The bestselling exercise book now includes stretches for over 60 sports and activities, including those for sports enthusiasts, travelers, children, gardeners, and people in wheelchairs. 1,000 illustrations.
Books on stretching are common, but "The Anatomy of Stretching" takes a more fundamental approach than the others, taking the reader inside the body to show exactly what is happening during a stretch. At the heart of the book are 300 full-color illustrations that show the primary and secondary muscles worked in 115 key stretches arranged by body ...
From the trainers of 13 medal winners in the 1992 Olympics comes a clear guide to the revolutionary technique of Active Isolated Stretching. Now featured in every leading fitness and health magazine, this easy-to-follow program includes special considerations for dozens of different sports and activities plus special tips for pregnant women, older ...
In THE GENIUS OF FLEXIBILITY, author Bob Cooley presents a compelling sixteen-stretch regimen that far surpasses the results of conventional stretching. This breakthrough system features Bob's signature resistance stretching and shows readers how to tap into the energy pathways within the body while strengthening and elongating the muscles. ...
This guide includes hundreds of flexibility exercises that may be performed upon waking up in the morning, before and after athletic activity, and late at night in front of a television set.
An exercise book with a difference, STRETCH AND STRENGTHEN features 100 exercises, fully illustrated, which apply the invaluable system introduced in SURVIVING EXERCISE. Soundly based on exercise philosophy and on new discoveries in kinesiology and sports medicine, the book fits the individual needs of everyone who exercises, from sedentary ...
An exercise routine embraced by professional dancers for over fifty years, Pilates is now the hottest and most talked about fitness trend since the running shoe. The perfect blend of Yoga and Nautilus, Pilates concentrates on building strength and flexibility, improving coordination, balance, and posture, and increasing stamina. All Pilates ...
Packaged in the popular pedestal format, this full-color, hands-free introduction to yoga guides readers step by step through more than 30 beginner and intermediate poses.
Crave yoga's benefits--but feel afraid to look "weird?" Think yoga requires you to look like a pretzel? Now there's a friendly, full-color, hand-holding, one-step-at-a-time, few-minutes-a-day way to get started. It meets you right where you are, with three different approaches to fit your needs. Instant Yoga gets you going immediately with 15 ...
Discover the key to staying fit and supple with this easy-to-do stretching program. Targeted warm-up and cool-down stretches prevent sports injuries, while others effectively counter aches and pains, bad posture and the effects of aging. An added benefit is ease: this practical stretching program fits effortlessly into a busy life.
In "Stretch Your Dog Healthy," holistic health specialist Wynn offers dog owners the latest information on stretching, massage, acupressure, and other techniques to improve and maintain their dogs' good health, enhance calm energy, and strengthen the pet-owner bond.
A good long stretch before a workout or before engaging in sports is so important, not just to avoid muscle injury but to increase circulation. Stretching helps athletes performs and feel their best, and get the maximum benefit from their workout. Not doing so exposes the muscles, joints and spine to all sorts of unnecessary wear and tear, and may ...
This book will help readers find relief by showing them how to assess their posture and movements and providing them with a personalized exercise program to treat problem areas.
Written by the founder of the new-wave, no-impact form of exercise, this new programme of tiny-movement, deep muscle exercise is designed to make your back strong and healthy, and to keep it that way. Callan gives instructions for emergency spasm relief and describes the popular but harmful exercises to be avoided, and how to move through everyday ...
A fitness manual designed to protect readers from injury at whatever fitness level or age. It claims to promote health by increasing agility, lowering blood pressure, enhancing circulation and reducing pressure on joints. Movement-by-movement instructions are given and illustrated in photographs.
Loosen up--in just 20 minutes a day. Too often, with a lifestyle that takes them from the car to the office to the couch, people see their muscles shorten and weaken. The solution: this array of super stretches that improve muscle tone, aid joint flexibility, and increase range of movement. From gentle knee bends to a yoga "down dog," these simple ...
With her first Callanetics, Callan Pinckney proved to millions that exercise doesn't need to be stressful to be effective. Now Pinckney applies the Callanetics principles to a revolutionary new shape-up program. Callanetics Countdown allows each individual to design a workout customized to his or her particular problem areas. Illustrated with ...
"Life Is a Stretch" shows those who want to attain more strength and flexibility how to breathe, stretch, and relax through a series of simple routines based on the age-old principles of yoga. Photos.
With greater emphasis on effective self-stretching routines, this book provides the reader with information on PNF, or proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation. PNF refers to techniques that improve range of motion, reduce overuse injuries, and facilitate easy assessment of muscle function.
It takes two to tango. But two to yoga? Absolutely! "Lover's Yoga" shows how easy it is for couples to indulge in nurturing, soothing partner exercises to relax, rejuvenate and create deep, lasting bonds. Written by the celebrated author of "Office Yoga", this handbook outlines 60 surprisingly simple stretches along with a host of meditations and ...
Improper muscle preparation prior to exercise is the most common cause of acute pain, strain, and permanent damage. Many of these injuries are preventable with proper lower extremity stretching. This book addresses the need for warm-up exercises, analyzes the stretching process, and illustrates anatomy and basic biomechanics. Myths associated with ...
Combining stretching exercises and massage therapy, pain management specialist Dr. Ava Frick teaches horse owners to understand muscle tone and overall equine health. Her new book is divided into chapters focusing on each part of the horse's body: The Head, the Neck, the Shoulder and Front Legs, the Belly and Back, and the Hindquarters and Hind ...
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