Kelly and Juliet Starrett: Breath Regulation and Becoming a Supple Leopard | EP 440

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Align Podcast, we talk all about how to create a healthier lifestyle through movement. We discuss how you can start to change the way you breathe, how to regulate your nervous system and how to improve your cognitive function. Kelly and Juliet also share how they keep their communication healthy and how relationships significantly affect our physiology. We also touch upon the importance of sitting on the floor, how transformative walking can be, and how we can create a community through movement.

Kelly is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and is the co-author of the New York Times bestsellers Becoming a Supple Leopard and Ready to Run and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Deskbound. Kelly was also the co-founder of San Francisco CrossFit, the 21st CrossFit affiliate. Kelly consults with athletes and coaches from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB the US Olympic Team and CrossFit works with elite Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard forces, and consults with corporations on employee health and well-being. Dr. Starrett’s work is not limited to coaches and athletes; his methods apply equally well to children, desk jockeys, and anyone dealing with injury and chronic pain. He believes that every human being should know how to move and be able to perform basic maintenance on themselves.

Juliet Starrett is an entrepreneur, attorney, author, and podcaster. She is co-founder and CEO of TheReadyState.com, which has revolutionized how athletes think about human movement and athletic performance as well as former CEO of San Francisco CrossFit, one of the first 50 CrossFit affiliates. She is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Deskbound and co-host of The Ready State Podcast. Before turning her attention to The Ready State and San Francisco CrossFit full-time, Juliet had a successful career as an attorney, practicing complex commercial litigation at Reed Smith for nearly eight years.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander and this is a place that we bring together
0:06.7	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind,
0:10.7	body, and movement. Today's conversations with Dr. Kelly's
0:14.0	starrette and his wife Juliet. This is probably the fifth episode or so I've
0:18.6	done with Kelly, fourth. I'm not really sure exactly. But in this
0:22.2	conversation we tap in to how you can start to
0:25.5	change the way that you breathe for better nervous system regulation, better
0:29.8	athleticism, better longevity, better cognitive function, things of the sort, some simple practices
0:35.5	you can start to integrate for better hip function, ankle function, and a big part of the conversation,
0:40.8	particularly the beginning, if you want to get to some of like the biomechanical specifics, I would say you can fast forward to probably 50 minutes in or so.
0:50.0	But the beginning portion was a lot about how our relationships and our internal world affects our physiology.
0:58.8	I think you guys are going to dig this conversation.
1:01.1	Let's get to it with Dr. Kelly Starret and his beautiful wife, Juliet.
1:05.9	Kelly and Juliet Starret, thank you so much for making time to be here. Again, this is the first
1:10.5	time we got to do this with the beautiful Juliet, so that's very exciting to me.
1:13.3	Thank you so much for having this. It's so fun to chat you up.
1:16.1	Yeah. So let me just go on record. We have to start by saying that I'm going to look really bad.
1:20.8	If you've ever listened to Aaron I talked before,
1:23.5	it's obviously like Callo and superficial.
1:26.4	And now you'll actually see the brains and the brawn.
1:29.8	Oh my God, he's saying that's not true.
1:31.3	That's not fair.
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