#30: Juliet and Kelly Starrett - Built To Move

Episode SummaryIn this special episode of the How Humans Work Podcast, Juliet and Kelly Starrett from the The Ready State join the show to share all about their newest book: Built To Move! With clear vision and simple practices, they provide a persuasive invitation to rethink our approach to a healthy life. Throughout the show they offer a powerful transmission about why it is most important that we move not just actively, but dynamically as well. If you’re not ready to give up on your body and want to live an active and fulfilling life, then this is the show for you!Along the way we take a stroll down memory lane and Juliet and Kelly open-up about their formative 70’s childhood adventures from Bavaria, Germany to Boulder, Colorado. After these telling tales in their personal movement stories, we then end up waterside on rafting trip, going down the Grand Canyon with family and friends. It is here we get a compelling portrait of why being a mover is vital to a fully engaged life. In all of their tales and anecdotes we come to see why being active throughout our lives in ways beyond prescribed exercise matters. It turns out that our basic lifestyle behaviors that keep us moving are essential to not just a longer life, but having a durable one as well. There are few better positioned than The Starrett’s to guide us through the pitfalls and traps of the snazzy fads in Health and Fitness. Having worked with elite professional athletes all over the world and been exposed to the best tech options out there, the road they have chosen is not one of gimmicks. Instead, their path is one that supports ancestral health needs which are critical to our wellbeing. Expanding and practicing movement choice, as they suggest, can shift the arc of our lives is ways that make sense over time.In a season dedicated to stress, Juliet and Kelly tell us the why and show us the how getting realigned with what our bodies need to be balanced and functional is a viable way forward. With their teachings we can modulate our harder stresses while stressing our bodies in the ways that benefit us. About:Juliet Starrett is an entrepreneur, attorney, author and podcaster. She is the former co-founder and CEO of San Francisco CrossFit, one of the first 50 CrossFit affiliates. She is the co-author Built to Move with her husband Kelly and of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Deskbound. She’s also the co-host of The Ready State Podcast. Before turning her attention to The Ready State and San Francisco CrossFit fulltime, Juliet was a professional whitewater paddler, winning three World Championships and five National Titles. She also had successful career as an attorney, practicing complex commercial litigation at Reed Smith for nearly eight years. Kelly Starrett DPT: Kelly Starrett is coach, physical therapist, author, speaker, and co-founder of The Ready State.Kelly’s clients include professional athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB. He also works with Olympic gold-medalists, Tour de France cyclists, world and national record holding Olympic Lifting and Power athletes, Crossfit Games medalists, ballet dancers, military personnel, and competitive age-division athletes.Kelly is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestsellers Becoming A Supple Leopard and Ready to Run. He is also co-author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Deskbound and Built to Move.