Learn the truth about stretching and mobility
Exercise physiologist Glen Phipps cuts through the noise around these controversial practices and offers readers evidence-based tools and advice they can use in their everyday life.
“Too many people are relying on misinformation that can actually increase their risk of injury. This book offers a proven system that empowers readers to move well, improve strength and build a lasting foundation for health.”
Glenn Phipps
About the book
In his latest book, Stretch Yourself Strong, exercise physiologist Glen Phipps cuts through the noise around these controversial practices and offers readers evidence-based tools and advice they can use in their everyday life.
According to Phipps, many of us are doing stretching and mobility exercises for the sake of it, or we’re repeating these motions with no progression – and that’s where we’re going wrong. As Phipps outlines in Stretch Yourself Strong, purposeful movement is what makes all the difference.
In his world-first system, which is also available in an online course, Phipps explains that to escape the cycle of injury and pain, you need to get specific on what movement matters to you and avoid plateaus with progressive training.
The four phases of the Stretch Yourself Strong framework include:
Phase 1: Improve range of motion and get strong at your end range through stretching and isometric movements.
Phase 2: Learn how to use Range of Motion (ROM) with dynamic stretching,
flows and isometrics through your full ROM.
Phase 3: Make tissue changes permanent through eccentric strength training and eccentric quasi-isometrics (EQI).
Phase 4: Explosive training that is sport-specific for injury prevention, sport-specific with ballistic stretching and explosive isometric exercises.
Informed by 20 years of research, Stretch Yourself Strong isn’t a quick fix. Instead, it’s designed to help you make permanent changes to your muscles – think resilient tendons to help with injury prevention, the ability to withstand force in three planes of motion, increasing your capacity to recover and building strength through full sporting movements.
Stretch Yourself Strong for pain-free performance
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Glenn Phipps
Glenn Phipps, B.Ex.Sp.Sci, M.Clin.Ex.Phys, AEP
Glenn Phipps is an in-demand Exercise Physiologist who helps trainers, athletes and answer-hungry humans navigate the confusing world of exercise science, so they can avoid mindless mobility and bro-science. Having helped a long list of clientele from world champion athletes to the always injured, and even consulting with military and fitness products, he is passionate about sharing his unique take on improving movement capacity.
He has appeared on ESPN, Fox Sports and written for a range of publications including Men’s Health, Women’s Health and Fitness, and many more. When not writing bio’s in the 3rd person, he is doing his best to convince his body that it is still 20 years old, in order to continue to push hard through his outdoor and water-based passions.
“Glenn’s knowledge is only surpassed by his excitement for helping others. Glenn is a great resource for anyone looking to improve their performance and health.”
RYAN ATKINS, OCR World Champ, Toughest Mudder World Champ (and lots of other crazy stuff..
“This is a game changer.”
Pete Day, Hyrox Ambassador, Hybrid Athlete
FAQ
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Sessions range from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. Ideally, you would do a 20-minute session at least once a week and 5-minute sessions daily.
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You could do everything here without any real gym equipment. If you are prepping for an event such as Hyrox, best results would see you applying the sport specific strategies in the Phase 4 training on equipment used in the Hyriox stations.
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This program is designed for those as stiff as a board or as bendy as whatever the opposite of a stiff board is.
The point is to gain flexibility, then ensure we are strong through out full range. The techniques in this program have been proven to create flexibility gains quickly, even in those people who have found stretching and mobility exercises to not work for them
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Most mobility programs are good at getting you to utilise the range of motion you already have. Plus, they do little to create sport specific gains through creating not only strong, but explosive range of motion.
The techniques in this system;
Create strength through full range
Target tendon strength and function through specific techqniques
Recognise that flexibility is different under different conditions such as speed and load, and program accordingly
Allow you to gain range of motion, then learn how to use that range
Create permanent change (not just in the hours or days after activity) through muscle fibre changes not seen in other programming
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Stretch Yourself Strong not only uses a wide range of techniques but puts them into an order based on the physiological adaptations they create.
Stretching, dynamic exercise (mobility), eccentric training and a progression of isometric training including end range isometrics, variable angle isometrics, eccentric-quasi isometrics and explosive isometrics.
Which all sounds like a lot of stuff, but rest assured it is easy enough to follow along with!