Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48189 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 214 pages

Customer Reviews

Stretching Scientifically
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
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
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.