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Dr. Sears Recommends PrbBodX Fitness Book

Editor’s note: 13 years ago, two years before the Zone dietary concept had evolved into “The Zone” book, Marv Marinovich embraced Dr. Sears’ philosophy. Dr. Sears now returns the favor by writing the forward to the new book “ProBodX: Proper Body Exercise: The Path to True Fitness,” by Marinovich and Dr. Edythe Heus.

By Dr. Barry Sears    

Every now and then you have the rare the opportunity to meet truly pioneering individuals. More than 13 years ago, I had that opportunity when I first met Marv Marinovich, after watching him perform as a star athlete for the University of Southern California some 40 years ago and later when he played for Oakland Raiders. With such a background, I really didn’t know what to expect when we finally met.

What I found was a visionary focused on a single-minded goal: How to maximize the physical performance in any athlete regardless of age or genetic gifts. It was at this first meeting that I introduced my Zone concept to Marv and explained how the hormonal benefits of the Zone could go hand in hand with his advanced physical training techniques. At first Marv was skeptical. After all, he had access to all the latest knowledge in sports nutrition, and everything he had read indicated that anything approximating the Zone Diet would limit athletic performance. On the other hand, Marv also had a superb knowledge of the importance of hormones in sports performance, and my science made intuitive sense to him. I told Marv to try the program for a week, and if he didn’t see a difference, he could call me a complete charlatan. That was a challenge he couldn’t refuse. A week later he called me back, and said let’s talk.

That was the beginning of my continuing collaboration with Marv to explore the boundaries of human performance. In this book, Marv and Dr. Edythe Heus take the combination of my Zone Diet coupled with their radical new training technology to generate the next major evolution of increasing physical performance. Their remarkable approach explores for the first time the seemingly mysterious neuromuscular connection that is the basis for all physical performance. Although this neuromuscular connection is exceptionally complex, they outline in simple steps the basic training that will allow you to access its remarkable potential.

Anyone who follows this program will see dramatic improvements in physical performance regardless of age, sex, existing physical fitness, or ultimate performance goals. Marv was a revolutionary when I met him 13 years ago, and he remains so today because he is never satisfied with the status quo. If you want an unfair advantage in life, I strongly urge you to follow the plan of action described in this book. You won’t regret it.

Here's a Closer Look at ProBodX

By Ronda Spinak and
Alan Duncan Ross

ProBodX — Proper Body Exercise — is the first fitness regimen that unleashes the power of the neuromuscular connection, training the nervous system not just the musculoskeletal system like other programs.

Most of us train our muscles, not the mechanism that makes muscles move more efficiently. When the body moves more efficiently, risk of injury is reduced, whether in sport or daily life, and the body functions optimally, delivering greater health, vitality, and well being.

Benefits of ProBodX —The Short List

  • Weight Loss
  • Muscle Tone
  • Flexibility
  • Strength
  • Endurance
  • Speed
  • Power
  • Diminishment of aches, pain and chronic injury

Professional athletic trainer Marv Marinovich and renowned New York doctor Edythe Heus originally designed ProBodX for elite athletes, such as Jason Sehorn, former New York Giant, and Steve Finley of the Arizona Diamondbacks, who wanted to recover from injury and play their sport again. Their results were staggering. In every case, injured athletes recovered faster than on other programs and came back even stronger, beating their personal best after having done ProBodX.
   

Now ProBodX is available to everyone in the just released book, “ProBodX—Proper Body Exercise: The Path to True Fitness” published by HarperCollins. For the first time in the history of physical training, the techniques of rehab and cutting-edge fitness exercises are combined into one conditioning program. Everyone has the opportunity to diminish pain, aches and chronic physical problems while at the same time getting into shape, not just the kind of shape that can be seen on the outside of the body, but the kind that can be felt on the inside — the kind of shape that is truly fit.
   

Essentially, the ProBodX program uses a combination of unstable surfaces (gymnastic balls, slant boards, balance disks) with special hand or foot weights to activate the nervous system to build strength, speed, power and flexibility. The ProBodX workout retrains the body to work as it was meant to work, helping to create optimal fitness.

ProBodX also utilizes the basic principles of the Zone Diet, modifying it for athletes wanting to get the most out of their workout regimen.Like the Zone, ProBodX works with the design of the body, not against it, giving the body what it needs to perform its best.

If you are far from reaching your fitness or health goals or are suffering from aches and pains of daily life or from the activities you do, you will benefit from the ProBodX workout.

Because it is so efficient, results are quick, in as little as three weeks, and lasting.

As Dr. Sears says, “If you want an unfair advantage in life, I strongly urge you to follow the plan of action described in this book. You’ll never regret it.”