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

Improve your athletic performance, extend your athletic career, treat body stiffness and achy joints, and rehabilitate injuries—all without having to seek out a coach, doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist, or masseur. In Becoming a Supple Leopard,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 human movement, allowing you to live a healthy, happier, more fulfilling life.

Performance is what drives the human animal, but the human animal can be brought to an abrupt halt by dysfunctional movement patterns. Oftentimes, the factors that impede performance are invisible to not only the untrained eye, but also the majority of athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopardmakes the invisible visible. In this one of a kind training manual, Starrett maps out a detailed system comprised of more than two hundred techniques and illuminates common movement errors that cause injury and rob you of speed, power, endurance, and strength. Whether you are a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or simply someone wanting to live healthy and free from restrictions, Becoming a Supple Leopard,will teach you how to maintain your body and harness your genetic potential.

Learn How to:

Pprevent and rehabilitate common athletic injuries

Overhaul your movement habits

quickly identify, diagnose, and fix inefficient movement patterns

Problem solve for pain and dysfunction in austere environments with little equipment

Fix poor mechanics that rob power, bleed force, and dump torque

Unlock reservoirs of athletic capacity you didn't know you had

Identify and fix poor movement patterns in children

Reverse the aging process

Develop strategies that restore function to your joints and tissues

Accelerate recovery after training sessions and competition

Create personalized mobility prescriptions to improve movement efficiency

Improve your quality of life through regained work capacity

Run faster, jump higher, and throw farther