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Hey guys, I just ordered kelly starretts book "becoming a supple leopard" because I always have these nagging little injuries and I need to do something about it. Has anybody of you read it, what do you think about it, is it a good read?

It sucks I couldn't find a torrent yet with it.

Book came in today.. took a quick look at the mobility section at the end. And I have to say that I was a bit overwhelmed. I have the feeling that there are so many areas I need to work on but it's hard to say where I  have to start, and to find out which exercises I need to do in order to improve my health. Can anyone that read the book help me how I can get all this information organized. Reading the book myself will obviously help with this too but still. Thanks.

Chill man!

Anybody care to upload a copy?

I guess someone would have to scan it

Kelly is a well meaning idiot. He's just another exponent of baseless western training wisdom. All great squatters have a knee-in action out of the bottom of the squat to initiate the concentric. Including all of the eastern squatters, olympic and powerlifting.  Even our Kingfisher initiates the movement out of the bottom with a knee-in burn.

AFTER getting out of the bottom of the squat once you're near the sticking point it's fine and good to now push knees outwards to complete the concentric. This out-knee action prevents getting bent over into a good morning.

So if you look at it, knees in is a dumb slogan, as is knees out. Dogma sucks. What matters is using the correct knee action at the right time during the squat.

I illustrate what I have talked about with a video of a russian squatter using both knees-in and knees-out at the appropriate times. Watch carefully, you'll see on the descent a knee-forward action into the bottom, then knee-in action to initiate the ascent, followed by a knee-out action to complete the ascent.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwgs7nF7cZA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwgs7nF7cZA</a>

And KF doing the same (it gets more pronounced as the set goes on, the first few reps are too subtle to notice but it's there):

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsRFP4s1VYY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsRFP4s1VYY</a>

the verdict is that pretty much any cue is context-dependent, and trying to universalize something as vague and ill-explained as "knees out" is a recipe for disaster.

EDIT: also that just because someone uses words like "torque" and "eversion" doesn't mean they actually know what the fuck they're talking about.