FitnessProsBooks.com - Stretch and Strengthen for Rehabilitation and Development

	List Price: $7.95 Our Price: $7.95 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Stretching, Incorporated
Average Customer Rating:
Binding: Spiral-bound EAN: 9780960106622 ISBN: 0960106626 Label: Stretching, Incorporated Manufacturer: Stretching, Incorporated Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 89 Publication Date: 1984-08-01 Publisher: Stretching, Incorporated Studio: Stretching, Incorporated
Accessories Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
Related Items Stretching, 20th Anniversary Revised Edition The American Physical Therapy Association Book of Body Maintenance and Repair Get Fit While You Sit: Easy Workouts for the Young at Heart Stretching in the Office Get Fit in Bed: Tone Your Body & Calm Your Mind from the Comfort of Your Bed
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Stretch and Strengthen for Rehab Comment: As a yoga teacher for Seniors, I found this book very helpful since many of my students are only able to do exercises in a chair. I had used many of the exercises already and my students love them. I think its very important to add resistance training to every exercise program, especially our seniors. I purchased flexbands and my seniors love using them. This is a great reference book for anyone who teaches exercises for rehab or seniors. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent all the way round. Comment: A friend, from eBay no less, first told me about Bob Andersen and his books on stretching and exercise. Since that time I have acquired four of his texts and a video. Why? Because his well written books and the superb video have given me my active life back to me. I would not consider starting my day without doing a 30 minute regimen of stretching exercises that he refers to as the essential daily stretches. I'm 61 and lead a moderately active life. But a couple of years ago I noticed I was having more pains in my feet, joints and back than normal. My range of motion was decreasing and before I knew it, normal motion of bending and stooping or getting in and out of a car was becoming difficult for me. Along came the friend's recommendation on Bob Andersen and I was very skeptical. Before the week was out, the pains were gone. I was no longer limping as I walked from my car to my job, I could go up and downstairs as I had always done, not one step for two feet at a time. The rotation in my lower back and torso has been greatly extended so that I'm looking forward to playing golf once more. His advice is very simple, concise and easy to understand. He has made my life much more enjoyable and I'm grateful for these books and the video. I can't recommend him enough for anyone of any age who wants to stay fit or is interested in stretching and its benefits which are many. Customer Rating: Summary: Extremely clear illustrations and instructions Comment: This very small spiral bound book lies flat while you are trying to use it. The illustrations are clear and the instructions for the various stretches are clear as well. The exercises look accessible to anyone who can sit up in a chair, but as with any exercise book you need to be careful. Customer Rating: Summary: Getting fit is hard when you sit Comment: As a wheelchair user, I use my muscles differently than the able bodied person so an exercise book geared for the able bodied is usually not useful to me. I found this book to be very helpful, with the use of theraband exercise aids (those long, stretchy neon colored things you've all seen) I can work out specific muscle groups and areas of my body as I need. A large number of the exercises can be done in a seated position. The line drawings are clear and very helpful. This would be a good book for anyone, able bodied or not who wants to ease into fitness following an injury, surgery, or just years of couch potato life. The spiral binding made it easy to keep the book open in front of my while doing the stretches. This is a very practical consideration usually overlooked by writers of exercise manuals. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: This book instructs the disabled and elderly in simple stretch and strengthening exercises appropriate for individual rehabilitation and development programs. The strengthening exercises are done with an Iso-Band (resistive cord). 3-5 stretches are given for each strengthening exercise for 29 generically and medically described muscles/body areas listed.