Gray Cook: Functional Movement
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Gray Cook is a physical therapist, lecturer, author, and instructor. He founded Functional Movement Systems which promotes the concept of movement screening and assessment. Gray has been a seminal figure in how we think about and quantify movement, and how we communicate the language of movement. We get into the state of children's health and what's missing from global agreement about movement after a child passes the 21 month old mark. We also get some great takeaways about free play and how a half foam roller can change everything.
For more information on Gray and Functional Movement Systems, check out his website, the FMS website, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:13.5 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:20.0 | Today on the ready state we |
| 0:24.9 | have lecturer author instructor incredible human gray cook he is the founder of the |
| 0:31.0 | functional co-founder I should say a functional movement systems if you've ever |
| 0:33.8 | seen the FMS he has been lecturing about movement quality and trying to establish |
| 0:38.9 | movement baselines and unravel what feels like a Gordian nod of human function for a long time. |
| 0:44.2 | He's also a dad of three girls and volunteers at his youngest daughter's school teaching gym |
| 0:50.2 | class once a week. And we'll talk a lot about with him and that about that with him in this |
| 0:54.5 | episode. I love it. Like he for me is one of the most seminal thinkers about the complex of human |
| 0:59.2 | environment and you're like and he teaches gym class once a week. And if it's, it should be very |
| 1:04.2 | obvious to you in this episode that he and Kelly have a deep bromance. Even though we're kept apart |
| 1:08.6 | by the world. People enjoy this. There are great |
| 1:12.4 | takeaways about thinking differently about how our young people interact with the environment |
| 1:16.9 | and what we can do to remediate and improve that environment and relationship. |
| 1:20.7 | Enjoy. Hey, today on the Ready State is a man that I am really excited to have on. And it's good |
| 1:26.7 | that geographically we have this thing called a Creton, |
| 1:30.7 | which is the central mass of a continent between us. |
| 1:34.4 | Because if Gray lived on the West Coast or I lived on the East Coast... |
| 1:37.3 | You're just trying to show off right now because we have Gray Cook on the podcast. |
| 1:40.0 | Look, I'm not saying on Cretton. |
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