[.ca] Sports Massage for Peak Performance (ISBN 0060951672)

From Amazon.com:
American professional athletes have been using sports massage for more than two decades now, and the technique is considered effective for precontest warm-ups (to increase circulation and flexibility), postevent cool-downs (to relax performance-tightened muscles), and between-contest body maintenance (to keep tissues loose and maintain posture). This straightforward and well-illustrated book shows you how to perform sports-massage techniques on yourself or a partner. It also includes flexibility exercises and offers sport-specific advice.

Written for the Layman athlete:
Sports Massage For Peak Performance is a manual written for athletes who wish to use massage to enhanse thier physical performance in athletics. It's written in easy to understand laymens terms rather than medical and technical language. The main focus is on self-massage with Sweedish techniques and streching, with some attention paid to massage with a partner. Black and White pictures demonstrate the massage moves fairly clearly, and text sections clearly explain what to massage, and what the massage is doing to the muscles. This book, unlike similar works for the layman, covers conditions in which you should *not* massage right at the start, which is important. *Massage Therapists*: If you are a Massage Therapist, this can be a good book to reccomend to your clients who wish to use massage between professional sessions. However, all the material contained within would have been basic study in any massage school, so not something you would need.