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
