Flexibility Manual

THE FLEXIBILITY MANUAL, a companion of the video FLEXIBILITY SETS YOU FREE, focuses on the universal necessity of maintaining one's physical mobility. ("Motion is life,"--Hippocrates, 460-377 BC). It presents a safe method of stretching compatible with the normal mechanisms of the body instead of opposing them as do current traditional methods. Photographs & illustrations explain & guide one, regardless of age, through total body stretching. Procedures are self-limiting, i.e., safe for both the sedentary & athletic individual because force & its adverse effects are avoided. This is explained in text discussion of motion & other characteristics of muscle tissue if the reader is so inclined. The 23 exercises are in a progressive sequence & easily learned. The final section is directed toward group instruction with illustrated cues & running commentary for the instructor. It may also be followed on an individual basis. The authors, physical therapists, have developed programs over the past 21 years for prevention of athletic injuries through total fitness & for the health benefits of regular exercise regardless of one's age or existing level of activity. The message: "Health, as life itself, is sustained by motion. Loss of physical mobility is not a normal result of the aging process but of neglect.Peters, Jean M. is the author of 'Flexibility Manual' with ISBN 9780963389602 and ISBN 0963389602.