FitnessProsBooks.com - Beyond Stretching : Russian Flexibility Breakthroughs
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List Price: $34.95
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Manufacturer: Dragon Door Publications
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780938045182
ISBN: 0938045180
Label: Dragon Door Publications
Manufacturer: Dragon Door Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 154
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
Publisher: Dragon Door Publications
Studio: Dragon Door Publications
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Customer Rating:
Summary: One Radical Tip > Generic, Cheap Books
Comment: I got this book for $5 from a bookstore. This book has several core tips on training flexibility that differ greatly from mainstream flexibility training.
For instance, he notes that stretching the legs by just pure relaxation will only produce weak kicks. This surprised me since I had always thought that stretching would be to relax as much as possible to achieve the greatest range of motion.
Apparently, pure relaxation stretching does not allow the leg to develop the muscles that have this range of motion. Therefore, the leg won't be able to kick nearly as much as the stretching distance made.
There were also a few other great tips that allowed me to achieve my full side split, but I thought that contrast contraction was the most important. I would pay $40 any day just for a invigorating, radical tip that I might miss for a lifetime.
PS: This book introduced me to the "Iron Game"(a.k.a strength training). With extensive research, I then corrected my principles of training to be different than that of a modern bodybuilder's; for too long I was accustomed to a modern bodybuilder's principles that had and never will work for hard gainers - people who have trouble even gaining a pound of muscle over the course of a year while eating well structured diets.
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Summary: Best stretching book
Comment: I'll automatically give this book 5 stars because I think the information contained in it is very valuable. When I first read this book a few years ago, I was 6 inches from doing a full side split and couldn't get any further. This book provides powerful contradictory methods that worked very well for me. Within 6 weeks I achieved my first side split. However, it is very tough. Getting down into the splits is inevitably painful and uncomfortable. However, this book teaches you to distinguish between the pain of progress and the pain of injuring yourself. Lots of the former will result in all the flexibility a person could possibly need. I know it sounds like a masochistic pursuit but I've tried lots of flexibilty programs and this is the only one that I would recommend for guaranteed results. He also teaches people how to be flexible all the time which is great for martial artists. Being able to do high kicks is useless unless a person can do them all the time. Real situations don't allow the luxury of a warm up.
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Summary: He makes at least one stretching book or dvd every year.
Comment: Apparently Pavel wants you to believe that: 1/The technology of stretching is constantly evolving...2/ That he is the source for the latest info...,and 3/ That he will continue to make his -own- books obsolete with his future products. He's already put out at least four more items since this, the latest being the 'Loaded Stretching' DVD. Well. Pavel , there's another form of 'loaded stretching'..called -yoga-. Has it come to that after all of the expensive books and tapes you've sold?
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Summary: too expensive for too little information.
Comment: As I stated in the headline... Pavel's books, are way too expensive... When I ordered this book I was expecting a tome of several hundred pages... color photos, well described excersises. I got none of those things. I will say that Pavel's writing is humorous and never boring... but this book is certainly not worth the money. Especially since you can find most, if not all the excersises and techniques from the book online and free.
Customer Rating:
Summary: good
Comment: Heres what Bob Anderson Author of the bestseller stretching had to say about the book.
"Are you ready for pavel? This is a tough, strenous, take no prisoners approach to flexibility and strength. He describes some pretty radical russian techniques for flexibility,strength, circilation and healthy joints. Not for wimps; expensive for a paperback."
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Editorial Reviews:
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Regain the Buoyant Flexibility of a Young Child While Maximizing Your Power and Strength Discover how to develop extreme range strength, the true key to injury prevention. Learn the complete Joint Mobility Training Program, a Russian system for improving your joints1 health, even when damaged by arthritis. o Discover Russia1s most advanced method of Plyometric Flexibility Training speed-specific flexibility. Discover how to display maximal flexibility without a warm-up. o Discover a unique technique to immediately boost your strength and explosiveness giving you the edge over your competition, the first time you use it. Learn a Soviet commando exercise that enables you to have maximal speed in your kicks even at the limit of your flexibility and a unique method for strengthening the knee ligaments, for faster and safer kicking. Discover why the stretches you have been doing compromise your strength, and what Russian weight lifters do instead. Discover three special stretching techniques that build super strength by manipulating your feedback loop, the same thing that enables desperate mothers to lift cars off their children! Learn how much flexibility you really need and how to develop it in a fraction of the time you spend stretching today. Learn to wake up your proprioceptors in a hurry for a vibrant start to the day and to stop feeling like the Tin Man when you get up in the morning. o Learn techniques to increase blood flow to your joints, lubricate them and keep their surfaces smooth and healthy, for pain-free, easy movement on a daily basis. Learn the difference between plyometric and dynamic stretching when to use the one, when to use the other for optimal gains.
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