Prehab Exercises Static Stretching is an illustrated guide to the ABC Approach for Static Stretching that was created by Michael Rosengart. For the last several years, many people have warned others to avoid static stretching out of fear that the technique would ruin an individual's performance. However, this cultural bias against static stretching is not exactly well-informed. Michael Rosengart reviews the current scientific literature on static stretching and offers a novel approach to the technique along with hundreds of detailed illustrations and easy-to-use exercise cues. Prehab Exercise Static Stretching can help anyone to effectively use static stretching to increase range of motion, prevent injuries, enhance performance and improve movement quality. In the past, I hardly ever used to stretch.    Why? Because I heard numerous times that 'stretching didn't do anything.'   At the same time, I was a very active and athletic person throughout my whole life. I would play sports any chance that I got when I was growing up and that continued all throughout my twenties and thirties.   In fact, I was very dedicated to running (and playing in) a flag football league in Hollywood all throughout the latter half of my thirties. I simply loved the energy and excitement of sports.    Oddly enough, I never quite understood stretching even though I was a personal trainer at one of the most innovative commercial gyms in the nation, Equinox Fitness.    I am rather embarrassed by my ignorance, which is why I decided to research and write this book.   Back then, I understood 'static stretching was bad for you' because I heard from several different places and faces, none of which I can clearly remember now. I just remember the repeating sentiment: athletes don't do static stretching; they perform dynamic stretching.    At the same time, I would sit on the grass in Pan Pacific Park under the clear blue LA sky and stretch out my legs and hips after I just spent a few hours playing flag football. And it felt so good! Sweat and all.   In fact, I'd notice how easy it was to just melt deeper and deeper into each stretch with each passing breath.    I also practiced yoga quite a bit once I started working for Equinox all the way back in 2000. I was very fortunate because Equinox had some amazing yoga teachers, who easily guided me into a better position for each pose with just a few finely articulated cues. And I always felt great after a yoga class, which made me want to take a class at every chance that I got.   Well, that's a bit of a misnomer.   Working in a gym that has yoga class everyday would make it seem easy to make yoga a daily habit.   It actually was not that easy after all because I usually had to train a client when the yoga class was going on.    To make matters worse, I trained a lot of clients and basically only had free time in the afternoons on the weekend. Of course, my Saturday afternoons were firmly devoted to playing flag football. As for Sundays... well, everyone one knows how Sunday Fun-days can bring you far and wide on adventures if the NFL is not in season.   Yet, yoga was always good for me, which was a bit weird since it was a lot of stretching, more specifically, a lot of static stretching (depending on the yoga teacher and the class format). But I would really feel great afterwards. In fact, I would also feel taller, lighter, and proud.    I ramble on about yoga because these classes were clearly showing me how effective static stretching could be for me despite all of the rumblings, I heard that pinned static stretching as not good.   Of course, I practiced dynamic stretching. I also included foam rolling and a variety of activation exercises, all of which certainly helped me prepare for workouts or sports. However, I wish I had known exactly how good static stretching was, as well as when, where and how to do it.   I finally started to research static stretching because I started meditation and found it hard to sit still in a cross-legged position, let alone the icon lotus position. All of the years that I spent running, playing sports and lifting weights with a shortened Range of Motion, had left my hips so tight that my knees basically reached up into my armpits every time I tried to sit cross-legged.    Fortunately, I am curious. So, I headed over to Google Scholar and PubMed to research static stretching, which ultimately lead to the writing of this book, as well as a presentation about static stretching with the National Strength and Conditioning Association.   Though I cannot sit in lotus yet, I am certainly much closer. More importantly, my understanding of how, when, and why to use static stretching helps me to know that I have found a way to help myself regarding the ability to sit in a cross-legged position and meditate. Additionally, static stretching is helping to increase my overall Range of Motion, create specific positions for various skills that I practice, and improve my p