Kelly Starrett

  • Physical Therapist
  • Co-founder of San Francisco CrossFit and MobilityWOD

Credentials

  • Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

Education

  • Doctor of Physical Therapy – Samuel Merritt University

Affiliations

  • San Francisco CrossFit
  • MobilityWOD

Research Focus

  • Physical therapy
  • Movement and mobility
  • CrossFit training methodology

Notable Publications

  • Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance (2013)
  • Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally (2014)
  • Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World (2016)

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Key Contributions

  • Developed the MobilityWOD project, providing innovative mobility exercises and education to improve athletic performance and quality of life.
  • Authored bestselling books on mobility and physical performance, which have influenced fitness and athletic training methodologies.
How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 0:33 0
“how best to warm up for any and all workouts”

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“how to improve our movement patterns for cardiovascular exercise for sport for resistance training across the board”
How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
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“most of us should be consuming about one gram of quality protein per pound of body weight every day”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 6:47 0
“when you look at how most people sit, walk, and do their quote unquote exercise resistance training and/or cardiovascular training, what are some of the most common problems that you see?”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 7:21 0
“what we can start to say is again not romanticizing the Paleolithic era when human beings were paleo and but what is it that we need in our daily dose lives to maintain the integrity of our tissue systems exposure so that our brain says this is safe so that you actually have tendons and ligaments that can do what tendons and ligaments can do and fascia that is can be springy.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 9:19 0
“our movement language which we're really codifying under intensity load right we're coming very competent in these adaptation positions sitting what ends up happening well we start to see that our bodies or adaptation machines and they just begin to adapt and so suddenly what we have is a human body that doesn't express normative range the brain may not think that that range is even safe.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 12:19 0
“if you spend 20 or 30 minutes sitting on the ground you're going to start to see that my hamstrings start to feel better my hips start to feel a little better because I'm just spending time in these ranges and my body is is going to start to adapt as I increase my movement”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 13:10 0
“if you're an older person who may hasn't gotten off the ground I'm older I'm just talking about over 50 you may not have gotten up and down off the ground for a hundred years you just don't do it anymore right we want to hear why I think MMA is so amazing you have to get up and down off the ground a lot right if you do go to Jets right how about yoga how about Pilates”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 15:35 0
“there's a a test we we write about in the book um that if you just do crisscross applesauce standing you should be able to lower yourself to the ground and stand back up without using your hands”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 16:45 0
“I love cycling, mountain biking is my jam, but if I ride my bike a ton my hips get super tight.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 17:23 0
“Once I warm up I can run for an hour and a half, jog for an hour and a half, once I get warmed up in the gym I can move at what at least for me is satisfying amounts of weight.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 18:24 0
“I joined Cameron Haynes for his weight workout which is high repetition circuit work for about 45 minutes. None of the weights were particularly heavy but it's just non-stop.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 21:39 0
“I like to be at a stool that's where my back is not supported um and so I try and Vary it as much as I can and thanks to you I got um thanks to your recommendation that is I bought one of those little um kickstands that goes underneath the desk from Rogue.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 22:04 0
“I love that thing cuz it reminds me to you know to to swing my swing my foot while I'm there while even while I'm standing.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 23:01 0
“One aspect of your physiology that will not change doesn't have to change is your range of motion as you get older we should be able to maintain our range of motion.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 22:46 0
“What youve just described is what my wife would call A A movement-rich environment how do I pepper the environment with inputs so that I'm not just in a a tiny movement language.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 26:41 0
“prepare the nervous system for the work you're about to do and don't follow some preconceived idea that you have to do high repetition warmup or even moderate repetition warmup and lo and behold you get much stronger and if you want to grow muscle you can grow more muscle”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 27:35 0
“what's the minimal amount of warmup to to do the task and on some days you may be sore may be stiff and he takes a little more time to go get right underneath it”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 31:43 0
“what I've tried to do is correct those asymmetries in the between movement movements but also to stagger my stance during curls and then and switch it each each time or maybe even overemphasize the weaker side”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 32:49 0
“we should be using our time in the gym as training to find deficiencies and blind spots in our patterns in our skill in our you know and our our brains feeling comfortable with a certain movement”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 36:56 0
“our previous um you know reps and sets and yeah because that's part of fun and easy to measure hard to see are you getting better at soccer I don't know but I put another K on my bench today like that's fun”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 37:36 0
“the gym is also a place for diagnosis to to diagnose where we don't have as much range of motion as we could”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 39:59 0
“overhead Squad is a good example fantastic diagnostic tool tells us a lot so bar held overhead squat down super simple all you have to do is have normal range of motion and your your joints and tissues”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 41:56 0
“you could walk out there and do sets in between making dinner you kept a c on your kitchen you could do pavles four swings on the minute for 20 minutes and at least have some exposure loading so a long way around the barn of saying I want to protect your gym time because it's really sacred amazing time where you can have fun explore ranges get strong get jacked feel great about yourself interact with your friends”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 42:22 0
“we have a lot to get done in the gym physiologically if we're going to compete against these other teams we're going to need to really maximize that time in the gym”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 42:41 0
“you mentioned warming up with play which I think is a wonderful concept um and presumably brings about more Dynamic movement”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 45:47 0
“walk into the gym use the bathroom hydrate whatever it is you need to do and then five to 10 minutes of some Play Type Dynamic activity throw a medicine ball around jump on a mini trampoline pick up a barbell do a complex do some breath hold work”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 47:06 0
“Dynamic apnea work is amazing but that's another example of something I can do instead of mindlessly just being on and I got to get a sweat like let's go ahead and just layer in play and destruction I love it.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 49:21 0
“I've spoken many times before on this podcast about the critical need for us to get adequate amounts of quality sleep each night. That's truly the Foundation of all mental health, physical health, and performance.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 51:32 0
“What is the deal with foam rolling is is there utility to foam rolling absolutely um is there a wrong way to do it no but there's a way that's not a great use of your time.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 52:38 0
“if I was in pain and I was about to exercise a a quick two or three minute intervention working on let's call it desensitization of the tissues let's let's be mechanism agnostic for a second and say that's a really low level to entry safe highly effective way for you to suddenly feel better so we create a window of opportunity to move that's really cool.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 53:37 0
“we have a lot of isometrics which everyone can agree is good stuff and we do a lot of tempo work that's really just moving slowly through range it just may be that I'm using a different tool to have that isometric stimulus or that that Tempo moving slowly stimulus.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 55:11 0
“it's a wonderful tool to decrease Doms delayed onset muscle soreness so in the evening you blew out your quads do a little soft tissue work and what you'll see is maybe that's blood flow maybe it's non-threatening input maybe it's just massage Maybe maybe it's just the parasympathetic input that massage has touch right just downregulates maybe those are the reasons I feel better but the bottom line is is that a good use of your time yes.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 57:54 0
“if everyone had a roller and a ball there was a lot of dysfunction and discomfort we can manage if you push on a tissue we expect that tissue to be painless to compression or un not uncomfortable to compression”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 58:12 0
“if I push on something all I'm doing is just creating an isometric it's just a vector isometric instead of pulling an isometric through the length of the tissue I'm putting it in a different vector and angle”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 58:51 0
“if I find something that's uncomfortable or stiff or doesn't feel like my other side I'm going to stop found a place to work I'm going to build take a big inhale so I take a 4 second inhale I want to teach myself that I need to be able to breathe in this position”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:02:51 0
“if your pain or dysfunction is so bad you can't occupy a role in your family, can't occupy a role in society, can't occupy a role in the team that's emergency problem that is a medical condition that needs medical”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:04:55 0
“pain is a request for change so when if we ask our athletic populations I just did this with a hundred kids I'm like how many of you are pain free 100 high school kids two hands go up”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:05:22 0
“we want to do is say pain is not always a medical problem it's a medical problem when the the time we're saying how are you using Fitness training as a scaffolding to understand nutrition hydration soft tissue work desensitization reperfusion of the tissues”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:08:16 0
“Blood Flow Restriction so that no longer I'm my brain is perceiving this as a threat because if you're pain you cannot generate the same amount of force or wattage or output and your brain is going to start to truncate it's going to start to Lop off your movement Solutions right it's just going to happen so we want our we want everyone to be saying hey we don't panic we have pain we just treat it like another diagnostic tool then second d right we desensitize and then we ask is this something that be decongested.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:08:46 0
“decongestion means that often times tissues that are swollen become more easily sensitized tissues that are swollen and congested don't heal as fast if you have a swollen ankle those collagen fibers will not knit together as fast as a right if you have a joint that's swollen or a tissue that's swollen your brain will shut down Force production in and around that joint system is swelling an emergency no is a swollen joint environment really healthy for the the integrity and surface of the joint no we want to manage that.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:10:04 0
“can we get some blood flow in there like H you said I once I warm up I feel great welcome to the power of blood flow tissues become hydrated we're shifting blood from the stomach all the things that happens right all that Venus return is coming back on board but suddenly we see that if we get something pumped full of blood it tends to be less painful and that's a really easy so if I have an old Orthopedic thing maybe I spend a few few minutes just getting a huge quad pump on the leg extension machine then I go squat heavy right.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:14:00 0
“I do Bridges to the back and then I do have a four-way neck machine or I use a plate.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:14:15 0
“Neckwork also serves posture, posture serves the ability to make eye contact when you have those things we call conversations with people in real life.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:16:18 0
“I think that we're we are all guilty of not paying enough attention to our posture so what we can do is we could Define posture is there is a median range of the joint positioning where we simultaneously have most access to our physiology.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:20:12 0
“Proper hydration is critical for optimal brain and body function even a slight degree of dehydration can diminish cognitive and physical performance.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:20:19 0
“It's also important that you get adequate electrolytes. The electrolytes sodium, magnesium, and potassium are vital for the functioning of all the cells in your body, especially your neurons or your nerve cells.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:25:07 0
“I did something it turned out to be glute ham raises that would put my pelvis through a fairly full range of motion from posterior to anterior tilt and I've come to love the glute ham raises as one of the most useful tools just posturally for pelvic floor.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:26:18 0
“I worked on his internal rotation of his femur and just improved his hip flexion knee to chest just got those things going I get this text that night he's like bro what is up with my boners they're out of control what is going on out of in the positive direction and I was like well there's this thing called blood flow and when we improve blood flow turns out re profusion is on the list of things that we chase.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:29:35 0
“initiating a stream maintaining a stream is like that's a sign of sexual health of Functional Health this you're General Health and what's nice now is notice how we got to this very nuanced conversation about a Cal dysfunction about bladder insufficiency about right peeing ourselves we got there through performance by we'll have athletes who literally had a whole bunch of babies suddenly have difficult time creating High inch abdominal tone will jump rope and as soon as and pee and as soon as they come back to a more organized position that allows them to transfer energy more effectively recruit better musculature have better organization ping stops.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:30:48 0
“imagine I was hoping we're going to get to hip extension eventually but you know what we see is that stiffness in the front of the quads and interior line of fascia stiff front of capsule whatever the mechanism is we do a lot of sitting we're just we're squatters my inability to take my knee behind my hip we call this knees behind butt knees behind butt guy that's what I want to be known as knee but goes behind your butt like you're to lunch that's right.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:34:08 0
“would you suggest doing these at the end of a resistance training workout when does it work for you at some point you need to be exposed in this position when are you going to get exposed to this position if it happens to be able to be clumped in with your training fantastic if it's at home in the evening fantastic”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:34:44 0
“I want you to do one of three things in the morning got 10 minutes that's all I'm asking 8 to 10 minutes hip spin up shoulder spin up or breath spin up just do one of those”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:35:41 0
“we start mobilizing the endopelvic fascia we just land a ball just anywhere from your pubic bone to your D your up to Dio process but particularly belly button South you'll see that none of that should be uncomfortable”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:39:38 0
“I'd much rather you hang from a bar and curl up... so this is pretty much the only ab work I do. I do some anti-rotation work by staggering my stance when I do curls or anything else because it's a very time efficient way to do it.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:40:19 0
“You're reproducing another seated position except you're crunching your chest to your seated knee and that's really what that position is.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:42:42 0
“How am I training the functionality of my trunk beyond just my six-pack because straight curling will certainly give you six-pack but that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to surf with power, run with power, punch with power.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:44:18 0
“the squat pattern is the thing we're training but how do we put another twist to the pretzel now the weights in front now the weight's behind now it's out and now it's too deep and now we're box squatting now and like wow you're going to have to be a really confident skilled squatter to handle all that.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:45:05 0
“you should be able to breathe well in every position. It's such a fun test actually it's such an easy test you know squat down like you're going to get something out of the cupboard see if you can take like a full belly breath see if you can get that your belly going out on the inhale there.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:46:00 0
“your physiology is definitely biased towards certain things like unequivocally and what I am not good at is being brutally strong. I've been training for 20 plus years hard training longer than that 30 years and this is all I can deadlift that's pathetic have you seen my strong friends so what you see is that I've been cramming a square peg into a round hole because I really like it but really I should be probably 190 lb and I should be an aerobic athlete right.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:49:30 0
“everyone needs to weightlift period and it's not light to Pink dumbbells it's real heavy weightlifting but how much do you need to do to be better at your sport or to minimize your spine those are the spine changes or or osteopenia or osis those are great conversations but not necessarily conversations about performance”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:51:02 0
“80% of your workouts Andrew he said are going to be at 80% of what you could do that day. 10% are going to be at 90% intensity meaning 100% is the most you could give possibly in whatever time is allotted on that day given the Sleep given the nutrition given the life circumstances on that day the Readiness for that day.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:54:39 0
“it's hard because I'm sleep deprived”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:54:43 0
“I'm stressed out”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:54:45 0
“my nutrition hasn't been great”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:55:27 0
“you can only go to the well a few times and what I'll tell you is that is I still love to power clean it's like my favorite thing and that 100 kilo power clean is heavier than it was when I was 40”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:59:39 0
“whether or not it's a deadlift or a squat you can imagine taking your hands putting your fingers at your hips and you know hiding your hands in that joint between the femur and your pelvis as you go down right your hands get tucked into the fold between the two and as you stand up it opens so it's hip hinge they typically call it right and I think what you we look at the squat and the lunge is very their cousins and the difference is long lever short lever and typically how you're holding the weight that's the only difference and sometimes UPR torso position but ultimately we're really looking at what's happening with the degree of Bend of the knee right that's why they're such elegant cousins but if I'm squatting down and I stand up people are like I'm working on extension work on extension all the time I'm like okay now let's continue this extension conversation and bring that knee behind your butt into a lunge and that's hip extension and if there's one thing that I'm seeing across so many of the populations I work with is we're starting to see changes and…”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:04:51 0
“I just needed some hip extension exposure but we can do it on the wall do on the couch ultimately what we try to say is do you have glute squeeze can you take a breath right if your breath starts to get real small in this position I'm like huh so every time your knee comes behind your body you can't breathe anymore.”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:05:09 0
“so every time your knee comes behind your body you can't breathe anymore H how's that working for you when you run is that good or bad seems to me that your breath should remain pretty constant independent of what your hip does.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:05:19 0
“so then we like to see if people can come to a more upright position so that's kind of position three so a little bit more upright torso we're starting to increase hip demands as the Torso comes upright torso is coming upright the knee is moving further away from the chest on that loaded leg and what you'll see is that most people are going to be like wow that's real stiff or I can't even get there or I can't breathe there or I have to Banana back to get there and I certainly can't squeeze my butt there.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:09:51 0
“I'll tie a fairly thick band to a pull-up bar I I'll squat down I'll hold it like I'm holding a like a pole in front of me like a pole carrier in a in a parade or something I'll squat down and I'll jump up and but instead of of um but I'll Buck my hips forward at the top so like feet go out in front it's very unnatural U movement actually as opposed to jumping and putting my toes down pointing my toes down my toes are are kicking forward so I'm trying to mimic the top of a kettle bell swing at the top of this movement.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:10:40 0
“let me Define exercise for you let me just I'll just give you a little framework and I'll start by saying something inflammatory the shoulder is not that complicated it doesn't do that many things goes overhead MH goes out to the side goes in the front it goes in the back that's what your shoulder does you can bend the elbow you can twist and all those shapes but those are the four fundamental primary organizations of the shape of the of the shoulder hip has flection extension right really I could I can go laterally but that's just a different kind of squat but really like am I squatting with the foot really narrow or my squat a little bit wider so what we can then do is say in these fundamental bookends these benchmarks this what we call archetype suddenly I can ask well how are you loading your overhead position so if you're always pressing on a bar or pulling on a lat down machine you actually are overhead but you're not in the fullest expression over overhead right which is your arms straight up and down parallel by your ears hands over the top of…”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:15:10 0
“I love to Sprint and I love jumping like I'm a big believer in this maybe true maybe not true idea that as we get older we tend to jump and land less a lot of injuries come from you know lack of Ecentric Lo saying in out of the Soviet system when you stop jumping you start dying.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:16:11 0
“The misconception the broad misconception is that resistance training is just to build and strength and muscles in a bodybuilding kind of fashion and no disrespect to the body builders but we learned a lot but you know we learned a ton and yet most people would probably do well to think about functional movements.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:41:38 0
“I use resistance training to be able to run better, faster, further without pain.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:23:05 0
“I like to do one long Rucker run per week, one shorter run, one Sprint type run, and then I'll lift legs one day, torso another day.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:44:45 0
“I basically skip one meal a day just by virtue of my schedule right it's like non-intentional intermittent fasting.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:45:09 0
“we have sucked the joy and the play and exposure out of training and out of fitness and now it's I have to have this V2 Max so I'll live to 50 and I have to do right and you forgot that we this whole thing is so you can go spend some credits so I like to say the the gym and all that really focused training is spending time on credits”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:45:47 0
“I want to go hike and then ride my bike and play and ski do all the things I want to do with my body and that may me I want to hold my kids or I want to do my job in this you know in this Warehouse we're start to train for life in a little bit more simple way and it doesn't feel like this crazy burden and it also happens to be the best tool to understand how you're moving”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:47:45 0
“we are looking at Society Health right the first thing we argue instead of saying what's most important we say what is it you want to do and who are your friends are going to do it with and are you going to do it a lot let's start there then we can start to weasle in everything especially with social isolation with sort of lack of community”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:28:59 0
“the first question I ask them is tell me about your sleep I'm a rough sleeper oh tell me more about that right because I can't even tell your inputs and outputs unless we're getting into sleep”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:29:13 0
“then I say well tell me about your nutrition I eat clean great to find that for me I don't even know what that means clean turns out underc calori under nutrition doesn't get enough macros doesn't get enough micros”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:51:33 0
“one of the things that we do in our programming for adults is I make you sprint once a week like Sprint because people have not sprinted and I don't mean you can go out and run I don't think you're capable of that but I'm going to put you on a bike I'm going to put you in control and I'm going to see what your Peak wattage is that sprinting.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:33:04 0
“if we look at the typical person especially someone listening to this podcast they don't have two hours in the gym so if your program is requiring two hours of me I'm out if it requires an hour of me I might be out you know I'm so busy that sometimes I lots of 30 and 40 minute pieces pepper throughout plus a lot of other play and that's good enough.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:55:33 0
“the gym shouldn't be the lonliest place in the world if you're not making eye contact and talking high-fiving get a different gym”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:37:57 0
“are you poorly hydrated because your tissues need to be hydrated to slide”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:38:03 0
“are you inflamed like that's why we talk about nutrition and we talk about sleep”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:40:42 0
“one of the ways that we can directly impact that in a free way at home is to begin a conversation of just some simple myofascial mobilization”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:42:19 0
“mobilizing your tissues doesn't have to be painful in fact it's likely that you'll experience some discomfort but let's talk about a couple guideposts for you”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:43:21 0
“we like to put the soft tissue work before we go to bed and what we found was that we had better adherence”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:46:04 0
“cold water immersion can attenuate training effects if done in the six to eight hours after hypertrophy and strength training because of its potent anti-inflammatory properties prevents some of the inflammation that would prompt the adaptation response”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:48:11 0
“our Benchmark in the Line in the Sand is eight hours of laying in bed without looking at your phone that's minimum and I don't care if you're sleeping because resting is the next best thing”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:51:16 0
“failure to move and evacuate that swelling is a problem so when we get people on non- fatiguing muscle contraction nmes devices like the h-wave or something like that we find that we can actually decongest and keep moving in controlled ways”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:52:30 0
“I find that if I get the sauna uncomfortably hot and then force myself to breathe super slowly only through my nose so that I don't actually feel like a burning sensation on the inside of my nostrils and I just do that for um you know 10 15 minutes that it's wonderful stress resilience training.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:54:35 0
“one of the things I like about the Heat and the cold is that it it informs me about my Readiness State because just like my CO2 tolerance my breath holds are very short when I'm stressed and under recovered my heat tolerance drops dramatically and so does my cold tolerance.”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:56:37 0
“I mean we we didn't even talk about the fact that the sauna is like it's just glue for people it allows people to come together I think one of the things I've noticed with my male friends is that it gives us a place like once a week where we get together because it's so hot we Al we're all super vulnerable and we talk the truth barel we talk with our friends and we kind of share stories and can be talk about our lives and so it creates a framework for that and if that was the benefit of the sauna I'm in just that alone right that my wife and I feel more connected after taking a on together”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:58:19 0
“well I get move my body and I try to eat a fruit and some protein before I get out the door and I walk all day long and I try not to sit in one period of place for all long period of time and then I get home and if I'm lucky enough to exercise I do and then I sat on the floor and I roll a little bit but that's a full practice you walked you got sunlight you know what I mean and that I think is a much better way of thinking about this”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:00:00 0
“if you're going to raise a kid and say Here's what like balanced nutrition looks like to you okay I'm not calling you nutrition to you how do you see this picture but what I I want to point out is that if we're going to have a conversation remember my my real job day job is high performance I'm going to have to talk about body composition and I'm going to have to talk about fueling do you have enough carbs on board to do what we're going to do are you eating to recover to reduce the session cost right how do we minimize the sort of the physiologic cost of this training this competition and that's all wrapped around nutrition”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:01:32 0
“nutrition I already hinted at I'm going to have to talk and ultimately ask you get a blood panel and look at make sure that you have everything on board so that your tissues are tissues and can handle the loading we're prescribing them”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:03:01 0
“I try to prioritize protein every meal super simple and I try not to eat one protein I try to eat all the proteins right that's probably better I try not to choose personally very fatty proteins because my genetics don't really support it if I want to see triglycerides and and things go through the roof then I'll you know watch me eat eggs and butter and steak like keto gives me diarrhea”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:04:51 0
“if I get 800 gram of fruits and vegetables this is a a nutrition strategy promoted by our friend e sinowski of at optimiz me nutrition she put this 800 gram challenge based on some research and it changed everything because suddenly I was I was like oh my God I got to eat more food I have to eat more fruits and vegetables and I was stuffing myself with fruits and vegetables getting enough protein that I was like uh I guess there's no room for a cookie”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:06:12 0
“didn't eat fiber and she's like wait until you poop twice in one day and they were like that's crazy never in my whole life what was the difference is they started eating fruits and vegetables and fiber”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:08:06 0
“we don't really dieet we'll manipulate macros to take weight on put weight off players in season out of season”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:09:24 0
“anorexia has existed for centuries um this idea that it's more prominent now with social media actually the numbers don't bear out um what does bear out is that it is the most deadly the most deadly by far of all the psychiatric illnesses”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 1:59:56 0
“the nutrition piece is such a a dangerous one and young right now jul and I are very obsessed with youth sports and spending time with seeing if we can improve that experience for families so they come out unharmed and you know Red's relative energy deficiency in Sport you know is where we start to see that kids are not eating enough to fuel activity and their growing bod simultaneously and it's really hard on their physiologies and we it starts to show up with loss periods it starts to show up with stress fractures right and we start to see sort of this some de degradation in sort of the the body's tissues but can really crash a lot of problems”

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Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:13:35 0
“we have a rule at our our house for dinner we have a three vegetable rule uh this is from a woman we work with Margaret Garvy who cooks a protein whatever that is and has also three vegetables and that's where she starts”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:15:54 0
“I'll just ask this what supplements do you think are um if not necessary then highly desirable for most people and then for athletes and maybe because we get this question a lot now especially after Stacy came on the podcast for your the female athletes you work with um in particular are there supplements that um add on to that that initial batch”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:16:30 0
“like let me introduce you these vegetarian proteins and that's because you're having a hard time timing your meals or just getting enough protein because sometimes you just don't feel like it so great great utilization there”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:16:41 0
“Caroline she gets omegas at night cuz she doesn't want to have any accidental fish burp at school she's a teenager so she takes them before she goes to bed”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:16:53 0
“there's some early research and again not my expertise that I've heard of read about talked to people about that vitamin D creatine and omegas might help attenuate symptoms of concussion if they they get hit right so post pre so those things are on Caroline she gets creatine every day she gets an Omega every day and she gets vitamin D”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 3:17:37 0
“I take a good multi because I'm like I'm just going to cover the basis you know and um then you can look I think the next sort of veillance of interest is have you had a blood panel how are your vitamin B levels is there anything we need to do based on your environment or your genetics”

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How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility | Dr. Kelly Starrett
Optimize Health Through Exercise, Nutrition, and Recovery for Better Well-being 2:02:02 0
“it's been a delight today because these little bits have come through about who I know you to be in the in the rest of the world this is the real world we just happen to have microphones in front of us the rest of the world and you've been at this a while this business of trying to help people figure out best ways to move how to be a better athlete how to improve one's Fitness how to take a rational fun hardworking Approach at times but also fun playful recreational approach to this really key aspect of our health and many key aspects of our health”

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