Goodman. Eric Dr. - True to Form How to Use Foundation Training for Sustained Pain Relief and Everyday Fitness

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

Chris Hemsworth, actor

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

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

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, womens surfing champion

After thirty tough years of service in the Army Airborne and Rangers and completing over five hundred jumps, I was told by six different spinal surgeons that spinal fusion was my only option. And then I discovered Foundation Training. Now its diving, skiing, climbing, and traveling with no restrictions.... The kind of retirement I always dreamed of, and almost lost. If only I had this marvelous tool on active duty.

Colonel William C. Ohl II

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, motocross and supercross world champion

FOUNDATION

This book contains advice and information relating to health care. It is not intended to replace medical advice and should be used to supplement rather than replace regular care by your doctor. It is recommended that you seek your physicians advice before embarking on any medical program or treatment. All efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of the information contained in this book as of the date of publication. The publisher and the author disclaim liability for any medical outcomes that may occur as a result of applying the methods suggested in this book.

TRUE TO FORM . Copyright 2016 by Eric Goodman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST HARPER WAVE HARDCOVER EDITION PUBLISHED 2016.

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED 2018.

Cover design by Andrea Guinn

Cover photograph courtesy of the author

Photographs by David Nehmer and the team at Noble

Illustrations by Justin Kleiner and Dr. Dustin DeRyke

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Names: Goodman, Eric (Eric David), 1980- author.

Title: True to form : how to use foundation training for sustained pain relief and everyday fitness / Eric Goodman.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Harper Wave, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016004094 (print) | LCCN 2016014767 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062315311 (hardback) | ISBN 9780062315335 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: BackacheExercise therapy. | PainExercise therapy. | BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living.

Classification: LCC RD771.B217 G67 2016 (print) | LCC RD771.B217 (ebook) | DDC 617.5/64062dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016004094

Digital Edition DECEMBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-231533-5

Version 10312018

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-231532-8

TO GOODMANS, FORRESTS, BLUMS,

AND BLOOMS.

ALSO TO FOUNDATION TRAINING INSTRUCTORS

AROUND THE WORLD.

AND SPECIFICALLY TO KAREN RINALDI,

WITH A LOT OF APPRECIATION.

EVERYONE IS BORN A GENIUS,

BUT THE PROCESS OF LIVING

DE-GENIUSES THEM.

R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

U ntil I started doing Foundation Training, I couldnt lift Thors hammerat least, not without help from Hollywood magic. The problem was that I had injured my back while shooting a movie a few years ago, and it had gotten progressively worse. I tried all sorts of rehab and strengthening programs, stretching, isolated muscle-building, and more, but nothing ever gave me a long-term benefit. I was alternating between limiting my exercises in order to heal the injury and doing more exercises in order to strengthen my back where it felt vulnerable.

Then a stuntman on a film I was working on told me about Foundation Training. He had seriously injured his back, and it was FT that had paved the way to his recovery. I decided to try it. What did I have to lose? Id tried just about everything else.

I began with some of the workout videos available online. The benefits were immediately noticeable. Over the coming months, as I began working one-on-one with Eric, my back grew stronger than ever. For the first time in years, I felt combined flexibility and strength in places that had previously been incredibly vulnerable.

Today I do a Foundation Training sequence four or five times a week for maintenanceand whenever my back feels overworked, tight, or painful. Im now able to do all the activities I did in the past with confidence; I dont have to baby myself through any particular movements. Ive also learned, under Erics guidance, how to restructure my movement patterns and do away with bad habits that could lead to further troubleworse trouble.

Like that stuntman, like so many people who have found relief from pain with Foundation Training, I am grateful for the healing. I am even more grateful for having learned how to fully engage my true core muscles so as to keep my body at peak strength and flexibility. That is the true gift of Foundation Training, and it is the message at the heart of this book.

CHRIS HEMSWORTH

W hen I was fifteen years old, I had surgery to repair my right shoulder joint. The procedure was over in a couple of hours, but the recovery took forever. For the next six weeksan eternity at that ageI had to wear a gigantic white brace that lashed my right arm tight to my body with Velcro. I wore the brace in school and after school, day and night, and when it finally came off, my arm was a noodle. It took another six months before I was able to play the sports I loved at all, and it took much longer to feel comfortable playing.