Athletic Forever: The Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Plan for Lifetime Fitness - Hardcover

Jobe, Frank; Mohr, Karen; Lasorda, Tommy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809228637 ISBN 13: 9780809228638

Publisher: Contemporary Books, 1999

Synopsis

Provides the recreational athlete with a program for injury-free and lifelong fitness

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Review

So you listened to the doctors and public-health professionals and Nike commercials, and you believe it's a good thing that you're still exercising and playing sports well into your fourth or fifth or even sixth decade of life. You know all about the problems that accrue with inactivity: a weak heart, clogged arteries, and atrophied muscle tissue and bone mass, all of it adding up to a precipitous decline in physical abilities.

But maybe you weren't expecting the problems that accrue with activity: the wear and tear on your knees, pain in the arches of your feet, irritated bursa in your shoulders, inflamed nerves in your back.

Athletic Forever is as good a guidebook as there is for the men and women who plan to take their jockstraps, jog bras, knee braces, and orthotic shoe inserts to the grave with them. It spans the gap between layman's language and that used by medical professionals--pointing out, for example, why terms like "slipped disc" aren't really accurate, and why "herniated disc" better describes the injury.

The book's organization allows you to jump in wherever your interest takes you. If you want to know more about a specific problem--shoulder, knee, ankle--you can go straight to that chapter. It would be a shame, though, for anyone interested in lifelong health and fitness to skip the opening chapters. These provide not only the scary facts about how an untrained body degenerates through the decades, but also how a trained body literally beats the aging process. --Lou Schuler

From Booklist

Two sports physicians and a fitness magazine editor coauthor this excellent guide aimed at older weekend athletes who want to design and maintain a "safe and effective fitness program." The straightforward manual begins with an overview of how aging and exercise can affect health and performance and turns to fitness essentials. Strength conditioning and stretching information precede injury prevention and treatment guidelines helpfully arranged by body part. Illustrated instructions for strengthening and flexibility exercises round out the coverage. To their credit, the collaborators assume that readers possess some knowledge of physiology, so information is presented in an intelligent manner that never speaks down to its intended audience. Highly recommended for fitness collections serving seasoned athletes. Sue-Ellen Beauregard

About this edition

• Publisher: Contemporary Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0809228637
• ISBN 13: 9780809228638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272