Dr. Tommy John - Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance

Theres never been a more important time for this book, and no better book to address the needs of parents wanting to help their kids enjoy all that sports have to offer while minimizing the risk of long-term health issues. Dr. Tommy John makes the information easy to understand and the tips are so practical and so doable.

Ashley Koff RD, CFSEO, The Better Nutrition Program

I owe my careeras so many successful professional athletes doto playing as many sports as possible as a kid. The fact that specializing in just one sport has become the norm today shows how young athletes are taking the wrong path. If their goal is to excel and stay injury-free, this book will put them on the path every kid should be onthe right one!

Vida Blue, six-time MLB All-Star, three-time World Series champion

This book is one that parents, athletes, and educators should pay attention to regarding the effect of athletics on the lives of their children.

Annie Meyers Drysdale, Olympian, Hall of Famer, four-time All American at UCLA in Basketball

If ever there was a time when we need to step back and look at how youth sports are damaging our children, it is now. And not just now, but we need how: we need some solutions. And thats what Dr. Tommy John has delivered. Its not just a must-read, its how we save the games we love so much long-term.

John Smoltz, eight-time All-Star, World Series Champion and Hall of Fame Pitcher

I didnt take up golf until l was 16, choosing instead to play cricket, soccer, Aussie rules, tennis and basketball. I never knew how fortunate I was to avoid being a single sport athlete until watching all of my friendsall of which started at a young age and were far better than me at the timeall burn out by the time they were 18. I lucked out, but worry about kids today that arent making the right choices that are presented in Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance.

Cameron Percy, seven-year PGA Tour veteran

Being in the NFL for 13 straight years was no easy task emotionally, intellectually and physically, and working with Dr. Tommy John for most of my time in the sport helped me achieve a longer career. His approach from a healing and performance standpoint is oftentimes outside of the box, and some of the principles require consistency and grit, but he knows thats what it takes to become the highest performing human athlete possible.

Charles Tillman, NFL veteran of the Chicago Bears and Carolina Panthers

Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance is the eye opener every sports parent needs to read, and Im excited that Dr. Tommy John is finally sharing what he knowswith those that need to know.

Patrick Mannelly, long snapper and longest tenured player in Chicago Bears history

Science, technology, and the business of youth sports are taking away from what baseball, and every sport for that matter, was built on. Now more than ever, we are overworking our kids and protecting the prosall in the name of money. Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance finally reveals what all sports parents absolutely need to knowbut may not be ready to hearin order to be the best sports parent possible. But for those ready to listen, the sky is the limit for their son or daughter.

Goose Gossage, nine-time All-Star and World Series Champion

Tommy John is the doctor that may care more about your kids than their coach. This book isnt just about sparing young athletes from unnecessary surgeries caused by specialized sports. Its about saving time, saving money, and most importantly, saving kids from an industry thats taking advantage of both parents and players alike.

Jason Kennedy, host of E! News

A book able to improve the health and well-being of every single young athlete that reads it.

John Schaech, actor

Dr. John lays out a comprehensive path that supports players through a balanced strategy of training and recovery techniques as well as nutrition. This information is invaluable for the future of all our young athletes!

Elizabeth Walling, www.livingthenourishedlife.com

Finally, someone who gets it. As a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), it is so refreshing and long overdue to read about the role of traditional foods in preventing Tommy John surgery and other sports-related injuries. Very few doctors, specialists and coaches understand this. This book will enlighten the reader as to why proper diet is as much a part of the solution as more commonly understood reasons, such as poor mechanics and overtraining.

Craig Fear, Certified Nutritional Therapist (www.fearlesseating.net)

This book is for you Taylor.

You always believed in me.

You single-handedly taught me about what was most important in this lifehappiness.

I love you.

Ill see you in another life, brotha.