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Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Kurz
Publisher: Stadion Pub
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 17931
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4 Rev Upd
Pages: 214
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0940149451
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7182
EAN: 9780940149458
ASIN: 0940149451
Publication Date: March 2003
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 Stretching Scientifically February 9, 2008
R. Sedgewick (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is very useful and well set out so enable anyone who doesnt know anything about stretching to learn any understand the muscle physiology. As a physio, I also found it useful because towards the end it goes into quite a lot of detail although the general athlete 1. will probably get confused at this point, and 2. doesnt really need this much detail.
I thought this book was awesome until I reached the last few chapters when I often began to think tom should maybe get his head out of his ass. he is very big headed and boasts thinking he knows more and is better than anyone else. fair enough I can cope with this, but he steps over the line when he makes derogatory comments about martial artists because they use different stretches to what he recommends. be warned that if you are one of these then the comments such as "ignorant instructors" and "morons" are likely to be found offensive. surely the reason we read the book is to learn and improve the techniques we use. if we already did everything 'perfectly' then we would not be reading his book so i feel it is out of order for him to slag us off like he does.
I would give the book 5* for the content on stretching but tom kurz's attitude just ruins the book.
great book August 13, 2007
Rumplestiltskin (Uranus)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book back in the mid nineties... and got it nicked off me before I even got halfway through it... that's how good it is.
Now I'm gunna have to get another.
 Over complicated - not as simple as it could be May 25, 2007
stretchingthemind
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Good in depth book but the author likes to dazzle with complicated explainations of what is really a simple process. Even though Pavel T books are more expensive (get them from marketplace) they explain things in simple terms. To do the splits in surprisngly easy once you know how and I purchased this book for reference as I can already do them. Personally it is just a little too complicated and over blown when simplicity would have been the order of the day.
Hard Work October 31, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Was initially delighted to have been given this book to complement my gym sessions. Knowing it would be technical, I was happily ready for a 'heavy' read. Sadly, you need to be an athlete already familiar with the terminology who has been getting it wrong/wants to get it 'more right' to really profit from this publication. For a committed, articulate and determined non-athlete who realises stretching is necessary, it may well find you wishing you had not ventured into becoming better informed. The different stretching categories are skimmed over and, shared terminology and lack of corresponding illustrations/examples compound the problem. You are left feeling that you had better decide which professional sport you are going to take up before you proceed. I persevered and was enthused to read about the benefits of a morning stretch - but lack of examples and routine left me feeling frustrated and desperately trying to imagine what this might entail - you then find yourself flicking around the book to find examples and all sequence and progression goes out the window. I have no doubt this is a brilliant publication for those in the 'know' - for those who want the 'know', it's a challenge to get the know-ledge.
 Flex to the Max May 4, 2003
Barry Monks (Manchester, Lancs United Kingdom)
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
Revealing some secrets of Eastern European training techniques (remember their Olympic triumphs), Thomas Kurz brings you them from the personal perspective of both athlete and qualified coach. Starting with the theory on muscle make-up and why some people are fast and others can run forever, you also learn to test your own maximum flexibility. Kurz then moves on to the four types of stretching - fully explained with photo examples - and which one or combination will suit you and your sport best, and how to arrange a training program.Included is instruction on how to, and how often, to stretch, and which exercises to avoid as they are detrimental to maximum flexibility, as well as how one quick set of exercises in the morning will maintain your maximum flexibility throughout the day, by teaching the brain and muscles that capability so they automatically remember it. And best of all - the author states his method, if followed correctly, will help you reach your maximum flexibility within one month. As a martial artist I found the information in this book gave me an immediate improvement, without the pain for gain principles usually expected from normal stretching methods in that sport.
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