Built from Broken

Built from Broken completely transformed the way I think about fitness, pain, and recovery. Scott Hogan explains the science behind rebuilding your body in a way that’s easy to understand and apply. His approach focuses on smart training, not just harder workouts. This isn’t just a fitness book; it’s a manual for reclaiming your body and confidence. This book completely changed how I approach training. Scott Hogan breaks down how to build a body that’s not just strong, but sustainable for the long term. His insights into recovery, mobility, and muscle balance made me realize how much potential I was leaving on the table by ignoring the basics. I’ve been lifting and training for years, and this book still taught me things I’d never considered. The guidance feels practical, science-based, and surprisingly motivating. It’s a must-read for anyone who wants to train smarter, stay healthy, and keep performing at their best for years to come.

This book is saving my life. The author Scott Hogan has taught me how to do proper exercises that are aligning all my bones as well as strengthening muscles. Super educational! Buy it and live longer! With better posture! And amazing new education on how the body really works. Find out what synovial fluid is and how important it is👍 Scott has saved not just bodybuilders from their brokenness , but little old ladies too ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This was a book someone recommended to me, and I'm so glad they did! You need to read the whole book for the information it gives. As you read, you can bookmark and/or note page numbers in the table of contents for easy reference. Please practice a bit of humility and follow through this book. The basic stretches are an invaluable help for me to overcome much of my muscle discomfort. My flexibility as an adult is also improving. It reduces the appointments I need, and my quality of life is improving again. With both this book and my appointments, I can finally live without muscle discomfort and pain for most of the year again. I know it's initially a hassle to get into the good habits, but its better than my alternative of the time and financial cost of not doing so through this book. Without the book, I had to earn the profit (after taxes and other expenses) to pay for even more appointments, pay gas to drive to the appointments, and take spare time from work to make it to my appointments. Not to mention you can't buy back good health and there is value to your quality of life. I would recommend this book for anyone. It also explains what you can prevent getting worse with age, and what age some specific things may begin declining (such as age 30), so parents may be interested in this book for that reason too. I also recommend this book for farmers. Once they overcome the time obstacle to read through the book once, they can focus on the few stretches that will help them, to avoid accidentally stretching or tearing something preventable, and will be more comfortable too. Gardeners will also benefit, as gardeners have various seasonal motions throughout the season. There is also a stretch to do to prevent problems when your not used to moving heavy furniture. Following this book, I had to refine how I walked and used my feet. Compared to my former 'kick legs ahead of me' and not focusing on rotating my hips at all, using the book means I'm putting less unnecessary stress onto my knees. I do the stretches first thing in the morning. I walk however long I can spare before going to work, but ideally would do 30 minutes or more of walking daily. Sometimes I only get my 30 minute walk in on the weekends. I purchased the smaller dumbbells, cut a stick to use for one of the stretches (or you can use a broom handle), and plan to either buy or make the 'step' later on (you step on and off it like a staircase).

This book is a life-saver. I was sidelined due to recurring arm tendinitis and meniscus (knee) cartilage tears. I bought the first edition of this book a couple years ago and did what it told me to do. In 6 months, I was cleared to jog again. I'm now back up to 3 miles on concrete, and no pain. The tendinitis is a distant memory. My posture is better, and I've headed off other small problems before they became BIG problems. It's like getting a brand-new body. You won't get this guidance from your physical therapist or doctor. It really did heal my cartilage. I'm very grateful.

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.

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!

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.

This book has completely transformed the way that I have both thought about and approached my workouts and training efforts. Highly recommend. Great exercise routines as well.

One of the best books on designing a training plan to address imbalances and injuries. Good mix of theory and practicality.

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.

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。

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