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Full-Body Flexibility | 
 enlarge | Author: Jay Blahnik
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 228443
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0736041508
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7182
EAN: 9780736041508
ASIN: 0736041508
Publication Date: November 2003
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Book Description
Release unhealthy tension and tightness from your muscles with an advanced stretching system tailored to how you move! The Full-Body Flexibility system blends the best stretching methods from yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and sports training into stretching sequences that -challenge muscles with multiple techniques to attain maximum flexibility,
-strengthen muscles so that they can support the body throughout specific moves in the entire range of motion, and
-balance muscles equally in opposing muscle groups and on both sides of the body. Stretch sequences are organized by body region and by type of movement so that you can quickly find a flexibility workout for performance, specific muscle relief, or recovery; or you can customize a sequence to your own special needs.
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 Pretty Good August 10, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a pretty good book with tons of static and dynamic stretches for all muscle groups. It also contains several different stretching "routines" at the end of the book, which appear valuable.
The content is basic, but thorough, and I learned at least a few new stretches, which is why I bought the book.
My only complaint is that lots of the directions seem to be pretty vague and cryptic.
Pretty solid book.
 more of the same August 2, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
There are no new ideas or stretches here. Although doing these stretches regularly will work - I was looking for something a little more groundbreaking.
 I Use This Book Every Day July 27, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm middle aged and was ordered by my doctor to exercise. I have to stretch to keep my lower back and shoulders and neck loose and to recover from aerobic exercise. The stretches in this book work to keep me flexible and loose. The descriptions are clear. I find the sets of stretches described in the last portion of the book useful: I do the 10-minute series after using the elliptical trainer and do the 20-minute series on my day off from aerobics. The book is inexpensive and you get very good value for the money.
Offering 10, 20, and 40 minute fitness routines; sport-specific sequences; and specialty stretch sequences September 10, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Athletes stretch before and after exercise sessions in order to warm up their muscles, prevent injuries, and cool down after their exertions. Personal trainer and fitness educator Jay Blahnik blends the best of yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and sports training in Full-Body Flexibility to create "user friendly" stretching sequences that anyone can safely use for warm-ups and cool-downs, as well as during the course of performing challenging workouts on their own. Blahnik operates with three key stretching principles in mind: Variety (challenging muscles with multiple techniques to attain maximum flexibility); Strength (ensuring that muscles can support the body throughout the entire range of motion); and Balance (developing equal strength and flexibility in opposing muscle groups on both sides of the human body). Offering 10, 20, and 40 minute fitness routines; sport-specific sequences; and specialty stretch sequences, Full-Body Flexibility is an ideal and recommended introduction for even the most novice of beginners, while also holding much of value for even the more experienced athlete and fitness enthusiast.
Betsy L. Hogan
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simple June 25, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
What can I say. I am not getting paid to write this, but the benefits of this book are immense. I am a 33 year old male, I have always been fairly athletic, but put on a lot of weight over the last three years and in the process have become entirely stiff. I can feel that, for example, in my hip flexors when I go jogging, also my harmstrings feel very tight.
After buying this book you can plunge right into it (except the author asks you to read his forword, which really helps though). There is exercise upon exercise, 8 for harmstrings alone (of course the entire body gets covered in the book. Just happens to be that I am into harmstrings right now).
And it's not that you have to do them all, it doesn't make a difference in the world. You do whatever you want. But some you do laying down, some standing up, some with a chair, etc, so pick whatever you are comfortable with. Some require just holding the stretch for 10 to 30 seconds, some ask to execute a movement 10 to 12 times.
So what is so good about it? Well, just that, the variety, and how incredibly easy everything is.
Example. The "Dynamic Knee Kick".
Stand tall and lift one leg up to hip heigt, keeping the knee bent.
Start: Straigthen the knee.
Finish: Rlease the stretch by bending the knee.
Repeat as a continuous , controlled, fluid sequence 10 to 12 times.
Repeat on the other leg.
Touch a wall or hold on to someting for balance, if necessary.
Then there is a foto that goes with it. THIS is easy to understand and won't waste your time trying to figure it out. This exercise takes up a page and they're ALL like that, in some cases you can read up on the next skill while you are still performing the previous one (after all, sometimes you just stand there).
Man, I have done just the 6 different ones for the neck...and feel rejuvenated. All of them are gentle and even simplistic, but some I really wouldn't have figured out myself. The exercises were on to someting.....something evil in my body.
And it doesn't take any time...let's say, conservatively, 8 minutes for all of them. And of course there are fullbody-workouts in the book that won't make you do 6 different ones for the same muscle group, but for the entire body. But I am not there yet. There is also some andvanced stuff which I haven't done yet, which goes a bit into yoga. As for now, I am content being a lot more flexible than last week.
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