Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body
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Heal painful joints, prevent injuries, and rebuild your body from the ground up.
(If mainstream fitness advice has left you broken down and beat up, it’s time for a new strategy.)
Most middle-aged fitness enthusiasts and athletes have been dragged down by joint pain, injuries, and other ailments commonly accepted as “part of getting older.”
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
In fact, anyone can conquer joint pain and rebuild their body.
It simply requires understanding the hidden causes and a road map (this book) that leads to the solution.
Built from Broken presents a paradigm shift in how to think about corrective exercise, sports nutrition, and joint health.
Once you see how the system works, you’ll never look at exercise or joint health the same way again.
Part 1 lays the foundation for understanding why your joints are breaking down.
You’ll learn:
The 5 primary causes of joint pain.
How to prevent the “Big 3” injuries that trap you in the Pain/Injury Cycle.
Why conventional pain management merely masks symptoms (and 3 natural pain relief techniques that actually work).
How to identify and fix muscle imbalances that lead to tension, pain, and injuries.
Natural injury recovery strategies that improve healing time and tissue repair quality.
Part 2 gives you a step-by-step corrective exercise guide and list of action steps to rebuild your body from the ground up.
Including:
The ideal training schedule to maximize muscle recovery and connective tissue repair (in as little as 2 days per week, at any age).
Illustrated corrective exercise instructions (with several home workout options).
How to strengthen joints with cutting-edge connective tissue training techniques.
A step-by-step training program complete with workout routines.
Whether you have been training for a few years, a few decades, or have never stepped foot in a weight room, it’s not too late to overhaul your body.
If the conventional path of lifting and stretching has left you broken down, why not try a new strategy?
This book is your way out of the pain/injury cycle.
All you have to do is follow three simple steps.
Read the book.
Follow the action steps inside to resolve your pain.
Implement the 4-week corrective training program outlined in the book.
Just imagine, in 4-8 weeks from now, you could be in a pain-free, mobile, strong, and functional body.
One that allows you to do the activities you love, push the limits of your capabilities, and achieve your true physical potential.
This process can start for you right now.
All you have to do is click the “buy” button and order your copy of Built from Broken.
From the Publisher
Publisher : SaltWrap
Publication date : June 7, 2021
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 348 pages
ISBN-10 : 1735728500
ISBN-13 : 978-1735728506
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Reading age : 5 years and up
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.79 x 11 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #4,340 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Exercise Injuries & Rehabilitation #7 in Stretching Exercise & Fitness #8 in Pain Management (Books)
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B. Andresen –
Amazing information!
This is an amazing book. So much new information backed up by science. It makes so much sense why people suffer from so many injuries and this book provides guilders from not only preventing them but healing from them. I not only have read this book cover to cover but encouraging my adult children to read it and also put in to practice many of the exercise guidelines for my sports playing grandchildren to prevent injures! I can’s speak highly enough about this book and the exercise program it details.
Kevin Hatch –
Resonates with my Fitness Journey
First off, kudos to the author for having the wisdom and initiative to take the road less traveled in the fitness world. Both his theoretical perspectives and his concrete applications deeply resonate with my own fitness journey, both as a client and a coach.I’ve been an athlete my whole life, starting ice hockey and soccer at age 5, playing through high school, getting immersed in endurance and outdoor sports during college, finding and falling deep into the CrossFit world in my early adult years, branching out into more focused gymnastics and mobility and movement-quality based paradigms and eventually transitioning from the hardcore dogma of “constantly varied functional movement at high intensity” to a more mellow, Daoist-like fitness philosophy. And, that philosophy cannot be better summarized than by the words of Lao Tzu himself:”Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.”Such words fly in the face of today’s conventional fitness values that seem to always amount to an egotistical ambition to be 1) appealing to the opposite sex and 2) intimidating to one’s own sex (assuming the athlete is heterosexual) and that the pursuit of these ambitions requires you to regularly endure PAIN, as in “no pain, no gain.”What I like about Scott Hogan and others like him (Jerzy Gregorek, Tim Anderson, Dr Eric Goodman, Ben Patrick) is that they take ego out of the fitness equation by waking people up to a fundamental truth: you are not meant to be in pain. Pain, unlike what the ego tells you, is a sign that you’re doing fitness wrong, not right. Hogan’s book indeed takes this big picture approach and challenges readers to zoom out and reevaluate why they’re really training in the first place. For that alone, I’d say it’s worth a read.Another thing I really like about Hogan’s work is his emphasis on joint health and range of motion as the non-negotiable foundation of all meaningful health and athleticism. Just stop to think for second: of what use is strength or muscle size if you’re unable to simply occupy natural human positions? Any fitness paradigm that does not have mobility and movement quality as its foundation is a house of cards. Strength, power, and speed are all great, but when developed at the expense of natural range of motion, those “gains” eventually become “glitches.” Kudos to Hogan for creating a program that will help exercisers of all stripes to repair and rebuild a solid foundation for pursuing their fitness goals. This is a great resource for anyone interested in staying supple and strong for life.
M Weis –
Good overall reference manual
Really good overall reference manual for the aging exercise buff. I think he puts far too much confidence in physical therapists; not all PTs are created equal. I’ve had more than my share of stinkers who do more harm than good.The book does a good job with most posture, muscle, and tendon issues. It’s not comprehensive; there’s no discussion on the neck or involvement of nerves (nerve dysfunction can impact both muscle function and mobility)
Courtney –
If your body is broken, read this!
Interesting read, interesting concepts
Karin –
Feel great after a session
Just finished another Built from Broken session and feel great. I’ve been using the book off and on for a couple of months, on days when the winter weather is too bad for me to actually ride my horse. So, I’m not exactly on schedule, but am gradually progressing through the beginner workouts. My body definitely feels happier, stronger, more balanced, and more capable in spite of injuries over the years. (I probably wouldn’t have gotten injured if this book had existed!) Many of these exercises I’ve never seen before. I like the variety. You will need some simple, inexpensive equipment, but a lot of it I already had because of other books I have tried. I took my paperback of Built from Broken to the office store and had them cut off the spine and three-hole-punch it to stay open in a binder because I kept losing my place going back and forth between the workout exercise list and how to do the exercise. (I probably should have bought the spiral-bound version.) I also marked page numbers on the workout exercise lists and created sticky note tabs to mark each exercise for easy lookup. The author/publisher should create a high-quality, high-contrast, high-resolution printing of this book, with exercises tabbed, workouts tabbed, built-in bookmark ribbons, etc. The font and print quality could be better, and even if a high-quality print/tabbed version were pricey, it would be worth it as a lifetime investment. To give you an idea of how much I like this book, I also have the Kindle version, so I can adapt exercises when traveling or do keyword searches, e.g. “sore shoulder” or “core”. Great, helpful book!
Harvy –
Movement is the best medicine
I’m a 69 year old martial artist. Having undergone multiple surgeries. I find the information in this book very helpful.
Savannah –
Some Useful Info, But Needs Updating
I picked up Built from Broken to help with stiff joints and long-term pain. The book offers a solid foundation on mobility and injury prevention, and I appreciated the focus on root causes rather than just short-term fixes.That said, it’s worth approaching the advice with some caution—especially if you’re already injured. I found that trying things gradually and waiting a few days between new exercises helped me avoid flare-ups. Also, the book is a few years old now, and some of the information could use an update to reflect current research and practices.Personally, I did some Google and YouTube research on fascia hopping, and that technique made a big difference for my stiff joints—more than some of the methods covered in the book. So while the book is a decent resource, I’d suggest combining it with newer insights from other sources.
DB50 –
This is the best book on training. Period. It makes use of the most recent science. It is specific and precise in its reasoning and descriptions. It is very well referenced. The best part is that it puts to rest many of the claims and myths perpetuated by the fitness and pharmaceutical industry in the treatment of injuries. I have first hand experience with the successful application of the exercises and processes. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to be healthy and free of muscle and joint pain.
Amazon Kunde –
Ich habe eine umfassende Sport-Lektüre-Sammlung und dieses Buch zählt zu denen, von denen ich noch am meisten Neues lernen konnte. Den Ausführungen des Autors zufolge, habe ich vorher bereits das meiste richtig gemacht. Manche Dinge ist man sich aber nicht immer bewusst und sollte sich regelmäßig aktiv damit beschäftigen.Ich habe schon genug Menschen getroffen, die dieses Buch dringend lesen und einiges darin umsetzen sollten. Es ist tatsächlich auch eines der wenigen Bücher, die ich schon häufiger weiter empfohlen habe. Nicht jeder bräuchte ein Buchtipp für Kraftsport oder eine bestimmte Sportart – aber sehr viele Menschen haben irgendwelche körperlichen Beschwerden. Daher ist das Buch für eine breite Masse an Menschen geeignet.Sehr positiv bewerte ich auch die einfach gehaltene englische Sprache mit wenigen unnötigen Fachbegriffen. Daher lässt sich das Buch sehr flüssig lesen und gut verstehen.
寂羅漢 –
ものすごくいい本。あまり広く知られたくない。でも早く邦訳を。トレーニングで競技のパフォーマンスを高めて記録を伸ばすことよりも大切なこと。それは怪我をしないこと。パフォーマンスの高低にかかわらず、「良くない動き」というものがある。特定の関節に負荷がかかる、ケガを誘発する動きである。こうした動きを抱えていれば、どんなに鍛えて能力を向上させても、それは同時に故障やリタイヤの時期を早めていることになってしまう。パフォーマンスが上がれば、身体への負担も大きくなるからである。今は関節を保護するギヤなども発達しているので、悪化を遅らせることはできるかもしれない。あるいは医療も進歩しているので、外科手術などによって再び競技に復帰できるかもしれない。しかし、それらもけっして根本的解決にはならないだろう。解決法はたった一つ、動き方そのものを変えるしかないのだ。このことは、ともすると重要性を実感しづらい。動き方を変えても、それがパフォーマンスに直結するとは限らないからだ。しかし、運動すればするほど健康や日常生活を害しかねない現在の状況において、本書のような視点は貴重ではないだろうか。特に、部活動など教育分野におけるスポーツ活動においては、今後こうした知識はいっそう不可欠になると思われる。また、そうした裾野が広がることによって、日本におけるトップアスリートの競技寿命が延びるかも知れない。才能豊かなトップ選手でも、若い頃からの運動履歴によって、何かしらの障害を抱えていたりするものである。むしろ、そうした世界の方が問題は深刻かもしれない。本書で具体的に説かれるのは、自重やゴムチューブ、ダンベル等を用いたエクササイズ、ストレッチの類である。そうした動きの中で、自分の身体に染み付いた動作を改善していくのである。詳しくは本書を参照されたい。また、運動には代謝を高める効果があるので、ケガの回復も促進できるのだという。既に非可逆的な障害を負ってしまったアスリートには効果がないかもしれないが、まだ痛みが慢性化しきっていない人にとって、本書は福音になると思われる。
Desmond Hall –
This book contains so many pages but non are repetitive, and full of incredibly useful information. I feel blessed to have found this book. This author deserves a noble prize. To top it off, kindle version costs less than $2 for priceless information that would saves you a lot of time, pain and frustration to build an optimal physique with minimal pain.
RuthH –
Superb book. I’m currently struggling with a shoulder injury which I realise is likely attributable to a combination of over training, muscle imbalances (weak rotator cuff, tight lats and chest) and restricted thoracic mobility (not helped by my desk job). I now feel much better informed and more confident about my ability to recover and rebuild my strength. Reasonably priced on Amazon too. Highly recommended.