MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life

MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life

by Sue Hitzmann
MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life

MELT Performance: A Step-by-Step Program to Accelerate Your Fitness Goals, Improve Balance and Control, and Prevent Chronic Pain and Injuries for Life

by Sue Hitzmann

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Overview

This long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The MELT Method introduces a unique, scientific-based proactive training program for improving overall balance, performance, and control while preventing pain and injury.

Are you an athlete facing constant injuries that hold you back from achieving peak performance? Are you someone who wants to stay fit, but are dealing with aches and pains that make it more difficult to work out? Do you want to exercise or train without being sidelined by stress fractures, strained ligaments, and painful joints?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need MELT Performance.

The conditioning you do to stay in shape and perfect and improve performance—running on a treadmill, doing squats or bicep curls, practicing our backhand, even doing downward dog—requires repetitive movements. Yet 80% of orthopedic injuries are the result of repetitive motion, not trauma or accidents. In MELT Performance, nationally recognized educator, manual therapist, and exercise physiologist Sue Hitzmann introduces a revolutionary program centered on neurological joint stability or Neurostrength, that will revolutionize your health and performance.

The foundation of MELT Performance is stability. To stay injury free, our joints must stable before we do repetitive motions. Acquiring stability allows the body to respond to the demands of motion. It’s the way we were designed to function—and allows us to move more efficiently, improve coordination, and save our joints. Knowing how to check in, restore, and reintegrate joint stability before it’s compromised gives an unparalleled advantage to anyone who trains hard to perform at their best.

Hitzmann’s techniques are proven to work—they’re already used by world renowned professional athletes and fitness enthusiasts. If you’re ready to improve your performance and prevent injury, MELT Performance is essential no matter what sport or activity you pursue.

MELT Performance includes black-and-white instructional images throughout.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062882424
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 04/30/2019
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 657,805
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Sue Hitzmann, MS, CST, NMT is the creator of the MELT Method®, a simple self-treatment technique that helps people get out and stay out of chronic pain. A nationally recognized educator, manual therapist, exercise physiologist, and founding member of the Fascia Research Society, Sue is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The MELT Method, which has been translated into eight languages and helped over 200,000 people lead a healthy, pain-free life.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction: Beyond Fitness 1

Part 1 Creating NeuroStrength

1 Defining NeuroStrength and Redefining Stability 19

2 How NeuroStrength Will Improve Your Performance, Eliminate Pain, and Revitalize Your Overall Health 49

3 NeuroStrength and Your Emotions: Dealing with Instability on a Soul Level 71

Part 2 The Foundation of NeuroStrength Moves

4 A MELT Method Refresher: The Four Rs of the MELT Protocol 95

5 MELT Rehydrate and Release Sequences 121

6 Reintegrate and Repattern: The Two Rs of NeuroStrength 183

7 NeuroStrength Moves 203

Part 3 NeuroStrength Performance Sequences

8 NeuroCore Stability Sequence 245

9 Upper Body Stability Sequence 257

10 Lower Body Stability Sequence 273

Part 4 NeuroStrength Performance Maps

11 Stability Maps 287

Glossary 299

Recommended Reading 305

Acknowledgments 311

Index 313

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