Meridian Strengthening & Stretching Training
www.meridianstretching.comBob Cooley is the founder and president of the Meridian Stretching
Center and the developer of a revolutionary stretching technique
known as Resistance Stretching. An expert on flexibility and its
relation to health, he has united biomechanics, structural kinesiology,
Hatha yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a genetically based
personality system in his powerful stretching program, The Meridian
Flexibility System®.
Bob has over 20 years of teaching and research experience in such diverse fields as biomechanics, motor learning, stretching, movement, yoga, Chinese Medicine, personalities, and psychology. In 1978, he addressed the U.S. Olympic Swim Committee's Advanced Coaches Seminar on his head-up free-style swim stroke, which he developed to avoid "swimmer's shoulder". In 1979, he wrote a paper with Dorothy Voss, one of the developers of PNF, which is the forerunner of current rehabilitative stretching techniques. Bob did graduate research at the University of Massachusetts Exercise Science Department, where he worked with the developer of current biomechanical computer analysis, and the University of Maryland Biophysical Studies Department.
Bob has stretched Dara Torres, Olympic gold medalist swimmer, Eric Flaim, the four-time Olympic speed skater, Daniel Pelzig, choreographer for the Boston Ballet, athletes from the Boston Bruins, and professional dancers. He is a flexibility and psychological trainer for professional athletes, tri-athletes, and CEOs. Currently he is writing his second book on personality system entitled The Sixteen Geniuses - Sixteen Genetic Personality Types.