Jim "Smitty" Smith: Everyone's Favorite Strength Coach, Ageless Athletes, and Lifelong Learning

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Jim Smith or Smitty is the owner of Diesel Strength & Conditioning. He has dedicated his life to helping others fall in love with fitness. Developing the Ageless Athlete protocol, Smitty has created the solution for all lifters and athletes who want to train pain free and reach their goals - in and out of the gym. Smitty also co-created the best hands-on practical certification called the CPPS certification, along with Joe DeFranco, that has changed the lives of PTs, coaches, trainers, and lifters all over the world. Smith is a highly respected and world-renowned author, strength & conditioning coach, and lecturer, who has been in the fitness industry for over 20 years.

Smitty is everyone's favorite strength and conditioning coach and we get into his background, S&C lineage, and his insatiable thirst for knowledge.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett.
0:06.8	And I'm Juliette.
0:08.3	And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast.
0:11.6	You got it.
0:13.5	You're going to stop it.
0:16.5	This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Sleep Me.
0:20.7	I want to talk about the fact that I just took the honesty test. What is the honesty test? We've been sleeping with Doc Pro, sleeping at the right temperature, modulating my bed temperature for a minute now. We've been on this thing for a second. Yeah. We were just traveling and I jumped into a hotel room and I didn't realize but my legs are on fire.
0:39.0	Yeah. I mean, I don't know what it is about your body because your upper body doesn't seem to
0:42.3	get that hot, but your legs are like a thousand degrees. Hot legs. Like you see like people have like,
0:45.9	I have like restless leg syndrome. I have fire leg syndrome. Hot legs. I got so hot and I reminded
0:52.2	myself, man, I actually woke up three or four times throwing the like sheet off in just abjected like horror.
1:01.5	What it made me realize is how much it has changed my life being able to cool the bed surface down.
1:08.3	The doc pro has changed my life and I sleep so much better because I don't
1:12.2	overheat. Yeah, I mean, I really can't emphasize this enough. Kelly is maybe the hottest sleeper
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1:21.6	2015. Oh, man. It is really transformed Kelly's sleep and his quality of sleep and how long and,
1:27.4	you know, just how long and deeply he's sleeping because he's not 100,000 degrees everything. And then here it was again. I'm like, you know what? It's fine. It's fine. I'll be fine without this thing. And I went to one hotel room. Fire legs. And then you were not fine. Fire legs. If you want to sleep cool like Kelly, head over to sleep. dot me slash TRS to learn more and save on the purchase of
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