Moving Stretch: Work Your Fascia to Free Your Body

by Suzanne Wylde

Manage everyday pain with this effective, trainer-approved program that uses resistance stretching to increase strength, release tension, rejuvenate tissues—and much more.  This accessible guide gives step-by-step instructions for people who feel tight or older than they should, people with poor posture, athletes who want to boost their performance, and those who want something more than conventional stretching. This book provides you with many different stretches for the whole body including the hands and feet, as well as routines for specific goals such as improving posture, helping office workers stay healthy, stretching the back, and more. Even those with sedentary lives will see and feel a difference, with just 10-20 minutes of stretching yielding benefits that may last the whole day. Many of us are limited in our movements, hunched over, or tight. Ideally, we would move in a variety of ways throughout the day, keeping our bodies fresh and youthful. However, office jobs and sofas can lead to bodies that are imprisoned in a cage of tension, whose tissue is dehydrated and stuck together, with some areas that are very weak or tight. Normal stretching is not strong enough to break us out of that state. When we tense our bodies and move through that tension, we engage the fascia and recondition it into a more youthful state, restoring great posture, elasticity, and power.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2017

Reviews

[Bill W · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, is this book wordy. Skip ahead to Chapter 10 without worry. I read 1-9 so you won’t have to. Nice exercises and pictures. I will incorporate some of them into my workouts and yoga classes.

[Walter Cone · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a book with techniques you can put to work immediately and see results. Don’t just read it, do it.

[Jade · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW! I've been struggling with breathing issues that is not asthma (long story short, I have tight muscles from tensing up when stressed). Doing the stretches in this book properly has helped me loosen those muscles and therefore improve my breathing. Fascia stretching is a relatively new study and a lot of people don't know what it is. I hope more practitioners learn about this technique so it can help more people. Learning about fascia was so interesting and the explanation provided is clear and easy to understand. I also overall feel so free and unrestricted like before. It's important to take the time to read and understand what fascia stretching is and how to do it before you jump straight to the stretching exercises. A friend recommended this book to me and it definitely changed the game for stretching / freeing up my body! Forever grateful for Suzanne Wylde writing this book.

[Vincent Schaefer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this book on a goodreads giveaway

Excellent book. Very detailed content and many, many exercises to assist. I would highly recommend

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn’t finish. Tried the basic stretches.

Too much intro. Skim a bit of that and try the stretches. I had to return the book before I tried it enough to know if it worked.

I think I might stick with mitzvah.