SCIENCE OF STRETCH: Reach Your Flexible Potential

Alleviate stiff joints with around 100 exercises designed to keep you flexible, energised and active. Pain and stiffness can create fear and uncertainty in our ability to move, affecting quality of life. Exercise has continuously proven to be beneficial against disease, yet people are becoming increasingly more sedentary. This large, flexibound book has huge anatomical drawings of our physiology and mechanics of movement, the musculoskeletal and nervous systems and gives us a better understanding of brain and pain science. Throughout its spotlight is on stretching and benefits at every age, muscle chains and groupings, the nature and theories of pain, and the importance of breathing. There is a step-by-step guide arranged by body area, even your wrists, to help you improve your flexibility without fear of strain or injury. The trunk and neck are the most mobile regions which can become painful with overuse and can hold tension for a variety of reasons. Here are gentle exercises to reduce tension in the four suboccipital muscles located at the base of the skull. The chin tuck stretches these targets. Side stretches, seated or standing, shoulder, arm and hand exercises, hips, leg and foot exercises, nerve mobility exercises plus routines for older adults, swimmers, cyclists and more. 85 essential stretch exercises with annotated artworks demonstrate the correct muscle actions, angles and alignments. This is a one-of-a-kind fabulous addition to every healthy bookcase. 224pp, flexibound 20 x 24cm, first time discounted.
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