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Ultimate Flexibility: A Complete Guide to Stretching for Martial Arts  
   

Ultimate Flexibility: A Complete Guide to Stretching for Martial Arts

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Product Description: Ultimate Flexibility is the book you've been waiting for. More than a collection of exercises or an explanation of technique, Ultimate Flexibility is a complete guide to stretching for martial arts, from the very basics of why you should stretch to detailed workout guidelines for every style and level of martial arts practice.
 
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Turtle Press (January 10, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1880336839
  • ISBN-13: 978-1880336830
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: based on 27 reviews.
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,732 in Books
 

Ultimate Flexibility: A Complete Guide to Stretching for Martial Arts

 
   
Full-Body Flexibility  
   

Full-Body Flexibility

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Product Description: Stretching before you exercise or engage in sports can actually cause fatigue and damage to your body by putting undue stress on soft tissue, maintains Blahnik. Yet "a good warm up," he argues, "can in fact reduce the risk of injury prior to a workout if the warm-up is designed appropriately for the workout that follows." In this stretching guidebook, the fitness consultant, whom Shape magazine named one of the country's top five exercise instructors, emphasizes the importance of variety, strength and balance for increased flexibility, performance, and comfort in the workplace, home, or on the football field. Following an introduction that clarifies essential terms and concepts for the beginner, the book provides an assortment of stretching exercises, complete with explanations and illustrations, for all parts of the body. Chapter six presents challenging workouts based on yoga poses, which require strength and superior flexibility, and later sections specify the best exercises for different sports. For those who have a limited amount of time to devote to fitness routines, Blahnik organizes 10-, 20-, and 40- minute workouts as well as morning and evening stretch routines. Though perhaps a bit rudimentary, this volume should help novices reach their physical health goals.
 
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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers (November 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0736041508
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736041508
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: based on 12 reviews.
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #95,791 in Books
 

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Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training  
   

Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training (4th Revision ed)

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Product Description: In Stretching Scientifically, there are some new ideas and some interesting twists on an old subject. The author is from the Eastern Bloc, and the book carries this slant with both information and methods of flexibility training. This text has value for the fitness professional with a high interests in the nuances of flexibility development. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
 
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  • Paperback: 214 pages
  • Publisher: Stadion Publishing Company, Inc.; 4 Rev Upd edition (March 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0940149451
  • ISBN-13: 978-0940149458
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: based on 45 reviews.
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42,742 in Books
 

Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training

 
   
 
 
   
Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health  
   

Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health

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Product Description: In the revolutionary Somatics, Thomas Hanna demonstrates that so many problems we accept as inevitable over time--chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic pain, fatigue, and even high blood pressure--need never occur if we maintain conscious control of nerve and muscle, a state which Hanna calls sensory-motor awareness. This gentle, lifelong program can help almost anyone maintain the pleasures of a supple, healthy body indefinitely, with only a five-minute routine once a day.
 
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  • Paperback: 162 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press; New Ed edition (August 3, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0738209570
  • ISBN-13: 978-0738209579
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: based on 21 reviews.
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,745 in Books
 

Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health

 
 
     
     
     
  Relax into Stretch : Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension (Paperback)  
 
   

Relax into Stretch : Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension

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Regain the Buoyant Flexibility of a Young Child While Maximizing Your Power and Strength

"Conventional stretching attempts to literally elongate your tissues, which is dangerous and ineffective. Relax into Stretch simply teaches your muscles to relax into a stretch. If you compare traditional training to a messy hardware reorganization, then Relax into Stretch is an efficient software upgrade.

While stretching tissues may take years, changes in the nervous system are immediate! Your muscles will start noticeably elongating from your first Relax into Stretch practice—and within months you will have achieved a level of flexibility uncommon in our species."—Pavel Tsatsouline

—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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  • Paperback: 152 pages
  • Publisher: Dragon Door Publications (February 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0938045288
  • ISBN-13: 978-0938045281
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: based on 36 reviews.
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,993 in Books
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    Relax into Stretch : Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension (Paperback)