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Relax into Stretch : Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension
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$34.95
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$23.07
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Manufacturer: Dragon Door Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780938045281
ISBN: 0938045288
Label: Dragon Door Publications
Manufacturer: Dragon Door Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 152
Publication Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher: Dragon Door Publications
Studio: Dragon Door Publications
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Features: Own an illustrated guide to the thirty-six most effective techniques for super-flexibility; How the secret of mastering your emotions can add immediate inches to your stretch; How to wait out your tension the surprising key to greater mobility and a better stretch; How to fool your reflexes into giving you all the stretch you want; Why contract-relax stretching is 267% more effective than conventional relaxed stretching; How to breathe your way to greater flexibility; Using the Russian technique of Forced Relaxation as your ultimate stretching weapon; How to stretch when injured faster, safer ways to heal; Young, old, male, female learn what stretches are best for you and what stretches to avoid; Why excessive flexibility can be detrimental to athletic performance and how to determine your real flexibility needs; Plateau-busting strategies for the chronically inflexible.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Relax into Stretch
Comment: This is a great book, however it is not for the beginner athelete or someone new to stretching. The book gives great insite into flexability that has changed the way I will stretch forever.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: The author should give away for other materials for free to make up the differences. This is the same type of hype that the HIT stuff from Mentzer and the other false authors. Many claims yet little delivery. I can't recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Feel the pain
Comment: Ugh... Too tough for this old guy.
I think it would have been great had I started 25 years ago, a few of the exercises are useful to those that are over the hill, but be careful. The distance between ahhh.. and pure pain is pretty narrow.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pavel Does It Again
Comment: Good Day to All,
I own a few of Pavels books, this being another excellent source to train my soccer team. The book certainly gives you a different look at stretching, though I had learned many of the techniques when I was a Martial Artist and Special Forces Soldier I have never seen it broken down into easy to understand articulate writings before this. Pavel has done an excellent job with this subject giving good lessons from history just as he has done before with kettle bells, free weights and body weight exercises.
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Summary: Relax into Stretch - Simple and Straight-Forward
Comment: I have both this book and Thomas Kurtz' Stretching Scientifically, and I consider both of them worthwhile additions to the personal library. Kurtz goes into much more technical detail, and it is pretty "heavy reading". If you are a person who wants to be bombarded with scientific reasoning for your stretching, this is the book for you. He also has sample workout plans for your specific activity (martial arts, gymnastics, etc), but I found them a little abbreviated. He also gives a "schedule of stretching" in regards to days of week to do strength training, isometric stretching, endurance training, etc. Finally this book has an extensive Q&A/FAQ section.
Pavel takes a humorous approach to deliver a very similar message. He also includes many more photos if you tend to be more "visual". He does break it up into "basics" and "advanced", and there will be cases where he states to not proceed with a particular stretch if you have not reached a certain flexibility milestone; instead, continue with the more basic stretch. I would like to have some sample workout plans/stretching schedules included in the book. This book just references Pavel's other books in terms of stretching schedule (Day 1 - Book 1, Day 2 - Book 2, etc). This book also burns a few too many pages on promoting Pavel's other products.
I can't speak to the results because I haven't fully adapted a stretching program yet. I am doing the stretches, but I have not committed to the twice daily stretching that both recommend.
Although I appreciated the heavy content of Kurz's book, I find myself referencing Relax into Stretch more frequently.
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