Mark Verstegen: Youth Development
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Mark Verstegen is the founder and president of EXOS and one of the world's foremost experts on human performance. Mark has coached some of the most elite athletes on the planet and has also worked extensively with the NFL, corporations, and the military. EXOS is built around four pillars of performance - mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery - and Mark takes us through it all. He has trained a ton of kids and gives everyone from parents to coaches a lot of great takeaways. We were so excited to have Mark in-house to talk about his philosophy and experience training youth athletes.
For more information on Mark and EXOS, check out the EXOS website, or follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:13.5 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:16.0 | You got it. You've got it. You've got it. You've got it. You've been to stop it. |
| 0:23.1 | You've got it. |
| 0:23.9 | You've got it. |
| 0:30.8 | On this episode of the Ready State, we are delighted to share the incredible conversation we had with Mark Vastagan. |
| 0:36.1 | He is the founder and president of Exos and one of the world's foremost experts on human performance. |
| 0:55.7 | Mark has been in the game, and frankly, as a Strengthen Edition coach, performance coach, Mark is one of the guys who's been holding the door open for us forever. And I will just say as a personal matter, I remember being a young 20-something and looking at outside magazine and seeing Mark on the cover and being thinking to myself, this is what I want to do. So to be, have him in our gym chatting it up about human function and kids was a dream. And in addition to being one of the world's thought leaders on |
| 1:00.7 | human performance, he is also one of the nicest guys and such a hard worker. We were lucky enough to |
| 1:06.3 | get to record this episode live at San Francisco CrossFit. And, uh, he was so kind as to take out our recycling while we were waiting to record our episode. No San Francisco CrossFit. And he was so kind as to take out our |
| 1:12.7 | recycling while we were waiting to record our episode. He is the truth, man. I tell you what, |
| 1:17.1 | one of the really interesting things about if you get to sit down and pick Mark's brain is that |
| 1:22.0 | Mark literally has coached the German national soccer team. He, uh, they do, they work in a lot of |
| 1:27.4 | military units. They do work in population health and, uh, they do, they work in a lot of military units. |
| 1:28.1 | They do work in population health and, uh, like places like Google and Facebook that |
| 1:32.7 | we do the strength condition there in the training and fitness. But what you'll see is |
| 1:35.8 | that it comes back to first principles and his ability to see sort of the force for the trees |
| 1:41.3 | and what are the salient and important features that takes |
| 1:45.0 | this high performance model, sort of Formula One, and takes those concepts back to the rest of us. |
| 1:49.6 | That's what makes this conversation really important. |
| 1:52.1 | And the fact that he's been coaching kids for decades. |
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