Rett Larson: Why Gamification and Novelty in Warm-Ups is a Game-Changer
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Unlock team success with the power of fun and movement! In this video, we explore how playful and dynamic warm-ups, creative coaching strategies, and movement-based activities can transform teams into thriving, cohesive units. From dancing and gamification to innovative warm-up ideas like frisbee tosses and movement puzzles, learn how to boost team morale, foster better communication, and unlock a competitive edge.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:- How to create dynamic and engaging warm-up routines.
- The importance of play and fun in athletic performance.
- Strategies to incorporate novelty and gamification into training.
- How to use warm-ups to address specific team or athlete needs.
- The value of continuous learning and adaptation for coaches.
Featuring insights from elite sports performance coach Rett Larson, discover how gamification, novelty, and adaptability can revolutionize team dynamics and create a winning mindset.
Whether you’re a coach, athlete, or enthusiast, this video is packed with actionable tips and inspiring stories to energize your approach. Ready to make your team smile, move, and succeed? Watch now and join the movement!
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| 0:00.0 | Why can't I make my warm-up whatever the team needs most at that moment? |
| 0:04.0 | All we have to do at the end of a good warm up is have tissue be warm, |
| 0:07.9 | and why can't I do that laying? |
| 0:09.8 | Constraints-based approach or differential learning. |
| 0:12.6 | That opened up a whole new world for me to be able to do for warm-ups. |
| 0:16.1 | What you're doing is so important and so potentially revolutionary for sport. |
| 0:22.6 | Let Larson. |
| 0:23.6 | Rett Larson. |
| 0:24.6 | Rett Larson. |
| 0:25.6 | Brett is the vice president of Jus Play. |
| 0:27.6 | He's a former Velocity in Exo's performance coach. |
| 0:30.6 | Working with the Chinese teams for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. |
| 0:35.6 | Really cool stories there. Been a strength coach for 20-something years and everyone thinks all I do is dance. |
| 0:41.2 | Because that is absolutely not the case. |
| 0:44.4 | A team can be down by five points, but if they just won that last point, they're smiling |
| 0:49.0 | and high-fiving. |
| 0:50.5 | And that's not just a mindset thing. |
| 0:53.3 | That's a physiological difference in those athletes than there is in the losing athlete. Failing together, being silly together, doing a dance together. If people ask me all the time, if I was not working for women and I was working for men's teams, would I occasionally make them dance? Hell yeah, I would. I would love that. And I've done it before and the teams love it. You're happiest, not when |
| 1:12.1 | you're on the sandy beach, but when you're learning something new. It's a radical approach. |
| 1:16.6 | Gameification, play, novelty. It really is. But what surprised you most about this approach? |
| 1:23.1 | Hey everyone, Juliet here. I am so pumped to finally share something that Kelly and I have been working on |
| 1:28.2 | behind the scenes for months. The Starat system. |
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