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The BackSmart Fitness Plan | 
 enlarge | Author: Adam Weiss
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 85485
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 007144338X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71881
EAN: 9780071443388
ASIN: 007144338X
Publication Date: March 9, 2005
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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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 Only for former athletes October 31, 2008
Fcleff (Ontario, Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was a total waste of time and money for me. This book might be good if you are a former athelete, has has experience with exercises of this kind and had people coach you in the past. For an Electric Engineer like me that has back pain due to spending 12 hours sitting behind a computer screen, this is way to overwhelming.
The stretches alone took me forever to understand and almost an hour to go through. After that I was so sore that I couldn't excercice on the next day or so.
I still believe the best approach is to look for professional help. In one hour, a qualified instructor can demonstrate how to do things properly without getting hurt.
 You Can Have A Better Back! July 3, 2008
K. Schwalb (Deerfield, IL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 core strength helps me do better in all of my daily activities.
I have been down many avenues to deal with my back problems--physical therapy, massage, acupuncture, Feldenkrais, and so on. Dr. Weiss' plan is more effective in the long run than any of the things that I have tried. You can have long term relief from chronic pain if you commit to learning and practicing these exercises!
 Too Time Consuming March 21, 2008
Andrew J. Schwartz (SoCal)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 to create your own custom work out.
It seems a good, well rounded total body workout book that takes back pain and injury into account has not yet been authored.
Sports medicine August 24, 2006
Trish Mitsotakis
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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 a therpist with you day in and out.
This book is very specific on how to do the exercises, how to progress, and what not to do. The advice is practical and well researched, and very much consistent with everything all the specialists have told me during my decade of back problems .I found the guidance to be in depth, but still accessible to lay person
Exceptional benefits include the exercise alternates; free weights, exercise balls. Given the constraints of travel and gym availability, alternates are needed. Also, the guidance toward good nutrition and "healthy living" is on the mark.
Backsmart book August 22, 2006
Patrick Bush
12 out of 17 found this review helpful
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 basic guidlines and is decent starter information.
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