On a Roll @ Home, Home Exercises for Core Strength and Massage on the Foam Roller

Extremely helpful & practicalThis is an extremely useful and practical book. I can't think of a book that has had such a clearly beneficial effect on me. I bought it during an episode of lower back pain, and also bought the 6x36"jfit EVA foam roller at amazon. (you need 36" to support both bottom & neck!) Both are helping me get my core and back in much better shape than they've been in years.The author describes how to do each of 50+ warm-ups, exercises & massages so clearly that I am confident I'm doing it right. In contrast, when I was paying a gym for a "small group trainer/ semi-personal trainer" I kept having to ask questions to figure out if I was really doing back exercises correctly, and since my back often was worse the next day- I couldn't make progress. With this book, I do a few exercises whenever I feel like it (almost every day) and definitely feel better afterwards. After about 6 weeks now, I know my core & back are in better shape: I am much more flexible than when I started, have little or no pain and have much better balance during the exercises than when I started. I am middle aged, and most would think I'm in pretty good shape. But my core was not in good shape before this book. The roller is also fantastic for massaging many muscles yourself. I love the spiral binding, as I often flip through the book and lay it open to a new exercise when I'm on the floor.Cons? The only possible con for me is the organization of the book. There are 3 hardness levels (1, 2 & 3). I'm doing all the 1's and a few 2's now. I need to focus on strengthening my core to support my back. I have 6 post it flags steering me to batches of pages that I'm finding most helpful. Might be better if all the 1's were in the front, or all the core exercises were together? The index of excercises & massages of pages 27-88 is clear, but not divided into clear groups or focus areas. My advice: start at the front, and as you learn batches of 5 or so exercises feel free to jump around and do a variety to find what seems to fit you the best.I would give this 5 starts for the great book. I had an excercise question & emailed the author and got a very clear answer right back. Wow- I wish I could give it 6 stars.

This is a great book! I highly recommend it. I originally bought a foam roller and just looked up exercises online at sites like youtube.com. That was great at first but I wanted more. So I discovered this book and it has tons and tons of both great exercises and stretches. I absolutely love my foam roller and this is the perfect addition to it. I would say Go for it. It is worth the purchase.

Love, this book. It has lots of useful information and tips on using the foam roller. zit slso has good pictures showing the proper form in doing these exercises. I like the binding because it makes it easy to keep the book open while using it. You do need the long foam roller to use this book.

This spiral bound book has so much information for using the foam roll. You take a chance when purchasing these things online but this was a real winner for me. I am new to using the roll and it gives exercises and massaging techniques. I am excited to get started on it.

The content of book is fairly good. The exercises are good for someone that had worked on a roller before. In my opinion it'll need more detailed information for novices.The reason why I'm giving only one star is because the book is badly printed and its not even bound, it comes with an spiral bind like the ones you got in a copy center. The pictures are in black and withe, like they were poorly copied at the same cheap copy center and the paper is 60 gram. If I would've pay $ 10 for the book I think I'll be good a good buy, but for $24.95 you'll expect something far better. The book its not worth its price.

The product also includes a book, which is very helpful. The quality is good, I'm not disappointed. Delivery was excellent.

Part of my library for exercises and massages. Flipping through the book seems easy to follow and schedule for myself.

This book is clear with excellent how-to photos. I also appreciate the contra-indication tips. I would recommend this to a friend.