583: Kelly Starrett- Human Movement and Athletic Performance Icon
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin interview mobility pioneer and superstar Kelly Starrett. Kelly is a coach, physical therapist, author and speaker and has been instrumental in revolutionizing how athletes think about human movement and athletic performance. His 2013 book, Becoming a Supple Leopard has become a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Kelly’s clients have included Olympic gold-medalists, Tour de France cyclists, world and national record holding Olympic Lifting and Power athletes, Crossfit Games medalists, ballet dancers, military personnel, and competitive age-division athletes. Check out Kelly at www.mobilitywod.com and his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/sanfranciscocrossfit. TONS of awesome and actionable information.
- What got him into what he is doing now? (3:38)
- Obsessed with mechanics
- What got him to writing Supple Leopard? (14:37)
- Kids aren’t enriched enough
- Why are we training in the first place?
- With kids starting sports at early ages, is there a fear of creating imbalances early? (20:24)
- Need to make a generalist to make a specialist later on
- Strive to develop good athletes
- Train year-round
- What do you do with athletes already established, with these imbalances from years of cheating? How do you change patterns and not change the athlete’s mechanics? (27:20)
- Strength and conditioning
- Position transfer exercises
- Getting athletes in more functional positions
- How important is the priming of getting ready for a workout? (36:06)
- Find a program that you like
- Shift in mentality
- Ability to maintain a position
- How did he get involved in CrossFit? (46:46)
- Mobilizing for position
- How do you train Olympic lifts to fatigue? (52:48)
- Cross purposes around the patterning
- Treat it as a practice
- When you look at CrossFit as a whole, what are the things you love about it and what can be changed? (59:00)
- How much of a role does individual variance play into training? (1:01:25)
- What are some of these foundational positions that you have identified, what people should be able to do? (1:04:52)
- Categorize movements
- What is some of the common knowledge you see now that you think is bullshit? (1:08:04)
- Sold people that think things that look difficult are real fitness
- Do you have any predictions on trends you see? (1:16:28)
- Coaching is the most important thing
- Believe in the home gym
- What are you currently struggling with in business? What are you currently happy about? (1:21:41)
- Ripping each other off
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, wow, we get to interview... |
| 0:17.0 | What a great... |
| 0:19.0 | One of the Mount Rushmores of Mobility. |
| 0:21.0 | Great. I said it. |
| 0:22.0 | Mind. You know, a lot of the information that I share in regards to hip mobility, because |
| 0:31.0 | this is where I went. He was one of the few guys I found on YouTube, given really good information in regards to mobility. |
| 0:39.0 | He's kind of like the godfather of band distractions and resurrected. |
| 0:44.0 | Inventing it. |
| 0:45.0 | And just mobility work period on YouTube. He's one of the first YouTube guys to start showing mobility. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, if you're having guests by now, we're talking about Kelly Starrette. |
| 0:53.0 | This guy is very, very well respected in the fitness world for his work and contributions to just mobility, functional flexibility, movement. |
| 1:04.0 | He has a huge influence on the world of CrossFit in that particular regard as well. |
| 1:09.0 | And we talk about that. We talk about how he started in fitness and what his passions are. |
| 1:14.0 | And he's not a hard person to interview. You kind of give him the mic. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh, man, he likes it on fire. And he goes for his. |
| 1:21.0 | His book, becoming a supple leopard is one of the, I mean, it's like, if you want to learn about mobility and flexibility, this is one of the cornerstones. |
| 1:30.0 | This is like one of the books you should absolutely have. In fact, when I walk into a, you know, a movement specialist office, if I don't see this book, I'm always like wondering how good are they? |
| 1:40.0 | Because it's like one of those, in the second, one of those Bibles. Right. |
| 1:43.0 | And that regard, you can find his website is mobility wad. So mobility, W O D dot com again. I mentioned his book, becoming a supple leopard. |
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