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Stretching

  • 14-09-2005 3:19pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677
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    My flexibility is atrocious and I've even been getting lower back pain recently so I've been looking for a program to increase my flexibility. I got a copy of Matt Furey's combat stretching and it looks good.

    Has anyone tried out the methods in the dvd? Or can anyone recommend any other stretching books or dvds that I could use?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 Ger Healy
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    A book I found useful was by a guy called
    Thomas Kurtz
    Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training
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    You can get it on Amazon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,964 memphis
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    Ger Healy wrote:
    A book I found useful was by a guy called
    Thomas Kurtz
    Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training
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    You can get it on Amazon
    Thanks for that Ger. I have been trying to focus my training on stretching and flexibliity since I came back to training after the summer break, but my muscles seem to be rather tenched up, any suggestions? My aim is to be able to do the full splits.
    I go through the usual warm up, and then stretch. I have tried doing so at home also, but i too, as like the OP describes, feel alot of discomfort in my legs and lower back after. How can I overcome this??

    What price can you expect to pay for that book?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,248 Millionaire
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    Acutally Tom Kurs got a video too. I got book and video. and you are better paying a few quid extra for the video. it is miles better at putting the idea across. do not know the price as it got it years ago.

    Personally I did not follow the full program, but the dynamic strenches is great for a qucik warm up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 Liam_B
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    I've got that Kurz video if you need it scary man and some real good yoga video that might help your back pain and flexibility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 The_Scary_Man
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    Liam_B wrote:
    I've got that Kurz video if you need it scary man and some real good yoga video that might help your back pain and flexibility.

    Cheers Liam. That'd be great, I'll be back next monday all fit and ready for class.

    I've been doing some of the Matt Furey stretches and they seem good. I have been practising the stretches we do in class at home but I'd just like to speed up the process a little by giving myself more options and mixing it up a little. Yoga and Pilates are things I always said I'd like to try but never did. A surfer friend of mine swore by Pilates and he had a lot of back problems.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 667 loz
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    I posted similar thread a few months back - get the Kurz book - changed my whole outlokk at stretching...........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,335 Cake Fiend
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    videos? for stretching? just do what you do warming up in your club more often, like at home.

    Most clubs have terrible stretching and warm-up regimes. For example, static flexibility-type stretching shouldn't be done in a warm-up at all. Better to take advice from a world-renowned expert, methinks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 104 martinl
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    You might give Pilates a go, as more and more people with backpain get told by their physio to try go to a Pilates class. It is also used by various soccer club and e.g. the British National Rowing squad or the All Blacks.
    Martin


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