The Ab Revolution: No More Crunches No More Back Pain - Softcover

Bookspan, Jolie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972121420 ISBN 13: 9780972121422

Publisher: Neck and Back Pain Sports Medicine, 2006

Synopsis

- Old Edition. Make sure to check sellers for current improved 4th edition. The Ab Revolution (TM) is not a bunch of exercises, but a sports medicine technique to straighten spine and pelvic angle to neutral, quickly stopping a major source of lower back pain. Part I teaches neutral spine for back pain control in every day life. Functional strengthening is built-in from the new healthier way you stand, move, and all you do. Part II includes fun and functional strengthening moves from simple to the toughest you can get because health requires movement! No forward bending that stresses discs or practices bent-forward posture. Change your knowledge of exercise, posture, back health, neutral spine, and what abdominal muscles really do.  This is an older Third Edition - 114 photos and drawings, 124 pages, gym-bag 6x9"size. By Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM, award winning scientist who developed this method, used by top spine docs, rehab centers, athletes, and military.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Jolie Bookspan knows abs. A career military scientist, she has a black belt in karate and was undefeated in the ring as a Muay Thai kickboxer. After serving in the Army, she was research physiologist for the United States Navy, studying survival in extreme environments from undersea to climbing mountains to outer space an interest that began as a child when she sat barefoot in the snow watching her grandfather go ice swimming every day. As a scientist, she has carried gear up and down the mountains and deserts of India, Nepal, Asia, and Northern Africa; swam to work in an underwater laboratory; was advisor to The Discovery Channel and police and military training departments; and was professor of anatomy at a college in the mountains of Mexico where the entrance exam was getting up there without a nosebleed. Left paralyzed after breaking her back, neck, and most of everything else in an accident, she rehabbed using her own methods. She started over again as a white belt and earned her black belt a second time. Jolie and her husband Paul were inducted into the International Black Belt Hall of Fame and were the Eastern USA Martial Arts Association Man and Women of the Year 2004. Harvard clinicians have called her "The St. Jude of the Joints" in her private practice in sports medicine. She doesn t do crunches.

From the Back Cover

Forget machines and crunches - they promote poor posture and don't teach you how to use your abs the way you need while standing up for real life
Fix Your Own Back Pain
Innovative exercisese from simple to the most challenging

From the Inside Flap

Introduction by Andrew Seigel, Second Degree Black Belt

I bought this book after attending a seminar with this extraordinary lady more on that in a moment. This book is invaluable to anyone who wants to eliminate back-pain immediately. Most of us have been told so many times to "stand up straight, don t slouch" that we do precisely the wrong thing, over-arching and putting strain and stress on our back each and every day. With Dr. Bookspan s straightforward, no-nonsense approach, you can instantly modify a key bad posture and the pain/ache in your lower back IS GONE. What is deceptive is how easy this is to accomplish and so on first read, you might not totally grasp the concept. Take your time with the book, try each modification and exercise as she clearly explains it, and give it a try. Your first goal should be to stop the pain, your second to start strengthening your abs and back by retraining your daily habits - and let me tell you, you ll thank her for it.
As a 40-year-old martial arts instructor with 24 years experience, I was fortunate enough to attend one of her seminars. That s where she really works her magic, face to face. She utilized the concepts in her book to change the way a room full of martial arts instructors and grandmasters live their daily lives. For all of our knowledge and experience, Dr. Bookspan provided a collective epiphany to over 60 veteran martial artists, we were all shaking our heads in amazement and smiling at how good our backs felt. It s practical and it works! To her credit, Dr. Bookspan lives her healthy lifestyle philosophy. This book is not very big, nor is Dr. Bookspan, but both are filled with tremendous power and wisdom. Everyone could benefit from the Ab Revolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Neck and Back Pain Sports Medicine
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972121420
• ISBN 13: 9780972121422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 136