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Hasta la gente menos flexible puede hacer estiramientos: Un plan de 4 semanas para alcanzar una salud asombrosa / Even the Stiffest People Can Do the Splits
El revolucionario programa de estiramientos de la reina de los splits, cuyos beneficios ya conocen un mill�n y medio de personas en Jap�n.
Este programa de cuatro semanas reivindica los sorprendentes beneficios que tiene para la salud hacer apenas cinco minutos al d�a de unos estiramientos concretos llamados splits.
Convertido en un fen�meno de masas en Jap�n, este libro, tan �til como sencillo, nos ense�a a mejorar la circulaci�n, evitar lesiones en las articulaciones, tonificar los m�sculos de las piernas, mejorar el equilibrio y acabar (a cualquier edad y sin importar nuestra condici�n f�sica) con las molestias causadas por la rigidez muscular.
Ahora, gracias a Eiko, la �reina de los splits� en Jap�n, podremos olvidarnos de los dolores en la parte baja de la espalda y la hinchaz�n de los pies, endurecer el vientre, fortalecer las articulaciones de la cadera... y muchos m�s. �Con una rutina de cinco minutos al d�a conseguiremos unos incre�bles resultados en tan solo cuatro semanas!
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Experience amazing health benefits by learning how to do the splits in just 4 weeks!
Whether you spend your days running marathons or slouching over a keyboard, everyone can benefit from stretching and the increased flexibility that comes along with it. With only five minutes of stretching a day, you'll be doing perfect splits in four weeks and experiencing a host of health benefits such as better circulation, fewer joint injuries, toned muscles, improved balance, and much more!
With world-renowned yoga teacher Eiko's revolutionary program, people of any age and fitness level can say goodbye to those mysterious aches and pains that are caused by stiff, contracting muscles, and see unbelievable results. All you need is this book, two legs, and a floor, and you're on your way to doing the splits!
Este programa de cuatro semanas reivindica los sorprendentes beneficios que tiene para la salud hacer apenas cinco minutos al d�a de unos estiramientos concretos llamados splits.
Convertido en un fen�meno de masas en Jap�n, este libro, tan �til como sencillo, nos ense�a a mejorar la circulaci�n, evitar lesiones en las articulaciones, tonificar los m�sculos de las piernas, mejorar el equilibrio y acabar (a cualquier edad y sin importar nuestra condici�n f�sica) con las molestias causadas por la rigidez muscular.
Ahora, gracias a Eiko, la �reina de los splits� en Jap�n, podremos olvidarnos de los dolores en la parte baja de la espalda y la hinchaz�n de los pies, endurecer el vientre, fortalecer las articulaciones de la cadera... y muchos m�s. �Con una rutina de cinco minutos al d�a conseguiremos unos incre�bles resultados en tan solo cuatro semanas!
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Experience amazing health benefits by learning how to do the splits in just 4 weeks!
Whether you spend your days running marathons or slouching over a keyboard, everyone can benefit from stretching and the increased flexibility that comes along with it. With only five minutes of stretching a day, you'll be doing perfect splits in four weeks and experiencing a host of health benefits such as better circulation, fewer joint injuries, toned muscles, improved balance, and much more!
With world-renowned yoga teacher Eiko's revolutionary program, people of any age and fitness level can say goodbye to those mysterious aches and pains that are caused by stiff, contracting muscles, and see unbelievable results. All you need is this book, two legs, and a floor, and you're on your way to doing the splits!
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First published January 1, 2016
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January 26, 2018
This is the funniest book I've ever read but if I can learn to do the splits in 4 weeks, I'll return to this site and upgrade my rating, despite the silliness of the book. The book is about 20 pages of useful information with big color photographs and large print text. After you have finished those 20 pages, the author treats you to the stupidest story you ever read about these three people who work in an office building and who suffer various maladies because they are inflexible. The author teaches them to do the splits in 4 weeks and to illustrate this part of the book, she repeats the same instructions and photographs you just finished reading. I could visualize other readers doing the same thing I did: flipping back and forth to verify that, yes, these are the same exact pictures we just saw.
Anyhow to add insult to injury, these office workers are sort of racist stereotypes of Japanese workers. All they care about is doing a good job and pleasing their boss. Fortunately for them, their boss wants them to learn how to do the splits because accomplishing this feat was a catalyst in his own life. If they can only learn to do the splits, they will be such productive workers, find love and marriage, and lose weight. Animated movie coming to a theater near you soon.
Anyhow to add insult to injury, these office workers are sort of racist stereotypes of Japanese workers. All they care about is doing a good job and pleasing their boss. Fortunately for them, their boss wants them to learn how to do the splits because accomplishing this feat was a catalyst in his own life. If they can only learn to do the splits, they will be such productive workers, find love and marriage, and lose weight. Animated movie coming to a theater near you soon.
January 25, 2018
The only reasons I'm giving this book three stars is that I actually did like the fact that all the necessary information was contained in two pages, which can be copied quite easily. Also, I checked it out from a library, so I don't feel that I wasted any money on the book. My recommendation for those of you who want to do the splits using this technique is either A). Find Eiko's YouTube videos, watch them, and follow the instructions in the videos or B). find the book at your local library, copy the two pages and take them home with you.
January 16, 2018
This book is completely bananas. There's so much filler. Pages are repeated absolutely identically multiple times. And there's a nutty short story interspersed throughout the book. It's very kooky! My small apartment doesn't have the empty wall spaces some of the exercises require so I have to admit I didn't even try the program. I kind of admire the author's chutzpah in filling out an entire book, and the overall weirdness. And the book is beautifully designed. I would almost give it 3 stars but it wasn't useful to me so...
April 17, 2018
This is not a book.
March 20, 2018
This book makes you realize you could really probably do anything you wanted (ah!) if you made it a priority (ohh). I got to Day 4 before I realized this was not my Dream.
September 20, 2018
This book lies. I am, in fact, too stiff to do the splits (or, at least, to do them as a result of the month-long exercise program in this book.) I followed the programme exactly, and I am maybe slightly more flexible, but still very, very far from anything resembling the splits. Do not fall for its sugared words and candy-colored design aesthetic. You, too, are probably too stiff to do the splits.
January 3, 2018
Weird. The actual information is so very basic and minimal, but the author repeats steps, and even copies sections of the pages exactly, making it seem like the book is longer than it really is. While I understand presenting information in different ways, this is NOT that.
November 22, 2019
Ha, this is kind of a weird book to review . . . or to read reviews about.
When I picked up this book, I was already fairly flexible, but unable to do the splits (or, as I'd always called it, "do a split." Singular? Plural? I guess it could be either . . .). This book defines "doing the splits" as spreading your legs out to the sides, then leaning forward enough to put your elbows on the floor. I'd always thought of a split as having your legs go straight out to either side (or to the front and back), so that there is a straight line from one foot to the other. The book does not claim to make you able to do that.
Anyway, when I started, I could almost do the splits as defined by this book. After just a few days of faithfully doing the exercises, I could do it: I could put my elbows on the floor. Not comfortably, mind you, but I could do it. I was excited to have made progress so quickly.
But I seem to have kind of stalled there. I kept doing the exercises, but didn't seem to gain any more flexibility from them. And I was starting to feel some soreness that felt like bad pain rather than good pain. Because of that, I stopped doing the exercises just after beginning Week 4.
So it's hard to know how to rate this book. It did, after all, take me from being unable to do [Eiko's version of] the splits to being able to do them, which is its main claim. But the exercises didn't always feel like they were working well, and I did wind up with that unpleasant ouchiness . . .
As others have noted, the book is hugely padded. The instructions on how to do the exercises could easily be a magazine article, but they are spread out and repeated, presumably to add length to the book. There is also a"short story" that features Japanese business people who basically solve all their problems by learning to do the splits. I found this story kind of enjoyable, actually, because it's hilarious.
Some things that this story ardently claims can be fixed (or at least improved) by doing the splits:
- low confidence
- lack of energy
- having trouble sticking to a diet
- unwanted weight gain
- getting injured easily
- feeling cold a lot
There's also a scene wherein two of the characters meet Eiko - this book's author - and they are starstruck, one of them blurting out, "You're so slender!" XD It's a very silly story.
EDIT 11/21/2019: I am bumping this down from three stars to one because I am pretty sure, upon reflection, that a persistent low-grade pain I've been feeling comes from an injury I got doing the exercises from this book. The book instructs you to get into various stretched positions and then "bounce," which I've since been advised is not a safe/healthy thing to do. Boo!
When I picked up this book, I was already fairly flexible, but unable to do the splits (or, as I'd always called it, "do a split." Singular? Plural? I guess it could be either . . .). This book defines "doing the splits" as spreading your legs out to the sides, then leaning forward enough to put your elbows on the floor. I'd always thought of a split as having your legs go straight out to either side (or to the front and back), so that there is a straight line from one foot to the other. The book does not claim to make you able to do that.
Anyway, when I started, I could almost do the splits as defined by this book. After just a few days of faithfully doing the exercises, I could do it: I could put my elbows on the floor. Not comfortably, mind you, but I could do it. I was excited to have made progress so quickly.
But I seem to have kind of stalled there. I kept doing the exercises, but didn't seem to gain any more flexibility from them. And I was starting to feel some soreness that felt like bad pain rather than good pain. Because of that, I stopped doing the exercises just after beginning Week 4.
So it's hard to know how to rate this book. It did, after all, take me from being unable to do [Eiko's version of] the splits to being able to do them, which is its main claim. But the exercises didn't always feel like they were working well, and I did wind up with that unpleasant ouchiness . . .
As others have noted, the book is hugely padded. The instructions on how to do the exercises could easily be a magazine article, but they are spread out and repeated, presumably to add length to the book. There is also a"short story" that features Japanese business people who basically solve all their problems by learning to do the splits. I found this story kind of enjoyable, actually, because it's hilarious.
Some things that this story ardently claims can be fixed (or at least improved) by doing the splits:
- low confidence
- lack of energy
- having trouble sticking to a diet
- unwanted weight gain
- getting injured easily
- feeling cold a lot
There's also a scene wherein two of the characters meet Eiko - this book's author - and they are starstruck, one of them blurting out, "You're so slender!" XD It's a very silly story.
EDIT 11/21/2019: I am bumping this down from three stars to one because I am pretty sure, upon reflection, that a persistent low-grade pain I've been feeling comes from an injury I got doing the exercises from this book. The book instructs you to get into various stretched positions and then "bounce," which I've since been advised is not a safe/healthy thing to do. Boo!
June 15, 2019
Non so bene che diamine mi aspettassi da questo volumetto.
Sarà che ci ho messo dodici anni per capire che, forse forse, la danza classica sarebbe stata meglio guardarla, invece che studiarla, ma un po' di invidia per le persone sciolte e snodate mi è sempre rimasta.
Sarà che devo proprio convincermi a fare sport, e, chissà perché, fare stretching mi sembra un buon compromesso fra il divano e la palestra.
Sarà che un po' ci spero ancora, ogni tanto, che i miracoli accadano.
Insomma, grazie al cielo esistono le biblioteche, perché altrimenti avrei buttato quattordici euro. Non tanto perché il metodo non funzioni (oddio, ho i miei dubbi anche su quello, ma insomma...), ma perché ci sono in totale sei foto di esercizi banalissimi, quattro testimonianze di donnine sopra i sessant'anni che si sono riscoperte Alessandra Ferri solo in tarda età. Un totale di trentuno pagine.
E poi parte un racconto brutto, ma proprio brutto brutto, con tanto di maestra Eiko come personaggio, che ci spiega quanto imparare a fare la spaccata può cambiare la nostra vita.
Ehm, no, grazie. Meglio le trenta pagine di esercizi da ora di ginnastica di quinta elementare.
Sarà che ci ho messo dodici anni per capire che, forse forse, la danza classica sarebbe stata meglio guardarla, invece che studiarla, ma un po' di invidia per le persone sciolte e snodate mi è sempre rimasta.
Sarà che devo proprio convincermi a fare sport, e, chissà perché, fare stretching mi sembra un buon compromesso fra il divano e la palestra.
Sarà che un po' ci spero ancora, ogni tanto, che i miracoli accadano.
Insomma, grazie al cielo esistono le biblioteche, perché altrimenti avrei buttato quattordici euro. Non tanto perché il metodo non funzioni (oddio, ho i miei dubbi anche su quello, ma insomma...), ma perché ci sono in totale sei foto di esercizi banalissimi, quattro testimonianze di donnine sopra i sessant'anni che si sono riscoperte Alessandra Ferri solo in tarda età. Un totale di trentuno pagine.
E poi parte un racconto brutto, ma proprio brutto brutto, con tanto di maestra Eiko come personaggio, che ci spiega quanto imparare a fare la spaccata può cambiare la nostra vita.
Ehm, no, grazie. Meglio le trenta pagine di esercizi da ora di ginnastica di quinta elementare.
April 25, 2018
I saw this on my way into the library, so I picked it up out of curiosity. I can't recommend it to anyone; I'm sorry.
January 23, 2018
One of my goals for this year is to learn how to do the splits. This book has some good stretches with photos of how to do them, but the rest of the book was kind of unnecessary. There was a lot of repetition with the pictures and information to make the book look longer. Really, the helpful part of this book is about 10 pages long, and that is all I really needed from this book. I didn't need the motivational stories or the weird narrative about how a person implemented all the stretches in to their life.
I will continue to do the stretches I learned from this book because they are very helpful, but I wouldn't recommend buying this book. There are many tutorials and videos online that are just as helpful (if not more helpful).
I will continue to do the stretches I learned from this book because they are very helpful, but I wouldn't recommend buying this book. There are many tutorials and videos online that are just as helpful (if not more helpful).
May 21, 2018
I am a stiff person. Was I able to do the splits in 4 weeks?
No. Of course not.
This is a ridiculous claim to make.
Did I make any progress towards the splits following these exercises? No. Not really. On the plus side, the exercises are easy and don't involve a lot of time and the stretching feels nice. The photos could be better. Having a flexible person demonstrate the alternative positions for stiff people does not really help us stiff people see how a stiff person would do the exercise correctly. And usually in good exercise classes the instructor tells you the ways that you might go awry and hurt yourself if you don't do the exercise correctly which was not done in this book.
No. Of course not.
This is a ridiculous claim to make.
Did I make any progress towards the splits following these exercises? No. Not really. On the plus side, the exercises are easy and don't involve a lot of time and the stretching feels nice. The photos could be better. Having a flexible person demonstrate the alternative positions for stiff people does not really help us stiff people see how a stiff person would do the exercise correctly. And usually in good exercise classes the instructor tells you the ways that you might go awry and hurt yourself if you don't do the exercise correctly which was not done in this book.
January 24, 2018
I like the regimen of exercises here, but honestly, this is a 15-page booklet that has been puffed up into a full-length book. Pages are literally repeated in places, and most of the book is testimonials and filler. I have been doing the exercises, and am making some progress in them, though I am still not even close to doing the splits. It's going to take me a lot longer than 4 weeks to get there, and that's with doing the stretches every single day.
June 12, 2018
Posting a review of this book is a part penance, part vulnerability, and part vindictiveness.
Needless to say, it's been 4 weeks, and I can't do the splits. Not even by Eiko's generous definition: sitting with your legs outstretched and being able to put your elbows on the floor. This book is needlessly repetitive, and full of empty promises.
Needless to say, it's been 4 weeks, and I can't do the splits. Not even by Eiko's generous definition: sitting with your legs outstretched and being able to put your elbows on the floor. This book is needlessly repetitive, and full of empty promises.
April 6, 2018
All of the other reviews are correct; there are about twenty pages of actual stretches, then about seventy pages of testimonials then a repeat of the photo pages of the stretches.
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p.s. I didn't bother reading the testimonials but may try the stretches.
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p.s. I didn't bother reading the testimonials but may try the stretches.
April 8, 2018
More flexible but despite daily workouts for over 2 months...still no splits. Not even close. Bold claims unfortunately not backed up in practice. Short story was filler and if deleted, could have turned this book into a pamphlet.
April 20, 2018
I don't know how this even became a whole book...it's like a pamphlet that is repeated ad nauseum.
May 24, 2018
As others have echoed...30 pages of good content and the fiction story doesn't add a lot of value. Stretches are great. The health claims are dubious.
January 1, 2019
Well, this shouldn’t count toward my reading goal,but I did read it and there’s 20 minutes I’ll never get back ;) but I’m excited to learn how to do a split in 4 weeks!
November 21, 2017
Currently I'm going to say 4 stars, because I'm optimistic about doing the splits in a few weeks time. When I fail and hurt myself, I'll probably adjust.
Easy to read book that makes it sound simple.
Easy to read book that makes it sound simple.
December 12, 2018
De opdrachten in 'Doe de split in 4 weken' zijn wat eentonig. Ik voelde niet altijd dat het veel met mij deed (en dat het dus niet binnen vier weken zou lukken) en het feit dat het boek gewoon zo stug is, hielp niet mee. Maar ik ben niet alleen maar negatief: het boek is mooi opgemaakt, alles is duidelijk, ‘Doe de split in 4 weken’ heeft elementen om je te motiveren (de real life-verhalen en het feit dat iemand van 60+ het kan) en als je eenmaal bezig bent dan voel je de voordelen. Dit kan nog meer worden: van een betere bloedsomloop, afvallen en het verhelpen van x of o-benen. Maar of dit binnen vier weken zo is, dat kan ik dan weer niet zeggen..
March 28, 2018
An impulse library selection.... I do not advise it... The instructions went against most exercise instructions I've received. The idea of bouncing in the stretch...as opposed to gently holding and stretching for however many seconds ...depending on each person.
So I adapted a few stretches and checked her online..for her Japanese language you tube video for the abbreviated version of this book! I didn't do all the stretches, gave up mid way. Good luck!
So I adapted a few stretches and checked her online..for her Japanese language you tube video for the abbreviated version of this book! I didn't do all the stretches, gave up mid way. Good luck!
April 29, 2018
I didn't read past the first twenty pages after it became clear that the story Eiko was going to use to illustrate her points, would turn out to be very silly and unnecessary. Her exercises seem like they would work, but I haven't attempted any yet. I agree with other reviews which say that all the useful stuff is contained in maybe the first few pages.
March 7, 2018
This book was super weird. I agree with several of the other reviews, things were repeated in exact duplicate. There was a weird story in the middle. It was a very interesting read.
I will be doing the stretches and hopefully achieve the splits but that's all I really need.
I will be doing the stretches and hopefully achieve the splits but that's all I really need.
July 5, 2018
I’m doing the exercises and am hopeful! There isnt much to this book. It could have been a magazine article.
August 29, 2018
This book should be a 1-2 page handout. Please see other reviews for more information.
November 18, 2022
อะไรนะ !? หนังสือสอนฉีกขาเหรอ จ้อจี้หรือเปล่า อ่ะไม่จ้อจี้ เรื่องจิ๊งงงง โถโถโถ 😂😂
ซื้อและอ่านจบนานแล้วสัก 2-3 ปีได้ ขอมารีวิวย้อนหลัง คาดหวังว่าตัวเองจากที่ตัวตึง(ตัวตึงแบบตึงจริงๆ ที่ไม่ได้หมายถึงศัพท์แสลง 55555)จะได้ไปเทพฉีกขา อวดเพื่อนสวยๆ สรุปตอนนี้ก็ยังทำไม่ได้ (อ้าว 5555) ไม่มีวินัยดัดเองแหละ แต่ช่วงที่ไฟลุกตอนอ่านแรกๆ ขยันทำได้ทุกวันสักเดือนนึง ปรากฏว่าอเมซิ่งเริ่มนั่งเอามือแตะปลายเท้าได้จริงๆ กรี๊ดกร๊าดดด 🤣🤣
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แถม 50% ที่เหลือของหนังสือคือเขียนเรื่องแต่งของตัวละคร ก ข ค มาเพื่ออวยว่าการฉีกขาได้เป็นสิ่งที่ดี ลองทำแล้วเห็นผล(มันก็ดีจริงๆน่ะแหละ เส้นยืด ลดอาการบาดเจ็บ เพราะคนเราดูให้สำคัญกับการออกกำลังกายสายแข็งมากไปจนลืมว่าการยืดเส้นเองก็สำคัญ) ซึ่งนั่นแหละ ไม่เห็นต้องเอาเรื่องแต่งมาใส่ คงเอามาใส่เพื่อให้หนังสือมันจำนวนหน้าเพิ่มขึ้นแหละ แต่แหม มีโอกาสทั้งที ทำเป็นใส่ โปรแกรม stretching แต่ละวันเหมือนพวก ebook ออกกำลังกาย ยังจะมีประโยชน์กว่าเอาเรื่องแต่งมาใส่น่ะนะ คนแปลน่าจะแปลไปกัดฟันไปเหมือนกันล่ะมั้ง ว่าเรื่องแต่งนี้มันจะช่วยคุณผู้อ่านยังไงหว่า
ดังนั้นแก่นของหนังสือเล่มนี้มันคงได้เต็มที่สักสิบหน้า นอกนั้นน้ำล้วนๆ แม่ -..-
รู้สึกว่าหนังสือค่ายนี้นี่พอเค้าซื้อมา ตั้งชื่อใหม่ ทำหน้าปกมินิมอลให้น่าสะสม แล้วมันดูน่าซื้อดีนะ(ที่สำคัญคือแปลดี แปลลื่นจริง) แต่ก็พบว่าหลายๆ เล่มที่เค้าซื้อลิขสิทธิ์มา ข้างในมันช่าง...ไม่ได้แก่นสารอะไรมากนัก ในโอกาสถัดๆ ไป หากทางค่ายเคร่งในการคัดหนังสือที่จะแปลให้มีเนื้อเน้นๆ มากกว่านี้ก็คงเป็นเรื่องดี
ซื้อและอ่านจบนานแล้วสัก 2-3 ปีได้ ขอมารีวิวย้อนหลัง คาดหวังว่าตัวเองจากที่ตัวตึง(ตัวตึงแบบตึงจริงๆ ที่ไม่ได้หมายถึงศัพท์แสลง 55555)จะได้ไปเทพฉีกขา อวดเพื่อนสวยๆ สรุปตอนนี้ก็ยังทำไม่ได้ (อ้าว 5555) ไม่มีวินัยดัดเองแหละ แต่ช่วงที่ไฟลุกตอนอ่านแรกๆ ขยันทำได้ทุกวันสักเดือนนึง ปรากฏว่าอเมซิ่งเริ่มนั่งเอามือแตะปลายเท้าได้จริงๆ กรี๊ดกร๊าดดด 🤣🤣
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ดังนั้นแก่นของหนังสือเล่มนี้มันคงได้เต็มที่สักสิบหน้า นอกนั้นน้ำล้วนๆ แม่ -..-
รู้สึกว่าหนังสือค่ายนี้นี่พอเค้าซื้อมา ตั้งชื่อใหม่ ทำหน้าปกมินิมอลให้น่าสะสม แล้วมันดูน่าซื้อดีนะ(ที่สำคัญคือแปลดี แปลลื่นจริง) แต่ก็พบว่าหลายๆ เล่มที่เค้าซื้อลิขสิทธิ์มา ข้างในมันช่าง...ไม่ได้แก่นสารอะไรมากนัก ในโอกาสถัดๆ ไป หากทางค่ายเคร่งในการคัดหนังสือที่จะแปลให้มีเนื้อเน้นๆ มากกว่านี้ก็คงเป็นเรื่องดี
June 30, 2019
I borrowed the book from my library and finished reading it within a day. I had skipped the windy sections in act 2 because I was more interested in the technique rather than the wordy accounts of the students.
As with the earlier reviews, I do find the content repetitive. However I believe not everyone can achieve the splits in 4 weeks. It depends on your lifestyle, culture, diet and how determined you are in practicing Everyday.
I would like to give the Benefit Of doubt to Eiko in contrary to the bad reviews here. The students in the book are all Japanese. In their culture, they are used to sitting on their heels to drink tea. Perhaps that is why they achieved flexibility faster. For me, I need to use a towel on my knees and foot to sit on my heels. The exercises here are not new. I have learned some of them in other yoga classes. It is true that we have to practice holding a stretch to get there. However, for me 4 weeks in not enough to get into a split. It might take me 40 weeks or 400 weeks or even 4000 weeks. But the bottom line is to not give up and keep trying. Perhaps she should not have stated the duration to get the splits in the title. She should have said to repeat the routine till you reach your goal. Anyway...I hope to update this review once I can do the splits.
As with the earlier reviews, I do find the content repetitive. However I believe not everyone can achieve the splits in 4 weeks. It depends on your lifestyle, culture, diet and how determined you are in practicing Everyday.
I would like to give the Benefit Of doubt to Eiko in contrary to the bad reviews here. The students in the book are all Japanese. In their culture, they are used to sitting on their heels to drink tea. Perhaps that is why they achieved flexibility faster. For me, I need to use a towel on my knees and foot to sit on my heels. The exercises here are not new. I have learned some of them in other yoga classes. It is true that we have to practice holding a stretch to get there. However, for me 4 weeks in not enough to get into a split. It might take me 40 weeks or 400 weeks or even 4000 weeks. But the bottom line is to not give up and keep trying. Perhaps she should not have stated the duration to get the splits in the title. She should have said to repeat the routine till you reach your goal. Anyway...I hope to update this review once I can do the splits.
April 10, 2018
TL:DR. Learn the splits, become a CEO of a company, develop a supermodel's physique, live forever, etc, etc, etc.
I first heard about this book from Kelley Starret and read and article about it online. Well, the book offers 5 pages of stretches and about 145 pages of a silly story about how a person turned his personal and professional life around by learning the splits. The general premise is that it takes dedication and commitment to achieve anything worthwhile in life. A hilarious example is the successful business person gives a speech to his new office. Two people walk back the room after the meeting and there the director is, doing full split on the floor in his suit! This kicks off our adventure.
The book recommends approximately 2 minutes of stretches everyday and claims that you can get the splits by the end of week 4. I am adding the 2 minute routine to my 30-45/day stretching regimen. If you are serious about getting more limber there are plenty of free, more helpful resources than the few pages of this book.
Happy stretching!
I first heard about this book from Kelley Starret and read and article about it online. Well, the book offers 5 pages of stretches and about 145 pages of a silly story about how a person turned his personal and professional life around by learning the splits. The general premise is that it takes dedication and commitment to achieve anything worthwhile in life. A hilarious example is the successful business person gives a speech to his new office. Two people walk back the room after the meeting and there the director is, doing full split on the floor in his suit! This kicks off our adventure.
The book recommends approximately 2 minutes of stretches everyday and claims that you can get the splits by the end of week 4. I am adding the 2 minute routine to my 30-45/day stretching regimen. If you are serious about getting more limber there are plenty of free, more helpful resources than the few pages of this book.
Happy stretching!
June 10, 2018
Even the Stiffest People Can Do the Splits: A 4-Week Stretching Plan to Achieve Amazing Health is a seemingly simple interesting concept that I'm anxious to try. It has great pictures and instructions to illustrate what you should be doing and how to do it. One reason you will fly through Even the Stiffest People Can Do the Splits: A 4-Week Stretching Plan to Achieve Amazing Health is because the great pictures and illustrations are very repetitive and most are one tip/picture per page. The illustrative "short story", based on real people's experiences, is the longest part of this book at almost 100 pages... with the tips and illustrations repeated again.
4 stars B+ for simplicity, and good for the author making a 176 page book out of <30 tips and illustrations!
4 stars B+ for simplicity, and good for the author making a 176 page book out of <30 tips and illustrations!
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