The Essential Guide to Stretching

By Chrissie Gallagher-Mundy

Chrissie Gallagher-Mundy's stretching program will help you ???keep your muscles and joints mobile and flexible, reducing the risk of injury during exercise; ???improve your posture and physical alignment, easing back pain and avoiding stiffness; ???relax and unwind, relieving muscle tension and soothing aching joints. You'll find ???charts to help you determine your level of flexibility; ???programs to follow, such as the "Morning Wake-Up Routine"; ???exercises for each body part; ???warm-ups and cool-downs for different sports, from swimming to skiing, golf to gymnastics; ???routines for stretching with a partner; ???the latest techniques, from PFN stretching, which uses muscle contractions to "trick" your body??into deeper stretches, to ballistic stretching, which prepares the body for more active exercises.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517887754
• ISBN13: 9780517887752
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.7" x 10.3"

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After reviewing the copy of The Essential Guide to Stretching, I was very pleased to convey my opinion of this book as an educational and motivational tool geared toward youth athletes. The pictorials were very good in demonstration.