Foundation: Redefine Your Core, Conquer Back Pain, and Move with Confidence

By Peter Park and Eric Goodman

Book Overview

A sense of fatigue dogs the fitness world. Many of the new programs that are tagged as groundbreaking are actually recycled ideas. Foundation offers something completely different for novices and athletes alike: a simple program with powerful and proven results that will remedy bad posture, alleviate back pain, and help readers break through fitness challenges and plateaus.

Dr. Eric Goodman, a brilliant and dynamic young chiropractor, teams up with Peter Park, one of the top trainers in the United States, to radically redefine the core--shifting the focus from the front of the body to the back. Their groundbreaking approach works to strengthen the lower back and the full posterior chain and correct poor movement patterns by addressing mechanical imbalances and weaknesses. Foundation training involves simple movement patterns and is equipment free, creating maximum power, flexibility, and endurance.

Word-of-mouth enthusiasm has inspired both Hollywood luminaries and world-class athletes to make Foundation training the core of their fitness programs. Eric and Peter's client list has grown exponentially to include Lance Armstrong, NBA star Derek Fisher, world-champion surfer Kelly Slater, and actor Matthew McConaughey.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609611004
• ISBN13: 9781609611002
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Rodale Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book, hard to learn workout routine through reading though

This is a nice book to have, for those who are doing holistic chiropractic or are interested in alternative chiropractic or PT. My alternative chiropractor recommended it to me. Its information is great. I read it a while ago and remember some things weren't explained in as much detail as I wanted or didn't make sense/were confusing, but that's a minor issue for me. It has the routines in the book, with large pictures, but I will say there could have been more pictures for key steps of the workout which would have helped (the exercises have a few pictures for each but there are multiple steps within those pictures or key points that would be helped by adding more photos) and overall its hard to learn an exercise routine from the book. I will probably read over it again and look at their videos to get more info when I am ready to start using the full routine. I started partially (the first few steps of the first exercise) and it really helped already, so Im excited to do the full routine soon. I personally would buy again looking back on it. If you're buying though I would keep the expectation that its harder to learn the actual routine from this, especially if reading is already something that's annoying to do or hard for you. Thanks for reading.