Stretching Scientifically
High Kicks and Splits with No Warm-Up! No Partner or Equipment Needed!

by Thomas Kurz
The world's foremost expert on flexibility and stretching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Softcover 214 pages
ISBN: 0-940149-45-1
$25.99

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Use our method to attain maximum height in your kicks and to be able to kick at that height with no warm-up! Learn:

• How to stretch safely and quickly to achieve and maintain your maximum flexibility
• How to make your muscles grow stronger and longer so you stay flexible all the time
• How to do splits even if you are over 40 or 50
• How to kick high and do splits with no warm-up
• How to develop each of the three kinds of flexibility—dynamic, static active and static passive—to suit every athlete's needs
• What exercises are “no-no's” if you want to stretch your muscles
• All the factors limiting flexibility
• Brilliantly simple tests of hip joint mobility and muscle length that dispel common misconceptions of what limits flexibility the most

Table of Contents

• Introduction - Getting the Most Out of This Book
• Flexibility in Sports
  • Injury prevention and flexibility.
• How to Stretch.
  • Methods of stretching
  • Early morning stretching
  • Stretching in your workou
  • The use of partners in stretching
  • Children and flexibility training
  • The elderly and flexibility training
• Dynamic Stretching
  • Arms
  • Legs
  • Trunk
• Static Active Flexibility Exercise
• Isometric Stretching
  • When you are not ready for isometrics
  • When you are ready
  • How to select your stretches
  • Neck
  • Forearm
  • Arms, shoulders, chest
  • Legs
  • Stretches leading to the side split
  • Stretches leading to the front split
  • Splits and high kicks
  • Trunk
  • Recap
• Relaxed Stretching
  • Neck
  • Forearm
  • Arms, shoulders, chest
  • Legs
  • Stretches leading to the side split
  • Stretches leading to the front split
  • Trunk
• Sample Workout Plans
• All the Whys of Stretching.
  • Anatomy, physiology, and flexibility
  • Tests of flexibility potential
  • Practical conclusions for sports training
  • Recap
• Questions and Answers on Stretching
  • Does This Method Really Work? And How?
  • Body Alignment for Hip Stretches
  • Dynamic Stretches and Morning Stretch
  • What and When
  • Stretching in Workouts for Various Sports
  • Flexibility and Other Athletic Abilities
  • Age and Stretching
  • Gender and Stretching.
  • Sounds in and around Joints
  • Pain or Soreness and Stretching.
  • Injuries and Stretching
  • No Success
  • Impatience
  • Stretching Machines and Other Strange Practices.
  • Other
• Appendix A: Hip Joint and Shoulder Joint.
• Appendix B: Normal Range of Joint Motion.
• Bibliography
• Index.

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Testimonials

“This book is useful to athletes, instructors, and coaches. It provides them with with information how to test potential flexibility, how to choose [a] stretching method, and how to have full flexibility ... even without a warm-up.”

— WTF Taekwondo
Summer 1998

“[Kurz] explains the scientific basis of stretching in agonizing detail. The best parts of the book, however, are the exercise routines. While they are unconventional, they work. [...] Many notable martial artists swear by these methods.”

— Martial Arts Training
September 1997

“I'm sure you get messages like this all the time, but I had to write and thank you for the knowledge that you have shared with me. I have bought both Secrets of Stretching and Stretching Scientifically, both of which have given me the knowledge and ability to do a side split. I worked for YEARS and did not get good results until trying your method. I don't know why I waited so long to use what was right at my fingertips! I have followed your instructions to the letter and have made superhuman gains in months. Again, thanks for the high kicks without warm-ups and the ability to do a side split.”

—Raymond Yorek
Mancato, Minnesota

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