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The Genius of Flexibility: The Smart Way to Stretch and Strengthen Your Body
by
Bob Cooley
<CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1">Something The World Hasn't Yet Seen -- You Can Forever Be More Flexible.
The Technique: RESISTANCE STRETCHING® offers immediate, cumulative, and permanent increases in flexibility, takes the pain out of stretching, and protects you from injuring yourself by overstretching.
The Program: THE MERIDIAN FLEXIBILITY SYSTEM® pr
...morePaperback, 320 pages
Published
December 1st 2009
by Fireside
(first published September 6th 2005)
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Bought it because I borrowed it from the library but didn't what to give it back! I also bought a copy for my brother who is a professional, world-class triathlete. The author has worked with many pro athletes, and I thought that this book could give my brother another edge.
Perhaps nothing revolutionary for the advanced yoga practitioner or the qualified physiotherapist, however this book makes makes this stuff so accessible to the layman. The simple instructions really provide the key...more
Perhaps nothing revolutionary for the advanced yoga practitioner or the qualified physiotherapist, however this book makes makes this stuff so accessible to the layman. The simple instructions really provide the key...more
This book is an awful attempt to share some really wonderful ideas about how to train the body more intelligently while simultaneously increasing self-awareness. Unfortunately the valuable aspects of this work are easily lost in the annoyingly superficial, self-promotional, new age tone that is incorporated throughout. If you can get past that and find the substance underneath, then you can discover some really exciting concepts underlying this approach to physical training. Worth reading only i...more
If you're into fitness and/or overall wellness, this is a great book. Bob Cooley has developed a stretching & flexibility program that defies everything I thought I knew about stretches, and following it has produced some pretty amazing, immediate results! Beyond extended flexibility, it also shows how resistance stretching can help build some amazing muscle strength, no gym or weights required. A must-read for anybody into fitness.
Okay, of course this can't be described as entertaining, but I really did learn (and relearn) a lot! Good for anyone that feels as if they are getting old and stiff like me!
Inspiring story; poor structure - don't get if you are looking for results
I skipped over the spritual become one with the universe stuff, which may be fine for some people, but makes my skin crawl. I'm hoping the resistance stretching doesn't make me feel like I'm exercising, because if it does, there is a 95% chance I will never do it again.
Yup, feels like exercise.
Yup, feels like exercise.
I was very inspired by the authors story - how he created his method to heal himself after being hit by a car, but I found the directions for "stretching" unclear to say the least.
Cooley's claims that everyone loves his method and has immeadiate results didn't hold up, in the print version anyway. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that it could be as great as he says if learned in person.
Cooley's claims that everyone loves his method and has immeadiate results didn't hold up, in the print version anyway. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that it could be as great as he says if learned in person.
Just when I didn't think I could ever be flexible, wow...
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