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Summary: the best of its kind
Review: As a sufferer of chronic back pain for the last two decades, I can tell you that this book has changed my life. I have searched high a low for an optimal routine to keep my back working. While there were many programs that would help, I never could quite get the last ache and weakness out of my lower back. Until I tried this book, the best routine I had found was Laughlin's back pain book. This book has done wonders for my back and my general flexibility. It is more complete than its competitors. I would love to take the course that the book is based on. Try it; you'll like it.
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Summary: Awesome and informative....
Review: Challenging and safety conscious......if you follow the instructions.....flexibility and strength will ensue! Beats ANY Pavel Tsatsouline book in format, information and pictures!
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Summary: These stretches really work!
Review: Excellent book with challenging stretchs. Only one problem, the book had so many stretchs that you would have to have a while to get all of them done. Good for anyone who wants to increase flexibilty.
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Summary: Interesting to read once but not an investment item
Review: I am a Pilates instructor. Although I am familiar with a lot of stretches due to my dance background, I wanted to find a book that gave me more ideas and could act as a reference book. This book repeats many of the same stretches. I don't think it has enough pictures for the user to follow along with the instructions. I tried two of the neck and shoulder stretches on my clients and they didn't find them helpful and neither did I.
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Summary: Very Detailed and not for the illiterate
Review: I have had this book for 5 weeks and can tell you that it is an effective means of increasing your range by informing you what proper stretching is all about. My guess about the people who didn't like this book is that they are use to the "Stretching for Dummies" type writing style where they can open the book, assume a position, and get busy. This is not that type of book. I suspect that people of that nature will never benefit from any stretching book as stretching requires diligence, determination, and patience, all three of which the negative reviewers seem to lack.
That being said, I have gained greatly in some areas and not so much in other areas. Having done both yoga and pilates I know enough to know that it is probably related to my technique. Nonetheless, this is the optimum book for stretching as I have own Pavel's, Wharton's, and others.
On top of everthing else I have said, Kit has a website with a discussion board where you can ask questions and Kit, along with others, will answer.
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Summary: Best book on improving flexibility that I own
Review: I have some flexibility books, and I think this one is the best. The descriptions of all stretches are very detailed. For each of them there are good photographs (not only the final positions) and for most there are alternatives depending on your current flexibility and physical proportions. In no other stretching book have I seen such attention to detail as in this one.
If your goal is to improve general flexibility I would definitely recommend this book. If the reason you considered acquiring it is to help with back or neck pain, I would recommend instead "Overcome Neck & Back Pain" by the same author (several specific stretching and strengthening exercises for that conditions and also a very good self-diagnosis chapter on the possible causes of the pain.)
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Summary: Its really good
Review: I originally gave this a three star review but on further reading I have to say I was wrong. This is an intensely detailed and very thorough book. I was a little put off by it at first but I see now that it is necessary for all the detail. The exercises are very effective. Just take it slow. This book is the real deal.
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Summary: Fine, if you have a partner.
Review: I received this book very excited about possibly finding a great stretch book that would help in flexibility. I suppose I was looking for a more simple book of stretches, which this is not.
There are 96 stretches through 269 pages of book. And if you don't have a partner to help in stretching(which I do not), you may as well cut out half of those stretches. There is a few good stretches in here, but most I already knew. I suppose I would conclude this by saying that if you are looking for an easy to understand stretch guide without all the jargon and more one-person stretches, then this book is definitely not for you.
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Summary: These stretches really work!
Review: My daughter is a competitive gymnast who struggled for quite a while with very limited shoulder flexibility. It got to the point where she was ready to quit gymnastics because of this. After working the complete set of shoulder stretches in this book for the last 6 months, her shoulder flexibility has improved tremendously and she is able to do all of the skills required for competitive gymnastics with ease. You would never know she struggled with shoulder flexibility! Thanks Mr. Laughlin!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Not only an excellent book on stretching but an even better template on what a "how to" guide should include: photographs (from different angles), thorough explanations, without filler. It includes beginner, intermediate, and advanced in one volume, rather than "spreading" them across three or four books. That, to me, demonstrates a great deal of integrity on the authors' part. There are partner exercises as well as individual exercises for each muscle group. I would place Stuart McRobert's Insider's Guide to Weight Training in the same category. Solid, user friendly, and thorough work.
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