Dr. Kelly Starrett
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Podcast Appearances
And even my adults get handstands, right?
Because we're able to teach and learn in this play.
And that's body weight overhead.
Now, I'm going to put the same body weight overhead on this strict press.
And you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are you doing?
But I'm like, handstand is constraint-led.
No one dies doing a handstand.
It's skill-based.
Kids get it.
So what we can start to do is that, hey, probably if we took the fundamentals of track and field, running, jumping, and throwing β
that might probably get us 90% of the way, right?
Like Stuart McMillan, Altus Track and Field, has really said, hey, we should really teach people how to skip again.
And we now have to program skipping into our adult program, but kids can't skip.
So if you did a track and field warmup thing,
threw some medicine balls around, bounced and jumped, rolled, played tag.
Like all of a sudden that feels like a lot of play and a lot of movement exposure.
And then we might say, Hey, let's, let's work on this aspect of the barbell or we're going to teach you a kettlebell swing or basic calisthenics of pushups and lunges and, and pull-ups, but in a game, in a game.
Yeah.
So body weight control, um,