Delavier's Stretching Anatomy

Description

This title is the next installment to the best selling anatomy series by Delavier! "Delavier's Stretching Anatomy" is your guide for increasing flexibility, improving range of motion, toning muscles and relieving pain and discomfort. The very best stretches for shoulders, chest, arms, torso, back, hips and legs are all here, and all in the stunning detail that only Frederic Delavier can provide. With over 550 full colour photos and illustrations, you'll go inside more than 130 exercises to see how muscles interact with surrounding joints and skeletal structures and learn how variations, progressions and sequencing can affect muscle recruitment, the underlying structures, and ultimately the results. "Delavier's Stretching Anatomy" includes 13 proven programmes for increasing muscle tone, releasing tension and stress, optimizing training and performance in 13 sports, including running, cycling, basketball and soccer. This title has its publicity and reviews in strength and fitness magazines including "Men's Health", "Health & Strength Magazine", "Muscle & Fitness" and "FitPro". It is featured at fitness events including the annual "FitPro" Convention and the UKSCA Conference. Mailing of this title is via consumer fitness brochure to fitness enthusiasts and individuals interested in stretching, strength and conditioning. It will also feature in sports specific mailings to athletes, coaches and clubs. E-mail marketing campaign to contacts interested in sport, fitness, stretching, strength and conditioning. This title is also featured in Human Kinetics' monthly "FitNews E-Newsletter" sent to over 10,000 subscribers.

Frederic Delavier is a gifted artist with an exceptional knowledge of human anatomy. He studied morphology and anatomy for five years at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studied dissection for three years at the Paris Faculte de Medecine. The former editor in chief of the French magazine PowerMag, Delavier is currently a journalist for the French magazine Le Monde du Muscle and a contributor to several other muscle publications, including Men's Health Germany. He is the author of the best-selling Strength Training Anatomy, Women's Strength Training Anatomy, The Strength Training Anatomy Workout, and Delavier's Core Training Anatomy. Delavier won the French powerlifting title in 1988 and makes annual presentations on the sport applications of biomechanics at conferences in Switzerland. His teaching efforts have earned him the Grand Prix de Techniques et de Pedagogie Sportive. Delavier lives in Paris, France. Jean-Pierre Clemenceau is a fitness coach to the stars and has trained numerous French celebrities using an approach based on positioning and breathing. Clemenceau has worked with legendary actresses including an Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, The English Patient, Three Colors: Blue, The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia, The Science of Sleep, I'm Not There, 21 Grams, Elektra recording artist), Emmanuelle Beart (Mission: Impossible, Don Juan, Manon of the Spring), and Jane Birkin (Blow-Up, recording artist, muse to musicians John Barry & Serge Gainsbourg, and namesake for the Hermes Birkin bag). He is the author of over 15 health and fitness books as well as numerous exercise DVDs. He has a background in yoga, shiatsu, and reiki. Michael Gundill has written 13 books on strength training, sport nutrition, and health including co-authoring The Strength Training Anatomy Workout. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and he has written over 500 articles for bodybuilding and fitness magazines worldwide, including Iron Man and Dirty Dieting. In 1998 he won the Article of the Year Award at the Fourth Academy of Bodybuilding Fitness & Sports Awards in California. Gundill started weightlifting in 1983 in order to improve his rowing performance. Most of his training years were spent completing specific lifting programs in his home. As he gained muscle and refined his program, he began to learn more about physiology, anatomy, and biomechanics and started studying those subjects in medical journals. Since 1995 he has been writing about his discoveries in various bodybuilding and fitness magazines all over the world.