Dr. Kelly Starrett
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Podcast Appearances
Sit cross-legged.
Oh, that's uncomfortable.
Now kneel for a while.
Oh, that's uncomfortable.
Now side saddle.
That's uncomfortable.
So we can touch a lot of postures.
And most important thing, as we already hinted at, is this exposure and consistency.
But if you're on the ground for 20 or 30 minutes, the
The total time we're spending at some of these end ranges of your hip, your knees, a typical person might not actually bend their knee all the way.
They don't bend their knee all the way.
They kind of sit in a chair.
They walk around.
When's the last time your heel touched your butt?
And suddenly people are like, I can't kneel.
I'm like, well, when did that happen?
When did that change?
Constantly.
So I think what we found, Philip Beach wrote a wonderful book called Muscles and Meridians.
It's a functional embryology, you nerds out there.