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"Stretching with Ease" is a user-friendly, fully illustrated instructional manual for creating your perfect personal stretching program.Why should I stretch? What muscles should I stretch? How will it help me? You’ll find the answers to these questions and much more in Stretching with Ease. Discover the many ways you can work with your body to assist it to be fluid and flexible. Your body is built for movement and with stretching and flexibility training you increase both your ease of movement and life quality. Fitness expert Linda Minarik takes you from the basics and benefits of stretching, to all you need to know to make stretching a lifelong habit. Part I offers the important background information necessary before you begin to stretch, including using the tool of breathing. Part II provides clear directions for 76 essential stretches that target different muscle groups—they can all be easily done at home without any special equipment. Along with detailed instructions and helpful tips, each stretch includes a color photograph with an anatomical illustration so you can actually see inside the stretch. This visual reference enhances your understanding and practice of the movement. Part III has effective step-by-step stretch routines to accomplish different goals, such as relieving tension, stiffness or pain, and preparing for various daily activities and sports. Part IV offers invaluable resources to enrich your flexibility experience, including useful lifestyle tips and how to create your own routines. Stretching with Ease offers the practical guidance and supportive encouragement you need to develop a body that moves easily—and loves to move!
A beautifully structured book, covering everything from "Why stretch?" to individual stretches to stretching sequences, all the way to developing your own stretching routines, with logical, direct language that seamlessly takes you from one part of the book to the next without confusing or overwhelming. References to other pages or parts of the book that complement the section being read are specific and extremely useful. As someone who has learned about physical movement in dance classes and is always interested in the "doing" of something but not always clear as to the "why," I am thrilled that Linda puts it all together, filling in the "gaps" of my knowledge with words that improve understanding, and ultimately inspire one to pursue the improvement of the physical self. The benefits of stretching are described in Part 1; benefit 2 contained such a beautifully simple and classic example that I knew by page 17 that this book was going to be invaluable to me.
