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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 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 s to mitigate back pains, 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 tion 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 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.