Product Details

• Actors: Bob Anderson
• Directors: Bob Anderson
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Leo Aitken Prod., Inc.
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1987
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0960106634
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,263 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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You know you should stretch, but do you know how and why? "We all have one thing in common: tightness and stiffness," says instructor Bob Anderson, also author of the book Stretching. Anderson has been the guru of stretching for decades, introducing flexibility training as a systematic practice to millions of exercisers. This 1987 video is timeless. First Anderson teaches you how to stretch in general. "You don't have to be flexible to stretch correctly," he says. You just go to the point where you "feel it, but it doesn't hurt." Next you learn a series of stretches that reduce stiffness, tension, and back pain; help you perform sports better; reduce injuries; and help you look and feel better. The routine is organized into stretches for particular body parts, then a 14-minute overall routine for everyday fitness and following sports activities. This is more an instructional video than a workout. Each stretch is carefully explained, with plenty of attention to correct body position and technique. Anderson demonstrates stretches with another man and a woman. No one in this video is a spring chicken or a contortionist, conveying that these are stretches for the rest of us. No music, no glitz--just stretching, well taught. --Joan Price

Product Description

By popular demand, Bob and Jean Anderson bring you Stretching, The Video. It features Bob Anderson and is a video that offers people daily stretching with a simple, safe format. The 57 minute video is organized into six comfortably paced sections: a brief introduction, stretches for the neck and back, then legs and hips, followed by stretches for the feet and then arms and shoulders. The tape concludes with a 14 minute overall series of stretches that can be followed for everyday fitness or for a specific sport or activity.

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73 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stretching, January 7, 2000

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Joey DuPuis (San Antonio, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stretching: The Video [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm a 4th gup in Tang Soo Do and was looking for some help in the stretching area. This video did not come through. The instructor does an excellent job of walking you through lots of different stretches and the proper technique and then falls extremely short on the actual application part. His "daily stretching routine" was nothing more than what I learned from my P.E. coach in junior high.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not much examples to do, November 19, 2002

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This review is from: Stretching: The Video [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've already had the Stretching by Anderson book and I thought it would be
the nice idea to follow up the instructor. However, the tape came out to be much
less that I've expected, based on the book. The introductory to stretching is too long
even for the beginners and the most frustrating part, there is not much examples to
follow up even for the basic daily routine .
Also I've expected it appearance to be done much more professional.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars video is the essence of the book, August 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Stretching: The Video [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is very concise and shows that the stretches are simple and uncomplicated. It aids the use of the book, best of all worlds. I have recommended the book as a physician for some time, and have had little obedience. Due to its lack of patient complience,since I have added the video its more acceptable. It is really the basic tool for a spinal-musculo-skeletal preparation of patients for their rehab-response to the ministrations of their Manual medicine practioners. There is no magic treatment or pill or device it is co-operation and self care that really effectuates the pain-free functional body existence. You must do the most care of your problem! Who else knows it intimately, take charge forget medicine and insurence problems do self management and get the best caretaker!!You!