Compensatory exercises - relaxation, stretching

This unique publication presents all fitness, performance and elite athletes with more than ninety suitable relaxation, stretching and strengthening compensatory exercises using their own body weight and available exercise equipment such as the weighted rubber, gymnastic ball and overball. The author, an experienced university teacher, emphasizes descriptions of proper technique and points out possible errors and subjective feelings during the exercises. All exercises are demonstrated in nearly three hundred photographs and pictures.

About the Author

Bursová Marta

Assistant professor at the Department of Physical Education and Sport at FPE ZČU Plzeň - teaches health physical education and anthropomotorics. Her main focus is the investigation of the individual level of postural function in sporting and non-sporting population with vertebrogenic problems. On the basis of the analysis, she develops movement intervention compensation programs, which are consistently based on neurophysiological laws of movement control and functional relationships of individual muscle groups.

Release date: 23. 08. 2005

Format / pages: 167×240, 196 pages

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