Debaser & Others, I bought the book

[Tom Treutlein]

Well, I took Debaser's advice and purchased Mark Verstegen's Core Performance book. I'm not going to say it was the best $30 I've ever spent, as I haven't invested any more than five minutes into doing the movement prep portion of the book. I've read the first fourty pages so far, and it's just like anything else you'd read online.

He gives analogies to support the book's goal: increasing the performance and functionality of your "pillar" or core. That was nothing special, but it's nice to feel something familiar while reading. I'm not so much for the bullshit people spit out in terms of why their book is great and will help you in "so many ways".

Once I got to actually doing, though, I did enjoy the first portion. The first section, entitled "Movement Prep", is awesome. I feel very limber after completing just three of the stretches.

I have yet to see what the rest of this book holds in store (besides brief glimpses through the pages at B&N), but I'm excited. I would buy the book for, if nothing else, the movement prep section.

 

[casualbb]

What think will be most helpful for me is, like you said, the movement prep, but also the prehab work and the AIS stretching

I'm SUPER inflexible, and it's getting bad. Unsurprisingly, static stretching wasn't doing much but after literally one AIS session I could almost touch my toes (haven't been able to do that since grade school)

 

[Tom Treutlein]

You could do that with static, too. Trust me. Don't give up to the hype of AIS. You just need to focus for 10-15 minutes with stretching. I know this, because I used to have that issue.

The AIS won't be as helpful to me, since I already can land in splits from jumps, after warming up. I looked at some of the prehab stuff (the latter five exercises, not the shit ont he ball) and am planning to incorporate it. As for the ball letter exercises (L, T, W and Y) I'll just use external and internal weighted rotations to strengthen my rotator cuffs and such.

I'd also use the lying opposites and reverse hypers on the physioball, especially if you train at home and have no other way to do reverse hypers. Russian twists, too, maybe.

 

[Debaser]

AIS stretching isn't hype. Mark Verstegen didn't make it up. Aaron Mattes pioneered it. It's much, much more effective for restoring muscle length than conventional static stretching.