Stretching
Scientifically
A Guide To Flexibility Training
by Tom Kurtz, the foremost expert of flexability
and stretching
New & Revised Fourth Edition
This book teaches you how to attain maximum
height in your kicks and to be able to kick
at that height with no warm-up!
You Will Learn:
• How to stretch safely and quickly
to achieve and maintain your maximum flexibility
• How to make your muscles grow stronger and
longer so you stay flexible all the time
• How to do splits even if you are over 40
or 50
• How to kick high and do splits with no warm-up
• How to develop each of the three kinds
of flexibility ”dynamic, static
active and static passive”to
suit every athlete's needs
• What exercises are "no-no's" if
you want to stretch your muscles
• All the factors limiting flexibility
• Brilliantly simple tests of hip joint mobility
and muscle length that dispel common misconceptions
of what limits flexibility the most
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