Muscular Retraining for Pain Free Living or Buff Dad

Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living: A Practical Approach to Eliminating Chronic Back Pain, Tendonitis, Neck and Shoulder Tension, and Repetitive Stress Injuries

Author: Craig Williamson

Here's an innovative and practical approach to eliminating chronic muscle pain, written by a popular occupational therapist with over twenty-five years of experience freeing people from the discomfort of tendonitis, lower back pain, and neck and shoulder tension. These types of chronic pain can be caused by a number of factors, including old injuries, habitual movement patterns, problems with body alignment, psychological causes, and inability to sense your own body movements accurately. Muscular Retraining for Pain-Free Living clearly and concisely explains the causes of persistent muscle pain and offers a therapeutic exercise program to address these problems and end pain.

Beth Hill - Library Journal

Athletes can be in phenomenal physical shape but still out of touch with their bodies. This lack of "kinesthetic awareness" happens in average people, too, so that a "dysfunctional movement pattern" (DMP)-in which a muscle works too hard or not hard enough and becomes habitual-can develop. Injury, repeated motions and postures, and emotional stress can all contribute to DMPs, but a "repatterning" can take place with the therapeutic exercise program delineated here by occupational therapist Williamson. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in massage therapy, training in other body therapies, and courses in psychotherapy, Williamson presents movement awareness exercises as part of the conceptual background in Part 1 and alignment exercises for changing patterns of movement in Part 2. Williamson's true gift is guidance in understanding the connection among body movement, self-awareness, and relaxation. Highly recommended for public and consumer health libraries and of interest to practitioners who care for those with chronic muscular pain.

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Buff Dad: The 4-Week Fitness Game Plan for real Guys

Author: Mike Levinson

Before:  From Puffy Dad   After: To Buff Daddy

Your Saturday workouts at the gym have been replaced by Saturday Little League games; your morning run has become running out the door to make the daycare drop-off; and your romantic (and healthy) sushi night has become family pizza with a side of crayons. While being a dad changes your life for the better in so many ways, it can also be detrimental to your waistline—and your overall health.

Enter Mike Levinson, a nutritionist and trainer to many star athletes, who put on fifty pounds after his wife had their first child. Taking his years of experience—from inside training camps and test kitchens—he developed the Buff Dad Program, transforming his middle-age spread to six-pack abs and helping many other dads like him lose weight, tone up, and improve their health and energy levels—usually in less than 28 days.

In this, the first program tailored with dads in mind, Levinson gives men the four-week game plan to get it done. The secret? Testosterone, a key fuel that boosts your body's ability to lose weight and build muscle naturally, yet something that is woefully deficient in most men's diets today. The Buff Dad program shows you how to incorporate testosterone 'powerfoods' into your meals to help you take the weight off. By combining this tasty and realistic nutritional plan with the Buff Dad Workout Blitz—targeted exercises just three times a week—you will be on your way to being the Buff Dad you want to be, and your family needs you to be.

Table of Contents:

You're an Overweight Dad-Now What?
From Fitness Trainer to Fat Dad: The Birth of the Buff Dad Program     3
The Testosterone Advantage: Understanding the Power Behind the Program     13
Getting Started
Understanding Your Body and the Food You Eat     29
What to Eat on the Buff Dad Program     37
Putting Your Meals Together     47
The Buff Dad Dietary Plan: The Quick and Easy Way to Buffness     61
The Buff Dad Workout Blitz     75
Keeping Those Muscles Growing     85
Four Weeks to a Buff Dad: Putting the Plan into Action     91
Keeping Your New Buff Body     159
Buff Dad Guide to Fast-Food Dining     173
Enjoying Fatherhood as a Buff Dad     179
Buff Dad Recipes     187
Buff Dad Meal Plan Forms     232
Eggology     242
References     245
Index     248