T.J. Murphy出版的书籍：
The Unbreakable Athlete: Injury Prevention; Ironman (Ironman S)_T. J. Murphy_2004
Triathlete Magazine's Guide to Finishing Your First Triathlon_T. J. Murphy_2008
Start to Finish: 24 Weeks to an Endurance Triathlon_T. J. Murphy、Roch Frey、Paul Huddle_2010
Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally_Kelly Starrett、TJ Murphy_2014
Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally
Are You Ready to Run?
Is there a bridge from the injury-ridden world of the modern runner to the promised land that barefoot running and Born to Run have led us to believe exists? Can we really live the running life free from injury? Is there an approach designed to unlock all the athletic potential that may be hidden within? Can we run faster, longer, and more efficiently?
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.
Despite the promises of the growing minimalist-shoe industry and a rush of new ideas on how to transform running technique, more than three out of four runners suffer at least one injury per year. Although we may indeed be “Born to Run,” life in the modern world has trashed and undercut dedicated runners wishing 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.
In this book, you will learn the 12 standards that will prepare your body for a lifetime of top-performance running. You won’t just be prepared to run in a minimalist shoe–you’ll be Ready to Run, period.
In Ready to Run, you will learn:
- The 12 performance standards you must work toward and develop on an ongoing basis
- 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
- A set of mobility exercises for restoring optimal function and range of motion to your joints and tissues
- How to run faster, run farther, and run better
About Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally Author
Dr. Kelly Starrett, coach and physiotherapist, is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Becoming a Supple Leopard, which has revolutionized how coaches, athletes, and everyday humans approach performance as it relates to movement, mechanics, and the actualization of human and athletic potential. He and his wife, Juliet Starrett, co-founded San Francisco CrossFit and MobilityWOD.com, where they share their innovative approach to movement, mechanics, and mobility with millions of athletes and coaches around the world. Kelly travels the world teaching his wildly popular CrossFit Movement & Mobility Course and also works with elite military forces and every branch of the military; athletes from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB; and nationally ranked and world-ranked strength and power athletes. He consults with Olympic teams and universities and is a featured speaker at strength and conditioning and medical conferences nationwide. Kelly believes that all human beings should know how to move and be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves. He lives in northern California with his insanely talented and amazing wife, Juliet, and their two young lionesses, Georgia and Caroline. His chief life goal is to spend more time on the beach with his family.
T.J. Murphy, over the course of a 20-year career, has established himself as one of the endurance world’s most prolific writers. He has served as editor-in-chief of bothTriathlete and Inside Triathlon magazines and as editorial director of Competitor magazine. His endurance journalism has appeared in Outside and Runner’s World. In 2012 he gave things a twist when he chronicled his personal odyssey into strength, conditioning, and mobility in the seminal work Inside the Box: How CrossFit® Shredded the Rules, Stripped Down the Gym, and Rebuilt My Body.
I REALLY like this book! Kelly Starrett has done it again with the new book "Ready to Run." I was honored to receive an advanced copy of the book and it's an outstanding read. I read the entire book just in a few days as it was extremely engaging content. Here's what I can tell you. While the book is obviously geared towards running, the principles and standards apply in many other areas of function and peak performance. If you're a student of movement, mobility, and performance as I am, then you'll absolutely LOVE this book.
The central themes of the book are about how we can improve performance and reduce the risk for injury. If you're a hardcore runner, I'd say this book is absolutely required reading. I'd also say it's a must read for every athlete because of the applications to optimizing function and performance with so many valuable insights.
As beautifully stated in the book, "running is a compound, functional movement that we were designed to do in daily life." Understanding that statement, this is why it's a read for everyone. Full disclosure, I'm not a runner and I love the book. I'm a strength athlete (and also a former physical therapist), so I appreciate the principles and biomechanics that Kelly covers in detail in "Ready to Run."
The 12 standards are the foundation of the book. These standards are the required movements, mobility, and performance standards we need to meet to be "ready to run." While the standards are designed for running, they are applicable and relevant to human performance in general. They are the framework to restore poor positions, improve range of motion, and correct poor movement patterns, which is really awesome material
First off, running is a requirement of my job (USMC) and for a couple years now I have been plagued knee problems revolving around my IT Band. Starrett's previous book (Becoming a Supply Leopard) helped me get over the worst of my injury. As a result, I was excited when Ready to Run was published because it is running specific.
Some strengths are
1. Runner responsibility. If you're looking for a panacea to all your running ailments that requires nothing of yourself, you're looking at the wrong book. Ready to Run hammers home the point that you must take control of your running in order to fix yourself. In fact, most of the methods illustrated are quite painful and add more work to training. They do, however, address problems.
2. With diligence, the methods outlined will alleviate short term running problems, as well as stave off long term problems. Once again though, you have to be willing to work when you buy this book.
3. The illustrations and explanations are top rate as usual. As well as step-by-step photos, there are detailed explanations attached to the mobilizations.
Now a weakness
1. *the reason for my 4 star rating* Ready to Run teaches you how to make your body an healthy and efficient machine, however, it does not teach you how to utilize that new found healthy and efficiency. It advocates a loose running style (neutral foot strike, flat shoes, glute dominant gait) but does not teach the movement of running itself. Do not buy this book expecting it to teach you proper barefoot or minimalist running technique. (Should you be interested in that, buy Jay Dicharry's Anatomy for Runners) Personally, the book feels half finished without a section on proper running technique as well as programming to switch from overbuilt shoes to minimalist or barefoot.
As a whole, the book is still an excellent reference for performing in-home body maintenance that empowers runners to take control of their bodies.
