Deskbound : Standing Up to a Sitting World - Hardcover

Kelly Starrett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1628600586 ISBN 13: 9781628600582

Publisher: Victory Belt, 2016

Synopsis

YOU'D BETTER STAND UP FOR THIS NEWS

The author of bestselling sensation Becoming a Supple Leopard unveils how your sedentary lifestyle is killing you and what you can do to change it.

Sitting can wreak havoc on your health, and not just in the form of minor aches and pains. Recent studies show that too much sitting contributes to a host of diseases - from obesity and diabetes to cancer and depression - and literally shortens your life. The facts are in: your chair is your enemy, and it is murdering your body.

In DESKBOUND, Dr Kelly Starrett - physical therapist and author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book Becoming a Supple Leopard (Victory Belt, 2015, also available) - unveils how your sedentary lifestyle is killing you and, more important, what you can do to change it. DESKBOUND offers a detailed battle plan for surviving the chair and reclaiming your birth right of mobility and freedom from pain. It provides creative solutions to reduce the amount of time you spend perched on your backside, as well as strategies for the workplace and school that will improve your productivity and your overall health. You will learn how to identify and fix poor posture while sitting and standing; how to prevent, treat, and resolve low back, neck, shoulder and wrist pain; and avoid and reverse repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel and tendonitis.

Whether your goal is to maximise your performance in and out of the workplace or simply to live pain-free, DESKBOUND is the blueprint.

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Review:

While Starrett is best known for his work inside the gym, increasingly he s discovered that many issues underlying injury and deceased performance are related to how people carry themselves in everyday life. Deskbound, offers a scathing critique of our modern environment, which he says encourages poor physical habits, as well as strategies to survive in it. --Outside Magazine

Are you sitting down to read this? If so, then start fidgeting, moving your feet, your shoulders, your ankles. Better still, stand up. Walk to the coffee machine or touch your toes - do anything but stay in your chair; because sitting, a habit that occupies more of our time than any other, is killing us. According to Dr Kelly Starrett, an American mobility expert and the author of a new book called Deskbound, our sedentariness is responsible for rises in obesity and disease, for a fall in brain health and mobility and, ultimately for lives being cut short. --The Saturday Times

Kelly Starrett, physical therapist and author of the new book Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World a guide that aims to mitigate back pains, carpal tunnel aches and myriad other ailments currently afflicting desk jockies worldwide....Science backs him up: A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that physical inactivity is a bigger risk factor in mortality than obesity. --New York Post

About the Author:

Dr Kelly Starrett is the author of the national bestseller Becoming a Supple Leopard (Victory Belt, 2013), which has revolutionised how coaches, athletes and everyday humans approach performance as it relates to movement, mechanics and the actualisation of human and athletic potential. Dr. Starrett is also the co-founder of San Francisco CrossFit and MobilityWOD.com, where he shares his innovative approach to movement, mechanics and mobility with coaches and athletes around the world. He travels the world teaching his wildly popular CrossFit Movement & Mobility Course and works with elite military forces; professional athletes; and world-ranked strength athletes. He consults with Olympic teams and universities and is a featured speaker at strength and conditioning conferences nationwide. He believes that every human being should know how to move and be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Victory Belt
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1628600586
• ISBN 13: 9781628600582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400