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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

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  • 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
  • Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,268 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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As a biomechanics and Injury prevention specialist, I specialize in corrective exercise and have made a successful career out of it. I am always looking for new information and books to expand my knowledge of the human body. I was looking for a bit more than what this book provided. I was originally drawn in by the amazing reviews (even before the book was released). Which is awfully suspicious. Regardless, I'd figure I'd see what all of the hype is about. As a practitioner, I am more interested in causation and correction, less in just what looks( or doesn't look) right. This book provided very little of what I was looking for and I'd recommend several other, more detailed books before this one, if you are interested in injury prevention. The book was filled with errors, that was easy for someone like myself to pick out quickly.

Pros: Solid info on 'smashing', picked up some new stuff.

Cons: Lack of detailed explanations
Errors in simple understandings of human mechanics
Heavily influenced by Crossfit propaganda
Little info on causation

Recommendations: NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist
Movement-Gray Cook
Pain-Free Program-Anthony Carey
Advances in Functional Training-Mike Boyle
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I was initially surprised that on the day of publication +200 five star reviews hit Amazon for this book and it strikes a little more balance is required.

While I subscribe to much of what the author puts forth and on balance this is a worthwhile resource there are some real pros and cons...

Among the pros is the philosophy, comprehensiveness and generally easy to read style that is at times conversational in a positive manner.

There are some major cons. Starting with the fact that there is no index -- are you kidding me. This matters as for many I suspect this will serve more as a resource than read it once and absorb everything. Second issue is that it is very dense in material. This makes synthesizing things a challenge at times as we are left to figure them out on your own. I suspect many more lay or casual athletes will give up due to this. I could only read a chapter, or so, at a time. Pictures are okay but a tie to all the videos on his site would be much better. When dealing with movement still pictures aren't the same. I also would have liked to have seen a chapter relating sporting activities to the motions and mobility they require and the issues they tend to raise.

One other important point. Prior to publication of the book mobilitywod.com, the author's web site, was a free blog. It is pushed heavily in the reviews and in the book. It is now a for pay site. Fair enough, it doesn't need to be free but it is a material turnoff to link the two in the way it has been done.

So, I recommend this more for a trainer, serious athlete, and less for the casual athlete who arguably this should be most useful for.
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Before we start, yes, this is freaking long. I know. I originally wrote this for people at Reddit, and only made a few minor edits for Amazon.

First off, a squabble with how the book was published: I ended up paying 50 euros to purchase the book and get it shipped over here, at Amazon.com, which is a US-based website. This is odd because I live in the Netherlands, so it would've made much more sense to order at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de, but then I would've paid 50 euros for just the book sans the shipping. This is odd and in dire need of correction.

On Amazon, all you read are rave reviews of how the book will change your life and will instantly make you the healthiest human being on the planet and all that... well, I don't believe in magic bullets, and neither should you. Don't take this as me saying the book isn't good; it is and there are definitely a lot of things I've learnt from it. However, I don't think it's the be-all-end-all of fitness books.

Overall, the book is well-written; very digestible writing. However, I can see that if you're new to this, you'll probably have a hard time on some parts, and will be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information. Because there is a lot of information: there are 32 individual movements described, ranging from a basic air squat to a muscle-up and there are over a 150 pages describing specific mobility techniques.

The book starts of with an introduction, which, as expected, is Kelly banging his own drum loudly for a couple pages; there is no real info there. From there on out, the book is divided up into roughly three parts:

* Introduction to/Explanation of the movement and mobility system: this explains Kelly's general rules for movement, mainly concerning spinal organisation and bracing.
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All I can say is this book works. You can see the before and after photo.
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Kelly has written a book that breaks down walls between consumers and clinicians, he's removed barriers between coaches and athletes and offers secrets of self-assessment and better yet, SELF-FIXING that exceeds any manual ever written. He democratizes processes and practices that have traditionally been held captive behind closed doors, accessible only with a prescription. Kelly teaches you to open your body and free it from being held captive by pain and limited somatic imagination.

His methods work across every fitness milieu - obviously a perfect match for hard-core athletes, but students of yoga, pilates, dance, group fitness, CrossFit and more will be emancipated from aches, pains and diminishing returns on performance. I've used his Voodoo® Floss methods with my Yoga Tune Up® students, his mobility magic with my clients in chronic pain and have referred thousands to his Mobilitywod.com website.

The book offers detailed self-care practices on every single aspect of the body, from the ankle to the neck and everything in between. This is REQUIRED reading for anyone that is serious about living longer, optimizing potential and modeling better structural health-care strategies for humankind.
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