"My range of motion changed dramatically when I started stretching. I felt stronger and my results skyrocketed."
Dara Torres, Olympic Swimmer (five medals at Sydney 2000 Olympics)

"The stretching I used to do didn't work. Now I know how important stretching really is. It improved my performance in the game and helped me regain confidence in my athletic ability. I can't believe how intense stretching is."
Henderson Suttle, Volleyball Player

BOOKS



The Genius of Flexibility
The Smart Way to Stretch and Strengthen Your Body
By Robert Donald Cooley
This edition: Trade Paperback
Pub. Date: 09/2005
ISBN: 0743270878
List Price: $17.00
SimonSays.com
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TO BE RELASED SPRING 2008:

  • Bob Cooley's second book:
    The 16 Geniuses - Sixteen Genetic Personality Types
  • The 16 Geniuses DVD
  • Online GPT Typing service

The Genius of Flexibility -
The smart way to stretch and strengthen your body

Bob Cooley presents the groundbreaking discovery that muscles do not stretch the way most everyone now thinks. In 1978, while walking across the street, I was struck by an automobile traveling over 70 mph. This physically and psychologically unearthed me, catapulted me into changing the course of my life, and opened me to discovering the ‘inside secret’ of stretching.

Everyone has tried stretching but most never achieve the increases in flexibility that they expected. In my attempt to rehabilitate myself, I discovered that I had to start in a position where the muscles I wanted to stretch were as short as possible then continuously contract these muscles while elongating them — this gave me immediate increases in flexibility and became known as Resistance Stretching.

I then created sixteen different types of stretches, eight for the upper and eight for the lower body that also surprisingly produced distinctive and predictable physiological and psychological upgrades while the opposite low traits disintegrated. These exact concomitances between muscle groups, different kinds of stretches, energy meridians, physiological functions, and personality traits became known as The Meridian Flexibility System®.

Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training brought me back to life, and soon was used to significantly improve the performance of professional and Olympic athletes. I literally could not only biomechanically upgrade their bodies, but I could involve them in exercises to develop them emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.

Here’s what people are saying about this new way to stretch:


I’m feeling light.
Stretches your reality, not just your body.
A ‘subtractive’ technology—training that leaves no residue.
Raises the quality of my life.
Not just extraordinary changes, but extraordinary rates of change.
I look ten years younger.
It has forever altered my understanding of people and life.
A self-diagnostic tool for physical, spiritual, emotional and mental health.
I am doing things that use to be “a stretch” for me to do.
Gives me another chance, and then another, and another…
Everything becomes organic.
I look for everyone’s genius now.
It makes so much sense.
It works.


THREE BOOKS

The Genius of Flexibility is the first of three books followed by:

The Sixteen Geniuses- 16 Genetic Personality Types
Know Thyself — The Manual. What Type am I? What type is everyone else? Strategies for identifying types; and 16 kinds of relationships. High and Low Psychological Traits and exercises for each type’s transformation.
Release Spring 2008

Balancing Types for Intimate Relationships- Finding the ‘Right’ Type
Relationships without fail; “I’d rather be with someone that doesn’t need me to be someone else— my balancing type”. 8 Balancing Relationships; common traits and differences;
Release Fall 2009



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