The Genius of Flexibility: The Smart Way to Stretch and Strengthen Your Body
by Bob Cooley
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Author: Bob CooleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-06
ISBN: 0743270878
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Touchstone
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Summary: 4 Stars
There are some wonderful stretches in this book, some I plan to do solo, and some I will use with my massage clients. I think that even if you aren't interested in Bob Cooley's other theories, ideas, or organic food, the stretches are great. Dismissing this book as something only people in San Francisco or Vermont would enjoy is ridiculous, as anyone should be able to glean what they need from this book, and leave the rest, just as they would with any other book or volume of new information. What I am curious about, is that Bob Cooley writes as if he discovered this type of stretching, and that isn't true. He has put it into a system, and now a book and DVD, which is great; but the Russians were doing a similar type of stretching years before Bob Cooley was injured. My wife and I have been doing this type of stretching with massage clients for almost ten years, and we had never heard of Bob Cooley until I got this book. He has certainly developed his own, very successful system, and it has greatly enlarged my own understanding of this type of stretching; but if you are anyone who has been doing bodywork for years, it is nothing new. I did resistance with yoga when I was a teenager in the 60's, as I found I got a much better stretch, and I'm sure many people over time have figured this out; but it took someone with Bob Cooley's passion and vision to give it some real exposure. The organic food information is very good for someone looking to start an organic diet or lifestyle, but I'm not sure what it is doing in a book about stretching. Certainly mentioning good nutrition and organic food as an aid to muscle and overall health is great, but I'm not sure everyone needs menus. I've been doing Chinese and Japanese martial arts most of my life, and I've been an acupuncture patient, as well, so the introduction of TCM into his work is interesting to me, even if I ultimately don't find it makes any difference as far as my training or my moods go. What I found least interesting about this book is the personality type information, although some of it seems to make sense. I've always found the body type, personality type, and psychological type stuff to be a bit too easy of an explanation for the complexity of human beings. I did like this book enough that I just ordered a copy of his DVD from Amazon.
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