Sit Up Straight: Futureproof Your Body Against Chronic Pain with 12 Simple Movements - Softcover

Pham, Vinh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472296540 ISBN 13: 9781472296542

Publisher: Headline Home, 2022

Synopsis

Futureproof your body and relieve chronic pain resulting from sitting, slouching, and other bad lifestyle habits with this easy-to-perform set of daily stretching and exercise routines - from an innovative physical therapist who coaches dozens of celebrity clients.

What if we could easily acquire long-lasting protection for our bodies and escape the chronic pain caused by our sit-all-the-time, slouch-too-much lifestyles?

Vinh Pham is a world-class physical therapist - a member of a new breed that dissects how people really move. He has worked with a broad range of clients, from Olympians to NBA stars to Mixed martial arts-fighters to Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning artists. Early in his career, he discovered a disappointing truth: most of his patients came to him already in pain. They had poor, deeply ingrained lifestyle habits that misaligned their joints and tightened their muscles. And the recent epidemic of prolonged sitting - which represents an all-day assault on the body - has only made things worse. If you're sitting for more than 30 minutes at a time without getting up, you may be heading toward a world of hurt.

Vinh's answer to the host of muscle maladies that ails us has been a revolutionary concept: why not future proof? Instead of reacting to chronic pain after it flares up, what if we focused on a movement discipline that not only prevents injuries but leads to longer lives, healthier bodies, and a clearer mind?

Sit Up Straight outlines a process that starts with a daily posture hygiene regimen. Performed correctly, these exercises will lock in protection for the rest of the day. But Vinh goes further. He provides stretching and exercise routines for many of the specific ailments that affect us - from hamstring pulls to sciatica to rotator cuff problems - and, best of all, he offers a series of customised movements based on age, gender and the kind of work we perform.

A precise and simple toolkit for tweaking the way we move (or refuse to move), Sit Up Straight shows that the solution to becoming pain-free is easier than we think.

About this title

About the Author

Vinh Pham is a licensed physical therapist with over a decade's experience working with industry-leading health and wellness brands and treating top athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs. He is the founder of Myodetox, a group of design-forward manual therapy clinics that are reimagining the traditional therapy and rehab experience. Using his unique system of manual therapy, Vinh posts daily educational videos that help millions of people learn how to take care of their bodies. Vinh is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Follow him on Instagram (@VinnieRehab) and visit his website at Vinnie-Rehab.com

Jeff O'Connell, formerly Editor-in-Chief of Bodybuilding.com and Muscle & Fitness, is the author of Sugar Nation and has co-written such bestsellers as Spartan Up! and LL Cool J's Platinum Workout.

From the Back Cover

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Futureproof your body and relieve chronic pain resulting from sitting, slouching and other bad lifestyle habits.

In Sit Up Straight world-class physical therapist Vinh Pham dissects how people really move and offers a set of easy-to-perform daily stretching and exercise routines.

Early in his career, Vinh discovered that most of his patients came to him already in pain - a result of poor, deeply ingrained lifestyle habits that misaligned their joints and tightened their muscles.

Vinh's answer to this has been a revolutionary concept: instead of reacting to chronic pain after it flares up, what if we focused on a movement discipline that not only prevents injuries but leads to longer lives, healthier bodies and a clearer mind?

Sit Up Straight outlines a process that starts with a daily posture hygiene regimen. Performed correctly, Vinh's Big Ten exercises, which can be completed in 20 minutes, will lock in protection for the rest of the day.

Coach to a range of celebrity clients - from Olympians to sports stars to Grammy Award-winning artists - Vinh also provides stretching and exercise routines for specific ailments and, best of all, he offers a series of customised movements based on age, gender and the kind of work we perform.

Sit Up Straight shows that the solution to becoming pain-free is easier than we think.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Home
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472296540
• ISBN 13: 9781472296542
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240