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 stiffness and achy joints, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries—all without having to seek out a coach, doctor, chiropractor, physical therapist, or massage therapist. In Becoming a Supple Leopard, Dr. Kelly Starrett—founder of MobilityWOD —shares his revolutionary approach to mobility and maintenance of the human body and teaches you how to hack your own movement, allowing you to live a healthier, more fulfilling life.

Performance is what drives us as human beings, but dysfunctional movement patterns can bring the human body to an abrupt halt. Often, the factors that impede performance are invisible even to seasoned athletes and coaches. Becoming a Supple Leopard makes the invisible visible. 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. Learn how to perform basic maintenance on your body, unlock your athletic potential, live pain-free...and become a Supple Leopard. This step-by-step guide to movement and mobility will show you how to:

• Move safely and efficiently in all situations
• Organize your spine and joints in optimal, stable positions
  
• Restore normal function to your joints and tissues
  
• Accelerate recovery after training sessions and competition
  
• Properly perform strength and conditioning movements like the squat, bench press, pushup, deadlift, clean, and snatch
  
• Build efficient, transferable movement patterns and skill progressions from simple to more advanced exercises
  
• Identify, diagnose, and correct inefficient movement patterns
  
• Treat and resolve common symptoms like low back pain, carpal tunnel, shoulder pain, and tennis elbow
  
• Prevent and rehabilitate common athletic injuries Use mobilization techniques to address short and stiff muscles, soft tissue and joint capsule restriction, motor control problems, and joint range of motion limitations
  
• Create personalized mobility prescriptions to improve movement efficiency