Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7
EAN num: 9780060959951
ISBN number: 0060959959
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: February 01, 2005
Publishing house: Collins Living
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Sale Popularity Level: 360632
Studio: Collins Living
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Do you feel that even with exercise and diet you are far from reaching your fitness goals?
You are not alone. Even though we are more into fitness than ever, the programs we use are just not working well enough. Many are even dangerous and can weaken the body and make it prone to injury. Marv Marinovich, former conditioning coach for the Oakland Raiders and renowned sports trainer, and Dr. Edythe Heus, a chiropractor specializing in rehabilitating elite athletes, have developed ProBodX (Proper Body Exercise) to close this fitness gap. ProBodX is the only fitness and conditioning program that safely builds and tones muscle while increasing strength, flexibility, balance, and grace.
ProBodX was originally designed for professional athletes -- such as Jason Sehorn of the New York Giants and Steve Finley of the Arizona Diamondbacks -- looking to increase their level of athleticism and to avoid injury. In this book, the program has been designed for anyone who wants to improve athletic ability or simply get in shape and stay in shape without injury.
Essentially the ProBodX program combines unstable surfaces (gymnastic balls, slant boards, balance disks) with multiplane movement and strength loading (special hand and foot weights) to simultaneously stretch and strengthen the body. The result is a stimulated nervous system and increased speed, power, and flexibility.
Whether your interest is reducing body fat and increasing lean muscle, playing sports, or just maintaining a healthy body, ProBodX's unique balanced fitness program can help. In addition, the program includes a dynamic eating program based on Barry Sears's Zone Diet to truly jump start the body and see real results in four to six weeks.
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this new concept in exercise should sweep the nation - if we are smart enough to accept it. it will make you a better athlete and help your body to remain young as long as you do it regularly.
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I have been utilizing the information in this book, and doing a number of the exercises, for about one month now. I did not want to review the book until I had some time in the trenches under my belt. I have found this book to be a superb addition to my workout programs. The exercises on the physioball are much harder than they appear. Especially when you start adding respectable amounts of weight. I was no slouch 30 days ago, but since I started elements of this program (as well as elements of Core Performance by Mark Verstegen), I find that I physically feel much healthier than before. ProBodX had added some great variety to my regimen. In my humble opinion you simply cannot go wrong including elements of the ProBodX system into your conditioning program. It is well worth the price.
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It took me awhile to learn to do the exercises properly.
At very first I was flopping all over and a bit nauseous when doing the "on your back" routines. I also was doubtful that I, at age 46, would ever be able to do the more advanced moves.
After doing the program twice to three times a week for the past month I am now free of chronic neck pain which has bothered me since I broke my collarbone at age 22. I can do the "on your back" exercises with no problems - it seems to be a neurological thing.
Best of all, I can balance on the disks and do all of the basic + routine, including the inverted V (bottoms up) with my toes on the top of the ball!
My coordination is better, I can feel my back muscles - those along the spine - at work, and I've gone from a 24% body fat to a 22% body fat.
The program DOES take work, and it takes a long time in the beginning while you are learning the workout, but it's well worth the effort.
It would be great if the authors would do a DVD, but in the meantime the book explains the exercises as thoroughly as possible. You don't feel the same "burn" as you do with weight training or aerobics, but you feel it the subsequent day !
The equipment consists of a Swiss Ball, two balance disks (which we made for $10 a set), and a set of hand weights with handles. Not expensive or hard to come by at all, even here in the middle of the South Pacific.
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I have actually read ProBodX and done the exercises (unlike the two "one star" reviewers below) and this is by far the best program I've ever done. The results are fast, the program is challenging, and the time needed is moderate (though it does take longer at very first when you're learning how to do the exercises). My biggest complaint is the name "ProBodX" - it does nothing for me. The program is more of a "total" or "complete" or "comprehensive" body workout.
About those "one star" reviews. Normally I would let it slide but these two are so full of it I need to respond.
"Never read the book. Never did the exercises? Easy?" Need I say more. No, but I will. First, the authors have numerous examples of professional athletes who use ProBodX exclusively and get great, tangle results (without lifting more that 35 lbs.!) The authors beef with traditional weight training is simple: why only exercise 10-20 major muscles (out of 640 skeletal muscles) when we need all of them to operate optimally. And the reviewer claims that ProBodX is another "easy" program?! This is by far the most challenging program I've ever done or seen. You do all of the exercise on a unstable or uneven surface; you use your muscles on multiple planes (not just up and down or side to side); you reverse the exercise; and you use muscles that you didn't even know you had! Easy? Not unless you're just perusing.
1) Yes, the Forward is by Barry Sears, who uses the "Z" word four times - not 75% of the time. He mentions his "Z" diet because it`s part of the ProBodX program - taking up over 80 pages in the book!
2) "The bashing? The attacking?" The authors compare over 30 types of exercises/sports to ProBodX, including a very extensive comparative chart, like the ones used in Consumer Reports. The authors remind readers to continue their own exercise program if they want to - just understand that there may be some limitations not previously known.
3) "Merchandising?" There is ONE reference to purchasing ProBodX equipment in the book. Let's see, they've designed a new exercise program that requires an unusual set of equipment. How dare they tell us where we can buy it! I went online and found only one other company that sells all of the equipment needed to do ProBodX (Sissel-online.com). Personally, I shopped at both.
4) "The writing style? The attitude?" Just about everything they claim is backed by examples from real life professional and college athletes. Performance improves across the board. That's attitude?
Suggestion to reviewers like these two - please spare the rest of us your distorted opinions and half-truths - save that for talk radio.
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I'm a professor, certified specialist in sports conditioning, and top level skier/alpine snowboarder. The progressive programs that Marinovich and Heus explain in this volume are basic yet sophisticated, energizing yet effective. I've done several exercise programs for general health and ski/snowboard fitness over the years: circuit training, yoga, pilates, anaerobic lifting, interval training and Tae-Bo. All of these, especially when combined into a yearly schedule with reasonable goals, are effective. Yet, the proprioceptive facilitation, core fitness and holistic body coordination that Marinovich and Heus present here are the best single program you could adopt. They give you several different programs, from beginners to elite athletes, that help your aerobic capacity, anaerobic strength, coordination, balance and agility - sometimes all within a single exercise! At the same time, they explain how this program avoids the burnout and overuse injuries that yoga, heavy power lifting and too much aerobic work can cause.
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