True to Form: How to Use Foundation Training for Sustained Pain Relief and Everyday Fitness

Foreword by Chris Hemsworth

A proven program that teaches you how to harness the body’s natural movement patterns in daily activities to get fit, healthy, and pain-free for life

Hunching over a keyboard, commuting long hours, slouching on the couch—poor postures resulting from our sedentary lifestyle have thrown our bodies out of balance, causing unnecessary stress and strain that compromise our joints, restrict organ function, and weaken our muscles.

Dr. Eric Goodman has spent years studying human physiology and movement. He’s helped people of all ages and occupations heal and correct lifelong debilitating pain with his revolutionary Foundation Training, a practical program for chronic pain relief that targets the posterior chain muscles—shoulders, back, butt, and legs—shifting the burden of support to where it belongs: the large muscle groups.

Foundation Training is simple: no gyms, no specialized equipment, no complicated stretches. It’s a series of powerful movements you can integrate successfully into everyday life—from playing with the kids to washing dishes to long hours in the office—transforming ordinary physical actions into active and mindful movements that help to eliminate pain, boost your energy, and strengthen your body. By harnessing the body’s natural movement patterns to correct posture, you can be fit, healthy, and pain-free for good.

This proven program teaches you how to:

• Spinal Decompression: Master simple breathing techniques that create space in your torso, lift your ribcage, and relieve the pressure that causes chronic aches.
• Posterior Chain Strength: Activate the crucial muscles in your shoulders, back, butt, and legs to shift the burden of support back to your body’s powerful core.
• Natural Movement Patterns: Turn everyday activities like washing dishes or playing with your kids into powerful, mindful movements that eliminate strain.
• Everyday Fitness: A simple, effective program developed by Dr. Eric Goodman to heal his own debilitating pain that requires no gym, no special equipment, and no complicated stretches.

A proven program that teaches you how to harness the body’s natural movement patterns in daily activities to get fit, healthy, and pain-free for life

Hunching over a keyboard, commuting long hours, slouching on the couch—poor postures resulting from our sedentary lifestyle have thrown our bodies out of balance, causing unnecessary stress and strain that compromise our joints, restrict organ function, and weaken our muscles.

Dr. Eric Goodman has spent years studying human physiology and movement. He’s helped people of all ages and occupations heal and correct lifelong debilitating pain with his revolutionary Foundation Training, a practical program that targets the posterior chain muscles—shoulders, back, butt, and legs—shifting the burden of support to where it belongs: the large muscle groups.

Foundation Training is simple: no gyms, no specialized equipment, no complicated stretches. It’s a series of powerful movements you can integrate successfully into everyday life—from playing with the kids to washing dishes to long hours in the office—transforming ordinary physical actions into active and mindful movements that help to eliminate pain, boost your energy, and strengthen your body. By harnessing the body’s natural movement patterns, you can be fit, healthy, and pain-free for good.

“Foundation Training has been one of the most impactful additions to my career. The exercises are easy to learn, difficult to hold, and worth every minute of practice. Foundation Training should be a requirement for everyone.” - Chad Reed, TwoTwo Motorsports, Winner of Numerous Motocross and Supercross World Championships

“Like so many people who have found relief with Foundation Training, I am grateful for the healing.” - Chris Hemsworth, actor

“Practicing Foundation Training has been one of the most critical decisions of my surfing career. I had recurring lower back problems when I was younger, but since starting Foundation Training, my flexibility and stability are both the best they have ever been” - Lakey Peterson, women's surfing champion

“After thirty tough years of service in the Army Airborne and Rangers and completing over five hundred jumps, I was told by six different spinal surgeons that spinal fusion was my only option. And then I discovered Foundation Training. Now it’s diving, skiing, climbing, and traveling with no restrictions. . . . The kind of retirement I always dreamed of-and almost lost. If only I had this marvelous tool on active duty.” - Colonel William C. Ohl II

“After thirty tough years of service in the Army Airborne and Rangers, I was told by six different spinal surgeons that spinal fusion was my only option. And then I discovered Foundation Training. If only I had this marvelous tool on active duty.” - Colonel William C. Ohl II

“Foundation Training may offer the best of all worlds in terms of building a strong core, eliminating back pain, and promoting optimal health that goes beyond fitness.” - Joseph Mercola, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Mercola, New York Times bestselling author

“Foundation Training exercises are the answer to my many years of research on the negative effects of sitting.” - Dr. Joan Vernikos, former NASA director of life sciences and author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals