Stretching at Your Computer or Desk [Paperback]

Bob Anderson (Author), Jean Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997

The perfect book to keep on your desk at work. A lot of valuable information is contained in this thin (100 page) book, which also contains plenty of helpful illustrations. The stretches are brief, designed to be carried out when you have a few moments during the day, not in a long athletic stretching session. Instead of organizing stretches by the area of your body, the first part of the book illustrates stretches you can do at different times when you're working - sitting at your desk, standing at the photocopy machine, talking on the phone. The author suggests that you photocopy the pages and keep them around the office so you can use them more effectively! Then each stretch is described in more detail in the back section. The stretches here are more than just the basics, the hand and back stretches are especially detailed and extensive. There is also a good description of how to avoid strain injuries through both stretching and ergonomic principles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Shelter Pubns (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936070196
• ISBN-13: 978-0936070193
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,419,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Health/Fitness tools for the desk & computer worker, January 9, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Stretching at Your Computer or Desk (Paperback)

Unlike many fitness titles, this book promotes stretchingroutines to be done _at one's job_; the illustrations usepeople in office clothes, sitting in office chairs or standing by copy machines, and the routines have titles like "stretches" for Keyboard Operators", "Office Meeting Stretches", "On-the- phone Stretches", etc. The rationale and technique for stretching are quickly introduced in the 1st 8 pages, but there's great additional resources to dig into later in the book too. If every office had a copy to check out, there'd be fewer computer-related ailments.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars extra credit to the author for providing reminder software, December 6, 1998

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Kevin Morris Marler (Allen, Texas USA http://oorad.com) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stretching at Your Computer or Desk (Paperback)

Books are transforming into proactive reminders! Where in the past books could sit on the shelf and be ignored, authors like Bob Anderson are combining their books with proactive PC software, StretchWare. The book, Strethching at Your Computer or Desk, when accompanied with StretchWare wakes up at your desired internval, reminds you to stretch, and presents you with a routine. Its time that Amazon starts offering the software along with the book. Authors like Bob Anderson are culture changers! Amazon needs to transform to benefitial culture changes like StretchWare. Publishing in changing, books are becoming interactive, proactive knowledge agents.