The Great Stretch Tubing Handbook
by Andre Noel Potvin
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Author: Andre Noel PotvinBrand: Ball Dynamics
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-22
ISBN: 0969677367
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Productive Fitness Pub
Product features:
- Appropriate for all fitness levels.
- Useful for toning and shaping, rehabilitation, and athletes.
- Improve versatility and functionality in your workout.
- A complete, yet portable workout.
- Tanita BC533 Glass Innerscan Body Composition Monitor
- Professional (Heavy) Resistance Band Package, Includes: Red "Heavy" Resistance Tube, Blue "Extra Heavy" Resistance Tube, Door Attachment and Handbook
- Professional (Medium) Resistance Band Package, Includes: Green "Medium" Resistance Tube, Red "Heavy" Resistance Tube, Door Attachment and Handbook
- Professional (Extra-Heavy) Resistance Band Package, Includes: Blue "Extra-Heavy" Resistance Tube, Black "Ultra-Extra" Heavy Resistance Tube, Door Attachment and Handbook
- Professional Premium Molded Foam Handles Resistance Tubing: Black Ultra-Heavy
Book Reviews of The Great Stretch Tubing Handbook
Book Review: Fitness experts offer fitness buffs the basics of working with strength bands
Summary: 4 Stars
I mostly like this little book or booklet. Here's why.
1. It offers a stretching routine to do before a workout for those who prefer to stretch.
2. It offers the basics of using rubber resistance. The pros and cons.
3. It breaks the exercises down into the muscle groups the exercise works so you can plan your workout.
3. Has a nice anatomy of the muscles. A page for the front and a page for the back side.
4. Good quality color photos of each exercise. Two to three in most cases.
5. Good instructions for each exercise.
6. A small section (couple pages) on working the rotator cuff. Important to many people.
What I didn't like.
1. Many excellent and important exercises are missing. For example, the chest press. It offers a number of variations of the exercise but not the basic chest press.
2. Lacks many lower body exercises such as leg curl.
3. Advises a 45 minute or more workout plus cardio. That's way too much and very unnecessary. One set to failure of five or six exercises is more than enough and cardio is not necessary unless you really want to do it.
Included in the book are:
A series of stretch tubing exercises to work the whole body
How to make and use your own door attachment
A section on rotator cuff exercises
Stretch tubing safety
Sample routine
A complete stretching section
Training tips
Muscle anatomy diagrams
I've ordered some Bodylastics and expect to get a large manual of exercises with that. Of course, I know most of the exercises this book lacks but I find it a bit of a disappointment that fitness experts would publish a book that's basically incomplete.
I do, however, recommend the book to beginners to this great workout method. It's also a good little reference book for anyone who uses strength bands. Strength bands are wonderful and they work. So if you're new to strength bands and need a place to start, this book is fine. Another book to consider is Strength Band Training - 2nd Edition, which I read and reviewed. It's more complete.
- Susanna K. Hutcheson
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