Bøger af Jonathan Fitzgordon

Your psoas muscle is the main hip flexor of the body and the main engine of walking. It is essentially responsible for holding us upright while standing. This book will teach you all you need to know about your psoas and more. We believe that knowing how your body works is the first step to relieving chronic aches and pains. Issues with the psoas can lead to any number of problems throughout your body-both physical and emotional. Lower back pain and other joint discomfort as well as disturbances to the nervous system can be linked to the psoas. This slim volume will teach you about the Psoas and its core function within the body as well as how to release the psoas muscle for immediate relief from chronic pain.

Sciatica (a pain in the back) and piriformis syndrome (a pain in the butt) are two of the most common causes of chronic pain. An untold number of people suffer each day from dull aches or shooting pains all the way down to the heel that eventually lead to numbness in the foot. Diagnoses of these two conditions are often confused, leading to further discomfort and longer periods of pain. Getting to know and understand your body and its pains is an alternative to yet another trip to the doctor or the physical therapist's office. This slim volume will teach you about these conditions and help you learn to help yourself to alleviate pain and heal permanently.

The solidity and tone of the spine determines our health and well-being across body, mind and spirit.. In an easy accessible way this slim book looks at anatomy, some common spinal/postural issues and how to help them. More specifically we'll talk about the spinal curves and vertebrae, what happened when we went from four legs to two legs, the relationship between the spine and the pelvis as well as the spine and the extremities, and much more. With this information and accompanying exercises we aim to help you improve the quality of your spine and thus your life!

This book is a basic collection of exercises that we offer to clients of the FitzGordon Method Core Walking Program. Any one who walks in our door will receive a series of exercises meant to create a workout tailored for them specifically. We all need to work on different parts of their body to create a balanced whole and no two people are the same. At the FitzGordon Method we analyze our clients to help them rebuild their bodies in a conscious and specific way.While we work with all of these exercises and more, the idea is to only do the exercises you need to bring balance to a certain part of your body. You should test your ability in all of these exercises and, as long as you are doing them correctly, focus only on the ones that seem more difficult. The work is a search for ease in the body and ease in the mind. Once an exercise is easy enough you might do it once in a while for maintenance but continually focus on the muscle groups that don't work as well as others and maintain the discipline required to develop a balanced body.