David Vaux: Strength Training in Midlife for Longevity
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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David Vaux, a former London firefighter turned osteopath and academic, draws on his extensive experience to advocate for strength training, particularly for older adults. With degrees in osteopathy and health and exercise science, he's a leading voice in promoting resilience and healthy aging. He also heads therapy and exercise for a major UK arthritis charity and has contributed to public health initiatives. His book, "STRONGER," published by Hachette in July 2024, aims to make strength training accessible to all for better long-term health.
David really makes the case for why strength training is critical as we age, but he also gives people a template for how to get started. If you or someone you know wants to get your strength practice going, this episode is a must listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:09.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | You got it. |
| 0:14.4 | You're going to stop it. |
| 0:17.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Cockpunch Coffee. Jester so you know, I just got back from Italy. True fact. They have such a culture of good coffee there. It's so good. And you stand in an espresso bar, right? You actually stand there. And what I was thinking to myself is, this coffee isn't better than the coffee I have at home. You know why? Cockpunch. Yeah, and this coffee is so high quality and it has the lowest carbon footprint available, which is cool. The bellwether machine is kind of a big deal. Yeah, and I think we've talked about this before, but I mean, this coffee just tastes so good. It has so many flavorful notes that it's the coffee that we're always running in our espresso machine these days. |
| 0:54.8 | Can we talk about the fact that even our youngest daughter, 15? Yeah, and we've unfortunately |
| 0:59.4 | developed her into being a coffee snob, which I don't recommend as a parent, but we're already |
| 1:04.1 | there. She's like, you know, I really appreciate the notes of this cock-punch coffee. And I'm like, |
| 1:08.6 | hold up. Let's go back in time. Wait, wait, aren't you 15? |
| 1:16.2 | One of the cool things about Tim Ferriss's coffee is that all the profits go to his non-profits, |
| 1:20.9 | Sisei. Yeah. And, you know, the Sysay Foundation is focused on cutting-edge scientific research that explores treating conditions that are widely considered untreatable, which I think is super cool. |
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| 1:29.8 | that's the wrong reason to drink it. Like, yeah, it changed the world, whatever, low carbon |
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| 1:39.1 | Go try it for yourself. I think, as they say, we say, check and verify, trust and verify. |
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