Peak Performance Fitness: Maximizing Your Fitness Potential Without Injury or Strain
Do you have a personal predisposition to injury? Do you know what it is? Has any health professional (or book) ever explained to you the need for a postural evaluation to assess what you should—or shouldn’t—do in your workout?
When it comes to exercise, most people have the best intentions. What they often lack is the best information. As a result, they often injure themselves while exercising and cannot reach or maintain their peak fitness level.
Protect Yourself by Reshaping Your Workout
Columbia University trained physical therapist Jennifer Rhodes gives the reasons behind most common exercise injuries and outlines a program that will strengthen and lengthen your muscles while correcting your alignment. She explains why sit-ups don’t work, biceps curls are a waste of time, and your knee pain may be caused by a foot problem.
Her book contains over 20 illustrated exercise routines, clear anatomical explanations with drawings, and charts to track your progress. You will learn:
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how different body parts work and how to balance them
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how to activate key muscles that most workouts neglect
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how to customize an exercise program for yourself
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Book details
- Author
- Jennifer Rhodes
- Imprint
- Hunter House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Exercise
- Topics
- exercise · injury prevention · personalized fitness · posture · physical therapy · workout safety
- ISBN-13
- 9780897932967
About the author
JENNIFER RHODES is a physical therapist and fitness professional and the author of Peak Performance Fitness: Maximizing Your Fitness Potential Without Injury or Strain.
Rhodes holds a master’s degree in physical therapy from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
When she’s not writing, Rhodes works as an orthopedic physical therapist, certified personal trainer, and aerobics instructor in Manhattan, with past experience as a group fitness instructor at Equinox and Crunch and as a health and fitness expert on television and in national magazines.