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#612 - Kelly Starrett - 8 Essential Strategies To Maximise Your Fitness

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Apr 8, 2023

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Kelly Starrett

Kelly Starrett, a physical therapist and author, shares his expertise to help listeners enhance their fitness and overall health. He emphasizes the importance of posture correction for desk workers and suggests daily walking as a simple way to burn extra calories. Starrett also discusses essential health metrics to track, promotes nutrient-dense foods, and stresses the role of good sleep practices. With practical strategies, he encourages adaptability in fitness routines, proving that small changes can lead to significant benefits.

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Current Fitness Trends

The fitness industry has become overly focused on appearances and trends, neglecting actual health outcomes.
This shift has muddied the waters, making it harder to discern effective strategies.

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Movement and Lymphatic System

Move more throughout the day, as humans evolved to walk significantly more than 3,000 steps.
The lymphatic system, crucial for waste processing, relies on muscle contraction.

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Sitting vs. Standing

Avoid prolonged standing or sitting, as both can be detrimental to health.
Aim to limit sedentary behavior (under 1.5 metabolic equivalents) to six hours daily.

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Kelly Starrett is a physical therapist, speaker, author, and considered one of the most influential voices in the fitness industry.

Deep down we know we should take better care of ourselves. The random aches, pains and cracks many of us have become accustomed to simply shouldn't be a part of our everyday experience. Thankfully, Kelly has broken down his philosophy into simple vital signs you should focus on to move smoother, sleep better, live longer and train harder.

Expect to learn how to fix your posture if you sit at a desk all day, what nutrient dense foods you need to be eating more of, why you need to spend more time on the ground, how to burn an extra 100,000 calories per year with one change, the simplest way to hit 10k steps per day, the most important health metrics you need to be tracking, how to stay disciplined with your new fitness habits and much more...

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