Books

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How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! by Paul Chek

This best-selling book reveals techniques and secrets previously available only to Paul Chek’s clients and students. In How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! Chek shares his approach to achieving a healthy, balanced lifestyle while dropping pounds and reshaping your body.This book will help you identify your individual needs and explain how to address issues that may be preventing you from looking and feeling your best. Paul reveals fascinating research and airs controversial topics while providing practical suggestions for achieving peak vitality. How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! contains a proven four-step program that has helped thousands of people achieve their health and fitness goals. Click here to read more or purchase -->

Movement that Matters by Paul Chek

Movement That Matters provides trainers and fitness enthusiasts with the tools necessary to create functional training programs for themselves and their clients. This book is a must-read for any trainer desiring to provide their clients with higher caliber training programs that work. In Movement That Matters you will learn:

• The body’s five different reflexes and how to determine the dominant reflex profile of your client.
• The importance of static and dynamic stability.
• How to determine if an exercise is functional based on the six defining characteristics.
• How to evaluate a compound movement and identify its Primal Pattern movements, enabling you to accurately determine which portion needs training.
• The difference between open- and closed-chain exercises.  Click here to read more or purchase -->

The Golf Biomechanics Manual by Paul Chek

In order for any golfer to improve his or her game, they need to improve upon and condition the most important tool used ... their body! Paul Chek, internationally respected Corrective and High-performance Exercise Kinesiologist, explains not only the mechanics of the golf game, but also the importance of proper self conditioning to achieve peak performance. Written for fitness professionals or golf pros interested in exercise, the information presented in this book is an in-depth, detailed look at how different systems in the body affect the game of golf.  Click here to read more or purchase -->

Under the Veil of Deception by Paul Chek

Paul Chek exposes the environmentally unfriendly practices of modern-day farming and compares and contrasts them to organic and biodynamic farming methods. The statistics and information in this book will astound and shock you, showing you the true cost of the food we eat both on ourselves and the planet.

This is a spiral bound version of the book.  Click here to read more or purchase -->

The Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wolcott

Today's diet books are virtually all based on a standardized or mass market approach to health and nutrition. In other words, they offer single, one-size-fits-all dietary solutions. But this approach has proven to be very limited -- it's the reason diets don't work for most people.

Nutrition's best kept secret is simply this: what works for one person may have no effect on another person, and may make a third person worse. Here's another way of describing this same principle: any food or nutrient can have virtually opposite biochemical influences in different people.  Click here to read more or purchase -->

Stretching Anatomy by Arnold Nelson & Jouko Kokkonen

See inside every stretch—and maximize flexibility! Stretching Anatomy will arm you with the knowledge to increase range of motion, supplement training, enhance recovery, and maximize efficiency of movement. You’ll also gain a detailed understanding of how each stretch affects your body.

Stretching Anatomy is like having an X-ray of each stretch, only better. Not only do you see full-color illustrations of the muscles in action, but you also find out how changes in position can alter the muscle emphasis and difficulty and how variations can improve safety and effectiveness.  Click here to read more or purchase -->