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Abel James Show

Kelly Starrett: Becoming a Supple Leopard, How to Hack Human Movement, and Why YOU Move Like an Ass

Abel James Show

Abel James Bascom

Mental Health, Business, Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today’s show is with Dr Kelly Starrett, the man behind Mobility Wod and the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming a Supple Leopard. This guy knows his stuff – you’re in for a treat.

On to the show with Dr. Kelly, we’re digging into:

  • How to hack human movement
  • Why some tiny fighters can wipe the floor with lumbering beasts
  • The mechanics of deadlifting a human
  • And why YOU move like an ass.

Alright, let's go hang out with Kelly.

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi folks, I'm Abel James, and thanks so much for listening to the Fat Burning Man Show, where we talk about real food and real results.

0:15.8

Today's episode of the show is with Dr. Kelly Starrett, and he's the man behind Mobility Wad and author of

0:21.9

becoming a supple leopard, a killer book, an epic tome. Everyone needs it if they want to learn

0:27.2

how to move. And I suggest that we all do that. I know that I'm guilty of that myself.

0:31.8

That becomes especially obvious when I'm sparring in Krav Maga or something like that.

0:36.3

And all of a sudden, I can't really move in exactly the way that I expect to.

0:40.7

So someone winds up wiping the floor with me, which is never fun.

0:44.8

So on the show with Dr. Kelly, we talk about how you can hack human movement,

0:50.5

why some tiny fighters can wipe the floor with lumbering beasts, the mechanics

0:55.1

of deadlifting a human, and why you move like an ass.

0:59.1

All right, let's go hang out with Kelly.

1:06.7

This episode is brought to you by listeners like you and future greens.

1:12.4

You want my number one health tip right now?

1:15.4

Get your greens in every single day.

1:18.0

I've been getting my greens on every day for coming up on, well, almost every day, let's be

1:22.4

honest, for coming up on almost 10 years now.

1:24.7

And I believe it makes a monumental difference to my health, performance,

1:28.9

and overall well-being. Why? Well, most of us eat too many acidic foods like meat, dairy,

1:35.7

or sugar and other junk carbs, leading to an unbalanced pH level in the body and more than

1:41.6

our fair share of toxins. I don't know if you've ever tried greens

1:45.7

supplements, but most of them taste terrible, like fish tank. And if it doesn't taste good,

1:51.4

I won't drink it, no matter how good it is for me, especially if you're talking every day.

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