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Get an inside view of the muscles in action during every stretch you perform! "Delavier's Stretching Anatomy" is your guide for increasing flexibility, improving range of motion, toning muscles, and relieving pain and discomfort. The very best stretches for shoulders, chest, arms, torso, back, hips, and legs are all here, and all in the stunning detail that only Frederic Delavier can provide. With over 550 full-color photos and illustrations, you'll go inside more than 130 exercises to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations, progressions, and sequencing can affect muscle recruitment, the underlying structures, and ultimately the results. "Delavier's Stretching Anatomy" includes 13 proven programs for increasing muscle tone, releasing tension and stress, and optimizing training and performance in 13 sports, including running, cycling, basketball, soccer, golf, and track and field.The former editor in chief of "PowerMag" in France, author and illustrator Frederic Delavier is a journalist for "Le Monde du" "Muscle" and a contributor to "Men's Health Germany "and several other strength publications. His previous publications, "Strength Training Anatomy "and "Women's Strength Training Anatomy, " have sold more than 2 million copies.Author description
Frederic Delavier is a gifted artist with an exceptional knowledge of human anatomy. He studied morphology and anatomy for five years at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Jean-Pierre Clemenceau is a fitness coach to the stars and has trained numerous French celebrities using an approach based on positioning and breathing. Michael Gundill has written 13 books on strength training, sport nutrition and health including co-authoring The Strength Training Anatomy Workout.Table of contents
Chapter 1. Learn How to Breathe!; Chapter 2. Why Athletes Should Stretch; Chapter 3. Stretches for the Neck; Chapter 4. Stretches for the Shoulders and Chest; Chapter 5. Stretches for the Arms and Forearms; Chapter 6. Stretches for the Lateral Flexor Muscles in the Torso.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9781450413985
- : Human Kinetics Publishers
- : Human Kinetics Publishers
- : October 2011
- : 254mm X 178mm X 10mm
- : United States
- : January 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 311 illustrations, 253 photographs
- : 144
- : 611.73
- : Paperback
- : Frederic Delavier
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