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Flexibility Experiment, Part 4: Q&A with Anne Tierney from Innovative Body Solutions

by Shane on September 11, 2009

I have been doing the Resistance Stretching exercises daily for one week now. This method of stretching took some getting used to and I had difficulties with some aspects of the exercises. Luckily, when I contacted Anne Tierney, a Resistance Stretching expert, she generously gave me input and advice. Anne uses and teaches a branch [...]

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Flexibility Experiment, Part 3: Method and Benchmarks

by Shane on September 4, 2009

(Total reading time: <3 minutes) After illustrating my issues with common stretching exercises (they don’t work) in the first part of this series and introducing the new method I will experiment with (Resistance Stretching) in the second part, it is now time to lay out how I will test the new stretching method and how [...]

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Flexibility Experiment, Part 2: Introducing Resistance Stretching

by Shane on September 3, 2009

(Total reading time: 5 minutes) There are two names most widely associated with Resistance Stretching: Bob Cooley and Dara Torres. Bob Cooley is the guy who came up with the technique of Resistance Stretching and Dara Torres, the famed American Olympic swimmer, is arguably the one person who gave it the best PR. According to [...]

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