True to Form: How to Use Foundation Training for Sustained Pain Relief and Everyday Fitness

by Eric Goodman

Overview

Foreword by Chris Hemsworth

A proven program that teaches you how to harness the body’s natural movement patterns in daily activities to get fit, healthy, and pain-free for life

Hunching over a keyboard, commuting long hours, slouching on the couch—poor postures resulting from our sedentary lifestyle have thrown our bodies out of balance, causing unnecessary stress and strain that compromise our joints, restrict organ function, and weaken our muscles.

Dr. Eric Goodman has spent years studying human physiology and movement. He’s helped people of all ages and occupations heal and correct lifelong debilitating pain with his revolutionary Foundation Training, a practical program that targets the posterior chain muscles—shoulders, back, butt, and legs—shifting the burden of support to where it belongs: the large muscle groups.

Foundation Training is simple: no gyms, no specialized equipment, no complicated stretches. It’s a series of powerful movements you can integrate successfully into everyday life—from playing with the kids to washing dishes to long hours in the office—transforming ordinary physical actions into active and mindful movements that help to eliminate pain, boost your energy, and strengthen your body. By harnessing the body’s natural movement patterns, you can be fit, healthy, and pain-free for good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062315328
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/18/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	394,456
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

is the creator of Foundation Training and the author of Foundation and True to Form. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, with a bachelor’s in health sciences and physiology, he went on to earn his doctor of chiropractic degree at Southern California University of Health Sciences. Dr. Goodman splits his time between living in Hawaii and RVing with his wife, Jen, and daughter, Sunny.

Table of Contents

Foreword Chris Hemsworth xiii

Introduction: From Pain to Performance xvii

Part I Off Your Form and Under Pressure

1 A Day in the Life of a Twenty-First-Century Body 3

2 Designed for Efficient Movement 17

Part II Return to Form

3 Decompress 33

4 Get Anchored 67

5 The Wrap-Up Quartet 83

Part III Sustained Pain Relief and Everyday Fitness

6 Day by Day 97

7 Moving Past the Pain 139

8 Little Bodies Become Big Bodies 155

9 Returning to the Foundation 169

Acknowledgments 193

Editorial Reviews

Like so many people who have found relief with Foundation Training, I am grateful for the healing.” — Chris Hemsworth, actor

“Practicing Foundation Training has been one of the most critical decisions of my surfing career. I had recurring lower back problems when I was younger, but since starting Foundation Training, my flexibility and stability are both the best they have ever been” — Lakey Peterson, women's surfing champion

“After thirty tough years of service in the Army Airborne and Rangers, I was told by six different spinal surgeons that spinal fusion was my only option. And then I discovered Foundation Training. If only I had this marvelous tool on active duty.” — Colonel William C. Ohl II

“Foundation Training exercises are the answer to my many years of research on the negative effects of sitting.” — Dr. Joan Vernikos, former NASA director of life sciences and author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

“Foundation Training has been one of the most impactful additions to my career. The exercises are easy to learn, difficult to hold, and worth every minute of practice. Foundation Training should be a requirement for everyone.” — Chad Reed, TwoTwo Motorsports, Winner of Numerous Motocross and Supercross World Championships

“Foundation Training may offer the best of all worlds in terms of building a strong core, eliminating back pain, and promoting optimal health that goes beyond fitness.” — Joseph Mercola, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Mercola, New York Times bestselling author

From the Publisher

After thirty tough years of service in the Army Airborne and Rangers, I was told by six different spinal surgeons that spinal fusion was my only option. And then I discovered Foundation Training. If only I had this marvelous tool on active duty.

Colonel William C. Ohl II

Foundation Training may offer the best of all worlds in terms of building a strong core, eliminating back pain, and promoting optimal health that goes beyond fitness.

Joseph Mercola

Practicing Foundation Training has been one of the most critical decisions of my surfing career. I had recurring lower back problems when I was younger, but since starting Foundation Training, my flexibility and stability are both the best they have ever been

Lakey Peterson

Foundation Training exercises are the answer to my many years of research on the negative effects of sitting.

Dr. Joan Vernikos

Like so many people who have found relief with Foundation Training, I am grateful for the healing.

Chris Hemsworth

Foundation Training has been one of the most impactful additions to my career. The exercises are easy to learn, difficult to hold, and worth every minute of practice. Foundation Training should be a requirement for everyone.

Chad Reed