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Pelvic Power: Mind/Body Exercises for Strength, Flexibility, Posture, and Balance for Men and Women
Eric Franklin

Princeton Book Company, 2003 - 127 pages

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A vital fitness book

Great stuff. I've been working on a lot of these principles for the past 3 years in Pilates and Feldenkrais classes. This is an excellent discussion of the bones and muscles in the pelvis, why they're important, and how to develop pelvic power!

Why should we care? Because the pelvis is a fundamental structure in the body. Having proper mobility in the pelvis is a keystone of sitting and walking. If we lack proper strength in our pelvis -- or proper flexibility -- we cannot really be happy with our bodies. Franklin has already addressed the shoulder area in his other book "Relax Your Neck, Liberate Your Shoulders". These two books together are a potent prescription to a fully functional and integrated body.

Typically, these concepts are difficult to understand -- even for massage therapists and other professionals in the bodywork industry. However, Franklin is gifted in his use of imagery to get his point across. There are many titles worthy for students to explore (Anatomy of Movement, Anatomy Trains, etc.) but this is one of the most accessible books for the lay person to read. Highly recommended.

The title of this book will put off some people; I appreciate the direcness of Franklin. It really is about having your pelvis be a powerful foundation for your body. There's no way to expand our understanding without talking about it! It is not a book about sex, but developing your pelvic strength and flexibilty will almost certainly have a positive impact in that area of your life. How could that possibly be a bad thing?


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As a somatic practitioner using neuromuscular techniques, Pilates, Gyrotonic and Yoga, Eric's innovative work in dance medicine has always been solid and inspirational. Here he tackles the structures of the pelvis with sound functional anatomy, visualization and awareness exercises that are challenging for the professional and accessible to the lay person. Incorporating the information in this book into my teaching always brings positive comments from my students and sets me apart as an instructor.


Franklin nailed it

After getting Relax your Neck Liberate your Shoulders and experiencing the exercises and visuals I had to get Pelvic Power and I was not disappointed. Franklin studied the best of the bodymovement practitioners from east, west and all islands farther south and inbetween to put together this gem of book with exercises that are easy to do and easy to understand and very effective. There are about as many exercises in this book as there are blueberries in a pint. Most of the the exercises are completely new and the ones that aren't are more effective with a great explanation of how to do them, why to do them, what muscles they work and in what direction are natural for the body. The anatomy illustrations are the easiest to understand that I have seen in any exercise book. For example I have page 171 of The Sports Medicine Patient Advisor that my doctor gave me for brachial plexus injury, the illustrations are adequate but in comparison to the illustrations in Pelvic Power they are pathetic, Kind of like comparing a Lincoln Towncar to BMW 7 series. Page 25 of Pelvic Power has what appears to be the same exercise in the illustrations as far as the neck movement as for page 171. The difference is the focal point and tolerance for the excercise, for me Franklins exercise focusing on the pelvis instead of the neck was a fun and painless learning experience where as the excercise in the sports medicine book is a mindless useless pain inducing repetitive bore that I only enjoyed doing two days after a visit to the osteopath. Since I like feeling like a BMW I have also modified all of page 171, I am doing the exercises my doctor advised but in a way that is educational, comfortable, stylish, fluid, and related to everyday activities like walking up stairs, picking up bags, and getting it up from chairs. The back cover mentions back problems and back problems usually come in the form of pain, so if you are experiencing pain I can wholeheartily recommend this book whether the pain is from injury or strain, It will help your life, help your recovery and your state of mind. I bought a great pilates book and cried cause I could not do one exercise in the book after 6 months of therapy from a car accident. I looked good I felt better but I could not function let alone have any fun without pain. I followed all my doctors advice until I started learning about exercises. What I learned is all of the exercises they gave me were inspired by the great movement genious's such as Todd, Blandine Calais-Germain, Hanna, Feldenkrais, Dao Mo, Cohen, and far eastern tradition. I felt cheated by the directions and visual aids when I discovered the source and tradition gave better instructions. With Pelvic Power you won't feel cheated because Eric Franklin is a modern living genious that is adding to the past, present, and future of exercise. As a surfer with 20 years experience I always wanted to know Kelly Slater's (6 time world champ) secrets, time and time again he said visualization. Kelly ate healthy but always advocated visualization as the most important part of his training regimen and surfing. This book is full of visualizations. In addition this book is truly for everyone, from pain to performance from web surfer to Bonzai Pipeline master. The Pelvis is definately the red headed stepchild in American exercise, Franklin pulled it off with this one.


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