The Foot Fix
4 Weeks to Healthier, Happier Feet
by Yamuna Zake
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Pub Date 12 Jan 2021 | Archive Date 5 Jan 2021
Watkins | Watkins Publishing
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Description
This is a uniquely helpful and accessible guide to taking control of your own foot health by holistic heath innovator Yamuna Zake. We don't need doctors, orthotics or even surgery to relieve common foot problems, such as plantar fasciitis, bunions, neuromas, arthritis, hammertoes, and flat feet. By learning a correct gait that uses the entire foot to distribute weight, we can relieve and prevent common foot problems without any medical intervention.
The book offers an easy-to-follow 4-week program of routines that take just 15 minutes a day during the program and allows readers to fix their feet and take ownership of their body. Each of the four weeks focuses on a different part of the foot: the heel, the arch, the ball and the toes. There are 3-4 exercises in each section and readers try them all and can choose to focus on those exercises in each section that they enjoy most. This programme is then supported with mindful foot practices to ensure bad habits don't return. Six common foot problems are also explored, including their causes (specific incorrect walking patterns) and ways of preventing and relieving them (exercises plus mindful practices). You won't find any medical concepts or terminology in this book, nor do you need to learn complicated foot anatomy. The whole program is based on what you already know: walking. You'll learn how to walk and stand correctly and to use every part of your feet as nature intended. That's all you need to do!
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781786784537 |
| PRICE | US$20.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Anne M, Reviewer
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Dear Feet,
My sincere apologies for having neglected you, having crammed you into impossible shapes and tortured you with ridiculous heel heights.
I pledge henceforth to respect and love you.
Yours The Rest of the Body
I applied for this book because I have been practising T’ai Chi for many years and stance/posture is an important part of the routine. Turns out I knew very little on stance.
After a looong prelude, the book starts with a lesson in foot anatomy -bones, tendons and muscles - which proves to be very useful further along.
The Foot Fix is split into four weeks of exercises, each dealing with a specific part of the foot. There are some exercises that form the base of every week (“Walking Test” and “Power Stance”) that are only subtly different but you will understand after training - be patient. There are also chapters on howto deal with specific foot problems.
My Eureka moment was when “walking the shoes out of your feet” was described: You know when you kick off your shoes after a long day and you expect them just to relax after being released? Oh no, you have to give them some pamper exercises and....it works a treat!
Three gripes: 1 The first 50-odd pages only tell you how great this book is.
2 The overuse of “mindful(ness)”. A pet hate word of mine - whatever happened to “concentrate/concentration”? 3 Consider using a white model throughout. The lack of contrast in the images of the black model makes it almost impossible to follow the routine (e.g. week 2, routine 4)
Susie F, Reviewer
This was an interesting book, I’m a big reflexology fan, so I know a little about the importance feet have on your whole body. This book didn’t disappoint and was very useful to me in my learning more about the human body.
Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.
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