The Importance of Being a Supple Leopard

Episode Highlights With Juliet and Kelly

• How Juliet survived a run-in with a hippo… the most dangerous animal on earth after the mosquito
• Their journey into the work they do now and the world of movement
• The ten key techniques to enhance your capacity for movement
• Why the ability to get up and down off the floor without putting a hand or knee down is correlated with living longer and having fewer health issues
• The objective health benchmarks that are missing in the broader conversation and how to benefit from them
• What the ten vital signs of movement are and how to know if you're doing these well
• How this book stemmed from their work with elite performers and what worked best
• What mobility actually is and why it isn’t exercise
• The real story about sitting and why it isn’t bad but how to do it better
• Consistency trumps heroism

Resources We Mention

• The Ready State - Juliet and Kelly's website
• Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 3-Book Boxed Set: Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune