Your Body, Your Responsibility (including bonus DVD: Total Body Stretching) [Paperback]

Debra M. Corbo and Douglas J. Splittgerber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2007

Your Body, Your Responsibility (including bonus DVD) should be required reading for everyone. Whether you are young or old, man or woman, active or sedentary, an athlete or not, doctor, therapist, coach, or trainer, you can benefit by learning how your body really functions mechanically. * BACK PAIN: Why you have it and how you can improve it * SHOULDER AND NECK PAIN: you can improve it * HIP, KNEE, AND FOOT PAIN: what you can do about it * Get better results from your exercise efforts * Reduce your medical costs * Improve your quality of life as you age * Total Body Stretching DVD teaches how to use your body properly

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Includes bonus DVD: Total Body Stretching

About the Author

Debra M. Corbo, BS, PT, CPT. Debra has been a life-long participant of sports, having trained as a long-distance runner and track and field participant since her preteens. Debra attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Physical Therapy. Over the past twenty-five years, she has worked as a licensed physical therapist in Pennsylvania and Florida. After graduation, Debra worked at numerous facilities to gain experience while working in all aspects of physical therapy and rehabilitation. Debra has taken dozens of courses to increase her skill level as well as to enhance her knowledge base. Douglas J. Splittgerber, CPT. Doug's early years growing up were like most kids, playing football, basketball, and baseball. Doug has been a professional trainer since opening up his first gym in 1982. In 1988, he became certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a health/fitness instructor after a rigorous training period at Memphis State University in Tennessee. In 1989, Doug became a certified MedX technician after studying at the University of Florida in Gainesville under Dr. Michael Pollack and inventor of MedX, Arthur Jones. After that, Doug worked for a short period at St. Elizabeth s hospital for Dr. James Gmeiner as a MedX technician and head of the Muscle Testing and Strengthening Department. In 1991, Doug became a certified personal trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine, then located in Chicago, IL. He was immediately offered a position on the teaching staff, under the direction of Dr. Robert Goldman and Dr. Ronald Klatz, both world-renowned anti-aging experts. He continued teaching until 1996, having taught over six hundred students during that time. Doug also holds a certificate as a certified personal trainer with the International Sports Science Association. Doug is currently finishing up his Bachelor of Science degree at this time. Doug s association with Debra began professionally in 1993. For th

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Wheatmark; Pap/DVD edition (March 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587366975
• ISBN-13: 978-1587366970
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #713,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Solid, No Nonsense, Practical Approach to Achieving and Maintaining Good Health, March 17, 2007

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Body, Your Responsibility (including bonus DVD: Total Body Stretching) (Paperback)

There are many self help books on diet, gimmicky tools that can be viewed and purchased on late night TV slots, famous people sharing their secrets to instant body improvement by 'only a few minutes each week', pills, energy boosters - everyone has seen the gamut. And the question arises "with so many 'infallible aids' available, why is the rate of overweight adults in America as high as 60%"? And why are we all accepting that back pain, joint pain, decreased energy, arthritis, etc just inevitable factors of aging that cannot be curbed?

Well, enter Debra M. Corbo and Douglas J. Splittgerber, a husband and wife team and both physical therapists, who have joined to create this easy to read, very pragmatic and medically correct book YOUR BODY, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. It is a well written book that takes the time to explain the function of the muscle and skeletal system of our bodies and how approaching the near-neglected science of stretching and strengthening is obviously the key to maintaining weight, properly adjusted exercise, body control and maintenance, and care of our backs, hips, shoulders, wrists, hands, pelvic zones, something we as caretakers of our physical bodies can and, in fact, must do.

Not filled with empty promises of goals of fat loss or massively muscular beach perfect bodies, both Corbo and Splittgerber have written a book that takes some time and practice to understand, but the reward is an ongoing gadget-free approach to longevity. Their approach is labeled 'The Alignment Resistance Training Method of Stretching and Strengthening' and they understand that a picture is worth a thousand words: the book contains a first class 1 hour 15 minute DVD that demonstrates each of the maneuvers discussed in the book. Following the DVD is comfortably paced and one aspect of watching the well demonstrated exercises that makes it even more credible is that the authors are both older people - 48 and 56 - though they are in such superb physical shape that their chronological age matters little. It is just easier to have as your instructors people who are not buff and beautiful early twenty-something models who frustrate hopes of ever emulating them.

But perhaps the strongest point of this book/DVD is the list of 'promises' the authors afford: 'Get better results from your exercise efforts. reduce medical costs, improve your quality of life as you age' and remembering that your body is your responsibility. This is one of the best and most honest self-improvement programs available. Grady Harp, March 07

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your Body, Your Responsibility is highly recommended., July 9, 2007

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This review is from: Your Body, Your Responsibility (including bonus DVD: Total Body Stretching) (Paperback)

Written by Debra M. Corbo, PT, CPT and Douglas J. Splittgerber, CPT, Your Body, Your Responsibility is a "user's manual" to keeping the human body healthy emphasizing an alignment resistance training method for stretching and strengthening. Your Body, Your Responsibility addresses why dieting alone fails as a means to procure weight control and optimum health; in order to effectively burn calories, the body needs muscles to nurture. Simple cardio exercise has its own benefits, but cardio exercise does not necessarily work out all muscles, and muscles that aren't used in the cardio may even decrease as the body pillages them for nutrients in favor of fat stores (it's the body's evolved survival technique to stay alive in times of famine, yet deleterious to human health in the modern age of plenty). What's a person to do? Your Body, Your Responsibility offers a basic education in how different muscles and joints work, and recommends a stretching and resistance exercise routine to strengthen all muscles and keep the self healthy. An accompanying 1 hour 15 minute DVD guides the reader through stretches, workout techniques, and no-nonsense advice about posture, self-care, and using one's body properly. Knowledge is power, and knowing how one's body functions mechanically empowers one to keep it in optimum condition. Your Body, Your Responsibility is highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Profound Paradigm Shift in Fitness, November 30, 2008

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Dr. Michael Brickey (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Body, Your Responsibility (including bonus DVD: Total Body Stretching) (Paperback)

I had the pleasure of reading their book, using their DVD, and interviewing Doug Splittgerber and Debra Corbo on Ageless Lifestyles Radio. I'm still stunned with how unique their training is. It is a profound paradigm shift that destroys many of your beliefs about fitness and health with replaces them with a more intelligent approach to fitness that results in better posture, less pain, and better health. You only have to look around to see that most Americans have poor posture. Without good posture, health problems are bound to follow. Their emphasis on posture and alignment as the foundation for both everyday activities and exercise makes eminent sense. Why more fitness experts don't start there is beyond me.
--Anti-Aging Psychologist Dr. Michael Brickey