Kelly Starrett: Systems Thinking, Movement, & Running
Kelly comes on Bulletproof Radio to discuss the importance of knowing the difference between addressing a problem instead of the symptoms, why you can’t cheat your physiology, how standing desks in school are benefiting children, and how he is applying human performance principles to public health problems.
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Kelly Starrett is a coach, physical therapist, author, speaker, and creator of a blog that has revolutionized how athletes think about human movement and athletic performance: MobilityWOD.com. Kelly founded one of the first 50 CrossFit Affiliate gyms, San Francisco CrossFit, and focuses on performance-based Orthopedic Sports Medicine to help athletes, military personnel, dancers, and average Joes achieve elite levels of performance and health. Kelly wrote the New York Times Bestseller, Becoming a Supple Leopard, and his second book, Ready to Run, is available to order now!
Why you should listen –
Kelly comes on Bulletproof Radio to discuss the importance of knowing the difference between addressing a problem instead of the symptoms, why you can’t cheat your physiology, how standing desks in school are benefiting children, and how he is applying human performance principles to public health problems. Enjoy!
What You’ll Hear
- 0:10 – Cool Fact of the Day!
- 1:10 – Welcome Kelly Starrett
- 3:08 – Things people don’t know about Kelly
- 5:29 – Porn: the (destructive) driving force behind technology advances
- 8:50 – Why do women shave their legs?
- 10:38 – Applying human performance principles to public health
- 13:00 – The movement skill of running
- 18:02 – Addressing the problem instead of the symptoms
- 21:43 – Systems thinking
- 27:32 – You can’t cheat your physiology
- 31:10 – The first standing-desk classroom
- 38:16 – Baseline movement standards
- 41:40 – Proper hydration and urine color
- 47:45 – Getting Ready to Run
- 56:15 – Top three recommendations for kicking more ass and being Bulletproof!
Enjoy the show!
Featured
Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally by Kelly Starrett
Resources
Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Stephen Kotler
Transient Hypofrontality as a Mechanism for the Psychological Effects of Exercise
60 Minutes Sports – Crossfit Trainer Kelly Starrett: Master of Motion
Athletic Footwear: Unsafe Due to Perceptual Illusions (American College of Sports Medicine, 1991)
Vibram FiveFingers Class Action Lawsuit
Why Vibram ‘Barefoot’ Shoes Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon (Huffington Post)
Christopher Powers, PhD, PT, FACSM, FAPTA
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
Smudging the Motor Brain in Recurrent Low Back Pain
2XU Men’s Performance Compression Socks
2XU Women’s Performance Compression Socks
Bulletproof
Steven Kotler and The Rise of Superman – Podcast #109
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