Built from Broken: A Science-Based Guide to Healing Painful Joints, Preventing Injuries, and Rebuilding Your Body

Bought this book as I have ongoing lower back issues and was unsure what training I can or should be doing to help heal my back and not do further damage. This book is so well written and gives an in depth scientific explanation about muscles, connective tissue and how the body works with regards to exercise and healing etc. It is equally suited to serious athletes and your average gym goer like me! The 2nd half of the book goes into how to train and has training programmes for all levels. I now feel confident, equipped and educated to get back into exercise and help my body get back to full health. Brilliant book!

I've read many books to tackle small ailments that I come across, and some larger ones. Like gray cooks and rebuilding Milo. This one really drives home the need and use of resistance training to tackle anv issues. Another great book to add to a collect to enhances ones ability to take control of there issues.

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.

Highly recommend this to anyone looking to expand their knowledge of fitness and training. Very detailed comprehensive and informative. Scott you're a legenda.

Cannot recommend this book highly enough. All my long term injuries and postural issues are being corrected by following this excellent programme. This is for issues that I spent £s and hours through countless physiotherapy sessions that never resolved the underlying problems. Key thing this book teaches you is to keep moving correctly through the pain and trust your body to heal itself (with the right strength exercises and rest). Amazing book that is making me pain free, confident with great posture and so much stronger.

Great run through of why your body breaks down, what to stop doing, what to start doing and why in order to maintain a strong body no matter what your level of fitness. Aimed at the more serious fitness person. Learned a lot from this book despite thinking myself pretty knowledgeable on some of the subjects.

The reviews made me excited. Nice easy read but only takeaway for me that was new was around building connective tissue and including insights around that into your regime when you return to exercise. This is really a general public book for someone who likes to lift heavy, doesn't have much knowledge but keeps getting niggles. I think 'built from broken' gives the wrong impression. A few useful takeaways don't get me wrong but not worth the reviews. Or maybe i'm just the wrong audience.

A ver well written book that confirmed ideas I have held for many years and gave me tools to put them into deeper practice. Never one to interminally rest injuries, I would exercise without gravity or return to the field to start working on the area and rebuilding bone repair. This gave me so much of the science and many more tools to use and put into practice Scott's ideas and to continue in my quest to be as active as possible for as long as possible given my body's ability to naturally rebuild. Thankyou for this and for anyone else please give it a very serious go

I finally reached a tipping point playing whack-a-mole with injuries here and there. I knew something was fundamentally wrong with my approach to fitness and injury prevention and my increasingly sedentary lifestyle. This book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the most common causes of injury and the cellular biology of connective tissue healing (and how we can work with it to optimize healing and fortify our joints), along with a catalogue of movements and exercises together with a training routine that is easy to follow. I no longer have to frantically scrape the web for fragmented fitness information and can now turn to this book as a lifelong reference. It has fundamentally changed the way I think about my body.

When we are serious about the body response with movement - injury - return to exercise or just learning many and varied technical aspects of structure and form, this book has loads of photos and references that help explain the reasons behind the injuries and how to recover with confidence. Worth referring to over and over.

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.

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。

If you really want to feel and look better, this book will show you how to do it! Thank you