Learn How to Train Your Core for Better Health and Resilience to Injuries Winner of the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in Sports & Fitness and the 2021 TCK Publishing Reader's Choice Book Awards. The term core stability has been overhyped and misconstrued, leading people astray with endless crunches and swinging kettlebells, onto a fast track to injury and despair. Instead of following the latest injury-prone fad, you’re about to discover a set of 50 science-based core exercises to tone your body and train your core for functional performance whether you’re training for a world championship or just trying to walk without falling. Dr. Bohdanna Zazulak has devoted her career to figuring out why so many women get injured in sports and everyday life. What she discovered is that properly training your core muscles is the most important thing you can do to improve your health, build strength, and reduce your risk of injuries (for men and women). In this book, Dr. Zazulak explains in simple terms what core stability truly means from a scientific perspective, and how a stable core directly relates to less injuries, better performance, and better physical, mental, and emotional health. Here’s just a taste of the core empowering methods you'll learn in this book: The three types of meditation for calming your body and mind so you can experience profound mental clarity and physical relaxation when you need it - Simple breathing exercises that will retrain your inner core muscles and surprisingly increase your strength - A step-by-step process to improve your posture which can instantly lift your mood, boost your confidence, and reduce aches and pains from sitting or standing all day - How to develop a strong foundation of power for any sport you enjoy or would love to try - How to dramatically improve your bone health, longevity, and quality of life If you’re ready to stop following injury-prone fad workouts so you can master your core with evidence-based exercises that work wonders for your body, this book is for you. You will love this book if you are interested in: Building strength - At-home workouts - Core exercises - Holistic health and wellness - Injury prevention - Sports medicine ​ "Highly recommended!" Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF author, UnDo It! "Founded upon rigorous scientific research and 30 years of clinical experience as a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Master Your Core offers a practical holistic plan to improve your health starting with your core. This terrific book will help you integrate your mind, body, and spirit in an easy-to-follow program to reduce your risk of injury, improve performance, and optimize your physical, mental, and emotional health." -David Katz MD, MPH CEO DietID President True Health Initiative Founding Director Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Cebnter (1998-2019) Health Journalist "Carefully built upon rigorous science and a rich personal clinical experience, Dr. Zazulak shares with us a blueprint for improved health, described in understandable and approachable terms in her book, Master Your Core . As a scientist, Dr. Zazulak first highlights the incontrovertible disparities in injury prevalence, pattern and recovery in females of all ages, some based upon physiological and anatomical considerations and others reflecting societal or cultural influences. In her role as clinician, Dr. Zazulak constructs a framework of interventions to mitigate the incidences of, and enhance the recovery from these health threats, as exemplified by the disproportionate rate of anterior cruciate ligament injuries in females and the silent pandemic consequences of osteoporosis. The foundation for these improvements, the opportunity of empowerment, is based upon core stability, and integrates use of mind, body, and spirit in a stepwise program to achieve the intended benefits in outcome. Master Your Core is first a treatise for women. It carefully and convincingly explains the problems and then solutions to musculoskeletal maladies disproportionately affecting females versus males. If one understands the factual basis for concerns, the scientific foundation for repair and one's ability to successfully pursue these remedies, then we are empowered and motivated to make substantial investments and improvements in our own health. But secondly, this book is an epiphany for men, who will not only benefit from improving their own core health, but are also important stakeholders in the well-being of women by virtue of a spectrum of meaningful and impactful relationships. Master Your Core is a source of enlightenment for us all." --Gary E. Friedlaender, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, FOR, Wayne O Southwick Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Chair Emeritus, Orthopaedics and. Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine "I am the poster girl for this book . . . I am a writer, and writing is often a lon