Review: The Genius of Flexibility

I'm torn. On one hand, this book has done amazing things for me. I feel so. much. better. The book's big idea worked. On the other hand, it was only able to do so because I have a rather extensive knowledge of stretching, musculature, and mind-body connection. The book itself is repetitive, poorly organized, and acts like it's giving explanations when it's merely repeating assertions. The stretches themselves are hard to figure out from the descriptions and limited pictures; I could guess most of them because of the similarities to yoga poses, but not all, and I really think the book should aim higher. I would have tolerated, even enjoyed, the amount of fuzzy energetics and unscientific claims, but only if the author used them to make predictions I could test in my own body. I'm still unsure whether my personality type means I should stretch the associated muscles more or less. Also, maybe he could have not reprinted the Chinese Traditional Medicine meridian diagrams four times and used the space for some muscle charts? You know, for people who don't have every muscle name, location, and attachment point memorized.

I'm waiting on another book that uses the same theme (contracting muscles as you stretch them), hopefully that one will be better. Because if a mediocre implementation can lessen my back pain, give me greater hip range of motion, combat tendinitis, visibly improve my posture, and make me generally happier and less tense- in a week- then I would like to meet the grown up version