Becoming a Supple Leopard
Reference manual of positions, faults and mobilizations, looked up by body part
Published in 2013. Kelly Starrett's manual on movement mechanics and self-treatment runs as a catalog you look things up in by body part or by lift, rather than a book you read straight through. Two measurable ideas sit underneath it: the range of motion every human should have, and the power output available once you have it. Several hundred pages of photographed positions, common faults and the mobilizations that address them. It reached the New York Times bestseller list and pushed the word mobility into everyday gym language.
Who backs it
Sorted by strength of stance
- Kelly StarrettRecommends
Doctor of physical therapy · The Ready State
Describes his own first book as an attempt at a Betty Crocker cookbook for people, simple enough that someone can look a problem up and start on it. It was still on the New York Times bestseller list when he said that. He pointed listeners at the several hundred free videos on his site as the place to begin.
Source: Legion Athletics: Kelly Starrett on sitting, mobility and having a movement practice
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