Karin Albrecht

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Karin Albrecht (* 1958 ) is a Swiss stretching expert, author and trainer in the fields of posture , muscular stabilization and mobility . She is considered the most important stretching expert in Europe.

Life

Karin Albrecht completed basic training in classical ballet , modern and jazz dance and studied at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York .

At the age of 25, she broke off her career as a dancer at the Swiss Dance Theater. Mid-1980s she began a ten-year phase wide-ranging body of therapeutic education and further training . These ranged from classic massage and sports massage through various alternative forms of treatment to the areas of nutrition and metabolism as well as stretching and mobilization techniques.

In 1994 she founded the publishing house Edition Karin Albrecht and in 1995 she founded Teaching Karin Albrecht for the implementation of training courses . She put these together in the star school for training and recreation founded in 2000 with Cyrill Lüthi and Walter Burk . She runs this together with Lüthi, who is a former sports aerobics professional and now an internationally known dance aerobics presenter and trainer.

Karin Albrecht now works internationally as a trainer and speaker, mainly in German-speaking countries. She is the author of various publications , including a. the recognized textbook “Stretching and Mobility - the new expert handbook” (Albrecht / Meyer), the fitness books “Posture, healthy back through correct training” and “Functional training with the big ball” and “Nordic Walking Stretch” (Albrecht / Mommert-Jauch ).

In recent years, Karin Albrecht has also developed a new movement concept called Antara . This goes beyond Pilates and takes modern physiological knowledge into account .

Publications

  • 1986 stretch. The active rest with Prof. E. Senn. Sphinx Verlag, Basel, ISBN 3-85914-632-7
  • 1993 Stretch - the ritual of movement . Edition Karin Albrecht, Baar, ISBN 3-9520344-0-1
  • 1995 Fit like a sneaker . Sphinx Verlag, Basel, ISBN 3-85914-651-3
  • 1997 Stretching, the expert handbook with Stephan Meyer and Lukas Zahner for the Swiss Federal Sports School Magglingen. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-7760-1626-4
  • 1997 Stretching, the technique . Video for the Swiss Federal Sports School Magglingen, Edition Karin Albrecht
  • 2002 posture. Posture correction and stability in training and everyday life . Haug Verlag, ISBN 978-3830471370
  • 2003 stretching. Exercise programs for a better body feeling , BLV Verlag, ISBN 978-3405164478
  • 2006 walking stretch . Haug Verlag, ISBN 3-8304-7240-4
  • 2006 Posture: Healthy back through proper training . Haug Verlag, 2nd, revised. Ed., ISBN 3-8304-7247-1
  • 2006 Functional training with the big ball . Haug Verlag, ISBN 3-8304-7240-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Susanne Loacker: Healthy with a beautiful, flat stomach . In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 19, 2008. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012.