Jeff and Mikki Martin: How We Train Kids
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
As parents who are fitness and health professionals, Kelly and Juliet are constantly having conversations with teachers, parents and coaches about how to set kids up for healthy lives. In this episode, we take a crack at understanding how to think about kids' fitness. Jeff and Mikki Martin are a husband and wife coaching duo with more than a decade of experience training kids to be great movers who are set up to be athletes for life. They are the founders of The Brand X Method with training centers around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.2 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:13.7 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:16.2 | You got it. |
| 0:19.2 | We decided to take on the You got it. You've been to stop it. Ooh. |
| 0:21.6 | You got it. |
| 0:22.6 | We decided to take on the ready state as part of our lives. |
| 0:26.6 | We knew that, you know, we should start with genetics. |
| 0:29.6 | Why? |
| 0:30.6 | Because we were just up to our waist in conversation about genetics everywhere. |
| 0:33.6 | And when we looked at what we wanted to do in our next series, it was all about kids. |
| 0:38.6 | The training of kids, the deficiency, in sport development. I mean, my Facebook feed is full |
| 0:44.0 | of conversations about how and where and when and what's wrong with sort of how we're training |
| 0:50.6 | and thinking about the athletic development of a human being. And that starts with middle school. Lead us to this conversation with two of the best people on the planet, |
| 0:58.7 | Jeff and Mickey Martin. Yeah, I mean, in addition to being some of the nicest people on |
| 1:02.6 | Earth, Jeff and Mickey created the Brand X method in 2014. It's a strength and conditioning |
| 1:07.5 | methodology for kids. It's safe and fun and effective. And they're really |
| 1:11.6 | the masters. They are the go-to people. If someone asks us how young kids should be strength and |
| 1:17.6 | conditioning training, we send them always directly to Brand X. Yeah. And really looking at, they have a |
| 1:22.3 | really excellent long-term view because they have a bunch of kids themselves and they've been teaching martial |
| 1:28.1 | arts forever. And so what they've seen is this sort of changing horizon line of the goalposts |
| 1:34.1 | of sort of physical readiness that the environment has changed underneath the child. We're doing |
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