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Advanced Stretching Technique 2 by Bendy Kate is the second edition of the incredibly popular ‘Advanced Stretching Technique’ released in 2016. The second edition has doubled in size, has thousands of new images, new chapters and tons of new theory and anatomy! This training resource book begins with an intro section, answering those most commonly asked questions about stretching, then goes into the physiology and anatomy behind flexibility training. This flexibility encyclopaedia is separated into 11 easy to follow chapters starting from the head and ending with the toes! The book also includes 8 bonus sections on; dynamic flexibility, active flexibility, foam roller, partner stretches, contortion, a new duo contortion section and more!

Understanding more about stretching and the human body is the key to your stretching success.

Bendy Kate has used her knowledge from her degree in Sports Therapy & Rehabilitation, combined it with her 10+ years as a professional athlete to create this educational resource for coaches, both professional & recreational athletes and therapists. The aim is to try and increase the education and understanding of these sports and to better prepare the body for them.
The book begins with a long introduction where you can learn basic human anatomy and physiology. It then goes into the Injuries Chapter, which focuses on variables that can lead to injury, common types of injury in upside down sports, the results of Bendy’s study on injuries in upside down sports. Bendy discusses treatment and therapy options, as recovery should never be done completely alone! From there the book is separated into body parts, starting with the head and finishing with the feet. Each chapter begins with background information on anatomy and common injuries of the body part in question. Bendy believes there are 3 simple steps to rehab/prehab success: Mobility, Stability and Recovery. Therefore in each body part chapter you will find a section of active stretches to increase range of movement, strengthening exercises beneficial to upside down athletes and finishing with a soft tissue release section which you can use in your cool downs. Each chapter contains hundreds of exercises with clearly illustrated images and text to explain the exercises. Exercises are group together according to their muscle group or function (i.e. rotator cuff, or proprioception exercises).

The book contains thousands of images showing a wide variety of rehab and prehab exercises and lots of anatomy images to help the information sink in effectively. Most exercises are difficulty coded so you can understand how to progress or regress the difficulty.