Full-Body Flexibility by Jay Blahnik Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Full-Body Flexibility
Book Review: I am glad I did not listen to the one negative review...
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been looking for a good stretching/yoga book, and came across Full-Body Flexibility and was reading the reviews. I have actually seen Jay speak in person, and so I was compelled to buy it. I was not surprised by the positive reviews, but was very surprised by the negative one because I thought Jay had a lot of interesting things to say about stretching and flexibility in the lecture he presented. I am a personal trainer, and enjoy Jay's approach and philosphies because he keeps things simple and straight-forward. I bought the book, and was very satisfied and impressed, and am baffled by the negative review. The pictures are clear, the instructions are simple, and the entire concept of active or "unassisted" stretching is VERY unique and not found in most books. In addition, Jay's book has great stretching routines at the end that I have found very useful and so have my clients. I have used the routines many times since I bought the book. I have seen Jay speak in person. He is not just a marketer. He is a renowned Trainers with an extensive background in exercise and health education. In fact, he has provided me with useful training information over the years that is often better than the PhDs in the same field. Jay has been a trend-setter in the health club fitness industry for years, and continually clarifies, simplifies and organizes what is often complex information into easy to understand and use exercise protocol that I use every day in my exercise routines with my clients and students. I am not sure what that particular reviewer was looking for in a stretch book, and maybe he never read the the opening section of the book (where much of the interesting information is presented), but I think it is a great book. Easy to read. Clear organized pictures. A variety of stretches. Routines I can use. Not a clinical text book, but not an artsy-fartsy picture book either. Well done...Book Review: No need to look further
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes exercise "books" are tough to follow becuase the pictures don't move. But Jay's book has been done it in a way that helps the reader grasp the concept. The photography and easy to understand descriptions are actually capture the movement. Jay Blahnik is one of the most forward thinking professionals in fitness. In the last ten years, he has become the fitness expert people go to for sound research and exercise application that "make sense". Like his workshops and lectures, this book is fun, easy to read, easy to apply and easy to adapt to every individual looking to gain, maintain or improve flexibility! This is truly a GREAT BOOK!
Book Review: Not the best by a long shot
Summary: 2 Stars
I guess I've become something of a collector of stretching books, beginning with John Anderson's "Stretching," and going up through "Stretch and Strengthen," by Joan Atler (or Alter), then an English book on stretching whose name I no longer remember, "Fitness Stretching," by the editors of Fitness Magazine, and now this title. It's telling that Jay Blahnik is, according to the brief bio on the back cover, a very successful marketer. He isn't a researcher, writer, academic, therapist or physician, or athlete. The introduction contains useful, but certainly not unknown, information. The exercise descriptions are bland, and the photos uninspiring; good drawings would be way preferable. Probably the part of a good fitness book most evidently lacking in this one are explanations of the reasoning behind the exercises chosen, and how to do them. Very cursory explanations of the specific need to stretch any given muscle group are provided, certainly not enough to spark anyone's interest or motivation. A couple of the above listed books do an excellent job at that, and at describing each exercise in greater detail. This is the only fitness book I own written by a person who is primarily into marketing, with possibly one exception, and it will be the last.Book Review: Offering 10, 20, and 40 minute fitness routines; sport-specific sequences; and specialty stretch sequences
Summary: 5 Stars
Athletes stretch before and after exercise sessions in order to warm up their muscles, prevent injuries, and cool down after their exertions. Personal trainer and fitness educator Jay Blahnik blends the best of yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and sports training in Full-Body Flexibility to create "user friendly" stretching sequences that anyone can safely use for warm-ups and cool-downs, as well as during the course of performing challenging workouts on their own. Blahnik operates with three key stretching principles in mind: Variety (challenging muscles with multiple techniques to attain maximum flexibility); Strength (ensuring that muscles can support the body throughout the entire range of motion); and Balance (developing equal strength and flexibility in opposing muscle groups on both sides of the human body). Offering 10, 20, and 40 minute fitness routines; sport-specific sequences; and specialty stretch sequences, Full-Body Flexibility is an ideal and recommended introduction for even the most novice of beginners, while also holding much of value for even the more experienced athlete and fitness enthusiast.
Betsy L. Hogan
Reviewer
Book Review: Pretty Good
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a pretty good book with tons of static and dynamic stretches for all muscle groups. It also contains several different stretching "routines" at the end of the book, which appear valuable.
The content is basic, but thorough, and I learned at least a few new stretches, which is why I bought the book.
My only complaint is that lots of the directions seem to be pretty vague and cryptic.
Pretty solid book.