Stretching
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Anderson ongoing running and cycling during the salad days of the fitness boom, when the goal was simply to go farther and farther. No one knew what all persons miles would do for a body–or do to a body. One day he realized he could barely reach past his knees while sitting on the floor in a straight-legged position. His forceful muscles thus revealed, he started a lifelong quest to figure out the secrets of flexibility.
His main discovery–and his core message to readers–is this: “Stretching feels excellent when done correctly,” he writes. “You do not have to push limits or attempt to go further each day. It should not be a personal contest to see how far you can stretch.”
The world of sports may have shifted away from Anderson’s style of “static” stretching–holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds or longer–but in the everyday world, it’s still considered the safest and simplest way for people to become more flexible.
The key to successful stretching, Anderson says, is not trying to do too much. “It’s better to understretch than overstretch,” he writes. The point of flexibility exercise, after all, is to protect yourself from injury or immobility. The worst thing you can do is hurt and ultimately immobilize yourself while trying to prevent persons consequences.
Stretching contains hundreds of exercises, simply and clearly drawn by Jean Anderson, the leader’s wife. (In an eccentric twist, most of the facts in the drawings are shown wearing wool hats, which Mrs. Anderson designs and sells.) Routines are shown for getting up in the morning, for before and after walking or sitting, and for watching TV. Sport-point routines include programs for weight training, basketball, golf, running, and many others. All are simple, safe, and as simple as you’re willing to let them be. –Lou Schuler
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I was not that impressed by this book. The book is overrated; it needs a lot of improvement. I got nowhere with it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This method of stretching is not the best way to get flexible and relieve pain or whatever you’re trying to do. It is about relaxed stretching, the actual lengthening of your muscles. Everyone is already capable of doing the splits, their body just doesn’t know it yet(your muscles are plenty long enough already). You do not need to stretch anything. You must make your nervous system judge it’s safe to go into that new position. It is also treacherous because it messes with your stretch reflex. Check out Pavel Tsatsouline’s book Beyond Stretching. This Russian knows much more than Bob. Trust me.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Well I really want to review this book, it seemed brilliant and I had heard really fantastic things about it – even from my gym instructors.
But after over a month I still havent received and now I have to haggle with Amazon about it. Boo !
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Just as described and received in a timely manner. Thanks
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Whether you start with the Book of Genesis or the Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, we humans have long loved tales about making a new world–or building one from scratch. Lloyd Kahn’s new book, Builders of the Pacific Coast, is primarily an account of builders and hand-crafted structures dating from the 60s to the 80s. Yet the rugged coastal setting of his odyssey–a blue and green world from Point Reyes Peninsula to Vancouver Island–invokes a simpler, more pristine time, an Eden of sorts. When forests grew down to the sea, building codes were few, lumber was plentiful (regularly free) and anyone with skill, a strong back and the courage to try could make something gorgeous and enduring.
On every page of this book is something shocking and delightful. A boat with legs. A roof like a leaf. A caravan with eyes. A split-cedar woodshed shaped like a bird. Stair rails so sinuous and snakey they might come to life and grab you. Sculpted planet walls. Round windows and arched doors. Roofs bent like seagull wings. Grottos choked with ferns and flowers.
Not that there’s any shortage of creatures and fantastical characters. Just off-camera lurk orcas, eagles and bears. And then there are the builders themselves. There hasn’t been a cast of characters this colorful since Ken Kesey packed up his Underwood.
Builders of the Pacific Coast rolls on, mile after mile, in an odyssey so firsthand and plain that you feel every rut in the road. And come to know, as Lloyd Kahn did, the soul of the place. The strong hands and huge hearts of the people, the staggering plenty of the land and sea, the leaping joy that such a place still exists.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5