Even though into my senior years and still do intense workouts six days a week; nevertheless, I have found my age-related problems include a decrease in my flexibility. This is why when I saw this 160-page large format soft cover book (Anatomy of stretching: A guide to increasing your flexibility by Craig Ramsay) on Amazon I purchased it.
As always, the delivery service was fast and efficient. I loved this book from the very first page to the end. This fantastic full color with beautiful photographs and illustrations is a must own for anyone who teaches fitness or is a workout fanatic like me. As someone who used to practice and teach various martial arts and was very flexible at one time, this book really has helped me to do more stretching movements in my daily workouts.
The book covers stretching for a better life, build a stretching routine, the stretching session, which includes from the foot to the head. It also shows partner stretches, pregnancy stretches, office stretches, foam roller stretches extreme challenge stretches, and the quick stretch program. Included in this book is large poster.
This book should be in your personal library as an excellent reference source on flexibility training. I loved it.
Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tactical Principles of the most effective Combative Systems).
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I took this book out from the library as I was tired of buying “anatomy of” type books—stretching, exercise, yoga etc and being extremely disappointed when they arrived because they did not live up to the description provided on amazon or elsewhere. I was pleasantly surprised with this book and it is currently in my top 3 favorite anatomy of stretching books that are in rotation.Here’s why: Unlike any anatomy of stretch book I’ve found it has 2 photo demonstrations for each pose/stretch/posture—(I’ll use these words interchangeably so you know what I’m referring to) and of those 2 photos 1 is an actual person, a fully clothed male in the stretch pose for visual mirroring purposes and the other is a replica illustration of the same man with the specific muscles drawn in and defined surrounding the body. It has the starting position, end position as well as a modification pose. Each step in the stretch is separated and labeled 1,2,3 etc. It also has a few assisted stretches unlike other books.One issue I found was with the instructions, the wording in several of the stretches were a bit hard to follow. For a beginner this may prove difficult to incorporate and understand exactly how to complete the stretch. I felt they could have done a better job with that as this is a very detailed and well thought out book.An added bonus is the extremely large poster of 20 postures and 2 photos of the anterior and posterior muscle anatomy. It is extremely oversized and it isn’t something you would likely hang in your house or workout room because it is that large. You can see from the photo my toes which hopefully helps to emphasize the size. The last 3 photos I posted are of the poster.Another tweak that I would suggest to the author/publisher and to all authors and publishers of these types of books is to change the actual structure of the book and make it be spiral bound because it’s extremely hard to keep the book’s pages open, the book immediately closes unless you hold it open. So if you place it on the floor or on your bed etc there is no way to keep the book open. And you can’t really hold a book while stretching. Seems like a no brainer but it’s a massive oversight for the whole genre of books. It would also be great to have a female version of this book, meaning a female doing the poses. Sometimes seeing someone with a similar body structure can be more helpful with interpretation and replication.Overall this is still in the top 3 of its kind and for the current price on Amazon kind of a steal.
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