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Re: I'm Beginning To Like Fridays Again :-)

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On 10/8/2022 10:06 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> Still, despite being problematic, this book is quite comprehensive, you 
> can see the scientific mind behind all that idiosyncrasy that the 
> mini-brain translator has adored it with. The reasoning, the plan, the 
> classifications, they all speak volumes about the author.


Every structure this book has, I found to be the most logical. For 
instance, the depth of discussion on stretching goes well beyond the 
breathing exercises and those for strength. This is so because 
stretching is the most tricky one among other types of exercise. 
Strength exercises are often self-limiting and prevent you from going 
too far into them to damage yourselves. Breathing exercises are almost 
100% benign (if you are otherwise healthy). But in stretching, you can 
hurt yourself easily, so this author goes well into discussing 
everything that the book says you ought to do when it comes to stretching.

Let me give you an example of it. I have not seen this level of 
attention and explanation in any Pilates book I've so far checked.

Back then, in 1930s (or earlier, I'm not sure when it was written), the 
newer more complicated types of stretch that's called "PNF" in USA 
hadn't been invented yet (it was thought out first in 1940s by some 
physician). So stretching in this book is classified under four types only:

1- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons comes from some type 
of slow movement of body unrelated to that muscle

2- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons is directly exerted 
by another muscle that always works against the stretched muscle.

3- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons doesn't come from 
any part of the body. Either someone else does it for you, or one's 
weight is used to exert the force.

4- Force applied to lengthen the muscle and tendons comes from the 
momentum of a part of body that's thrown away from center of mass in a 
manner that causes a stretch in the muscle and tendons in question.

For all four types, the author explains in detail what is done and what 
the drawbacks are and which ones are better than the other ones in 
almost every situation and purpose, and gives ample examples. For 
instance the author believes that type 2 above does not always work as 
well as type 1 for a healthy person because the extent of flexion in the 
opposing muscles to stretch a certain muscle are sometimes quite 
limited. But he explains that this same limitation works great for doing 
such type 2 stretching for purposes of rehabilitation after an injury! 
Cause the goal is now _not_ to stretch the length of muscles and tendons 
beyond normal, which is necessary for a healthy person, but to bring the 
length _to_ normal so the disabled person can move naturally again :)

So the choice of the type of stretching has much to do with who is doing 
it and for what purpose, and this book is totally based on such 
considerations, from begin to end. Very careful and logical treatment of 
the complexities involved. I have not seen this level of care in a 
Pilates book yet. It requires a scientist to work all these situations 
correctly to provide the reader with exactly what he needs to do for 
purposes for which he's reading the book.







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