The Movement Miracle: The Essentrics Stretch Program to Increase Strength, Improve Mobility and Become Pain Free
by Miranda Esmonde-White
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From Canadian fitness pioneer, bestselling author and PBS star Miranda Esmonde-White, the definitive Essentrics stretching and strengthening book, designed to keep your body strong, mobile and pain-free whatever your age. Miranda Esmonde-White's fitness revolution began with a simple insight: many exercise programs, including the ones she used to teach at her own studio, actually cause injury and prematurely age the body, bulking muscles and restricting joints. Throwing out the idea of "no show more pain, no gain," she studied how we are actually designed to move, creating a program that stretches and strengthens all the muscles in the body in a balanced way, enhances the full range of motion of every joint, and unglues stuck connective tissue. The result is Essentrics, a groundbreaking practice of gentle movement, respecting the muscle chains and joint mobility of the body, that scientists from Harvard, Adelphi and McGill universities have validated as a way to keep us strong, flexible and fit for life, as well as providing immense benefits for brain and digestive health. In beautifully shot illustrations, twelve models who range in age from their twenties to their late sixties--all of whom have benefited from the program--demonstrate 100 sequences of gentle movements that can be combined to meet the needs of everyone from office workers to elite athletes. Another section of the book concentrates on posture, teaching us how to counteract the harmful impacts of sedentary living and too much screen time. The revolution Esmonde-White offers us all: only twenty-five minutes a day of gentle movement, following the Essentrics formula, will radically change and strengthen your body, relieve you of pain, replenish your energy and keep you young, no matter your age. show lessTags
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Miranda Esmonde-White is a New York Times bestselling author, and one of America's greatest advocates and educators of healthy aging. She is best known for her top-rated fitness television show Classical Stretch, which has been airing on public television since 1999. A former ballerina, she created the Essentrics technique in 1997, which uses show more low-intensity stretching and strengthening exercises to rebalance the full body, relieve pain, prevent and treat injury, as well as improve mobility and flexibility. Esmonde-White is the author of a brand-new book called Aging Backwards: Fast Track-set to become the new universal age-reversing guide with six scientifically formulated methods to slow down the clock-as well as the Globe and Mail bestseller and Nautilus award-winning book Forever Painless, which offers an accessible solution to the current pain epidemic. She is the creator and host of several award-winning Aging Backwards PBS documentaries, and works with professional and Olympic athletes and celebrities; she also hosts several fitness retreats and live teacher trainings around the world each year. show less
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