Super Joints: Russian Longevity Secrets for Pain-Free Movement, Maximum Mobility & Flexible Strength
Language: English
Pages: 120
ISBN: 0938045369
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Do-It-Now, Fast-Start, Get-Up-and-Go, Jump-into-Action Bible for High Performance and Longer LifeYou have a choice in life. You can sputter and stumble and creak your way along in a process of painful, slow decline-or you can take charge of your health and become a human dynamo.And there is no better way to insure a long, pain-free life than performing the right daily combination of joint mobility and strength-flexibility exercises. In Super Joints, Russian fitness expert Pavel Tsatsouline shows you exactly how to quickly achieve and maintain peak joint health-and then use it to improve every aspect of your physical performance.Only the foolish would deliberately ignore the life-saving and life-enhancing advice Pavel offers in Super Joints. Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to a life of increasing pain, degeneration and decrepitude? But for an athlete, a dancer, a martial artist or any serious performer, Super Joints could spell the difference between greatness and mediocrity.Discover: The twenty-eight most valuable drills for youthful joints and a stronger stretch.How to save your joints and prevent or reduce arthritis. The one-stop care-shop for your inner Tin Man-how to give your nervous system a tune up, your joints a lube-job and your energy a recharge. What it takes to go from cruise control to full throttle: The One Thousand Moves Morning Recharge-Amosov's bigger bang calisthenics complex for achieving heaven-on-earth in 25 minutes. How to make your body feel better than you can remember-active flexibility for sporting prowess and fewer injuries. The amazing Pink Panther technique that may add a couple of feet to your stretch the first time you do it.
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to straighten out. Once you force them too, they test pathetically weak in the stretched position. Hence tight weakness. Needless to say, neither extreme makes for a functional human being. A n e ffective muscle has no trouble going from a near cramp to great length and can display great strength anywhere in this range. Active flexibility drills like ‘Reach the Mark’ and ‘Pink P a n t h e r’are your best bet at correcting your problem. T h e y simultaneously address the weakness of
the stick will immobilize your upper back making it impossible to slouch your shoulders. Bend forward while looking straight ahead and make 6–8 springy good mornings. Better than hanging your arms over the stick like a scarecrow, I suggest that you hold a stick, a towel, or a bungee cord in your hands and bring it behind your back. Keep your chest out and try to ‘ s t r e t c h ’ the stick apart, your elbows locked and your shoulders pulling hard. 3. Lie on your stomach and anchor your
already powerful effect. You may want to practice your slow kicks over a chair or another piece of furniture of appropriate height. The chair forces you to chamber close to your body which teaches good defensive habits and forces you to keep your kicks up. N a t u r a l l y, you can and should practice other kicks in the same fashion: the side chamber followed by the side kick and the roundhouse kick. Do not forget the outside and inside crescent kicks and feel free to use a wall or a chair
you into what this former than conventional relaxed stretching Russian Spetznaz instructor calls ' a flexibility mutant'. This book supplies both the road • How to breathe your way to greater flexibility map and the methodology. Don't ask to borrow my copy. ” • Using the Russian technique of F o rced Relaxation a s —Marty Gallagher, Columnist, Wa s h i n g t o n P o s t . c o m your ultimate stretching weapon “Pavel Tsatsouline's Relax Into Stretch: Instant Flexibility Through Mastering
you fold over and the head tilts back as you stand up. Exercise caution. Passively exhale on the way down and inhale into your stomach on the way up. S o rt of push off your thighs with your b e l l y. I f you do it right, the intra-abdominal pressure when rising on inhalation will straighten out your spine like a hydraulic jack—with minimal back stress. If you are not sure how to use your diaphragm or your health condition prohibits the standing toe touch, practice the drill sitting