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Becoming A Supple Leopard – Kelly Starrett

What we love about it:
I first went to Kelly’s mobility seminar back in 2014 as the “CrossFit Movement & Mobility Trainer Course”. It helped me solidify my understanding of mobility and gave me many tools for helping others reach their potential. This book has so much to offer anyone looking for a deep-dive into unlocking their own mobility. – Mark Toorock

From amazon:
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 masseur. In Becoming a Supple Leopard, Dr. 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 movement, allowing you to live a healthier, more fulfilling 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. Want to truly understand the principles that guide human movement? Becoming a Supple Leopard lays out a blueprint for moving safely and effectively through life and sport. Want to learn how to apply those principles to specific movements, whether you are doing squats in the gym or picking up a bag of groceries? Hundreds of step-by-step photos show you not only how to perform a host of exercise movements, such the squat, deadlift, pushup, kettlebell swing, clean, snatch, and muscle-up, but also how to correct the common faults associated with those movements. Frustrated because you can’t perform a certain movement correctly due to range of motion restrictions? Breaking the body down into 14 distinct areas, Starrett demonstrates hundreds of mobilization techniques that will help you resolve restrictions and reclaim your mobility. Unsure how to put it all together into a program that addresses your individual needs? 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. It even offers a 14-day full-body mobility overhaul. 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

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To start off 2023 APK is holding tryouts for our new Womens Chase Tag Team! If you're interested in trying out, you'll need to do the following. Create a Tryout Video (Details for that are on our YouTube LINK IN BIO) Upload that Video to Google Drive and Share that video/folder with [email protected] Submisions will open January 1st and close January 31st. Also per World Chase Tag, 2023 will be the beginning of the Women's Season. Current Women athletes are not yet locked into a team for the WCT6 season. Now Good Luck! And remember, Don't Get Caught! #apkblue #apkgrey #apkwct @worldchasetag @worldchasetagemea @americanparkour @wctamericas @wct_memes_official #worldchasetag #dontgetcaught
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Train to be your best in 2023! Join the APK 365 Training Challenge for peer support and inspiration to stay motivated in 2023. We've added 3 "Train Tracks" to suit your goals: 365 - Train Every Day AMAP - Accumulate as many days as possible for the year Weekly - Commit to training at least once per week Join the group Here: www.facebook.com/groups/2023apk365/ #apk3652023 #apk365 #apklife #traineveryday #parkour #freerunning
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Watch the WCT6 US Championship on @espn 2 on tonight at 8pm - 12am ET! 🙌 A 4 hour special showing all the group stages back to back! See our teams @apkblue.wct and @apkgrey.wct compete with the best in the US! Keep an ear out for APK founder @toorockjumps as he kicks off each match with the iconic "Athletes Ready!". . See more about APK's involvement on americanparkour.com Photo by @jesschan0 Buy your official WCT Athlete Jerseys at @e_vadr 👈 #parkour #extremesports #freerunning #parkourtag #sportsbroadcasting #apklife
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We're very excited to announce that we will be presenting at the Worlds of Work Expo where over 3,000 kids from 7 counties in Virginia will get to learn about career choices. We'll help display careers related to: Health and Wellness - Coaching, Physical Education, Sports Physiotherapy Design and Manufacturing - CAD, CNC Work, Metal and Woodworking Professional Athletes - @worldchasetag and Parkour We'll have a fully interactive 20X20 Booth featuring our Middle School Parkour Kit, plus a Parkour Rig and other equipment on display in various stages of manufacture. We'll also have videos showing our Parkour in Schools Program, some of the Television shows we've made and Performances from Madonna to Mercedes Benz, World Chase Tag, and Parkour Gyms. We're grateful to Jenna French, TMP of Shenandoah County for this opportunity! Virginia Department of Education Virginia Economic Development Partnership #health #education #work #school #wellness #parkour
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