Fit with Healthy Fascia: How to Reduce Your Pain & Improve Your Well-Being in Just 7 Minutes a Day
Keven England, Andreas SchlattmannOne possible cause for the listed pains is our sedentary leisure and work behavior. Many of us sit from morning to night either in the car, on the office chair or on the couch in front of the television. Various jobs can be quite movement-intensive, for example waitresses or assembly line workers, but these activities often lead to one-sided stress and muscular imbalances. This is also true if you play certain sports (e.g. tennis, golf) very intensively.
We all know that more and targeted exercise can help restore and sustain our health and well-being. But in many cases, we are too sluggish to put into practice our good intention to start an exercise program and follow it for longer. The "inner pig" sends his greetings and often excuses our passivity with the pain or with the fact that there is no time for additional exercise. Another saying is: "I would like to do something, but I don't know what". The book aims to help readers get a handle on these problems.
The book is structured so that you can start immediately. Simply open the chapter "Your 10 Fascia Programs" and follow the instructions to perform a 7-minute basic program. You will immediately feel how the exercises have a positive effect on your condition. Further programs specifically address everyday demands (e.g. sitting for long periods of time) or certain areas of pain (e.g. lower back).
The following was particularly important for the compilation of the programs: simple exercises that can be performed without additional material expenditure, require little time (program duration about 7 minutes) and can be integrated effortlessly into the day (work/leisure time). The focus is always on pain relief and pain prevention!
To help readers properly implement the programs, short videos have been created and made available on YouTube. The links for these videos are located in the corresponding chapter as QR codes.
In addition, the book presents a brief background information on the topic of fascia. In the chapter "Fascia Network", a brief description is given of what fascia is, how it is structured and what function it has for us and our health. So that it does not remain with good intentions, a few tips are presented in the chapter "Planning is half the battle", how the readers can turn the good intentions into a regular and preferably lifelong new health behavior.