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

Great book for ideas on all these aches and pains. I lied the first addition better but this has some great ideas as well. As a power lifter I tend to pull, strain and destroy muscles. This has given me new ideas to work the aches and pains away.

I just bought this book. I haven't even read it yet but I had to write a review. At first glance this book is HUGE and beautiful. I did not expect it to be this thick. The illustrations are colorful and they make my brain eager and excited to read. It is chokefull of knowledge and literally looks like an encyclopedia or science book. I love it already and my nerdy self cannot wait to immerse myself in it, and then put the knowledge into practice. I found out about this book while reading 'Built from Broken' by Scott Hogan. Even he was raving about it and I found Scott's book extremely helpful, so I decided to make 'Supple Leopard' my next read. I will be back with more reviews after reading, but I am super excited about it.

Incredible book.I recommend this book a 100% to all the people intrigued in Physical Fitness and the Human Body.Price is less expensive than a-lot of options out there!Glad I came across this vendor!

‘All human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves.”It’s almost a call to arms, a revolution in who we are and how we treat our bodies. It shouldn’t be of course, but the idea that you can do work on your own body is one I have come to embrace. Not just lifting and building muscle but fixing your own injuries. Digging deeper into your own body, learning what is wrong with it and working through a path to fix it yourself.The idea behind this book is that everyone should be able to move well, like jungle cats. That the body was designed for optimum movement for a long time. If you can’t now that doesn’t mean you can’t in the future.Supple Leopard is the guide to better movement and performance. It can help you resolve any problem issues and how to do it yourself.Kelly Starrett is an athlete, a former high level kayaker, the owner of San Francisco Crossfit and a Doctor of Physical Therapy. The guy knows a bit about movement. He’s used his experience as an athlete and physio to turn his gym into a testing ground, a lab for physical movement and how to get better.Supple Leopard is a textbook, like a dictionary for your body. When I have a physical issue from jiu-jitsu training or lifting weights this is the first place I turn. It’s a thick, dense read that is best chipped away at or pulled out and used when needed.His message that you have control over your own health is empowering. You can sort out and resolve many of your physical problems. But it won’t be easy and it might not be quick.Kelly wants you to commit to ten minutes a day of basic maintenance. Find your weak points and work on them. Can’t squat? He’ll show you a progression how to get there and then you best be doing some squat practice everyday. Bad shoulders and can’t lift overhead? There’s plenty for that too.He talks about fundamental movement patterns and positions that we should all be able to get into. and how we should all be able to get into them. If we can’t something is wrong. So we then we should fix it.Much of what we do all day everyday goes against how our bodies evolved. Sitting down, reaching forward all day tapping at keys or swiping at phones. Wearing huge soles between us and the ground as we drink and eat poor quality food. And then we try and exercise. Is it any surprise when that doesn't go well?Starrett thinks the human body is an amazing machine that can take an obscene amount of abuse. When it breaks it can break hard but it doesn’t have to.Check out his website MobilityWOD for great free content including hundreds of videos. He’s gone on to write a book on how to run without pain, Ready to Run. And has just come out with Deskbound on how to stand up from the desk and change your life. He and wife Juliet run Stand Up Kids where they try and get standing desks in schools. To stop our kids from getting messed up like we did. They are super heroes.This is a big expensive book but if you are going to be harder to destroy it’s a must. It gives you the tools to make yourself better and more awesome. This one is a lock for the shelf.

I purchased this book out of curiosity, wanting to learn more about proper body mechanics, both to ease myself back into physical activity and also to provide some info to my very athletic son. Initially, the mobility exercises seemed well beyond my abilities as I thumbed through the pages of physical poweress. And I set it aside.However, a few weeks ago I tweaked something at work. To the point that I couldn't lift my left leg for three days. I could only take forward steps with my right leg and any effort to move the left leg about was met with excruciating pain in my hip. Finally went to the doctor and she suspected it was actually my spine. This allowed me to at least focus on reducing inflammation and improving mobility in the right area and the function of my leg/hip came back. However, I could tell I was walking right on the edge of being debilitated again. I had to be very cautious bending over, sitting down, standing up... stretching the area was extremely difficult but seemed to help for a day or two. But something was still not right.This weekend it occured to me that there might be something to help my situation in Supple Leopard. I flipped to the section focused on the lower back and found the "pelvis reset" ... Tweaked your back? Experiencing hip pain?... Do this and your pelvis with "clunk" back into place. Well, I skeptically performed the mobility exercises which said to continue until I heard the "clunk". Lets just say I was shocked with these subtle movements resulted in the "clunk" reset of my left hip. I feel an ease there that has been absent for the last few months. I'm so conditioned now to carefully bending over that I am delighted to feel... NOTHING when I do now. Just a fluid, functioning hip.Amazing. And I learned my lesson. I moved on to a release for that annoying kink in my upper back, some psoas work. Good grief, I am actually feeling great enough that I could start some more strenuous exercises now.