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Mobility and recovery expert Kelly Starrett has a lot of unique ways to improve a client’s range of motion and flexibility without traditional static stretching. By using some basic principles of physical therapy coupled with around-the-house objects, Starrett takes a few athletes at CrossFit Santa Cruz through a series of two-minute drills aimed at improving their performance.

Moving from some localized stimulation in Part 3, this fourth piece of the… Continue Reading

Mobility and recovery expert Kelly Starrett has a lot of unique ways to improve a client’s range of motion and flexibility without traditional static stretching. By using some basic principles of physical therapy coupled with around-the-house objects, Starrett takes a few athletes at CrossFit Santa Cruz through a series of two-minute drills aimed at improving their performance.

In Part 3 of this series, Starrett turns to the pull-up bands present in most… Continue Reading

Mobility and recovery expert Kelly Starrett has a lot of unique ways to improve a client’s range of motion and flexibility without traditional static stretching. By using some basic principles of physical therapy coupled with around-the-house objects, Starrett takes a few athletes at CrossFit Santa Cruz through a series of two-minute drills aimed at improving their performance.

Continuing with the shoulder mobilization from Part 1, Starrett now works… Continue Reading

Mobility and recovery expert Kelly Starrett has a lot of unique ways to improve a client’s range of motion and flexibility without traditional static stretching. By using some basic principles of physical therapy coupled with around-the-house objects, Starrett takes a few athletes at CrossFit Santa Cruz through a series of two-minute drills aimed at improving their performance.

The first in this multi-part series takes on the thoracic spine and its relationship to shoulder… Continue Reading

So many muscles, so little time. Kelly Starrett knows you’re strapped for that most precious of resource, so he’s developed an “executive stretching series” to keep his athletes tuned up and functioning properly while they maintain full-time jobs.

Part 1 of this series took the audience at FilFest 2010 through a number of stretching techniques that have major implications on hip mobility. In the second installment of this two-part series, Starrett reveals the final… Continue Reading

The body has all kinds of muscles in it. They all have specific names, and they all do very specific jobs. You can memorize the names and functions if you want. Or you can simplify things and get right to work fixing problems in athletic movement.

Speaking at FilFest 2010, mobility expert Kelly Starrett takes stretching from the realm of the piriformis and gluteus medius and into the realm of simple hip… Continue Reading

Professional kayaker and Cosmopolitan pin-up Brad Ludden is one of those lucky people who have found a way to make a living doing something they love.

He started kayaking at 12, and by the age of 17 Ludden had a host of sponsors and was living the dream as a pro athlete. Years later, through his friendship with Kelly Starrett, Ludden was introduced to CrossFit but was at first skeptical about his need to squat: “I… Continue Reading

We’re back with Kelly Starrett at FilFest 2010 as he continues a discussion about how problems in flexibility and mobility affect even the best athlete. This time around, the doctor of physical therapy from San Francisco CrossFit has his eye on combat expert Tony Blauer and his tight hamstrings.

To illustrate his point, Starrett has Blauer go one-on-one in a “lumbar-curve contest” with CrossFit Games champ Tanya Wagner. Wagner wins, which gives… Continue Reading

You can’t round out your physical capacities across broad time and modal domains while ignoring physical limitations and going for broke in each workout. All athletes, even world champions, have some limitations due to lack of flexibility, mobility or injury. Kelly Starrett contends that movement troubles are best exposed by CrossFit, diagnosed by a trainer, and treated by the individual.

But where do you begin?

“Start with what you know,” Starrett says.

CrossFit… Continue Reading

Michael Papes was a tae kwon do master and trainer who thought he was fit. Then he ran into a few CrossFit WODs at San Francisco CrossFit. Connect the dots in between those workouts and this video, filmed at the grand opening of his box, Tamalpais CrossFit in San Rafael, Calif.

With a host of CrossFitters and potential CrossFitters checking out the new facility, Papes talks about how he was able to find a… Continue Reading

“I’ve got a lot to work on ... .”

That isn’t the type of thing you’d expect to hear from the winner of the 2008 CrossFit Games, but Jason Khalipa is a committed athlete who knows that if he’s going to continue to improve, he’s got to round out his weak spots. In this case, Khalipa is focusing on specific impingements in his hips and looking at how they relate to his squat.

In this installment of Rebuilding Khalipa, Kelly Starrett of San… Continue Reading

Nothing is ordinary about a day in the life of Kelly Starrett. Whether he’s helping fine-tune one of the world’s fittest men or running an outdoor-only CrossFit gym in San Francisco, Starrett is one interesting guy with an incredible depth of knowledge about human movement.

Starrett’s doctorate in physical therapy lends him credibility, but it’s his deep background in training that keeps people returning to his gym and attending his Mobility and Recovery… Continue Reading

The quest to prepare Jason Khalipa for the 2010 CrossFit Games continues in this fifth installment of Rebuilding Khalipa.

This time around, Kelly Starrett of San Francisco CrossFit runs Jason through a stretch that can open up assorted soft tissue and musculature Starrett refers to as “the business.” After Khalipa works himself over on the training table and tries a squat and an overhead squat, it’s pretty clear that the business is good—or at least… Continue Reading

“Whoa! Whose hip is that, bro?”

Working on Jason Khalipa at San Francisco CrossFit, Kelly Starrett shows that a little therapy can go a very long way, and it can even get results in minutes.

After assessing the 2008 CrossFit Games champion, Starrett identified several issues and then worked through them. In Part 4 of this series, Starrett gives Khalipa a set of exercises he can do on his own to improve his mechanics. After… Continue Reading

You may not be Kelly Starrett, but you can still use some very basic assessments to discover tightness in your athletes.

Working with Jason Khalipa at San Francisco CrossFit, Starrett puts the owner of CrossFit Santa Clara through several basic mobility tests to discover exactly where he’s tight. Once those sticking points are discovered, Starrett can form a plan of action to correct the problems and unlock improved performance and optimal movement… Continue Reading

Jason Khalipa can overhead squat close to 300 lb., and that number would undoubtedly be higher if he could get into a more efficient position.

Working with the 2008 CrossFit Games champ at San Francisco CrossFit, owner Kelly Starrett puts Khalipa through a series of squats that highlight very tight musculature. As a result, Khalipa has to work tremendously hard to keep his knees from rolling in and his torso upright, and his limited… Continue Reading

Jason Khalipa may not be working at his full capacity—and how scary is that?

The 2008 CrossFit Games champ clearly has the capacity to do a lot work very quickly, and he’s incredibly strong. He’s also very inflexible, and how much better would his performance be if he could achieve more favorable starting positions and didn’t have to waste energy working against tight muscles?

On the table at San Francisco CrossFit, Khalipa is evaluated by… Continue Reading

At 28 miles, the Quad Dipsea ultra-marathon is only a little longer than a standard marathon. Then again, most marathons don’t include grueling terrain and over 18,000 feet in elevation change. What better challenge for Team Un-Scared?

Started by Kelly Starrett and the gang at San Francisco CrossFit, Team Un-Scared is for athletes who trust their CrossFit training and boldly register for events in which they have no… Continue Reading

Kelly Starrett and Chris Spealler are both HQ trainers and affiliate owners who joined Justin on Episode 103 of CrossFit Radio, webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.

Justin began the show by reading two e-mails he received from listeners this past week.

5:00 Kelly Starrett, a doctor of physical therapy, owns San Francisco CrossFit with his wife Juliet. He also conducts the incredibly popular CrossFit… Continue Reading

“Pigs on ice skates” and “groiners”—two keys to a great warm-up for the hips.

During a visit to CrossFit Santa Cruz, physical therapist and affiliate owner Kelly Starrett helps a group of athletes warm up their hips in preparation for a workout featuring squatting.

Kelly starts with some basic air squats before incorporating very light stretching and moving on to dynamic movements that slowly warm up the joints and increase the range of motion. A… Continue Reading