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

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If you want to become more knowledgeable about the scientific and conceptual underpinnings of Mobility exercise, deepen your understanding of how your body works and how you can improve your own mobility, then this book is right for you. If you have a mind that craves to understand and to learn and isn’t afraid to get technical, acquiring new terminology, then Becoming a Supple Leopard is a highly recommended read. Hurford, Molly (12 July 2017). "The Best Endurance Sports Video Blogs". Outside Magazine . Retrieved 19 July 2017.

Maybe that would work, but it would leave you seriously deprived of some of the unique context in which this book is situated. It is very much so Kelley Starret’s view on Mobility exercise as it is a textbook on Mobility exercise in general. The Good This comes at a slight cost of neutrality, since Dr. Kelly Starret had to choose how to express the meanings of terms and how to weave them into a coherent treatment philosophy. Most of the time he does this well. In some cases, smarter decisions could have been made here. All in all, we must understand that Becoming a Supple Leopard is very much Starret’s philosophy on Mobility exercise from his medical knowledge and expertise. When an athlete from the initiation and throughout until the bottom of the squat is pushing their knee out [he is referring to pushing the knee OUTSIDE of the foot] they are not actually creating a varus force, what they are doing is flexion/abducting/externally rotating the hip which allows the athlete to squat to depth.” –Supple Leopard Camp In Part 4 Kelly talks about the Seven Archetypes, which are the seven movement patterns that form the core of all movements in the gym. As readers, we should understand that Dr. Starret is alsolaying out the framework of his philosophies which are rooted in the scientific understanding of human mobility.Kuhland, Jeff (8 May 2013). "Book Review: "Becoming A Supple Leopard" By Kelly Starrett". Breaking Muscle . Retrieved 19 July 2017.

Place a lacrosse ball or small Supernova under your left hamstring, just below where it meets your butt. People usually think of leopards in the savannas of Africa but in the Russian Far East, a rare subspecies has adapted to life in the temperate forests that make up the northern-most part of the species’ range. Similar to other leopards, the Amur leopard can run at speeds of up to 37 miles per hour. This incredible animal has been reported to leap more than 19 feet horizontally and up to 10 feet vertically. The dealings with CrossfitHQ have not panned out, as of yet; so I will have to put my TV star aspirations on hold. Regardless, I want to share my thoughts on the subject, because I am encountering many of the same issues in clinical practice.

That is not to say that this is theory only. The book is teaching material too, applied science and not just science for the sake of science. The second stated goal makes this obvious: Before discovering CrossFit, Starrett paddled for the US canoeing and kayaking teams. [2] As a paddler, he won two national championships and competed in two world championships before receiving a repetitive strain injury. [2] In 2004, he and his wife Juliet began CrossFit training, eventually opening one of the first CrossFit gyms, San Francisco CrossFit in 2005. [2] [4]

How factual Becoming a Supple Leopard is has become a topic of some debate. The techniques prescribed, shown and explained are all sound and valid. There is no technique in this book that should cause controversy from a medical or therapeutic standpoint. We do get where some of the more peripheral critique comes from. Dr. Kelly Starret is not afraid to seek the semantic edges of his terminology, for instance. Let’s explain using a commonly cited technique. Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance Tight musculature could actually be the body protecting itself from damage to CNS, known as neural tension. Human Performance Guru Kelly Starrett On Manhood, Raising Daughters And Rites Of Passage". Thrive Global. 24 July 2017 . Retrieved 17 August 2017.

Basic laws of torque are taught, along with body archetypes and movement hierarchy. These are key concepts in constructing an effective, and, above all safe exercise routine later.

As I mentioned before, maximal external rotation and abduction near the bottom of a squat actually increases passive tension in the hip joint by tensioning the capsular ligaments of the hip. I am not saying this is a good or bad thing. However, performing maximum range of motion in one plane will limit range of motion in another3,4. So again, shoving your knees out as hard as you can, will limit hip flexion. Maybe this is not such a bad thing for a powerlifter that only needs to squat to parallel (the pic of Dan Green below still shows his knees over ankles); but probably not so great for a weightlifter who must receive the bar in a much lower position.

Part 2 discusses the theory and ideal execution of several Mobility exercises. Here we see the introduction into the actionable theory of various movement techniques ranging from Push-Ups to Muscle-Ups. The book divides a list of 26 exercises, many of which we are familiar with in Calisthenics, into 3 categories. If you want to fully appreciate this work, it will mean memorizing and practicing many of these exercises yourself. At the least, you need to know what is meant by all 26 of these techniques and know their movements. Wallace, Kelly (10 December 2015). "Forget 'Sit down!' Students now standing up to learn". CNN . Retrieved 19 July 2017. Author of 'Becoming a Supple Leopard' Wants You to Stand Up and Get Physically Ready for Anything". Entrepreneur. 4 April 2016 . Retrieved 19 July 2017. Part 3 presents us with the practical implementation of the techniques taught in Part 2 to solve the issues we identified using the theory of Part 1. Part 3 is where concepts and theory about practice become practical. Here the body is split into 14 chief areas where mobility dysfunctionality may exist or where the subject (patient, athlete, practitioner) wants to become stronger or more agile than they currently are. For the Calisthenics practitioner, Mobility athlete or enthusiast this means Becoming a Supple Leopard teaches you to teach yourself. Readability and Language Used