The definitive guide to a fitness and healing breakthrough from the leading water exercise trainer and a renowned sports physical therapist Millions of people are discovering the benefits of working out in water—Olympic athletes, dancers, fitness enthusiasts, workout rookies, pregnant women, seniors, even those recovering from injuries or surgery. Working against water’s natural resistance makes for a healthier, more balanced workout than is possible on land—with virtually no risk of damage to the body. Water exercise is so safe that doctors and physical therapists are prescribing it as part of injury rehabilitation programs. The Complete Waterpower Workout Book offers: Waterpower and Deep Waterpower: Two basics programs, one low impact and the other no impact, can be tailored to provide everyone with the right fitness challenge. Total Fitness: Both programs build aerobic and anaerobic fitness, muscle strength and tone, flexibility, good body alignment, and agility. Sports and Dance Workouts: Athletes and dancers can work on the strength and skills they need without the overtraining injuries so common on land. Water Healing: Those who have been injured or who have undergone surgery can use the water healing workouts in this book, developed with orthopedic surgeon Dan Silver, M.D., to speed recovery while maintaining or even improving fitness. With easy-to-follow instructions and two hundred photographs, this is the one book you need to fully participate in this vitally important wave in fitness.

The Complete Waterpower Workout Book: Programs for Fitness, Injury Prevention, and Healing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Forster, Robert

Huey, Lynda

Exercise & Fitness

Random House]

Written before Title IX offered increased access to women in sports, A Running Start tells the story of a high school cheerleader from white suburbia who leaps into the black sports world of track and field, training alongside many of the world's fastest male sprinters. Lynda coached at several universities, finding second-class status at every turn. This frank and entertaining book looks at the doors she tore down to create opportunities that today's women athletes currently enjoy. Lynda Huey's and Billy Jean King's autobiographies are the two main stories of women athletes in the 1960s. "Stabbing accuracy about racism, harassment, the downgrading of women in sports and other vital ssues" -Publishers Weekly, 1976

A running start: An athlete, a woman

Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co.

A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

iUniverse

Millions of people suffer from knee pain due to aging, sports, or injury. Here an orthopedic surgeon and a physical therapist have joined forces to create a program of exercises in the pool and on dry land that works to alleviate various types of knee pain, before, after, or instead of surgery.

Heal Your Knees: How to Prevent Knee Surgery and What to Do If You Need It

Alternative Medicine

M. Evans and Company, Inc.

Put an end to knee pain! An esteemed orthopedic surgeon and a water-therapy expert team up to tell you the essentials about your knees, get them back into shape, and prevent future pain and injury. Through careful explanation, they examine each part of the healing process―-from basic function to long-term exercises―-guiding you to a pain-free life. With detailed information on a variety of healing options, you will learn how to make the right decisions for your knees, understand when and why surgery is appropriate, and how simple exercise in your living room and in the pool can speed the postsurgical healing process.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Klapper, Robert L.

Thrillers & Suspense

M.Evans & Company

America's pioneer in athletic water rehab has her first book back in print after 40 years! Author Lynda Huey didn't think about it at the time, but her book was the first fitness book in America to feature African American sports models such as basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, Olympic gold medalist Evelyn Ashford, NFL player Bernie Casey, and Olympic silver and broze medalist Kim Gallagher. Huey simply asked her athletic friends to be in her book, which contains beautiful photos to accompany the instructions to 100 exercises for pool, hot tub, shower, and bath tub. Chapter titles include: Water Magic, Shower Exercises, Water Stretch, The Basic Waterpower Workout, Eight Tips for Improved Waterpower, Sport-Specific Training, Water Rehabilitation, Arthritis Water Therapy, Prenatal Waterpower, The Hot Tub Workout.

The Waterpower Workout

LyndaHuey.com

Heal Your Hips: How to Prevent Hip Surgery -- and What to Do If You Need It

The first comprehensive guide to hip health Avoid injury, prevent deterioration, work out in water and on land, and understand the entire range of surgical options Once considered a natural consequence of aging, hip disorders can be reduced or eliminated altogether by innovative exercise regimens. Heal Your Hips explores an unprecedented range of preventive options you can take today to avoid hip injury and improve your hip health--including wonderful water and land exercises and intensive stretching. Numerous illustrations help you understand the structure and function of your hips, and dozens of photographs clearly demonstrate how to do the exercises. If indeed hip surgery is in your future, Heal Your Hips provides vital new information on several little-known, minimally invasive forms of surgery as well as straightforward coverage of traditional ""replacement"" surgery. You'll learn what to expect with hip surgery--from preparing for the procedure to the day of the operation to returning home and recovering with physical therapy. The practical and long-overdue guidance in Heal Your Hips will be a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. Whether you or your loved ones are considering hip surgery or have yet to seek medical help, turn first to the indispensable expertise in this optimistic and accessible resource.

Klapper M.D., Robert

Parenting & Relationships

Trade Paper Press

Heal Your Hips, Second Edition: How to Prevent Hip Surgery and What to Do If You Need It

The best-selling guide to hip health is now new and improved.
When Heal Your Hips was first published in 1999, its practical and long-overdue guidance was a revelation for the millions enduring the pain of hip deterioration and injury. This updated edition of Heal Your Hips includes even more groundbreaking content. Fundamental concepts from the original are still included, such as innovative preventative and rehabilitative measures and step-by-step exercises with instructional images. The up-to-date version now includes many breakthroughs in the orthopedic field including the author’s own KlapperVision®―using common household objects to explain intricate anatomical structures in a way accessible to anyone. The result is the same: Heal Your Hips is still the only comprehensive hip health guide you will ever need.

Diets & Weight Loss

Using clear and accessible language, a prestigious orthopedic surgeon and an expert in therapeutic rehabilitation have teamed up in this useful guide to emphasize how to prevent possible knee pains and injuries. The authors explain how the knee functions and possible causes of injury and provide in-depth and practical information for healing the pain. Topics discussed in the book include how to prepare a personalized rehabilitation program, choose the right specialists, and learn to read the body’s signals, as well as self-diagnostic tests and therapeutic exercises that can be done on solid ground or in the water.
Utilizando un lenguaje claro y asequible, un prestigioso cirujano ortopédico y una experta en rehabilitación terapéutica se han unido para enfatizar cómo prevenir posibles dolores y lesiones de las rodillas. Los autores explican cómo funcionan las rodillas y posibles causas de lesión y proveen información a fondo y práctica para sanar el dolor. Entre los temas que se abordan en el libro están incluidos cómo preparar un programa de rehabilitación personalizado, elegir los especialistas correctos y aprender a leer las señales del cuerpo, además de exámenes auto-diagnósticos y ejercicios terapéuticos que se pueden hacer sobre tierra firme o dentro del agua.

Cura tu rodilla: Resuelve de una vez el dolor de rodilla (Spanish Edition)

Klapper, Dr. Robert

Ediciones Robinbook

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