The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett
Welcome to The Ready State Podcast, where unlocking human potential is not a goal, but a way of life. Where becoming the healthiest and most resilient version of yourself, both physically and mentally, is not just something you work toward… but a power mindset you embody day in and day out.
Turning complex topics into instantly applicable lessons, this show is a compass for those seeking excellence in every facet of life – physical health, athletic performance, work, purpose, creativity, and family life.
Dr. Kelly and Juliet Starrett, the New York Times bestselling authors of ‘Built To Move’, help listeners achieve this by sitting down with some of the world’s most influential figures in health, wellness, fitness, business, and art.
Every episode is infused with Dr. Kelly’s wisdom from 10+ years of training and coaching elite athletes in the NFL, MLB, the Olympics, and more. His expertise is perfectly complemented by Juliet’s profound insights as a three-time world champion paddler, CEO & Founder of two world-renowned fitness companies, and overall life enthusiast. There’s a reason they’re called a power duo.
Turning complex topics into instantly applicable lessons, this show is a compass for those seeking excellence in every facet of life – physical health, athletic performance, work, purpose, creativity, and family life.
Dr. Kelly and Juliet Starrett, the New York Times bestselling authors of ‘Built To Move’, help listeners achieve this by sitting down with some of the world’s most influential figures in health, wellness, fitness, business, and art.
Every episode is infused with Dr. Kelly’s wisdom from 10+ years of training and coaching elite athletes in the NFL, MLB, the Olympics, and more. His expertise is perfectly complemented by Juliet’s profound insights as a three-time world champion paddler, CEO & Founder of two world-renowned fitness companies, and overall life enthusiast. There’s a reason they’re called a power duo.
Episodes
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Jun 24, 2019 • 2min
Introducing Our Series on the Early Days of CrossFit
Season 4 of The Ready State is a "Where are they now" of early CrossFit. Juliet and Kelly are coming up on 15 years of CrossFit affiliation and a lot has changed over the years. CrossFit literally revolutionized how we think about fitness and the limits of human performance. Its innovative training style, combined with a focus on community, completely upended the fitness industry. It has led to the creation of thousands of companies that support CrossFit affiliates and athletes, and has produced countless thought leaders. With more than 15,000 current affiliates, it is arguably responsible for creating the boutique fitness industry as we know it today. This season we talk to some of the earliest affiliates, Games athletes, and SMEs that helped shape this movement to find out their CrossFit origin stories, how the journey as been, and what they are doing now.
Dec 7, 2018 • 51min
Nic Gill: Health Your Kids
Nic Gill has been the head strength and conditioning coach for the New Zealand All Blacks for the last 11 years, a time of great international success including World Cup titles in 2011 and 2015. In addition, Nic is a wellness and fitness consultant to numerous international corporations as well as a limited number of individuals. He continues to refine his philosophy through research at the University of Waikato. Nic recently released his first book, Health Your Self, that aims to give practical knowledge to enable readers to build their own health and fitness plan. We talk with Nic about fitness, nutrition, and simple tweaks that are both reasonable and effective at improving health and wellbeing, all through the lens of raising healthy kids.
For more information on Nic, check out his website, blog, and follow him on Instagram.
Dec 7, 2018 • 50min
Katie Wells: Wellness Mama
Katie Wells is the founder of WellnessMama.com, an online resource for women and moms (and dads!) who want to live healthier lives. Katie works with a team of researchers and medical advisors with the goal of making every post a simple answer to a single question. In this conversation we get tons of practical advice on raising kids with a focus on prioritizing nutrition, sleep, and bringing healthy habits into our homes. We were blown away with the system that Katie has created in her own home and the amount of responsibility that all kids can and should handle to become truly valuable members of the team we call family.
For more info on Katie, check out WellnessMama.com, her podcast, or follow her on Instagram.
Dec 7, 2018 • 1h 1min
Dr. Mark Benden: Sedentary Lifestyles
In this engaging discussion, Dr. Mark Benden, an expert in environmental and occupational health at Texas A&M, shares his research on the impacts of sedentary lifestyles in children. He emphasizes the alarming rise in childhood obesity and chronic diseases linked to inactivity. Mark advocates for standing desks in schools and offers practical advice for parents to combat these trends. He highlights the importance of integrating movement into daily routines and provides innovative solutions to help children balance screen time with active play.
Dec 7, 2018 • 1h 3min
Gray Cook: Functional Movement
Gray Cook is a physical therapist, lecturer, author, and instructor. He founded Functional Movement Systems which promotes the concept of movement screening and assessment. Gray has been a seminal figure in how we think about and quantify movement, and how we communicate the language of movement. We get into the state of children's health and what's missing from global agreement about movement after a child passes the 21 month old mark. We also get some great takeaways about free play and how a half foam roller can change everything.
For more information on Gray and Functional Movement Systems, check out his website, the FMS website, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
Dec 7, 2018 • 56min
Dr. Stacy Sims: Sex Differences
Dr. Stacy Sims is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist specializing in sex differences in response to exercise heat stress, recovery, and nutritional adaptations for health, body composition, and maximizing performance. She authored one of Juliet's all time favorite health and fitness books, Roar, which is a comprehensive guide to nutrition and training designed especially for women. We talk about all our favorite topics as they relate to kids and really start to get an understanding of why kids aren't just little adults and how girls and boys are inherently different.
For more info on Stacy, follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Dec 7, 2018 • 1h 8min
Dr. Jose Greenspon: Childhood Obesity
Dr. Jose Greenspon is a board certified pediatric surgeon with a special interest in metabolic disorders, obesity, and bariatric surgery. He gives us a thorough and rather shocking state of the childhood and adult obesity epidemic, as well as a ton of practical takeaway advice for all families. We also get into the specifics of TeenLIFT, a multidisciplinary adolescent weight management program that was carefully designed to increase the likelihood of compliance, success, and long-term sustainability. Additionally, we put the fructose debate to bed once and for all.
For more information on TeenLift, visit their website or follow them on Facebook and Instagram.
Dec 7, 2018 • 1h 6min
John O'Sullivan: Changing the Game
John O'Sullivan is the founder of Changing the Game Project, whose mission is to ensure that we return youth sports to our children by providing the resources needed to make sports a healthy, positive, and rewarding experience for kids. After two decades playing and coaching soccer, John is an expert at training high-performing athletes by creating player-centered environments. He is also the best selling author of both Changing the Game: The Parents Guide to Raising Happy, High Performing Athletes, and Giving Youth Sports Back to our Kids and Is it Wise to Specialize? John offers some really practical advice on how parents and coaches can help bring the fun back into youth sports.
For more about John and Changing the Game Project, visit their website, or follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Dec 7, 2018 • 59min
Mark Verstegen: Youth Development
Mark Verstegen is the founder and president of EXOS and one of the world's foremost experts on human performance. Mark has coached some of the most elite athletes on the planet and has also worked extensively with the NFL, corporations, and the military. EXOS is built around four pillars of performance - mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery - and Mark takes us through it all. He has trained a ton of kids and gives everyone from parents to coaches a lot of great takeaways. We were so excited to have Mark in-house to talk about his philosophy and experience training youth athletes.
For more information on Mark and EXOS, check out the EXOS website, or follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Dec 7, 2018 • 3min
Introducing Our Series on Raising Healthy Kids
Season 3 of The Ready State is here and it's all about KIDS! We wanted to understand how to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted kids without mucking it up. We talk extensively about nutrition, fitness, sleep, the current state of childhood obesity, sports specialization, what we are doing right, and what we are getting wrong. Our goal was to provide parents and coaches with tons of practical advice and takeaways that are both actionable and reasonable. Check out these fascinating conversations with Mark Verstegen of EXOS, John O'Sullivan, Dr. Jose Greenspon, Dr. Stacy Sims, Gray Cook, Dr. Mark Benden, Katie Wells, and Nic Gill of the All Blacks.
