Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #920625 in Books
• Published on: 1989-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Customer Reviews

Useful guide to stretching
Being interested in the martial arts I have a desire to be as flexible as possible and this is what made me buy this book. I guess when I saw the "complete" guide to stretching I was hoping for some secret formula to make me flexible within weeks - and thus I was inevitably disappointed when I started to read the book. This is because a lot of the book described stuff I knew about from practising martial arts. There were bits of interesting information, theories and ideas in the introductory 9 pages (which I would have enjoyed more of), but the majority was made up of his stretching routine. This would be a good book for beginners who have little or no idea where to start when stretching. It can also be used as the basis of a decent exercise routine and can be followed as a helpful reminder so that you do not forget some stretches. However, it is not a miracle cure to inflexibility, but it does set out an answer to it involving time and effort. This is a decent book on a rarely documented subject with the potential to help people in any sports, and definitely worth a look, however, it contains no surprises and is more of a textbook to stretching rather than a complete guide.

GOOD FOR THE BEGINNERS
this book is ideal for todays martial artist at the beginner stage but for the more advanced student this book is very much useless. jean frenette knows what he is talking about when doing the stretches but there is no explanation of how to get the full mobility out of the stretches. if he went into more depth then the book will be better. overall good book for the beginners.