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Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health: Western and Chinese Fitness Solutions to Chronic Health Problems [Paperback]

John Alton (Author)
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The secret to excellent and lasting health may be as simple as a series of exercises.

Unified Fitness is a unique 35-day program that blends familiar Western exercises with more exotic Chinese ones in a single routine that makes you healthier and helps you stay that way.

One of the best systems of health self-maintenance available today, the program is based on health practices developed by John Alton during his 20-year career as a fitness teacher.

The Unified Fitness program interweaves the body, immune system, and the mind into a single exercise and dietary approach. Through photos and clear explanations, Alton guides you through the exercises and he provides convincing reasons for doing them. A total of 49 real-life case studies provide substantial support for the claim that Unified Fitness is the simplest and best means of getting sustainable health or for recovering from dozens of illnesses.

"These exercies give you the amazing ability to mobilize energy and the immune system to help you cope with harmful germs that cause health problems," says John Alton. "And, once you've learned them, you can do these exercises throughout the day."

Enlightened self-care through Unified Fitness will not only ustain your health, but also give you remarkable control over it.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 436 pages
  • Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company; 1 edition (January 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1571742247
  • ISBN-13: 978-1571742247
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,454,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good stretching recommendations, September 12, 2006
This review is from: Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health: Western and Chinese Fitness Solutions to Chronic Health Problems (Paperback)
I have read all the gushing glowing reviews and thought I would add my 2 cents, as a nonchalant reader of this book. If you take the "35 days" in the title seriously, you should be prepared to spend most of your waking hours with this book during those days.

I have been less dedicated, and more attached to my normal life habits, and therefore haven't persued the whole program. I'm also not sick, just slightly out of shape. I used to practice tai chi daily for several years, but have fallen out of practice.

That being said, I have benefited from the stretching routine that John recommends in the beginning of the book. I haven't ever seen any other regimented stretching program which does a good job for the shoulders and trunk of the body. There are also a lot of good ideas for stretching the legs and lower back. So I have found a lot of value from just the first ten pages of the book.

Be careful. Anybody reading this book should trust their own body before trusting John's authoritative writing style. If you follow his suggestions mindlessly, you will probably hurt yourself.

I deducted a star from the rating because of the poor quality of the binding of my copy of the book. Pages were falling out. I had to take it to a print shop and get it rebound with a spiral. Now it is much easier to lay it flat and refer to it while stretching.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Healing For Me, March 20, 2002
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Conor Quinlan (Charlottesville, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health: Western and Chinese Fitness Solutions to Chronic Health Problems (Paperback)
I am a 22 year old living in Charlottesville, Virginia. I have had my fair share of chronic injuries: knee, stomach, shoulder, back. I went to physical therapists, massage therapists, orthopedist, etc. None really could do anything, mainly because my injuries never showed up on their MRI's, flexibility tests, etc. I passed with flying colors. But I still had a lot of pain, and it prevented me from being a normal kid my age.
I started doing Unified Fitness a couple of years ago and have fixed my knee, stomach and shoulder. My back is the last big hurdle, and I will have that fixed soon. But note that I said I fixed it. I did it myself. With the help of this book and my teacher John Alton, I have overcome things that doctors told me "These are things/pains you just learn to live with." Unified Fitness gives you a toolbox to fix physical, emotional, and mental injuries. As I explored my physical problems with Unified Fitness I began to understand myself a lot more and that understanding alone was enough to ignite the healing process. The book is just it for people who feel like they have tried "everything." This is different. It is detailedm thoughtout and medically supported. The book offers a step by step approach. Good luck!
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful integration of healing and contemplation, March 31, 2002
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John Alton's Unified Fitness presents a powerful new practical vision of traditional Asian healing and contemplative practices. Working with an intimate knowledge of traditional Chinese practices, he has reformulated the entire system from the ground up based on its core principles to create a new process designed to suit contemporary lifestyles and realities. The book cuts through the difficulties of traditional presentations, as well as the superficiality of so many contemporary "manuals", to achieve a rare and powerful synthesis with potent results for personal physical and mental health. Despite being an associate Professor at the University of Virginia in Tibetan Buddhist Studies specializing in contemplative systems with many years of research in Tibet itself, I have seen few contemporary models so deeply based in Asian healing-contemplative traditions, and yet so precisely and powerfully reorganized for a contemporary audience. I highly recommend Unified Fitness.
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Your first week of Unified Fitness begins with cardiovascular exercise and flexibility training, which medical and fitness research has shown to have a clear, positive impact on health. Read the first page
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Rigorous Chaosercise, Reflective Meditation, Low Center, Six Subtle Movements, Sensing the Middle Center, Reverse Breathing, Closing Sculpt, Mapping the Mind, Great Disruption, Gentle Chaosercise of the Three Centers, Recovery Movements, Using the Map, Parable of the Six Couples, Reflective Exercise Lite, Reverse Abdominal Breathing, Begin Circle, Farthest Extension, High Center, East Asian, Leg Raises, Opening the Door, Paul Ewald, Sitting Full Split, Small Split, Thomas Braciale
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