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What do kegs, yokes and concrete balls have to do with CrossFit?

Join Rob Orlando of Hybrid Athletics at San Francisco CrossFit as he takes coaches and athletes through strongman movements and equipment.

“It’s fun. It’s cheap. It gives us another mechanism to kind of harden the athlete,” says Kelly Starrett, owner of San Francisco CrossFit.

In Part 1, Rob Orlando introduces strongman and explains how he started incorporating the movements into his own… Continue Reading

A tent city and a swarm of CrossFitters guarantees some fun and engaging discussion. Join elite CrossFitters and elite coaches as they come together at the CrossFit Endurance Sports and Fitness Expo in Costa Mesa, Calif.

In Part 1, the Athlete Panel has assembled, including Coach Mike Burgener, Kelly Starrett, Josh Everett, Greg Amundson, Rebecca Voigt and Kristan Clever.

The panelists first discuss the beginning of their CrossFit careers. For… Continue Reading

On Episode 148 of CrossFit Radio, host Justin Judkins interviewed Karianne Dickson, who owns two affiliates. Also featured on the show was Kelly Starrett, creator of MobilityWOD.com. This episode was webcast live at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010.

1:50 Karianne Dickson owns CrossFit Morristown and CrossFit Bernardsville in New Jersey. She came on the show to talk about the lessons learned over the past two years and the… Continue Reading

How do you make CrossFit more approachable? Try an “elements” class to ease beginners into the program.

Join co-owner Myles Lewis and coach Kelly Edelman at CrossFit Avalanche, where they’ve launched a successful Elements class for their new athletes. According to Edelman, these classes provide “a taste of what to expect” but also scale back the workout of the day and break down the movements. The purpose is to build technique and confidence… 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 6, Starrett explains that an anterior… 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.

After achieving more thoracic mobility through our last segment… Continue Reading

We know CrossFit Games champ Graham Holmberg can deal with the unknown and unknowable. But Holmberg also enjoys dealing with the unknown when participating in yoga classes led by his fiancée, Savanna Wilson. For the co-owner of Rogue Fitness/CrossFit Columbus, it’s refreshing to be able to stop planning workouts for 45 minutes while following a series of movements created by someone else.

Holmberg uses yoga to improve his flexibility, but he also uses it to work… Continue Reading

Kelly Starrett has a real knack for taking important principles of CrossFit like midline stability and putting them into real-world anecdotal scenarios for groups of trainees. This time around at CrossFit Santa Cruz, Starrett is doing just that: explaining midline stability by turning your body into a series of levers.

His main point is that many athletes get into the start position for a rep and then try to stabilize their… 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.

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… 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… 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… Continue Reading