Push the reset button to unleash your body’s power and endurance for running naturally.
If you’re like 80 percent of runners, an injury is going to force you to stop your running routine at some point this year, and the demands of daily life only add to the wear and tear on your body. Life in the modern world has trashed and undercut dedicated runners’ ability to transform their running. The harsh effects of too much sitting and too much time wearing the wrong shoes has left us shackled to lower back problems, chronic knee injuries, and debilitating foot pain.
What if you refocus the energy you put into maintaining your current running regimen on forming new habits that can improve your performance and reduce your risk of injury? With Ready to Run, you can take responsibility for what’s going on in your body, take care of business, and harvest any performance that’s hiding in the shadows.
In a direct answer to the modern runner’s needs, Dr. Kelly Starrett, author of the bestseller Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance, has focused his revolutionary movement and mobility philosophy on the injury-plagued world of running. In this book, Starrett shares twelve performance standards that will prepare your body for a lifetime of top-performance running. You will learn
• How to tap into all of your running potential and access a fountain of youth for lifelong running
• How to turn your weaknesses into strengths
• How to prevent chronic overuse injuries by building powerful injury prevention habits into your day
• How to prepare your body for the demands of changing your running shoes and running technique
• How to treat pain and swelling with cutting-edge modalities and accelerate your recovery
• How to equip your home mobility gym
• What mobility exercises to use for restoring optimal function and range of motion to your joints and tissues
• How to run faster, run farther, and run better
Definitely check out the Kindle sample.
If you want to avoid injury and be able to understand how to fix yourself and run pain free read and follow this amazing guide!!!
It's not a training manual, it's a book on preparing yourself for the training that lies ahead.
I've battled achilles tendonosis for years now and no doctor has been able to give me a straight answer except "just keep stretching it", "take these prescription anti-inflammatories", "wear these cork heel-lift inserts", etc, etc, etc....
All of these things made my problem worse.
I've been doing exactly what this book says for less than a month now and my achilles feels better than it has in YEARS.
I could not be happier.
Great outline, pictures to help as well, tons of equipment are not required, you can get started right away.
I have all of Kelly’s books, love him, and I love his hilarious, dramatic, yet extremely professional and informative way of delivering incredibly useful information to not just us fitness professionals, but people of all kinds, and TJ was an added bonus to this one, hahahahaha!
Highly recommend!
Thanks Guys! You ROCK!!!
Therefore, I bought it in Paperback and now I can say it is a Five Star Book.
Having it in Paperback allows me to see better the pictures and go faster to an excercise I want to do. Also to fastly scan through the pages of the book looking at the pictures.
As per the content itself, it has helped me a lot.
The idea of the program and every excercise are very thoroughly and well explained. I am very happy with the book and I keep using it every day.
Ready to run my first tri in September thanks to this book!
Also, in addition to Starrett's work, I would highly encourage looking into some of the other movement/mobility gurus who are out there.
Top notch information. Very pleased with my purchase.
I only wish this book would have been around and suggested to me for reading when I began running.
Cons
-A lot of information to wrap your head around, this isn't light reading, it's more like an instruction and then reference manual.
-Doesn't come with 12 Standards test worksheets...I made my own worksheets based off of the information in the book so I can monitor my progress.
Pros
-Very comprehensive
-Lots of pictures
Would I recommend it to my fellow runners? Absolutely! :)
Learn the secrets to insuring your body works efficiently and doesn't "wear out" prematurely. It teaches a life time of good habits for living a long and productive pain free life.
Prevenative and maintenance for your body that really only you can be responsible for! Has help me be able to enjoy life again.
Pro tips: Do what the book says
Gradually build up your mileage. Running should feel strong, it should feel great.
Make sure to build up core and leg strength, as well as balance, and don't neglect upper body either. It's all connected.
Recovery is key... Runners always want to just keep going and push through--learn when to back off or when to swim for a day or two instead
I think jogging every day is a waste, you should also be able to run fast like you were built to, so mix in some 200s, 400s, 800s intervals etc for increasing speed and work capacity greatly.
If you have had any type of problems running, I would give the Ready to Run protocol a try. It's already helped me improve my running.
If you're contemplating switching to "barefoot" running, are plagued with running aches and injuries, or want to run healthily for the span of your life, this book is for you.
A great, shorter, more specific book about self diagnosis and self help in regard to proper body mechanics as it relates to running over Kelly's more comprehensive, full body, Becoming a Supple Leopard. I have both and recommend both.
Anyone that has given up on running due to injuries or is soldiering on with running despite the pain that they feel would benefit from this book
I love Kelly Starrett's approach to mobility and injury prevention. In this book he gives a 12 point checklist to ensure that you are ready to run. He manages to take complicated concepts and boil them down to be beneficial to both healthcare professionals and the amateur athlete.
If you are looking for training schedules and workout ideas, this is not the book for you.
This is the book you need if you are looking to understand how your current range of motion is effecting performance and how to fix it.
The principles you will learn, when combined with consistency and perseverance, will ensure a long injury free life of running.
This guide really hit home for me. To give some perspective on my review: I used to run 7 miles most days, but stopped because a sports medicine doctor told me that if I continued I would have arthritis by my early 30s and the next doctor told me that I just wasn't born to run. I've tried many of the "open your wallet" remedies that Kelly mentions - custom orthotics, lots of special new shoes, expensive P.T., strength-building & stretching exercises, and none of them actually fixed the problem - my double case of runner's knee and hip pain has lingered despite having given up running years ago. This places me squarely in the target market for this book.
The style of writing is terrific - Ready to Run gives understanding, encouragement ("your tissues can change, your joints can change, and you can change"), solid explanations for what is wrong with how runners/our society approach(es) running and why, as well as tough advice (the only way to succeed in meeting these standards is to take time (10-15 minutes) to do them every day, correctly, forever).
The photos alongside step-by-step directions are easy to follow, and worth doing for everyone, even if someone isn't committed to running. Kelly's standards span a wide range of exercises to perform to address common running-related injuries and misconceptions. All the advice here has merit beyond running specifically, but just in the context of taking better care of your body, instead of hoping it will hold up if you ice and take anti-inflammatories as needed. Kelly's obvious passion for helping people who want to run develop good habits and proper form instead of relying on custom gear and painkillers really comes through.