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If you’re game to take charge of your own mobility, a fantastic “cookbook” for learning to do deep-tissue work on yourself (and a book that I highly recommend for every athlete looking to enhance mobility) is Becoming a Supple Leopard, by physical therapist Kelly Starrett, whose excellent website is MobilityWOD.com. In the book, Kelly goes into methods for self-deep-tissue work, like pressure waves, contract and relax, banded flossing, smash and floss, paper-clipping oscillation, voodoo flossing, flexion gapping, and a ton of other highly effective techniques that can literally keep you immune from injury and require little more than a lacrosse ball or a barbell.
Beyond Training
Ben Greenfield
When we face complex and pressing problems, we know we can’t solve them alone. We assume our most important decision is to assemble the most knowledgeable people. Once we’ve found the right experts, we put our future in their hands. But that’s not what the leaders of the Chilean mine rescue did. Instead of merely relying on an exclusive group of established experts, they built a system to bring a broader and deeper pool of ideas and intelligence to the surface. When they made their first voice contact with the miners, it was thanks to a $10 innovation from a small-time entrepreneur. The eventual rescue was made possible by a series of suggestions from a 24-year-old engineer who wasn’t even part of the core team.
Hidden Potential
Adam Grant
The amateur dreads becoming who she really is because she fears that this new person will be judged by others as "different." The tribe will declare us "weird" or "queer" or "crazy." The tribe will reject us. Here's the truth: the tribe doesn't give a shit. There is no tribe. That gang or posse that we imagine is sustaining us by the bonds we share is in fact a conglomeration of individuals who are just as fucked up as we are and just as terrified. Each individual is so caught up in his own bullshit that he doesn't have two seconds to worry about yours or mine, or to reject or diminish us because of it. When we truly understand that the tribe doesn't give a damn, we're free. There is no tribe, and there never was. Our lives are entirely up to us.
Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield
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