Internationally famous Callan Pinckney is regarded as the founder of this new-wave, no-impact form of exercise, which she has been teaching for fifteen yeaers. Her tiny-movement, body-shapping, deep-muscle Callanetics have caused a revolution in the world of body fitnes, and the millions who follow her exercises know that her promise, 'ten years younger in ten hours,' is absolutely true. Now Callan makes another promise: 'a good back for a lifetime in minutes a day.' Callanetics for Your Back is her exciting, safe, new program designed to make our back strong and healthy and keep it that way.

Few of Callan's fans realize that Callanetics was originally devised by the author to cure her own severe back problems when her body was crippled by eleven years of back-packing across the world. Callan takes her readers through the program she created to heal herself-gentle movements that gradually strengthen the body, leading up to the deep-muscle exercises that ensure the back will always have firm and supple support.

She also gives instructions for emergency spasm relief and tells what popular but harmful exercises must always be avoided, how to move through everday activities, and why the proper care of feet is important. She includes a valuable description of the body's major muscles and bones and how they work, along with a rundown on common back ailments. The book is profusely illustrated with 160 drawings and photographs that provide visual aids to the simple, easy-to-follow instructions.

For the 80 percent of the population who suffer from some form of back problem, Callan's painless program offers relief and lasting cure. And for those lucky ones who have never had a back problem, these exercises are the very best preventative! Here is another wonder from the amazing Callan Pinckney-'a good back for a lifetime in minutes a day.'

Callan Pinckney studied classical ballet before spending almost eleven years backpacking around the wold. The travel, combined with the problems of a congenital back defect, resulted in a pysical collapse, and she returned to the states to recover. Callanetics is taught in an exercise studio in Atlanta, Georgia.

Contents

A note of caution
Acknowledgments
Endorsements
Foreword
Introduction
1 Emergency relief for spasm
2 Choose your stretches
3 Minnie Mouse's shoes and other foot travesties
4 Stretches for a bad back
5 Everyday activities
6 Everyday exercises
7 Three stages of Callanetics
Pelvic wave
8 Stay away from these
9 People helpers
10 Power of the mind
11 You're never too young or too old
12 A brief anatomy lesson
13 Some common causes of back pain
14 Other ways and means to relieve back symptoms
Index