Mark Sisson: Walking for Longevity and the Pervasive Myths Around the Benefits of Running
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Is walking the real key to a long, healthy life? In this thought-provoking episode, Kelly & Juliet Starrett dive into why walking might be the ultimate exercise for longevity and health, as shared by bestselling author and fitness expert, Mark Sisson.
Drawing from his new book Born to Walk, Mark challenges the widely-held belief that running is the best form of exercise for everyone. Discover how walking supports your body's natural design, helps maintain muscle mass, and promotes overall well-being—without the risks of chronic injuries linked to running.
We also explore the hidden dangers of modern running shoes, the myths surrounding running for weight loss, and why sprinting and weight training may be better for your body. Whether you're a runner, walker, or just curious about optimizing your health, this episode will change the way you think about movement.
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| 0:00.0 | 50% of runners are injured every year. |
| 0:03.0 | At any one time, 25% of all people who claim to be runners are injured. There are some people who are probably born to run. Maybe 2% of the population. Greatest sprinter that ever lived in the same boat. He brags about the fact that he's never run more than a mile. Football players, basketball players, say, they don't run as part of their training. They do sprints. Mark Sisson. Mark Sisson. He's a former endurance athlete. In the fitness nutrition space for 30 plus years. Best-selling author of the Primal Blueprint is one of the most important voices in the space. The advent of high-tech running shoes 50 years ago, there's been no decrease in the amount of running injury. Everybody's taking on running. It's going to reuse my risk of heart disease. It's going to reduce my risk of heart disease is going to make me lose weight it's going to make me happier |
| 0:40.7 | and healthier it's a nice story but none of it was true that alone is going to be very shocking for a lot of |
| 0:46.4 | people to hear the idea of the marathon itself is a fabrication could you have heard this message as a |
| 0:52.2 | younger man that's a great question. Yeah, I... |
| 0:55.0 | Mark, welcome back to the Ready State podcast. |
| 0:59.0 | Thanks for having me back. |
| 1:00.3 | Great to see you guys. |
| 1:01.9 | I think you're like one of our very few repeat guests, so thank you for joining us twice. |
| 1:08.4 | My pleasure. |
| 1:10.0 | I just want to remind everyone how important you are to |
| 1:14.2 | our evolution in this strength conditioning, fitness now, fitness, longevity, durability space. |
| 1:20.8 | You're one of your original projects, Mark's Daily Apple. I was such a heavy consumer. |
| 1:27.2 | Every article you put up. Every single one we both did. |
| 1:29.9 | And it was the first time people were, you were integrating, synthesizing, and helping people |
| 1:36.0 | think differently about it. And I haven't had a chance, but I want to go back. I know that |
| 1:41.3 | blog exists somewhere in the early, but it is as relevant today |
| 1:45.2 | with all of the chaos and noise than it has ever been. And I just want everyone to know, |
| 1:51.0 | I literally have been on this thing for 20 years. That's how influential you are to me. |
| 1:55.8 | Appreciate that. Yeah. I mean, I feel really, I'm proud of that. I'm proud of the fact that I entered the blogger when I thought it was already too late. |
| 2:04.0 | Can you believe that? |
| 2:06.4 | Yeah, you're like, I missed the boat of blogging and turns out, yeah. |
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