43: Kelly Starrett | Crossfit, Mastering Your Body and Optimal Performance
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Kelly Starrett is a coach, physical therapist, author, speaker, and creator of this blog, which has revolutionized how athletes think about human movement and athletic performance.
His 2013 release, Becoming a Supple Leopard has become a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. This blog was voted #4 in Outside Magazine\\u2019s Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, Breaking Muscle\\u2019s Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, and Health Line\\u2019s Top 100 Health Blogs of 2011. Kelly and his work have been featured in Tim Ferris\\u2019 Four Hour Body, Competitor Magazine, Inside Triathlon, Outside Magazine, Details Magazine, Power Magazine, and the Crossfit Journal.
He teaches the wildly popular Crossfit Movement & Mobility Trainer course and has been a guest lecturer at the American Physical Therapy Association annual convention, Google, the Perform Better Summit, the Special Operations Medical Association annual conference, police departments, and elite military groups nationwide.
Coach Kelly Starrett received his Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2007 from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California.
Before starting his own physical therapy practice at San Francisco CrossFit, one of the first 30 CrossFit affiliates, he practiced performance-based physical therapy at the world-renowned Stone Clinic. In his current practice, Kelly continues to focus on performance-based Orthopedic Sports Medicine with an emphasis on returning athletes to elite level sport and performance.
Kelly\\u2019s background as an athlete and coach includes paddling whitewater slalom canoe on the US Canoe and Kayak Teams, and leading the Men\\u2019s Whitewater Rafting Team to two national titles and competition in two World Championships.
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Kelly\'s Favorite Quote:
"The sleeper must awaken." \\u2014 Dune
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Kelly\'s Favorite Book:
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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Link\'s From Today\'s Show:
@mobilityWOD
