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

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S. in Sports and Recreation Management with minors in Business, Economics, and Exercise Science from James MadisonUniversityin 2009.

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. If I sneak out at lunch and run my 5K, go to SoulCycle, do my Peloton class, and then come back and sit at my desk, I can do that.

Beyond that, he addresses situations where a neutral spine may be compromised to complete a movement or lift, or in everyday 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.

By 2015 you couldn't walk into a gym without seeing people one the floor rolling they're IT bands (it was always the IT bands) and slowly, like kettlebells, the fad went away. 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. 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.

Starrett views training in the gym as a means to get the perfect technique in "archetypical" movements and then teaching the athlete to combine movements to practice transitions, to ultimately remove pain in daily life and enhance athletic performance. The good news is that humans are so durable and so tolerant that when we improve one aspect of that system, oftentimes we see up-regulation through the whole system.