Dr. Kelly Starrett
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
As we improve your range of motion and give you more movement choice.
you will see anything that you care about improve.
It's uncomfortable and scary.
Turn on your stomach, use your couch, crawl up on the couch.
Um, you'll see that absolutely have this conversation with your parents.
Your parents are like, oh, I've been on the ground since Vietnam or since Korea.
You know what I mean?
Like we don't get on the ground anymore.
And it really is, you know, you'll hear people talk about playing with their grandkids and they're like, wow, you know, it's, it's a lot to be able to get up and down off the ground.
And what's interesting is your range of motion is the one part of your physiology that doesn't have to change as you age.
Can you imagine if we just said, oh yeah, everyone gets stiff.
Because it doesn't have to.
Why?
It's just one, the one aspect of your, of your movement, probably going to lose some bone density, probably going to lose some muscle unless we're, you know, enhanced.
Right.
Yeah.
And we have all these, but your range of motion doesn't have to, to change.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But also remind everyone, muscles and tissues are like obedient dogs.