Product Description

Over 165 Minutes of Conditioning This video is excellent functional and core stability training for any individual wanting to prepare for sport or to improve their strength, endurance, and balance for any activity! Youth, adults, seniors, athletes, and people with joint or muscle problems will all benefit from the safe, effective, and challenging exercises in this video. These exercises are excellent to prepare you for sports, optimize your performance, be used as off season training, to prevent injuries, and to help you get active after rehabilitation with a physiotherapist. These exercises are designed to help balance, strengthen and tone muscles and to help release tight and damaged areas, and to prevent common chronic injuries. Even elite athletes sometime need to break down their training to the fundamentals to build their strength from the core, and this video will help to do that. The Fitness Fix does not have to replace anything you are currently doing it is designed to supplement anything you do. By doing these exercises your body will look better, feel better and be strong enough to perform the sports or daily activities that you love, for as long as you like, and you will feel energetic, strong, and ready for anything!

Review

Train Away the Pain - Calgary exercise expert shares message of pain-free living through her DVDs Denise Beatty knows the struggle of living in chronic pain. The Calgary-based personal trainer and exercise physiologist was in two serious car accidents within two years in the late 1990s. The second accident -- a headon, high-speed collision by Canada Olympic Park in 1996 -- left her with extensive knee, hip, neck and back injuries. It also left her in tremendous, unrelenting pain down her left side. Yet, throughout her recovery, Beatty, who was working at the University of Calgary at the time, kept working out, doing her special brand of core stability exercises. Using the balance ball, resistance bands, weights and compound exercises that engage multiple muscle groups at the same time, Beatty found relief from her pain as she built up overall muscle strength. She also ended up whittling herself to a lean shape, losing 30 pounds and reducing her body fat by eight per cent. "The exercises saved me that's for sure," says the 32-year-old. Now Beatty hopes to spread the message of pain-free living, and pain-free fitness and exercise, to the masses. Beatty's personal program which she has named the Fitness Fix and has adapted over the years is now available on three new fitness DVDs she produced in June 2006. The Fitness Fix, which stands for Functionally Integrated Training with Fun Innovative Exercise, is focused on building overall core strength, balance and endurance to prevent exercise injuries in the first place or help people recover from injuries. The three DVDS beginner, intermediate and sports conditioning were filmed outside at Nakoda Lodge, a hotel and conference centre on the Stoney reserve west of Calgary, last summer over four days. Each features Olympic skeleton athlete Lindsay Alcott. Unlike other exercise videos, Beatty's has no background music. Instead, throughout each video she talks about body mechanics, proper alignment and injury prevention as sh --The Calgary Herald Feb 8 - 2007