Relax into Stretch: Instant Flexibility through Mastering Muscle Tension

Book Description
Regain the Buoyant Flexibility of a Young Child While Maximizing Your Power and Strength "Conventional stretching attempts to literally elongate your tissues, which is dangerous and ineffective. Relax into Stretch simply teaches your muscles to relax into a stretch. If you compare traditional training to a messy hardware reorganization, then Relax into Stretch is an efficient software upgrade. While stretching tissues may take years, changes in the nervous system are immediate! Your muscles will start noticeably elongating from your first Relax into Stretch practice—and within months you will have achieved a level of flexibility uncommon in our species."—Pavel Tsatsouline —Own an illustrated guide to the thirty-six most effective techniques for super-flexibility —How the secret of mastering your emotions can add immediate inches to your stretch —How to wait out your tension—the surprising key to greater mobility and a better stretch —How to fool your reflexes into giving you all the stretch you want —Why contract-relax stretching is 267% more effective than conventional relaxed stretching —How to breathe your way to greater flexibility —Using the Russian technique of Forced Relaxation as your ultimate stretching weapon —How to stretch when injured—faster, safer ways to heal —Young, old, male, female—learn what stretches are best for you and what stretches to avoid —Why excessive flexibility can be detrimental to athletic performance—and how to determine your real flexibility needs —Plateau-busting strategies for the chronically inflexible


About the Author
Pavel Tsatsouline, Master of Sports, is a former physical taining instructor for the Soviet Special Forces who is now much demand as a strength and endurance trainer for SWAT teams and a nationally recognized presenter of fitness seminars. He is the author of Power to the People! and Bullet-proof Abs.


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Pavel Tsatsouline's Relax Into Stretch: Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension is a superbly illustrated, step-by-step guide through thirty-six effective techniques to achieve physical flexibility of muscle groups and sinews. Pavel shows how to master emotions and thereby adding inches to your stretch; how to wait out tension as the key to greater mobility and a better stretch; how to fool reflexes into increasing the stretch; even effective strategies for the chronically inflexible. Relax Into Stretch is very effective and very highly recommended reading for men and women of all ages and physical conditions seeking to enhance their mobility and flexibility as part of an overall exercise regimen.


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