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Beyond the search for fitness lurk these questions: How do I get the most out of what I've got? How do I train safely and effectively? What do I do if hurt myself? Is it too late to start exercising? Commitment to Fitness answers these questions and more.

Commitment to Fitness is lively, entertaining, and highly personal, written in easy-to-understand everyday language. It is an instruction manual of the human body, written with you in mind: the young adult, senior citizen, new mother, post menopausal executive, golfer, softball player, cyclist, and jogger who wants to have a fitter and more fun body.

Commitment to Fitness offers fresh perspectives on the critical areas of cardiovascular fitness and strength training, focusing on these three Master Keys:¿¿Form is everything!¿¿Preparation/Progression¿¿Visualization

In depth material is provided for both beginners and people with broad training experience. In addition, Commitment to Fitness describes how to rehabilitate common sports-related injuries, such as a damaged rotator cuff, tennis elbow, and chronic knee pain, and importantly, how to come back stronger. Then, Commitment to Fitness goes beyond rehabilitation and shows how to prevent injury in the first place. Commitment to Fitness is committed to your health, wellness, and well-being.

From the Author
A Note to My Readers

My goal has been to write more than a fitness book—many excellent how-to guides are already available. I wanted to write a special fitness book, one about people, one that meets your specific needs. A book that covered all the basics and then went beyond, from posture and stretching, through weight-training, aerobics, and nutrition, through recovering from injury, establishing a powerful doctor–patient partnership, and coming back even stronger. Above all, a book that was life-affirming.

You may already be a fitness person, you may want to become one, or you may be experiencing some physical problems which might be helped with exercise and nutritional recommendations. Whatever your current fitness status, Commitment to Fitness: Real Fitness for Real People was written with you in mind.

I’ve been a fitness person all my life. I played Little League baseball as a kid, ran track in junior high school, and began studying dance—ballet, jazz, and modern—in college. I danced professionally, taught jazz dance, and later enrolled in chiropractic school. I’ve been in private practice in Manhattan for almost twenty years, treating a wide range of sports-related injuries. I know the human body. I know exercise. I have more than thirty years of front-line experience to share.

“Coming back stronger” is a theme running through Commitment to Fitness. Injury, even illness, can be an opportunity. Stuff happens to all of us. How will we respond? I’ve attempted to present courses of action that each of us can follow, based on easy-to-understand principles that work.

The great thing about fitness is that it’s never too late to start. In fact, whatever your age, whatever shape you’re in, you can improve your health and well-being. My book offers expert guidance and assistance along this life-long path.

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