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Completely changed the way I viewed motion, and has done the most in furthering my understanding of the human body in terms of its functionality. I realised that my hyper mobility was causing my chronic lower back\hip pain. The heuristics of the "two hand rule" in checking whether I've been hyper extending my spine has prevented so many injuries, just to name an example. When I see a physio, I can actually understand a lot better what his interventions and therapeutical exercises are meant to do...
Personally not particularly fun of/impressed by the approach of using fascia release and the methods here are almost completely relied on that. Not sure this is the way to be supple leopards, which do not use them...
You can go through life, especially youth, not realizing you're doing a lot of basic things wrong. As middle age creeps in, things like bad posture, too much sitting, and back rounding start to manifest in various ways. Starett takes nothing for granted. He tells you how to properly stand (by screwing your feet into the ground, squeezing your butt, and bracing your midsection), how to do a pushup, how do jump and so forth. Starett breaks down all the movements into the basic archetypes of squat,...
Awesome book about movement and mobility. The principles outlined in this text is concise and easy to implement. I came to this book after some back pain from constant sitting, and over developed musculature on one side. The first principle on spinal stability and bracing the spine whenever performing most movements, and that our spine is not designed to bend all that much, (our body is essentially a giant hinge and we're supposed to bend at the hips and keep the spine tight and straight) was ve...
Meh. The first 20% of this book is just stupid and almost entirely unnecessary. I'm not exaggerating when I say it could have been condensed to two pages and the book overall would have been the better for it. To save you the trouble of reading a fifth of the book, I'll just sum it up for you. In one sentence: The way that I stand is the right way, and everyone should stand like me.This point of view is distinctly different and separate from the sentence: I like to stand the right way. It's also...
I finished the book a while back but am just getting around to posting a review. Kelly Starrett is really well known in the Crossfit community. As a Crossfit gym owner and Doctor of Physical Therapy, he has carved out a really niche of expertise as being the "joint, form and mobility guy" of crossfit. In addition, he has posted a ton of really useful videos to youtube over the past couple years that have made him a well known name. So, when he announced the book, many people pre-ordered and I wa...
Today I finished reading “Becoming a Supple Leopard” and I put it #3 on my list of books read in 2016. Kelly Starrett has taken something so simple and ubiquitous--movement--and given us a theoretical framework and practical prescriptions for how to improve how we move on a daily basis at home, at work, in the gym, and in athletic competition.There are some daily reminders that we can all implement, like how to properly brace yourself and create torque before sitting or picking up any object, wh...
The absolute best reference on keeping your body pain-free while getting fit. Kelly not only knows his stuff, he makes it understandable to the layperson.The detailed pics & descriptions make this book a must-have
Best book on exercise I've read in many years. Think you're in a good position because that's what you learned in high school? Have pain in your hips? Travel a lot and forced to sit? This book will help you figure out how to fix that pain and get into good position when you're training or even just walking down the street. I cannot recommend this book enough to anyone. Even if you hate exercising you'll find very useful tips in here to help mitigate pain.
The last section of this book is my favorite. It has a diagram of the body that is color coded by regions. For each region there is a corresponding set of exercises to relieve pain in this part of your body. It is incredibly useful and worth every penny of the book. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the rest of the book is also a useful reference that includes a theory of exercise and lots of exercises that you can do at home.
I love to work out with my main areas being Crossfit, Olympic Weightlifting, and general weightlifting in the gym. My coach recommended this book very early on into my Crossfit journey. I thank the heavens for Kelly Starlett, his books and his website MobilityWOD. There are so many people that come into the box dealing with previous injuries, mobility issues, or are currently dealing with injuries. I've spent a lot of time observing individuals and one big difference is the amount of time people...
I am fascinated with the mechanics of the human body. This book was awesome! I wish I discovered this earlier in my life but I'm not dead yet! You are never to old to learn. Also, it is so important to keep moving as we get older to keep our joints lubricated, muscles and bones, strong. It is a good preventive maintenance book plus you learn great form and function.
Read it cover-to-cover and found it one of the worse written books in my experience. Endlessly repetitive. Author invents words for movements and stretches that are well-known and places them in 'his' system. First part, which is about a quarter of the book in length, could easily have been written in 5 pages. It basically tells you how to stand and what muscles to engage before undergoing a movement. Not useless info, but hardly qualifies as insightful. The second introduces basic lifts. Done m...
I kind of want to give this book four and a half stars instead of five because even though I absolutely love this book and its easily my most useful I feel it has a few flaws.1. Starrett seems to have gone commercial completely siding with Rogue making his website something you have to pay for and this book showing a lot of product placement. 2. I feel even though this is 400 page it could have been longer and more stuff could have been put into it. I remember WODs present on the site that aren'...
3,5 Stars. Contains some useful advice, but also filled with lots of pseudoscientific nonsense. It's more or less impossible for people without medical/physiotherapeutic background to tell the difference, or more specifically sort the given Informationen into one of these two categories. Thus I cannot fully recommend this book to everyone.
Are you tired of being told that your aches / paints / injuries / etc. will go away if you "just do more yoga / strength work / stretch more"? Do you feel like you're just cobbling together a mix of common sense & pseudo-science & hoping for the best without any clear idea of what is *actually* causing your problems and what is *actually* likely to fix things?If so, you might at the very least find this book interesting. Starrett's philosophy is that “All human beings should be able to perform b...
This is/was a life-changing book for me, up there with Marie Kondo’s Magic of Tidying and Essentialism. I have such a deeper understanding of body mechanics and how to go about training in order to handle loaded movements with proper alignment, grace, and power... like a leopard.A few things I’ll be ruminating on and integrating into my exercise routines in the coming years:- Start with focusing on the default position of an organized spine and neutral jaw- Movements come down to motor control (...
Highly recommended if you are an athlete, trainer, coach, or someone with a physically strenuous job. I don't really fall into any of those categories but the book was for me too.If you weight train, I'd call this book essential. You need to know you're performing your lifts correctly to both maximize your potential and to prevent injuries that can be exacerbated by repetitions over time. The book is full of photographs demonstrating a variety of exercises and common faults to avoid.How does thi...
This is an awesome book on mobility work: from correct form to a progression of movements and techniques to remedy reduced mobility in all the joints. The author has an annoying style of continually “selling” his approach to mobility work; he must have had a lot of pushback but we’ve bought the book, we’ve read past the intro (past the first half!). No need to keep selling. It’s probably just his writing style that I don’t like. Doesn’t matter: content is great.
A life-changing book. All you need to know about movement, pain and performance. A must-have!