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Customers find the book informative and helpful for understanding important concepts for long-term mobility and health. They find it easy to read and understand, with clear and concise explanations of exercises. Many consider it a great value for money, saying it’s worth buying and one of the best investments for knowledge. The book helps them improve their mobility and feel better, preventing injuries and pain.
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Improve your athletic performance, extend your athletic career, treat stiffness and achy joints, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries—all without having to seek out a coach, doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist, or massage therapist. In Becoming a Supple Leopard, Dr. Kelly Starrett shares his revolutionary approach to mobility and maintenance of the human body and teaches you how to hack your own movement, allowing you to live a healthier, more fulfilling life.
This new edition of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller has been thoroughly revised to make it even easier to put to use. Want to truly understand the principles that guide human movement? Becoming a Supple Leopard lays out a blueprint for moving safely and effectively through life and sport. Want to learn how to apply those principles to specific movements, whether you are doing squats in the gym or picking up a bag of groceries? Hundreds of step-by-step photos show you not only how to perform a host of exercise movements, such the squat, deadlift, pushup, kettlebell swing, clean, snatch, and muscle-up, but also how to correct the common faults associated with those movements. Frustrated because you can’t perform a certain movement correctly due to range of motion restrictions? Breaking the body down into 14 distinct areas, Starrett demonstrates hundreds of mobilization techniques that will help you resolve restrictions and reclaim your mobility. Unsure how to put it all together into a program that addresses your individual needs? This updated edition lays out dozens of prescriptions that allow you to hone in on a specific limitation, a nagging injury, or an exercise fault that you just can’t seem to get right. It even offers a 14-day full-body mobility overhaul.
Performance is what drives us as human beings, but dysfunctional movement patterns can bring the human body to an abrupt halt. Often, the factors that impede performance are invisible even to seasoned athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopard makes the invisible visible. Whether you are a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or simply someone wanting to live healthy and free from physical restrictions, this one-of-a-kind training manual will teach you how to harness your athletic potential and maintain your body. Learn how to perform basic maintenance on your body, unlock your athletic potential, live pain-free…and become a Supple Leopard. This step-by-step guide to movement and mobility will show you how to:
• Move safely and efficiently in all situations
• Organize your spine and joints in optimal, stable positions
• Restore normal function to your joints and tissues
• Accelerate recovery after training sessions and competition
• Properly perform strength and conditioning movements like the squat, bench press, pushup, deadlift, clean, and snatch
• Build efficient, transferable movement patterns and skill progressions from simple to more advanced exercises
• Identify, diagnose, and correct inefficient movement patterns
• Treat and resolve common symptoms like low back pain, carpal tunnel, shoulder pain, and tennis elbow
• Prevent and rehabilitate common athletic injuries Use mobilization techniques to address short and stiff muscles, soft tissue and joint capsule restriction, motor control problems, and joint range of motion limitations
• Create personalized mobility prescriptions to improve movement efficiency
From the Publisher
Performance is what drives us as human beings, but dysfunctional movement patterns can bring the human body to an abrupt halt. Often, the factors that impede performance are invisible even to seasoned athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopard makes the invisible visible. Whether you are a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or simply someone wanting to live healthy and free from physical restrictions, this one-of-a-kind training manual will teach you how to harness your athletic potential and maintain your body.
Hundreds of step-by-step photos show you not only how to perform a host of exercise movements, but also how to correct the common faults associated with those movements.
Breaking the body down into 14 distinct areas, Starrett demonstrates hundreds of mobilization techniques that will help you resolve restrictions and reclaim your mobility.
This updated edition lays out dozens of prescriptions that allow you to hone in on a specific limitation, a nagging injury, or an exercise fault that you just can’t seem to get right.
Publisher : Victory Belt Publishing; 2nd edition (May 19, 2015)
Language : English
Hardcover : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 1628600837
ISBN-13 : 978-1628600834
Item Weight : 4.35 pounds
Dimensions : 8.8 x 1.4 x 11.2 inches
by Lisank
Beautiful print!
I just bought this book. I haven’t even read it yet but I had to write a review. At first glance this book is HUGE and beautiful. I did not expect it to be this thick. The illustrations are colorful and they make my brain eager and excited to read. It is chokefull of knowledge and literally looks like an encyclopedia or science book. I love it already and my nerdy self cannot wait to immerse myself in it, and then put the knowledge into practice. I found out about this book while reading ‘Built from Broken’ by Scott Hogan. Even he was raving about it and I found Scott’s book extremely helpful, so I decided to make ‘Supple Leopard’ my next read. I will be back with more reviews after reading, but I am super excited about it.
by Joseph Molloy
Buy and start becoming better
âAll human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves.âItâs almost a call to arms, a revolution in who we are and how we treat our bodies. It shouldnât be of course, but the idea that you can do work on your own body is one I have come to embrace. Not just lifting and building muscle but fixing your own injuries. Digging deeper into your own body, learning what is wrong with it and working through a path to fix it yourself.The idea behind this book is that everyone should be able to move well, like jungle cats. That the body was designed for optimum movement for a long time. If you canât now that doesnât mean you canât in the future.Supple Leopard is the guide to better movement and performance. It can help you resolve any problem issues and how to do it yourself.Kelly Starrett is an athlete, a former high level kayaker, the owner of San Francisco Crossfit and a Doctor of Physical Therapy. The guy knows a bit about movement. Heâs used his experience as an athlete and physio to turn his gym into a testing ground, a lab for physical movement and how to get better.Supple Leopard is a textbook, like a dictionary for your body. When I have a physical issue from jiu-jitsu training or lifting weights this is the first place I turn. Itâs a thick, dense read that is best chipped away at or pulled out and used when needed.His message that you have control over your own health is empowering. You can sort out and resolve many of your physical problems. But it wonât be easy and it might not be quick.Kelly wants you to commit to ten minutes a day of basic maintenance. Find your weak points and work on them. Canât squat? Heâll show you a progression how to get there and then you best be doing some squat practice everyday. Bad shoulders and canât lift overhead? Thereâs plenty for that too.He talks about fundamental movement patterns and positions that we should all be able to get into. and how we should all be able to get into them. If we canât something is wrong. So we then we should fix it.Much of what we do all day everyday goes against how our bodies evolved. Sitting down, reaching forward all day tapping at keys or swiping at phones. Wearing huge soles between us and the ground as we drink and eat poor quality food. And then we try and exercise. Is it any surprise when that doesn’t go well?Starrett thinks the human body is an amazing machine that can take an obscene amount of abuse. When it breaks it can break hard but it doesnât have to.Check out his website MobilityWOD for great free content including hundreds of videos. Heâs gone on to write a book on how to run without pain, Ready to Run. And has just come out with Deskbound on how to stand up from the desk and change your life. He and wife Juliet run Stand Up Kids where they try and get standing desks in schools. To stop our kids from getting messed up like we did. They are super heroes.This is a big expensive book but if you are going to be harder to destroy itâs a must. It gives you the tools to make yourself better and more awesome. This one is a lock for the shelf.
by nikki
Excellent – best book out there
Best guide out there for proper technique and optimization. I am studying for my CPT certificate and this is like a bible in tandem to my studies. I canât thank Dr. Starrett enough for this wisdom and expertise.
by Nikki Stock
100% Necessity for coaches, athletes, trainers, and all human beings
I was borrowing my friend’s copy of the first edition of this book and that was a great book. This version is even better. I could not be happier that I bought it. As a coach and trainer, everything in this book helps me help my athletes and clients. As a gym rat and CrossFitter, this book has saved my life. This is the best fitness/movement book I have ever read.The biggest differences between the first and second editions is that in the new edition there are sections where you can look for mobilizations based on the location of your pain (which includes mobilizations for muscle groups around the area that is hurting to address the causes of your pain which are not always simply an issue with that muscle group only), and there is an improved section based on muscle group you want to mobilize. Another thing I love is that there are little icons on the side of the mobilization pages that indicate what “architypes” (basically what exercises, movements, or positions) will be helped or improved by the mobilizations. Example: some shoulder mobilizations indicate that it will help your front rack position, overhead position, external rotation, etc.This book is perfect for people who want to know more about human movement but don’t have an educational background in related subjects. It is very easy to understand and has a great balance between scientific writing and casual english so you can learn without getting frustrated about not knowing crazy terms and concepts related to exercise science and kinesiology.Overall an extremely good investment for anyone even if you’re not an athlete or coach and just want to help yourself get rid of pesky pain from your job or lifestyle.
by James
The best book ever written for injury prevention
Teaches you years of trial and error in days and is the most comprehensive and easy to use manual for diagnosing and treating minor injuries and tightness. I’ve used this and recommended it to clients for over a decade now and it remains the best of its kind.If you are living in a human body, you need to have this book.
by ClientAmazingWoW
I read the book and tried the exercises. I am a very old martial arts practitioner and found relief in many exercises. It is the best practical book I have read in years. I use the teachings every day, such as how to squat to pick something up on the floor. I improved my flexibility and healed some wrist and back pain. It does not replace your doctor, however. It helped me a lot.
by Ismarillo
Para mi es el mejor libro para estiramientos y mobilidad, es super completo y viene todo perfectamente explicado.
by Frequent Flyer
Great book, easy to ready, well structured, easy to understand explanations and easy to follow the protocols.Good use of photographs and images throughout to aid the explanations in the text. Good bonding and good quality pages.Nice use of space throughout the book making it easy to make appropriate notes at pert in any points.
by Abdulla Aljairoudi
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