- Paperback: 436 pages
- Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company (January 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1571742247
- ISBN-13: 978-1571742247
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 18.8 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 599 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #991,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The secret to excellent and lasting health may be as simple as a series of exercises.
Unified Fitness is a unique 35-day program that blends familiar Western exercises with more exotic Chinese ones in a single routine that makes you healthier and helps you stay that way.
One of the best systems of health self-maintenance available today, the program is based on health practices developed by John Alton during his 20-year career as a fitness teacher.
The Unified Fitness program interweaves the body, immune system, and the mind into a single exercise and dietary approach. Through photos and clear explanations, Alton guides you through the exercises and he provides convincing reasons for doing them. A total of 49 real-life case studies provide substantial support for the claim that Unified Fitness is the simplest and best means of getting sustainable health or for recovering from dozens of illnesses.
"These exercies give you the amazing ability to mobilize energy and the immune system to help you cope with harmful germs that cause health problems," says John Alton. "And, once you've learned them, you can do these exercises throughout the day."
Enlightened self-care through Unified Fitness will not only ustain your health, but also give you remarkable control over it.
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Your first week of Unified Fitness begins with cardiovascular exercise and flexibility training, which medical and fitness research has shown to have a clear, positive impact on health. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally, a mind-body program with tangible results!,
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This review is from: Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health: Western and Chinese Fitness Solutions to Chronic Health Problems (Paperback)
Unified Fitness is awesome! As a high stress, type "A" person, I've tried every mind-body practice out there: biofeedback, mindfulness-based meditation, yoga, etc. Unified Fitness is the only practice that has provided tangible results and real, lasting benefits. By combining traditional exercise with mind-body techniques that actually work, John Alton has created a program that resonates with those of us who are not completely comfortable with many of the new age or purely spirituality-based practices that one typically finds. It takes some effort and time, but the results are nothing short of astounding! Buy it, read it, practice it and you just might change your life.
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Powerful integration of healing and contemplation,
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This review is from: Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health: Western and Chinese Fitness Solutions to Chronic Health Problems (Paperback)
John Alton's Unified Fitness presents a powerful new practical vision of traditional Asian healing and contemplative practices. Working with an intimate knowledge of traditional Chinese practices, he has reformulated the entire system from the ground up based on its core principles to create a new process designed to suit contemporary lifestyles and realities. The book cuts through the difficulties of traditional presentations, as well as the superficiality of so many contemporary "manuals", to achieve a rare and powerful synthesis with potent results for personal physical and mental health. Despite being an associate Professor at the University of Virginia in Tibetan Buddhist Studies specializing in contemplative systems with many years of research in Tibet itself, I have seen few contemporary models so deeply based in Asian healing-contemplative traditions, and yet so precisely and powerfully reorganized for a contemporary audience. I highly recommend Unified Fitness.
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Peace of mind and body,
By "mep8f2" (Charlottesville, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Unified Fitness: A 35-Day Exercise Program for Sustainable Health: Western and Chinese Fitness Solutions to Chronic Health Problems (Paperback)
Mr. Alton does a commendable job of combining Eastern and Western medicinal philosophies, with easy-to-understand chapters and diagrams. I've been fortunate to live in Charlottesville and study with Mr. Alton. This book gives everyone not located in the Charlottesville area the opportunity to take advantage of "Unified Fitness". The system is easy to follow and well laid out in the book. The ultimate result does depend on the individual. "Unified Fitness" has to be incorporated into your life to obtain the most benefit."Unified Fitness" combines mind and body exercises that really work. Alton also touches on diet and coping with stress in the modern world in addition to examining the micro-biology of his program's effects. Mr. Alton has an extensive background in Qigong, Martial Arts, and Eastern/Western medicine. For someone who is looking for peace of mind and body, I couldn't recommend a better book for your overall health.
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