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The Council on Fitness and Sport Health has selected quality materials to help you in your practice and sharpen your professional image.  Here are special items from the ICA Products and Sales Department available to Fitness Council members at an added discount!   In addition, you will find special Council clothing and sports gear you can only order through the Fitness Council. 

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Chiropractic Sports Health Science is designed to bring power to your patient and public health messages.  A well-illustrated guide for your personal reference and for professional use with patients and sport health groups.  Convenient for giving guidance on chiropractically-oriented exercise recommendations to your patients and as handouts at community sports events and health talks!  Easy and effective for beginners and relevant for more experienced exercisers.
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The Chiropractors Exercise Manual
This book is the first to address specific needs of the chiropractor.  There are chapters on: stretches; using weight training for improved adjusting skills; tubing exercises; palpation exercises; special exercises; and adjustment visualizations.   The instructions are easy to follow because every exercise is illustrated with a photograph that clearly shows the position of the hands and body.  Get your copy today and see how simple exercises done regularly can improve your adjusting skills!

$18.00 ICA Members; $21.00 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10%

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This book provides 32 structured, balanced work-out programs that are designed for gradual and progressive development in flexibility, strength and aerobic capacity. It was written by three leaders in fitness with decades of combined experience: Bill Pearl (bodybuilding legend, four-time Mr. Universe), Bob Anderson (author and renowned stretching authority) and Ed Burke (exercise physiologist and former coach of the U.S Olympic cycling team).  The sections are readable and interlaced with informative sections on basic guidelines in nutrition, exercise physiology, "how-to" execute exercise activities and injury prevention.  This is a well-illustrated guide for personal use and an invaluable professional reference in working with patients. (Soft Cover)

$15.00 ICA Members; $17.00 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10%

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Video: Bodyshaping Back Solutions
This 40-minute video provides a series of safe, simple and effective exercise programs that are designed to stretch, strengthen, and balance the muscles of the lower back and trunk, including the waist and hips.  Designed by Peter Gratale, D.C., Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and star from TV Fitness show, "Bodyshaping", the combined goals of pain relief and injury prevention are presented with clarity and clinical applicability.  Useful for doctors supervising patients as well as individual use, the program features two intensity levels: maintenance for safe, effective beginner exercises and a challenging sports fitness level for advanced development of the trunk muscles in weight trainers and highly conditioned sports enthusiasts. 

$19.95 ICA Members; $22.95 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10%

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Video: Keys to Weight Training for Men and Women
Bodybuilding legend Bill Pearl is the on-screen trainer this customized training video.  'Keys to Weight Training' guides you step-by-step through three progressively challenging free weight routines and a selection of effective machine exercises.  The program is highlighted by details on effective and safe use of proper exercises and good nutrition for improved health and enhanced performance.  The video is thorough and safe, and works effectively as as a self-directed or as a doctor supervised video.  It includes recommended schedules for each routine, safe lifting techniques, motivational tips, and special on-screen highlighting of the muscles exercised.  The program is realistic for both serious and recreational athletes, stressing daily activities similar to exercise movements.  The program is realistic for both serious and recreational athletes, stressing daily activities similar to exercise movements.  The program is wonderfully adaptable from beginning levels up to the more advanced programs and provides guidelines for creating customized routines. 
$19.95 ICA Members; $22.95 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10% 

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Bill Pearl's Keys to the Inner Universe: Encyclopedia on Weight Training
This premier reference is a precisely illustrated guide, designed by fitness champion Bill Pearl himself, to help readers of all levels master resistance exercise through a power-packed training program for the entire body in a single book. Along with the extensive encyclopedia of exercises, this is also a manual of the comprehensive experiences, techniques, concepts, and hands-on knowledge Bill has gained and employed throughout his years of training.  This book also provides a comprehensive discussion and careful delineation of systems and methods in weight resistance training.   Both invaluable as a how-to-guide and as a reference for guiding others, this book informs directly and in detail about correct positioning of the weights and the corresponding movement necessary to accomplish maximum results in the minimum amount of time.  Keys to the Inner Universe: Encyclopedia on Weight Training will direct exercisers interested in obtaining physical strength and health, increased power and ability in the performance of athletics, general physical fitness and conditioning, and advanced training techniques suitable for all body types.
$28.95 ICA Members; $31.95 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10%

Chiropractic Exercises for Pregnancy and Recovery
This 20-minute video tape by chiropractor Dr. Debra Levinson is a balanced set of gentle exercises and sage advice.  Exercises demonstrated meet all American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Guidelines and are presented in an easy to follow manner.  The goal of this video is to help your patients promote wellness in pregnancy and postpartum through safe exercise, stress management, relaxation/ mental imagery and pertinent childbirth education information.

$19.95 ICA Members; $22.95 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10% 

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Show Me Where It Hurts
Written by Alan Rosenthal, DC and Illana Katz, this soft cover book provides reading-age children with a chiropractic success story written just for them.   Through a story of brothers Ethan and Eric, this book explains why chiropractic care is important for children and how chiropractic care helped Ethan feel better after he suffered a football injury.  It explains the terms 'subluxation' and 'adjustment' in ways kids will understand.  Show Me Where it Hurts has an attractive cover and is well-illustrated.  It would make an excellent addition to your office reception area, and a useful donation to your local school library. 
$9.95 ICA Members; $12.95 Non-Members.
Quantities of Five:
$40.00 ICA Members; $50.00 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10% 

Perfect Posture brochure/poster
This attractive two-color pamphlet, when open, doubles as an 11" x 17" poster. It explains how poor posture can occur, how to do self tests, suggests sound lifestyle habits for improving posture and describes how chiropractic can help. Sold in lots of 25.
$9.00 ICA Members; $12.00 Non-Members

A D.C's Guide to Effective Public Relations
A practical guide for the chiropractor seeking to enhance the image of the profession and promote his/her practice.  Includes tips on working with the media, writing news releases, public speaking, community relations and other useful information to empower the private practitioner expanding into community wellness and sports.
$18.00 ICA Members; $20.00 Non-Members.

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Getting Stronger
This book on weight training is actually 'Three Books in One' Getting Stronger provides detailed instruction on Strength Training for 21 different sports, including tips for off-season, pre-season, and in-season training programs.  It also provides information on General Conditioning with guidelines for staying in shape with three 45 minute workouts a week.  In addition, it addresses Bodybuilding in detail from Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced through Competitive levels, plus coaching on posing.  Getting Stronger highlights over 350 exercises for Free Weights, Nautilus and Universal machines, and provides an important new feature with safety and performance guidelines for the Electronic Gym Equipment.  As a reference guide and training manual, this book benefits from Mr. Pearl's extensive and successful career as a professional bodybuilder, successful gym owner and operator, and fitness author.  He also presents an impressive collection of sports training tips from 24 of the country's top coaches and trainers.  This book addresses the needs of athletes of all levels; introductory explanations in over 70 one-page, easy-to-use training programs; progressive training concepts for advanced athletes; and training programs for the exerciser over 50.   In addition, Getting Stronger provides up-to-date information on injury rehabilitation with weights, nutrition, drugs, injury prevention, and fitness strategies.   
$19.00 ICA Members; $22.00 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10% 

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Lifelong Fitness: How to Look Great at Any Age
Master trainer and author Bob Delmonteque brings his experience over the past 50 years of helping tens of thousands of people achieve proven, dramatic results with his celebrated methods that combine expert training advice and sound nutritional counseling.  Delmonteque has trained the original Apollo astronauts, and Hollywood legends like John Wayne, Clark Gable and contemporary stars like Matt Dillon.   Thorough his book Lifelong Fitness, Delmonteque provides you with a training program and diet that is easy to learn and much less expensive than other programs on the market today.  Lifelong Fitness presents a fourphase program: Warm-up; Iso Tension; Strength Training and Muscle Building; and Nutrition and Longevity.  He also teaches how to build stamina, lose fat and gain muscle, maintain skin tone and elasticity, and develop rock-hard abdominal muscles.  By incorporating the latest in sports technology and nutritional counseling with over 50 years of personal bodybuilding and training experience, Delmonteque brings to Lifelong Fitness a unique set of training techniques and lifestyle changes directed to decelerate the aging process and build new energy and stamina.         
$14.99 ICA Members; $16.99 Non-Members.
ICA Fitness Council Members deduct 10% 

Prices in this Catalog are effective as of January 1, 2001 and are subject to change without notice.

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