Dr. Kelly Starrett

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 days 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.

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.

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.

We enjoy it because it also helps us sleep. But again, the goal is to get that 10 minutes in a day. And when you do that is totally up to you.

We enjoy it because it also helps us sleep. But again, the goal is to get that 10 minutes in a day. And when you do that is totally up to you.

We enjoy it because it also helps us sleep. But again, the goal is to get that 10 minutes in a day. And when you do that is totally up to you.

So I'll start. We opened the book with something called the Sit and Rise Test, which is based on a 2017 Brazilian study that showed that people who could get up and down off the floor without putting a knee or hand down lived longer. And we also know that people who end up in nursing homes, the number one reason that happens is they've taken a fall. Or they can't get up off the ground.

So I'll start. We opened the book with something called the Sit and Rise Test, which is based on a 2017 Brazilian study that showed that people who could get up and down off the floor without putting a knee or hand down lived longer. And we also know that people who end up in nursing homes, the number one reason that happens is they've taken a fall. Or they can't get up off the ground.

So I'll start. We opened the book with something called the Sit and Rise Test, which is based on a 2017 Brazilian study that showed that people who could get up and down off the floor without putting a knee or hand down lived longer. And we also know that people who end up in nursing homes, the number one reason that happens is they've taken a fall. Or they can't get up off the ground.

Or they can't get up off the ground. And there's been a ton of press lately. In fact, we just saw this article in the New York Times that hip fractures in the elderly are expected to rise by something like 30% over the next 20 years.

Or they can't get up off the ground. And there's been a ton of press lately. In fact, we just saw this article in the New York Times that hip fractures in the elderly are expected to rise by something like 30% over the next 20 years.

Or they can't get up off the ground. And there's been a ton of press lately. In fact, we just saw this article in the New York Times that hip fractures in the elderly are expected to rise by something like 30% over the next 20 years.

And anybody who's been paying attention to the news knows that once you fall as an older person and then fall and break bones, that starts to be the beginning of the end. And so one of the reasons, though, we wanted to start our book with this was not to scare everybody and say, OK, you're going to die if you can't do this.

And anybody who's been paying attention to the news knows that once you fall as an older person and then fall and break bones, that starts to be the beginning of the end. And so one of the reasons, though, we wanted to start our book with this was not to scare everybody and say, OK, you're going to die if you can't do this.

And anybody who's been paying attention to the news knows that once you fall as an older person and then fall and break bones, that starts to be the beginning of the end. And so one of the reasons, though, we wanted to start our book with this was not to scare everybody and say, OK, you're going to die if you can't do this.

But because this thing that's called the sit and rise test is a really good window into your basic hip mobility and overall mobility. Can you lower yourself to the ground and get up and down off the ground?

But because this thing that's called the sit and rise test is a really good window into your basic hip mobility and overall mobility. Can you lower yourself to the ground and get up and down off the ground?

But because this thing that's called the sit and rise test is a really good window into your basic hip mobility and overall mobility. Can you lower yourself to the ground and get up and down off the ground?

And then secondarily, the reason that we thought it was so important to start the book with this is that the way to get better at this test is to do something that humans have been doing for a millennia, which is actually just sitting on the ground and then doing the thing, which is getting up and down off the ground.