Dara Torres won her first olympic gold in 1984. This time, at the age of 41, she has won her 10th medal in the Beijing Olympics.
How does she do it?
“Torres calls resistance stretching her “secret weapon.” Bob Cooley, who invented the discipline, describes it in less-modest terms. According to Cooley, over a two-week period in 1999, his flexibility system turned Torres “from being an alternate on the relay team to the fastest swimmer in America.” The secret to Torres’s speed, Cooley says, is that his technique not only makes her muscles more flexible but also increases their ability to shorten more completely, and when muscles shorten more completely, they produce greater power and speed.”
The resistance stretching Torres is talking about is called “Meridian Stretching”:
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