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Subject: A.1 - Recommendations
My best recommendations are for `Sport Stretch' and `Stretching Scientifically', followed by `Health & Fitness Excellence', `SynerStretch?Create', or `Stretch and Strengthen'. `Mobility Training for the Martial Arts' also has quite a bit of valuable information and stretches. `The Health for Life Training Advisor' has a *lot* of information about stretching and muscle physiology, but it is not strictly about stretching and contains a *ton* of other information about all aspects of athletic training and performance (which I find to be invaluable). If you don't want to get into too much technical detail and are looking for a quick but informative read, then I recommend `Stretching Without Pain'. If you really want to delve into all the technical aspects of stretching, including physiology, neurophysiology, and functional anatomy, then you must get `Science of Stretching'. If you want to know more about PNF stretching, then `Facilitated Stretching' is the book to get. If you are looking for yoga or active stretches you simply must take a look at `ExTension?Create' (also your local library probably has quite a few books and/or videotapes of yoga exercises). If you want to know more about muscle anatomy and physiology but don't have a lot of technical interest or background in those two fields, `The Muscle Book' is highly recommended.
Many of the other books don't have as much detail about stretching and what happens to your muscles during a particular stretch, they just present (and illustrate) a variety of different exercises. Also, most of the stretches presented in these books are to be performed alone. `Sport Stretch', `SynerStretch?Create' (both the videotape and the book), and `Mobility Training for the Martial Arts' present stretches that you can perform with the assistance of a partner.
In general, `Health For Life' (also known as `HFL') and `Human Kinetics Publishers' have a tremendously wide variety of technical, no-nonsense, exercise related books and videotapes. I would highly recommend contacting both organizations and asking for their free catalogs:
Human Kinetics Publishers
1607 North Market Street
P.O. Box 5076
Champaign, IL USA 61825-5076
1-800-747-4457 (US)
1-800-465-7301 (Canada)
Health For Life
8033 Sunset Blvd., Suite 483
Los Angeles, CA USA 90046
1-800-874-5339
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