Dr. Kelly Starrett

Yeah. I mean, like your grandma being case in point, right? Like if she can squat and get up and down off the ground and her preference is to do ground-based things like sweeping on the ground, she's been able to maintain that range of motion by doing those things. But the other key point I want to make is it's actually not too late.

That's a question we get often as people think, well, I'm listening to this podcast. It's too late for you. Go on without me. I'm 55 and I've been working a desk job for the last 30 years and I can tell that I already can't do all the things I want to do physically and I've had some kind of pain or whatever.

That's a question we get often as people think, well, I'm listening to this podcast. It's too late for you. Go on without me. I'm 55 and I've been working a desk job for the last 30 years and I can tell that I already can't do all the things I want to do physically and I've had some kind of pain or whatever.

That's a question we get often as people think, well, I'm listening to this podcast. It's too late for you. Go on without me. I'm 55 and I've been working a desk job for the last 30 years and I can tell that I already can't do all the things I want to do physically and I've had some kind of pain or whatever.

It's actually not too late to start and people can make a massive difference in their range of motion by starting whenever and just paying attention to it a little bit.

It's actually not too late to start and people can make a massive difference in their range of motion by starting whenever and just paying attention to it a little bit.

It's actually not too late to start and people can make a massive difference in their range of motion by starting whenever and just paying attention to it a little bit.

And explain to them why they should care.

And explain to them why they should care.

And explain to them why they should care.

Sure. I mean, since Kelly already teed up hip extension, his favorite subject of all, we have in the book something called the couch test, which is based on a stretch we've been recommending for years called the couch stretch. But basically, you put your knee to the wall or to the corner of the couch and your shin is sort of along the wall and then you want to try to get into an upright position.

Sure. I mean, since Kelly already teed up hip extension, his favorite subject of all, we have in the book something called the couch test, which is based on a stretch we've been recommending for years called the couch stretch. But basically, you put your knee to the wall or to the corner of the couch and your shin is sort of along the wall and then you want to try to get into an upright position.

Sure. I mean, since Kelly already teed up hip extension, his favorite subject of all, we have in the book something called the couch test, which is based on a stretch we've been recommending for years called the couch stretch. But basically, you put your knee to the wall or to the corner of the couch and your shin is sort of along the wall and then you want to try to get into an upright position.

And we have demonstrations in the book so people can better visualize it.

And we have demonstrations in the book so people can better visualize it.

And we have demonstrations in the book so people can better visualize it.

You can Google couch stretch. What it is is a test of your ability to extend your hip, this sort of critical range of motion that a lot of people are missing largely because we're spending most of our day sitting.

You can Google couch stretch. What it is is a test of your ability to extend your hip, this sort of critical range of motion that a lot of people are missing largely because we're spending most of our day sitting.

You can Google couch stretch. What it is is a test of your ability to extend your hip, this sort of critical range of motion that a lot of people are missing largely because we're spending most of our day sitting.

The point, one quick thing though, I want to say is that we, again, I know I said this earlier, but we like to do our soft tissue work before we go to bed at night. But there are plenty of people who find that the window of opportunity they have is in the morning or maybe at the tail end of their training session. I mean, we really are totally agnostic. Like we like to do it.