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Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance Hardcover – May 19, 2015

by Kelly Starrett (Author), Glen Cordoza (Author)

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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 masseur. In Becoming a Supple Leopard, Dr. Kelly Starrett—founder of MobilityWOD.com—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

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Dr. Kelly Starrett—coach, physiotherapist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Ready to Run—has revolutionized how coaches, athletes, and everyday humans approach performance as it relates to movement, mechanics, and the actualization of human and athletic potential. He and his wife, Juliet Starrett, co-founded San Francisco CrossFit and MobilityWOD.com, where they share their innovative approach to movement, mechanics, and mobility with millions of athletes and coaches around the world. Kelly travels the world teaching his wildly popular Movement & Mobility Course and also works with elite military forces and every branch of the military; athletes from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB; and nationally ranked and world-ranked strength and power athletes. He consults with Olympic teams and universities and is a featured speaker at strength and conditioning and medical conferences nationwide. Kelly believes that all human beings should know how to move and be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves. He lives in northern California with his insanely talented and amazing wife and their two young lionesses, Georgia and Caroline. His chief life goal is to spend more time on the beach with his family.

Glen Cordoza is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and a former professional mixed martial artist and Muay Thai boxer. He is one of the most published authors on the topics of MMA, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, and fitness with 20 books to his credit.

Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing; 2nd edition (May 19, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1628600837
ISBN-13: 978-1628600834
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.3 x 10.9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 1,427 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #21 in Books > Sports & Outdoors

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Michael C.

Really works

May 14, 2017

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You can improve your posture and mobility and Kelly's book teaches you how. Don't just skip to the exercises, the first sections are loaded with knowledge of bimechanics written for people with no medical background. The concepts are extremely important to understand for long term mobility and health.

I was diagnosed with kyphosis (similar to scoliosis, think hunched back) in high school. It was not that bad, most people would never notice, but I had some back pain. Doctors just said there was not much I could do.

10 years later I started lifting and came across Kelly's work and started working to improve my body mechanics. I have significantly improved the curvature of my spine and mobility in my spine, hips, and shoulders. I notice big differences when I look in the mirror and have much less back pain.

I am in my 20s, but see my parents loosing their mobility in their 50s. I have shared th book and ideas with them. I am sure this will help me stay functional long past my 50s and 60s.

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jim

Excellent. I discovered Kelly Starrett on his YouTube site ...

May 13, 2015

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Excellent. I discovered Kelly Starrett on his YouTube site and had to have the book. Second edition is about to come out and I would recommend it just based on how good the first edition is.

If you are into fitness, this is a must have.

If you have mobility or other physical issues, the last third of the book is invaluable. I pair the book with his videos for best results. The book helps me discover the the methodology more easily and then I can pinpoint my search of his Youtube channel for better instruction.

I have made more progress in addressing twenty year old physical problems in a few weeks than in all of the other modalities that I have used combined.

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Ronna B.

This trainer not only goes deeperand farther than the best trainers available to us

September 25, 2016

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A virtual gem if you are patient and read carefully, practicing along the way. This text defies description bc it reaches farther than anyything available, hits the major components of bodymechanics in regard to stability, safety, performance! This trainer not only goes deeperand farther than the best trainers available to us, but makes you concious of the faulty ( as in leading to injury) positions of what we commonly think of as the best trainers. I had a serious hip problem of 21/2 yrs. which was compounded by serious degenerative disc disease seen on frightening xrays. Since following Kelly's protocols I am nearly pain free after less than a month. I am 77 and 5'1" 90 lbs. The more squats Zi do correctly the better I feel! Remember you have to read and practice in a mirror copying the "correct " poses! You will be surprized at what hard work and discipline can accomplish. ( I do the exercises w/o drugs or supplements of any kinds!

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If you are suffering from pain and want to keep exercising you will want this book.

May 29, 2013

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After years of weightlifting my shoulders were in bad shape and I had given up bench pressing, overhead pressing, dips and other pressing movements. I had seen a chiropractor for Active Release Therapy and Graston treatment and that helped but still didn't get me back all the way. I had heard of Dr. Starrett and when I saw the book and read some of the reviews I purchased the book and put it to use the same day I received it.

I gave the first part of the book a quick read and then moved to the treatment sections and started working hard on the areas of the upper body to start and the results have been terrific. While I still have a bit discomfort that is gradually decreasing as I continue the work on it. After the therapy work and reading Dr. Starrett's directions on how to properly Dip, I was able to perform Dips pain free for the first time in years.

I am now working on adding more techniques and re-reading the first part of the book more closely as it contains a lot of information how to move properly to both maximize efficiency as well as how to move properly to avoid pain and injury.

If you currently are dealing with pain you should get this book and jump into the section you need to work on.

If you are not dealing with pain but you exercise, weight lift, etc.. you should still get this book and start working on keeping yourself injury free.

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Matt Sobolewski

Big book (geared toward the pro), but useful if you really want to improve your mobility

June 1, 2016

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I bought this book to just improve my hip mobility, but found so much information here, I have gone far beyond my hips. I have improved my hip mobility, my knees feel great (50-year old knees that have run several marathons in the past 5 years), and now I am working on my shoulders. I feel better and move better than I have in years (I also sleep better). My squat and deadlift have improved immensely, and now I am working on the pistol squat. I am going to nail that move!

One warning: This is a big technical book, that is more of a textbook than just your average fitness book. Geared toward coaches and trainers and physical therapists. But if I can find value here, so can others looking to improve mobility.

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Jorge

Best Mobility book out there.....

November 1, 2017

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This is probably the most comprehensive and best mobility book out there covering a range of movement and mobility topics for both athletes and non-athletes. Highly recommended.

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Anne Winkler

Useful even if you don't power-lift!

June 5, 2017

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This book is not fast reading, but it is valuable reading. I have felt better just implementing his suggestions for better posture, changing the way I move in daily activities, and improving my form in squatting and push-ups.

I drive many miles a day, and this book is helping me mitigate the destructive effects of all that time in the car.

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