10-Minute Stretching: Simple Exercises to Build Flexibility into Your Daily Routine
10-Minute Stretching: Simple Exercises to Build Flexibility into Your Daily Routine book cover

10-Minute Stretching: Simple Exercises to Build Flexibility into Your Daily Routine

Paperback – February 2, 2021

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Price
$16.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
280
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1647397388
Dimensions
8 x 0.77 x 8 inches
Weight
1.35 pounds

Description

Review “Hilery’s book has simple, clear, and easy-to-follow instructions with illustrations and short side notes that explain what each stretch is good for, including how it can affect the nervous system, joints, and even emotions. It is definitely a book I will recommend to my personal training clients who are always looking for ways to remember the stretches we’ve worked on during their in-studio sessions and will serve as an excellent reference guide for their home programs.” —Brystle J. Noble, personal trainer “A great book for anyone who needs more flexibility in their lives. If you’re a beginner or more advanced, this book has some gems in there for everyone. It breaks down stretches for isolated body parts or for specific physical activities or sports. You can’t go wrong with this book.” —Chi K. Bang “This book is an extremely well-written and practical guide to stretching, something that’s a foundation of health and well-being. The book is a user’s guide for everyone’s body as it relates to stretching. Hilery’s descriptions and more importantly illustrations are diverse, inclusive, and equitable. She was thoughtful with ensuring that anyone can find and see themselves in the book.” —Marcus DeFlorimonte About the Author HILERY HUTCHINSON is a wellness expert with more than 50 certifications who has spent the past 18 years dedicated to helping people feel their best. She understands how important her clients’ quality of life is and wants to help them make it better. Learn more about her at www.theflexibilityguru.com.

Features & Highlights

  • Fit stretching exercises into your day with easy 10-minute routines
  • Discover how easy it is to improve your flexibility, reduce pain, and eliminate stress with just a few minutes of stretching every day. This illustrated guide provides you with essential stretches and simple routines for increasing your range of motion, supplementing physical therapy, and more. Featuring 60 individual stretches for your neck, feet, and everything in between, the detailed instructions and informative images in this book give you everything you need to incorporate stretching into your life. You'll also find insight on how to develop short, multi-muscle routines for everyday living, exercise, and even injury recovery. This collection of stretching exercises includes:
  • Stretches for the whole body—Practice a variety of stretching exercises that target nine critical muscle groups, from head turns and cross-body stretches to hurdler's stretches and towel pulls.
  • Stretches for the whole body
  • —Practice a variety of stretching exercises that target nine critical muscle groups, from head turns and cross-body stretches to hurdler's stretches and towel pulls.
  • 10-Minute routines—Improve the effectiveness of your stretching and make it easy to stick with thanks to 35 short routines you can do virtually anywhere.
  • 10-Minute routines
  • —Improve the effectiveness of your stretching and make it easy to stick with thanks to 35 short routines you can do virtually anywhere.
  • Clear guidance—Find the exact stretches and routines you need fast thanks to chapters focused on specific muscle groups.
  • Clear guidance
  • —Find the exact stretches and routines you need fast thanks to chapters focused on specific muscle groups.
  • Keep yourself fit and flexible with this guide to simple and effective stretching exercises.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Great motivator

This is a great book and motivates me to stretch every day!
12 people found this helpful
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Perfect

Easy but very effective stretches feel great, my flexibility is improving.
11 people found this helpful
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Nice tool to get you to do stretching

The book is well-organized and nicely illustrated. We all know that we need to do more stretching, but then we go blank on what to beyond a couple standards. The book guides you step-by-step for simple daily stretches. There is also a trouble-shooting list of stretching techniques for various physical problems.
7 people found this helpful
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Stretching is so important - this book makes it easy!

This book is so helpful! It is organized the way we think - which exercise for which party of the body and then what kind of physical activity or need (e.g. office break). Five or six stretches, one minute each or a bit more, you're done!! So perfect.
7 people found this helpful
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Good Stretching Guide

10-Minute Stretching is a fitness guide, with simple exercises to build flexibility. The author goes through the science behind why stretching works, as well as proper stretching techniques. There is a good glossary of terms at the beginning of the book, which is a good idea instead of burying it in the back.

The author goes through the different body groupings, such as Neck, Arms and Shoulders, Wrists and Hands, and so forth. The stretches for each are clearly laid out, with step by step instructions and drawings to help visualize the movements.

There are fitness routines that readers can follow, like Everyday Activities, Active Living, and Injury Recovery. These quick, 10 minute, routines are designed to get you going each day.

I liked the blue boxes that separate important information, making it easy to refer back to when the need arises. There are good charts and diagrams, like the muscles of the human body for instance. Having done some of these stretches due to physical therapy, especially the head, neck, and back ones, the 10-Minute Stretching book was a good refresher for me. I would recommend it to other readers, as the concept is a good one and it proves that it only takes a few minutes to take care of yourself.

Disclaimer: I was given an Advanced Reader's Copy of 10-Minute Stretching: Simple Exercises to Build Flexibility into Your Daily Routine by the publisher. The choice to review this fitness book was entirely my own.
5 people found this helpful
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Very comprehensive resource

This is a great book. It not only includes stretches for all different muscles, it has suggested routines for specific injuries and pain issues. I highly recommend!
4 people found this helpful
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Helpful book

I keep this on our coffee table, and we try to do a few stretch routines from it once or twice a week. It's a great book, with lots of illustrations of what to do and very clear instructions. Like the title says, it's perfect for incorporating short stretching sessions into your day, which is so important to do as we age.
3 people found this helpful
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Good Beginner’s Guide

Of the dozens of similar books (not to mention hundreds of web resources and videos), this is worth considering for a beginner who prefers a book to a video.
The strong points are that none of the exercises I’ve tried seem to be harmful, it covers basic anatomy and physiology reasonably well, it has good range-of-motion exercises and warm-ups, it seems based on reasonable scientific understanding rather than a misinterpretation of yoga, it gives some good stretches you can use during everyday activities, and the exercises and illustrations are simple. On the less positive side, the book provides a limited bibliography for those wanting to go further (and to weed out the healthy from the unhealthy), and it doesn’t do much for therapeutic/recovery stretching (or when you should avoid certain stretches).
I think the book is well-suited as a good introduction to basic stretching for someone who is reasonably healthy and just wants to experience the benefits of a good simple routine. Of course, it’s in a competitive environment and there are plenty of other resources to consider.
3 people found this helpful
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Great stretching exercises!

This book explains the benefits and steps to doing the stretches well! Great book !!!
2 people found this helpful
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I have only glanced over the book so far.

There are nice pictures of the different stretches, look easy to follow. That's all I can say so far.
2 people found this helpful

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