Floss your nerves. You'll look like a pervert, but your joints and fascia will thank you for it. ( )

Reading this book felt like buying a used car. I honestly don't have the expertise to critique his methods, but I got a bad vibe from the book. I'd try checking his study references, but there were none. It didn't help relieve the feeling that I was being sold a bill of goods when I went to his mobilitywod web site and found that 90% of the material there is pay-walled. ( )

Fundamentally, this book is an organization and systemization of the material that Kelly Starrett has posted on MobilityWOD.com. It covers his axioms of human movement, applies those axioms to teaching correct form on fundamental strength exercises, and provides a set of techniques to address mobility issues preventing you from moving correctly. There's a lot more here than just a bunch of 'stretching exercises'- it's really treating the human body as a complete system and provides a manual for basic maintenance.

I can say from years of experience that this stuff works. Without hyperbole, Starrett's techniques have been life-changing for me; I can walk to work without pain shooting down my leg and squat below parallel with good form. I've always recommended his work to people struggling with pain and stiffness, but it's pretty daunting to have to slog through two and a half years of videos to get the whole picture. I'm grateful that I can now simply recommend they buy this book. ( )

Kelly Starrett is the absolute ultimate authority on the body and musculature related to stretching, mobility and injury recovery. I have not seen a better book than The Supple Lepord on these areas. It's a big book and so well illustrated it's like a text book. It's in valuable resource to any athlete and has an important spot in my library. ( )

Comprehensive and detailed. This is encyclopedic coverage from before the beginning and past the end. ( )