Callanetics for Your Back [Hardcover]

Callan Pinckney (Author), Barbara Friedlander Meyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1988

Callanetics-Meditation in Motion 12 Months on the New York Times Bestseller List! Featured on National Television!! The Astonishing Deep-Muscle exercise that can give you a perfect figure. Includes exercises from the new video Super Callanetics.

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Callan Pinckney with Sallie Batson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 191 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co; 1st edition (September 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068807474X
• ISBN-13: 978-0688074746
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,250,718 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This program works like nothing else I've ever tried!, September 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Callanetics for Your Back (Hardcover)

This book should not be out of print! I have been a low-back-pain sufferer most of my adult life and have tried everything from weightlifting to yoga with little or no positive result (in some cases, very negative results). But this book, with its common-sense approach to both back therapy and overall exercise (making it clear that, yes, back problems are no barrier to staying in shape) got me from 80% of the time in back pain to 95% of the time pain-free, strong, and able to hike, bike, and do all the other things that would in the past have gotten me into painful trouble. Also, but just incidentally, it toned and slimmed my entire body, a selling point for Callanetics for women, but believe me, this man doesn't mind losing his "love handles" on the way to a better back, either! Callan Pinckney is some kind of miracle worker, maybe because she used herself and her own back as the laboratory for the program she created. Simply amazing!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Immediate relief for lower back spasm, September 17, 2000

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John Timothy (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Callanetics for Your Back (Audio Cassette)

The first few pages of this book are devoted to emergency relief of lower back spasm. If you've ever had to get out of bed by rolling out onto the floor, getting onto your knees, then slowly & painfully rising to your feet by supporting yourself by leaning on the nightstand...you know what I'm talking about. Her emergency exercises work.

The long-term stretching & toning program is a lot like some yoga exercises...but with some very important--and seemingly subtle--differences that will protect your back from some of the dangerous stresses that certain yoga positions put you into.

It's a shame this book is out of print. Haunt your local used book stores until you find it!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IT REALLY WORKS GREAT!!, July 23, 2001

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JOANNE FOSTER (WOODBURN, ORE. USA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Callanetics (Ring-bound)

I AM 53 AND HAVE SUFFERED FOR YEARS WITH A BAD BACK. I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING INCLUDING THERAPY. NOTHING WORKS AS WELL AS CALLANS BACK EXERCISES! I BOUGHT THIS BOOK USED RECENTLY. I WISH I WOULD HAVE FOUND IT YEARS AGO! IT WOULD HAVE SAVED ME YEARS OF PAIN! WHAT A SHAME ITS OUT OF PRINT.