Reduced risk of injury: When your body can move through a full range of motion, you’re less likely to experience strains, sprains, and other types of injuries. I just want you to commit to 10 minutes of working on your body, whatever needs the most attention. Ten minutes per day is a really reasonable amount of time, and I can do that while I’m watching TV. Now that’s 70 minutes per week, and that really started to aggregate into a massive amount of time and change.

My second favorite thing is to work on the ground. Scoot right up to your coffee table, and sit on the ground. When your body says fidget, change—side saddle, 90/90, high kneel, squat, sit cross-legged … you'll see as well, I can get a ton of end range hip range of motion while I'm sitting on the ground. If so, you might at the very least find this book interesting. Starrett's philosophy is that “All human beings should be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves,” which I can definitely get behind. Relying on doctors & PTs & trainers & whatnot to diagnose & fix every little ache & pain that comes up is just not tenable in the long-term.You don’t “win” fitness. Just because you had an all-time PR on your squat—you almost died, but you made it—that doesn’t mean that was an effective technique for later when you’re running or playing rugby. In other words, a supple leopard is someone who can move their body through a full range of motion without any restrictions or pain. They have excellent joint mobility, muscle flexibility, and overall physical fitness, allowing them to perform any physical task with ease and efficiency. Why is Becoming a Supple Leopard Important?

He earned a B.S. in Sports and Recreation Management with minors in Business, Economics, and Exercise Science from James MadisonUniversityin 2009. Jeff completed his Master of Business Administration from Lynchburg College in 2012. The other half of the book is just silly. There's minimal references to works that would justify what is being said, and there seems to be a lot of contradictions. For instance, one of the trainers Starrett claims to be indebted to specifically says to turn the feet out at about 30 degrees when squatting -- quite different than the "perfectly straight" instructed in this book. Also, a number of the pictures go against the cues. It's almost as if "straight," "parallel," "upright" can loosely be used at some points, whereas at other points there's no margin of difference allowed. On top of all this, there's no mention of modification for those of us who aren't physiologically "perfect"; in fact, we're basically told that we must move in a certain way. I can only imagine the injuries that will result from that.

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Walking is a really powerful way to kind of move the cellular waste through the sewers of your body … and it will help you accumulate enough non-exercise activity to fall asleep at night. If you want to have better gains, you should walk more. People say 10,000 steps, but it’s really more like 8,000. But if you hit 7,000 steps one day, and 10,000 the next day, you’re going to be fine. If a guy wants to start foam rolling, when should he be doing it? Before his workout? After?