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

Description

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 Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Victory Belt Publishing; 2nd edition (May 19, 2015)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1628600837
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 34
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.4 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 1.4 x 11.2 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #6,853 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6 in Pain Management (Books) #7 in Stretching Exercise & Fitness #9 in Weight Training (Books)
• #6 in Pain Management (Books)
• #7 in Stretching Exercise & Fitness