Improving your movement patterns and performance output with Dr. Kelly Starrett #163
Muscle Intelligence
Ben Pakulski
4.7 • 761 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Kelly Starrett joins me on today's episode to share his expertise about the prerequisites of movement and training, and a systems approach to improving your ranges of motion and ultimately your performance.
Dr. Kelly Starrett – also known as the Supple Leopard - is a coach, physical therapist, two-time New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, speaker, and co-founder of The Ready State, the world's most comprehensive collection of guided movement, mechanics, and mobility instructional videos.
To find out more about Kelly, please visit:
Website: The Ready State
Instagram: @thereadystate
YouTube
Kelly's 10min Morning Routine: https://members.thereadystate.com/blogs/10-minute-morning-mobility-routine/
Kelly's books: https://members.thereadystate.com/product-category/books/
Time Stamps:
[0:55] – Introducing guest Kelly Starrett
[2:26] – Real Mushrooms
[5:50] – Kelly's approach to mobility in bodybuilding
[8:35] – Bio-motor-output
[9:15] – Bookmarks around function
[10:30] – Mobility and movement control
[11:20] – Pain is a request from your body
[12:00] – Normative ranges of motion
[12:45] – How to program for mobility progress
[14:35] – Determining the starting point
[18:15] – Identifying patterns
[19:20] – Assessment framework
[24:10] – Your range of motion changes daily
[26:40] – Working on density
[29:30] – Flexibility, mobility, stretching?
[32:00] – Language is key: You're not in rehab, you're training. [33:35] – Creating shapes
[35:35] – Comprehensive models
[36:19] – Breathing and the spine
[39:40] – Lower back pain
[41:10] – Kelly's morning practice
[43:13] – Foot function
[49:55] – Eye tracking
[53:10] – Kelly's non-negotiables
[55:25] – What are you training for?
[56:50] – Kelly's new book
[1:00:07] – Find Kelly here
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muslim Intelligence Podcast. I'm your host, Ben Pekulski. |
| 0:16.0 | Living your greatest life in a body you love means living in a body that supports whatever |
| 0:22.3 | adventure you want to live. And life should be that, right? Life shouldn't be feeling trapped |
| 0:29.0 | in a body that doesn't do what you want it to do. It should be this adventurous life where your |
| 0:34.1 | body is like a sports car, well-old machine, able to do what you want when you want. |
| 0:39.9 | And as we age, oftentimes with the culture we've created, you know, we have blessings and |
| 0:44.1 | curses, don't we? We have the blessing of convenience, but it's also the curse of convenience. |
| 0:48.9 | And sometimes our body starts to become a little bit restricted from all the sitting and all |
| 0:52.9 | the conveniences of modern day life. |
| 0:55.0 | Whereas normally we have been moving very actively, very ancestrally, a lot of our mobility |
| 0:59.0 | start to fade away. And I've, you know, for a long time, been a huge advocate of mobility training. |
| 1:05.0 | But there's never really been anyone out there who does an exceptional job of explaining what it means because there's people |
| 1:11.2 | say stretching is good, stretching is bad. Some people say foam rollers. Some people say not foam rollers. |
| 1:15.6 | Some people say lacrosse ball or whatever, right? All these different modalities. And there's |
| 1:20.2 | seldom been someone yet who has a really, really good grasp. There are some people. You know, |
| 1:25.6 | I can name a couple of guests in the past who have exceptional grasps. Today's guest is the world authority on mobility. And I love, love, love this |
| 1:34.2 | conversation. Like Kelly Sturrette joins me today to just impart wisdom on us from years and years and |
| 1:40.5 | years of understanding his craft. And he honestly surprised me with his depth of knowledge and his ability to articulate |
| 1:47.8 | his exception. |
| 1:48.8 | He's obviously a world-class teacher for a reason. |
| 1:51.3 | He travels the world teaching everyone from pro athletes to Olympic athletes to average people, |
| 1:58.0 | simply how to move their body and understand what fits for them. |
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