Knees Over Toes: Fix Knees, Calves, Shins & Shoulders – Ben Patrick : 1127
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Meet the man who’s making leaps forward in functional movement training.
Ben Patrick (aka the Knees Over Toes Guy) went from chronic knee issues to becoming a dunking sensation with his remarkable 42-inch vertical leap. His journey led him to discover the unconventional “knees over toes” method. He now trains to reverse joint pain and defy aging.
In this episode, Ben shares his three game-changing foundations of exercise. We look back at the history of backward walking, and talk about its benefits today. Ben gives us his best tips for strengthening and healing knees, calves, shins, hip flexors, and shoulders. We start from the ground up with fixes for feet and toes. Plus, we talk about the problem with most shoes.
Today’s biggest takeaway is recognizing the connection between functional movement and longevity. Functional training is key to how long you live and how well you live. Whether you’re 18 and want to do parkour or you’re 80 and want to get up off the floor—or still do parkour—you’ll want to hear this one.
(00:04:45) What’s Up With Knees Over Toes?
(00:13:58) Strengthening Joints, Not Just Muscles
(00:19:54) Starting Off on the Right Foot
(00:28:21) Taking It Back to Basics
(00:38:30) Will These Workouts Help or Hurt Your Joints?
(00:45:09) Fixes From the Toes Up
(00:53:48) How To Have Healthy Hip Flexors
(01:00:33) Healthy Movement Patterns for Life
(01:03:03:) Secrets To Shoulder Healing
(01:05:50) Marketing That Actually Helps People
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. Hi. Asprey. Today is a really fun episode. It's supposed to all the other ones which are generally, |
| 0:27.4 | oh wait they're all fun, but they're just different topics whatever is top of mind. |
| 0:32.5 | You know you're going to hear something likely about being smarter, |
| 0:35.7 | living to at least 180. |
| 0:37.8 | If someone says health span on the show, |
| 0:39.9 | I'm going to sort of thumb my nose at them |
| 0:41.8 | and call them a wuss. |
| 0:43.4 | Because the people who are trying to cut the knees off |
| 0:46.4 | of the longevity movement by saying, |
| 0:47.9 | oh, we're just gonna be healthier |
| 0:49.2 | and die when we were supposed to die. |
| 0:51.0 | Screw you guys. |
| 0:52.3 | Okay, just screw you. |
| 0:54.0 | Because we are at the point where we can for the first time in recent history |
| 0:58.0 | extend our lifespan. |
| 1:00.0 | And we have a moral imperative to do this because it's going to sound weird, but we don't have enough kids. |
| 1:07.0 | In all European countries, some Asian countries, and certainly in North America our replacement rate is far below. |
| 1:15.7 | So we're going to have empty cities or we're going to have old people with the energy of young people |
| 1:19.4 | and the wisdom of old people who are going to be productive members of society for twice as long. |
| 1:24.2 | We better do it and you're going to be a part of it because you'll listen to the show. |
| 1:27.5 | So you can just count on hearing that kind of stuff. |
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