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About Founder Bob Cooley
Bob Cooley is the founder and president of the
Meridian Stretching Centers and the developer of Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training (RFST).
He is internationally known as an expert on biomechanical flexibility, and its relation to physiological and
psychological health. His theories unite human biomechanical analysis, Classical Hatha Yoga, Traditional
Chinese Medicine, and his original theory on Genetic Personality Types being presented in this second book:
The 16 Geniuses —Sixteen Genetic Personality Types. Bob has over 20 years of teaching and research
experience in mathematics, biomechanics, motor learning, Resistive Flexibility and Strength Training,
sport specific analysis, Traditional Chinese Medicine, personality types, and nutrition. In 1978, he
addressed the U.S. Olympic Swim Committee's Advanced Coaches Seminar on his head-up free-style swim
stroke, which he developed to eliminate "swimmer's shoulder" and as the fastest freestyle stroke.
In 1979, he wrote a paper with Dorothy Voss, one of the developers of PNF, who was the forerunner
of current rehabilitative PNF stretching techniques. Bob did graduate study at the University of
Massachusetts Exercise Science Department, where he worked with the developer of the current human
biomechanical computer analysis, and at the University of Maryland Biophysical Studies Department.
He is currently a flexibility and psychological trainer for professional and Olympic athletes, Professional
Artists and Performers, severely injured individuals, and CEOs of Organic Companies. This year he trained Physical
Therapists in Holland, Belgium, and France in RFST. He has appeared on GMA, NBC, and Fox, and has
been featured in articles in Sports Illustrated, Self, Elle, Outside Magazines, etc.
His research project Quantifying Human Range of Motion (QHROM) is an international collaboration by Canada
scientists and US. He is the world’s leading expert on rehabilitative therapy for removing dense fascia and
scar tissue resulting from athletic training and injuries, and repetitive performance stresses.The 16 Genius —
Sixteen Genetic Personality Types presents groundbreaking research into types. He is being called the “New Freud”.
The 16 Geniuses is also concurrently being scripted into an Off-Broadway Show by the same name where one woman and one
man display the 16 types one consecutive nights.
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