Kelly Starrett
Person on 3 sites
Doctor of physical therapy and co-founder of The Ready State; author of Becoming a Supple Leopard and Built to Move, on mobility and movement.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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13 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Spending 20 to 30 minutes each evening sitting on the floor builds exposure to normal joint ranges. (opens korrents.com)
“one of the things that we're huge fans of the evening is sitting on the ground for 20 to 30 minutes”
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Muscles and tissues keep adapting and healing at every age; it just gets slower and harder. (opens korrents.com)
“muscles and tissues are like obedient dogs at no age do you stop adapting at no age do you stop healing those things slow down it's a little bit harder to have the same adaptation”
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A simple mobility test: cross the feet, lower yourself to the floor and stand back up without using the hands. (opens korrents.com)
“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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Spending 20 to 30 minutes each evening sitting on the floor builds exposure to normal joint ranges. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Muscles and Meridians (opens rcmnd.app)
“There's a great writer named Phillip Beach who wrote a book called Muscles and Meridians, really wonderful book, but he thinks that one of the ways the body tunes itself is actually sitting on the ground.”
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SlackBlock (opens rcmnd.app)
“And, in fact, my favorite thing in balance training I discovered in your garage. And one of the things I discovered there was this really cool thing called a SlackBlock, and it was a portable slack line.”
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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (opens rcmnd.app)
“And look, James Nestor wrote a great book on it.”
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Muscles and Meridians (opens rcmnd.app)