a chiropractic physician, developed the successful BackSmart Method to overcome his own back injury without the use of medications.In this step-by-step program, he provides an organized routine of exercises to improve physical strength, flexibility, balance, muscular endurance, and appearance - all without causing stress or injury to the joints and ligaments. You'll learn how to heal, strengthen, and protect your back while achieving peak condition and losing unwanted weight. "The BackSmart Fitness Plan" includes: hundreds of exercises emphasizing proper form and balance; guidance on the proper use of free weights and machines; modified pilates exercises and Swiss ball movements; stretching exercises to increase flexibility; and, healthy diet tips. With "The BackSmart Fitness Plan" you can reap the many benefits of exercise and work your way to a healthier, stronger, and pain-free body.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25427 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Synopsis
'Back pain was a constant presence until I learned Dr. Weiss' principles. This simple guide will keep you feeling great in the gym or in the office, so you never have to be less than your best' - Martin Boonzaayer, two-time Olympian and seven-time National Judo Champion. 'We are now using the "BackSmart Fitness Plan" with all our patients at each stage of their rehabilitation' - Jose A. Hernandez, D.C., Director, Pacific Spine and Rehab Center. "The BackSmart Fitness Plan" presents a revolutionary full-body program designed to strengthen the back and prevent injuries. Dr. Adam Weiss, a chiropractic physician, developed the successful BackSmart Method to overcome his own back injury without the use of medications.In this step-by-step program, he provides an organized routine of exercises to improve physical strength, flexibility, balance, muscular endurance, and appearance - all without causing stress or injury to the joints and ligaments. You'll learn how to heal, strengthen, and protect your back while achieving peak condition and losing unwanted weight.

"The BackSmart Fitness Plan" includes: hundreds of exercises emphasizing proper form and balance; guidance on the proper use of free weights and machines; modified pilates exercises and Swiss ball movements; stretching exercises to increase flexibility; and, healthy diet tips. With "The BackSmart Fitness Plan" you can reap the many benefits of exercise and work your way to a healthier, stronger, and pain-free body.

From the Back Cover

"Back pain was a constant presence until I learned Dr. Weiss's principles. This simple guide will keep you feeling great in the gym or in the office, so you never have to be less than your best."
--Martin Boonzaayer, two-time Olympian and seven-time National Judo Champion

"We are now using the BackSmart Fitness Plan with all our patients at each stage of their rehabilitation."
--Jose A. Hernandez, D.C., Director, Pacific Spine and Rehab Center

The BackSmart Fitness Plan presents a revolutionary full-body program designed to strengthen the back and prevent injuries. Dr. Adam Weiss, a chiropractic physician, developed the successful BackSmart Method to overcome his own back injury without the use of medications. In this step-by-step program, he provides an organized routine of exercises to improve physical strength, flexibility, balance, muscular endurance, and appearance--all without causing stress or injury to the joints and ligaments.

You'll learn how to heal, strengthen, and protect your back while achieving peak condition and losing unwanted weight. The BackSmart Fitness Plan includes:

• Hundreds of exercises emphasizing proper form and balance
• Guidance on the proper use of free weights and machines
• Modified Pilates exercises and Swiss ball movements
• Stretching exercises to increase flexibility
• Healthy diet tips

With The BackSmart Fitness Plan you can reap the many benefits of exercise and work your way to a healthier, stronger, and pain-free body.

About the Author

Adam Weiss, D.C., is board certified by the National Chiropractic Board of Examiners and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. His BackSmart Method has helped thousands of patients, including professional athletes. Weiss lives in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

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Customer Reviews

A good manual of exercise advice
This is essentially a book of exercise advice - exercises and routines designed to help people with back problems. It's certainly comprehensive covering tons of stretches, pilates, swiss-ball, bodyweight, free weights, machines and cables machines.

It coveres a lot of non back exercises. It really is a manual of general exercise and health for people with bad backs rather than another set of exercises specifically for people with back problems.

My criticisms of it are that it isn't a lot of help to someone with a lot of current pain. There is only a little info on dealing with an acute back episode and most of the exercises are way too hard for someone struggling in their daily life. I'd have liked to see a very gentle remedial programme. But maybe the book isn't aimed at that. It also misses out some key back exercises in my opinion but then the author may know better and this may be deliberate.

It strikes me as a bit of a personal book. He developed the exercise regimes from his own pain. I wonder how useful that approach is for people who don't have the same causes for their pain.

Overall it's a good book and one worth buying for the back sufferer who already has the usual back exercise books. It gives you a whole-body approach. It offers good weights exercises that won't hurt your weak back which is useful.

From a golfer’s perspective
Having read most of the golf books on the market I was looking for something new to take a little bit off my game. Admittedly, I am totally addicted to the game and practiced 10 minutes every day on the swing as well as playing every week, but I had previously put similar efforts over the years without ever becoming a good golfer until now.
After reading an article by Dr. Weiss on back stiffness and the effect on golfer’s swing, I was intrigued. I have read my fare share of exercise books over the years to remain fit but this book I am happy to say surprised me. This book is well laid out and easy to follow, it does not over complicate things with certain pieces of exercises equipment or to drink magical potions to get a benefit from the exercises. Rather the book offers many different exercises to achieve greater strength and flexibility.
As a golfer of many years I found not only my back feeling better, but also my shoulders are feeling much better and I am hitting the ball better. I have played to a handicap of 18 for years, since this book I now play to 11. I do not play any more golf than previously but I do enjoy playing golf much more.

Motivating
"The Backsmart Fitness Plan" will "The Backsmart Fitness Plan" will motivate you to change your exercise program and lose weight.
The author explains his unique fitness philosophy with detailed descriptions and straight forward pictures of exercises and how to do them.
It's a great book with a through, detailed p[lan from stretching, weights, core training(the abs exercises alone was worth the price I paid) , and a simple diet plan.

you to change your exercise program and lose weight.
The author explains his unique fitness philosophy with detailed descriptions and straight forward pictures of exercises and how to do them.
It's a great book with a through, detailed plan from stretching, weights, core training(the abs exercises alone was worth the price I paid) , and a simple diet plan.