An Owner's Manual for Your Body | Juliet and Kelly Starrett
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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From the way we sit while watching TV to the way we put on our shoes, our days are filled with opportunities to improve our mobility–without getting all sweaty. That's according to today's guests, who are here to teach us about some simple ways to keep our bodies durable for as long as possible.
Kelly and Juliet Starrett are the authors of the new book Built to Move: The 10 Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully. Their book covers 10 tests you can do to assess your mobility "vital signs" and 10 practices you can do to improve those vital signs and make your body work better.
In this episode we talk about:
- What the Starrett's see as the shortcomings of "the fitness industrial complex"
- What mobility is, and why working on it is different from working out
- Why you should practice getting up off the ground without help
- The importance of your hip range of motion
- Why the Starrett's recommend a minimum of 8,000 steps per day, not 10,000
- The 'Old Man Balance Test'
- The 'SOLEC test'
- The Starretts' recommendations on nutrition, sleep, and breathing
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello everybody. This is supposed to be a show about happiness. So why exactly are we |
| 0:26.7 | talking today about physical fitness? Because of course the two are linked. If your body's in pain or if |
| 0:32.9 | you're having mobility issues, that is highly likely to impinge upon your happiness. So today we're |
| 0:39.6 | going to learn about some simple ways to keep your body durable for as long as possible. Think about |
| 0:45.1 | this. Have you ever tried to sit down on the floor and then get up without any assistance? You're |
| 0:49.8 | going to find out why that is actually a key test. We're also going to learn about other tests, |
| 0:53.7 | such as the old man balance test and the solec test. Plus why your hip range of motion matters so much. |
| 1:01.1 | And how many steps you actually need every day is the 10,000 number correct. It's week two of our |
| 1:08.1 | three week series about how to get fit. Sainly last week we covered longevity with doctors Peter Atia |
| 1:13.9 | and Mark Hyman. This week it's movement and next week it's eating and nutrition. With both Atia |
| 1:20.2 | and Hyman, we did talk a little bit about exercise. But today we're going to talk about how to train your |
| 1:24.5 | body outside of your formal exercise period. Today's guests argue that from the way you sit while you |
| 1:31.9 | watch TV to the way you put on your shoes, your day is filled with opportunities to improve your |
| 1:37.8 | mobility without getting sweaty. My guests are Kelly and Juliet Starrette authors of the new book |
| 1:45.1 | Built to Move. Their book covers 10 tests that you can do to assess your so-called vital signs and |
| 1:51.1 | then 10 practices you can do to improve those vital signs and make your body work better. Together, |
| 1:56.4 | Kelly and Juliet have also written the book desk bound and co-founded the San Francisco CrossFit. Kelly |
| 2:03.7 | also co-wrote a big best seller called the coming Asappo Leopard. He consults with athletes and coaches |
| 2:09.0 | from the NFL NBA NHL and MLB, also the US Olympic team and many huge corporations and also the |
| 2:15.7 | military. This is a fascinating interview. They have a lot to say about what they see as the |
| 2:20.5 | shortcomings of what they call the fitness industrial complex. Before we get started with today's |
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