Delavier's Stretching Anatomy By Frederic Delavier, Jean-Pierre Clemenceau

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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. Contents INTRODUCTION Why Stretching? Exercises That Reconnect You With Your Body STRETCHING: A USER’S MANUAL A Natural Method Based On How Your Body Feels, Not How Hard You Push Benefits of Stretching A Gentle Form of Exercise Types of Stretching Structuring a Stretching Program Learn How to Breathe! Breathing and Relaxation For Effective Breathing Inhaling and Exhaling Breathe Deeply, but Find a Natural Rhythm Active Breathing External Breathing Pulmonary Breathing Why Athletes Should Stretch Stretching Has Five Benefits for Athletes Too Much Flexibility Can Diminish Performance Athletes Have Four Opportunities to Stretch How an Athlete Should Stretch Breathing During Stretching Stretching Unilaterally Stretching to Prevent Problems Associated With Sports THE STRETCHES Stretches for the Neck Stretches for the Shoulders and Chest To Prevent Shoulder Pain, Stretch the Infraspinatus Preventing Shoulder Pain in Athletes How to Protect the Infraspinatus Stretches for the Arms and Forearms Stretches for the Lateral Flexor Muscles in the Torso Stretches for the Rotator Muscles in the Torso Stretches to Relax the Back Preventing Lower Back Pain Relaxing the Spinal Column Stretches for the Hips Importance of Hip Flexibility Stretches for the Buttocks Stretches for the Quadriceps Stretches for the Hamstrings Preventing Hamstring Tears Stretches for the Adductors Stretches for the Calves STRETCHING PROGRAMS Stretching Programs for Better Muscle Tone and Well-Being Beginner Program Intermediate Program Advanced Program Stretching Programs for Athletes Guidelines for Programs Basic Athletic Program Golf and Sports Involving Torso Rotation Running Sports, Soccer, and Skating Skiing Combat Sports Cycling Throwing Sports (Shot Put, Basketball, and Handball) Horseback Riding Swimming Bodybuilding Released 2011 144 Pages About The Author 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. The former editor in chief of the French magazine PowerMag, Delavier is currently a journalist for the French magazine Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to several other muscle publications. Jean-Pierre Clémenceau 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.