Jordan D. Metzl

A fitness motivation plan that helps readers understand the roots of healthy and unhealthy motivation and create their own sustainable movement blueprint for health and longevity, from a top sports medicine physician. We know now that low fitness is as big a health risk as diabetes, hypertension and smoking--and that physical activity improves both your lifespan and healthspan. And yet society is at brutally low fitness levels, with nine out of ten people "metabolically unhealthy." Why aren't people motivated to do the one best thing for their own health and longevity? Push explores the murky waters of motivation, for good and for bad. How do you transform motivation to stay on the couch and skip workouts into an irresistible desire to tie your sneakers and get moving? Understanding the science of healthy and unhealthy motivation is at the heart of Push, and Dr. Metzl's career-long obsession. He's spent more than 25 years helping people stay properly motivated by combining medical and fitness expertise. Push examines why your brain is the way it is, helps you understand how your unique motivational profile works, and gives you the tools to move past understanding into action, including: The three ingredients of healthy motivation--knowledge, emotion, belief--and how they intertwine in your brain to get you moving. How to define and embrace a positive relationship with exercise that will last. A quick, repeatable self-test to see where you fall (and improve ) on the motivational spectrum. A four-week Push Plan to solidify your day-to-day, moment-to-moment motivation foundation and help you push through difficult times. How to build your own total-body strength workouts from more than 80 anywhere/anytime exercises. With Push, Dr. Metzl gives you all the necessary tools to recognize and harness your fitness motivation for lasting health.

This bestselling pediatric sports medicine resource provides step-by-step demonstrations of the examination and evaluation techniques for common sports injuries. It includes multi-media case-based text with video and covers physical examination keys; when to order x-rays, CT scans, MRIs; treatment plan and development; and case-based cover of common injuries including ankle and foot; knee and lower leg; shoulder, wrist and elbow; hip and spine; and concussion preventive strategies. All chapters are fully reviewed and updated. It includes:A new chapter – Trends in Prevention of Sports Injury in the Young Athlete. Five new sport-specific chapters on soccer, baseball, collision sports, gymnastics, and running. Chapters that provide an overview of the sports, and suggestions on how pediatric health professionals can ensure the safest experience in the sport. This all encompassing resource allows you to:• Walk through specific cases to see common issues at different stages of development• View examinations and tests to dertermine the extent and location of injury• See how preventive strengthening exercises should be performed• Profit from seeing proven approaches to diagnosing and managing sports injuries.• Learn which tests to order and when.• Save practice time with informative patient education handouts.

Every runner at every level wants to run faster, stronger, and pain-free. Injury prevention is essential to the athlete focused on achieving his or her highest level of performance. Remaining injury-free can lead runners through a lifetime of roads and trails that offer fun, challenge, victory, camaraderie, solace, good health, good attitude, and, as some like to point out, the freedom to enjoy good food. Dr. Metzl's savvy, up-to-date book will take the reader on a heel-to-head tour of the specific kinetic chain involved in running and provide a friendly, accessible, and illustrated view of the muscles, bones, and joints used and impacted. He'll help runners define their kinetic style so that they are best equipped to adapt Metzl's injury-prevention advice to their running lifestyle.

From casual joggers to competitive triathletes, high school footballers to aging weekend warriors, tens of millions of people enjoy - and get injured enjoying - sports and fitness activities. (High school athletics alone result in more than 2 million injuries a year!) Now, the hobbled masses have an authoritative guide to healing themselves: "The Athletes Book of Home Remedies". This comprehensive guidebook for fitness buffs and sports enthusiasts empowers readers to self diagnose and self-treat chronic and acute aches and pains - from shin splints and sprains to athlete's foot - and provides medically sound advice on preventing injuries. A doctor-designed, get-back-in-shape workout and diet plan accompanies this head-to-toe diagnostic manual, ensuring that readers will build stronger, leaner, healthier bodies - for life!

Metzl, medical director, sports Medicine Institute for Young Athletes, and Shookhoff, a writer specializing in education issues, want parents and young athletes to keep a sensible perspective on the benefits of organized sports. They offer information on preventing injuries, recognizing common injuries and evaluating their seriousness, and understanding nutritional and exercise needsas well as dealing with coaches and other parents, helping children handle team pressures, and recognizing when a child is doing too much.