07-06-08, 07:40 AM | |
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Location: Saint Paul, MN
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I don't know anything more about Dana's video than what was given in the link, but it seems similar to Bob Cooley's methods for stretching http://www.meridianstretching.com/videos.html
Pavel's flexibility work also involves a lot of muscle contraction of the opposite muscle group to get you into stretches. I've read his Relax into Stretch book a few years ago and tried some of his techniques. I haven't done these techniques consistently enough to see if I could get any improvements in my flexibility. I was paging through Bob Cooley's Genius of Flexibility book in the bookstore yesterday wondering if I should have another go at it. |
07-06-08, 12:41 PM | ||
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"Torres calls resistance stretching her “secret weapon.” Bob Cooley, who invented the discipline, describes it in less-modest terms. According to Cooley, over a two-week period in 1999, his flexibility system turned Torres “from being an alternate on the relay team to the fastest swimmer in America.” The secret to Torres’s speed, Cooley says, is that his technique not only makes her muscles more flexible but also increases their ability to shorten more completely, and when muscles shorten more completely, they produce greater power and speed. “What do race-car drivers do when they want to go faster?” Cooley asks. “They don’t spend more hours driving around the track. They increase the biomechanics of the car. And that’s what resistance flexibility is doing for Dara — increasing her biomechanics.” .
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