New Years Resolutions for Fitness Success - Reader Hall of Fame

Happy New Year to readers on the Gregorian Calendar.

Happy day to the rest.

For your New Year's Resolutions, here are real stories from readers that appeared here on Fitness Fixer.

Readers tell how they used these methods for stronger, healthier, pain free, happy, more active life:

• Physical therapist George Nakhlé is assisting me to develop an entire new International Academy of Functional Sports Medicine using my methods.
  
• David of Belgium developed and teaches an improved new yoga system. He presented it at a world yoga congress. His system corrects for the widespread pain syndromes from flexion overuse, and reduces the cause instead of adhering to set ritual pose sequences - Getting the Right Yoga Medicine. He continues to translate my work into Dutch, create links for posts to reach world audiences, and make dozens of photos and videos for Fitness Fixer posts.
  
• Dr. Clara Hsu teaches Fitness Fixer methods to patients in her practice, prescribes my website, gives my books as presents around the world, and has offered her office space to hold workshops for our new International Academy - How Doctors Help Patients With Fitness Fixer and How Doctors Use The Wall Stand.
  
• Mr. America, Jim Morris, internationally encourages goodness and my Ab Revolution retraining technique - Mr. America Urges Goodness and Responsibility

• Leslie - Are You Stronger Than A 67 Year Old Lady?
• Ivy - Farm Work, Lifestyle Exercise, and Preventing Overuse Pain
• Ivy - Good Life Works Better Than Bad Ab Exercise
• Zoe - Don't Confuse Exercise With Real Fitness
• Mike demonstrates - Fast Fitness - Core Hip & Body, Posture Strength & Balance
• Terry Lee tries the handstand in the comments of Fast Fitness - Handstand Rows
• Liz Brown M.D. does her morning handstands in the comments of Thanksgiving Health
• Liz teaches how to overcome thinking that you can't do the handstand - Wall Handstand Success With Liz
  

• Sylvia - Fixing Foot Drop
• Ivy - Inspirational Ivy and Inspirational Ivy II - Beating Foot Drop and Sciatica, and Getting Healthier

• Rich T - Fix Neck, Play Hockey, Use Brain, Fun Life
• Bill - Freed From Pain, He Rides Again and Inspirational Update from Bill

• After 4 years and physical therapy didn't fix his pain, this "Big D" athlete tells how it is done - Fixing Posture - No Exercise Needed

• Mike - Flasher Exercises Not Best for Shoulder Pain
• Hanson stops shoulder pain caused by yoga - Overhead Lifting, Reaching, and Throwing - More Part I

• Kristin - 14,000 Miles on a Bike - Herniating and Fixing Discs
• Barb - Feeling Better Than She Ever Has Part I - Fixing Herniated Disk and Reclaiming Active Life and - Feeling Better Than She Ever Has Part II - Fixing Herniated Disk and Reclaiming Active Life

• Ted - Back Pain From Running
• Nick - Prevent Main Factor in Back Pain After Running and Walking
• Carina - How Much Inward Curve Space Should There Be In The Lower Back?
• Jean Christophe requested this post - Lower Back Pain and Golf
• Jeff - Fixing Pain and Golf Easier With Real Life Movement Than Isolated Exercises
• Liz - Which Stretch Stops Back Pain by Making Neutral Spine Possible?

• Bernie - Fixing Leg Numbness, Back Pain, Flank Pain, Knee Pain, Nerve Pain, Three Unhealthy Surgeries, Part I and Fixing Leg Numbness, Back Pain, Flank Pain, Knee Pain, Nerve Pain, Three Unhealthy Surgeries, Part II

• Zoe - Exercise and Cancer and Don't Confuse Exercise With Real Fitness

• Ivy - Is Healthy Living Less Expensive?
• Lily sends - Non-Plastic Non-Aluminum Sports and Fitness Food Carriers

• David from Belgium - Your Fitness Fixer Requests in the Works
• Jill - Inspiring Update from Jill - Celiac, Knees, Fasciitis, and Restoring Happy Life
• MMLash - You Can Fix Your Own Knees
• Diana fixed her ankles, and demonstrates while I film her - Sprain Prevention and Rehab Training
• David from Belgium filmed himself demonstrating - Fix Flat Feet, Pronation, and Fallen Arches

• Kristin - 14,000 Miles on a Bike - Herniating and Fixing Discs
• Liz - Which Stretch Stops Back Pain by Making Neutral Spine Possible?

• Mike sent us - A Laugh at Sedentary Mindset

• Barb - ER Nurse To Her Own Rescue
• Liz - How a Reader Stopped Recurring Pain, Got Stronger, and Said Aha!
• Jean Christophe - Readers Count - Second Missed Cause of Back Pain With Golf
• Jeff - Fixing Pain and Golf Easier With Real Life Movement Than Isolated Exercises

• Ted - Runner Fixes More Pain With Straighter Push-Off
• Ivy - Getting More From a Hip Stretch

• My student Christopher fixed serious martial arts injuries and demonstrates - Common Exercises Teach Hip Tightness When Kicking, Stretching, and on the Stairs
  
• David S demonstrates a different way to do the lying figure 4 hip stretch - Fast Fitness - Better Posterior Hip, Iliotibial, and Piriform Stretch
• Mike shows the seated figure 4 - A Whole Big Fix
• Bernie, who is 80 years old - Relaxing Hip, Leg, and Groin Stretch and Quick Relaxing Hip Stretch
• Pearl - Pearl is 97 (she will be turning 99 this coming February!)
  
• Dr. Ernie - Better Stretches for Swimming - Cook Strait Update
• Steve K demonstrates - Fast Fitness - Great Hip, Side, Leg, and I.T. Stretch
• I filmed a short movie of my student Ms. Han demonstrating how to sit on the floor and rise without hands - Functional Agility, Flexibility, Strength
• David of Belgium took time to make many movies for us to see methods better, this one to increase hip stretch (carefully) - Fast Fitness - Balance, Strength, Stretch, and Socks
• David of Belgium also took many photos to demonstrate fun ways to increase strength, balance, and stretch - Easy Handstand
• Ivy - Strengthen and Retrain Function With The Lunge
• Vikki, a Search and Rescue Paramedic demonstrates - Quick Hamstring Stretch At Work

• Mom V enrolled daughter - After School Trapeze Arts is Good Exercise

• Dr. Ernie swam it - Sixteen Miles of Cold Water and Getting Fitter in 50 Degrees

• Steve K - Fun Steve Loses Weight With Fitness Fixer
• Dr. Ernie - Nutrition for Endurance Swim Training
• Jill - Inspiring Update from Jill - Celiac, Knees, Fasciitis, and Restoring Happy Life

• Marla - Fix Scoliosis and Arthritis Pain, Fix New Orleans

• Bill - Stronger Pain-Free Wrists When Biking
• Stephie fixed her knee pain by not letting her arches flatten when standing (see knee and arch links), and demonstrates - Prevent Wrist Pain During Pushups and Cooking

• Dean and Ivy - How Strong Is Your Arm? - Readers Find Out
• David reminds us - Health Can Occur on Weekends Too

• Bernie - Cauda Equina - Result Not Cause

• Rich T reminds - Fix Positioning by Watching Others

• Joe - Married 63 Years With Good Balance
• Bernie - Fast Fitness - Dynamic Partner Balance Challenge

• Katayon - Daughter's Love Saves Parent's Knees
• Ginger - Student Balances, Listens, Fixes Father's Back Pain
• Ivy - Each One Teach One
• Mike - changes school programs to be healthier - Healthy Youth Parties - Fun Exercise, No Junk Food
• An anonymous reader took time to find a neighborhood association with volunteers to shop and deliver a food order at no extra charge to the blind diabetic widow in - Thank You To Readers - Simple Gifts

• Mike - A Whole Big Fix
• Dennis fixed knee, ankle, foot, lower back pain - Walking Softly Benefits Olympic Wrestler
• Bernie - Fixing Leg Numbness, Back Pain, Flank Pain, Knee Pain, Nerve Pain, Three Unhealthy Surgeries.
  Ivy - Inspirational Ivy

Thank you everyone for using my methods for Good. Thank you for writing your stories for others to benefit. Congratulations on your great work.

Thank you readers Mim, Kate, Al, Kathy, Julia, PhatMac, Eddie, Carol, Dave, Tony, Anton, Terry Lee, Airchild, Teresa, Nina, Marina, Wondering Oriental, 9Volt Terry, Alberto (farioreo), Kip, Lee, Ness, Jayakrishnan, Michael LMT CNMT who gives his massage clients the Fitness Fixer and my professional website DrBookspan.com as their homework, and all the others who wrote their success stories in the comments of various posts.

Hundreds more, too shy to have their story online, mailed me the best thanks - that because of these methods, they had their lives back.


Related:

• Fast Fitness - How To Be An Inspiring Success and Send In Your Story
• Fitness Fixer Reader Hall Of Fame 2009