Name: Joe Rogan Experience #365 - Kelly Starrett, Glen Cordoza
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Joe Rogan Experience #365 - Kelly Starrett, Glen Cordoza

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um and Winnipeg sold out too so I can't wait to go to Canada again when you're
going back to Texas
I want to go to Texas so bad I know you do well you should probably schedule a
gig I know why don't you
get a night at uh the Houston Improv I would love to yeah or Addison do Addison
get a night at Addison
I want to do it I want to do a weekend or a week of like Houston Dallas Austin
dude you can do it book
it up just make some calls all right uh Kelly starts here and uh we're gonna
get cracking cue the music
the Joe Rogan experience
what are you doing is that your new mix
you are not a DJ you fuck no Kelly how are you sir I'm I'm good man thank you
very much for doing
this man I really appreciate it absolutely um Forrest Griffin recommends you
that's good enough
for me and uh your book is uh fascinating I started looking into your book and
uh as I was telling you
before the podcast I've been having some back issues myself I have like a bulging
disc in my neck
the the name becoming a supple leopard where'd you come up with that name was
that a couple ideas one
is uh I have some tactical friends who are scary and uh they're always stiff
and messed up and you
know he told me Kelly the leopard doesn't stretch and I was like well that's
good I'm glad you're
using that leopard defense because a you're not a leopard two you don't know
how leopard feels
but then I started thinking about like leopard can sort of attack and defend at
full physical
capacity you don't see the leopard activating its glutes or warming up right or
prepping it's just
awesome so why the hell don't you have full physical capacity why you're in
pain you know
the resting state of the human being should be pain free you're designed to be
110 what's going on
why is that why it's because you suck at moving and you're a human being you
make a ton of movement
errors no one ever gave you the software for your beautiful hardware you know
you're beat up you
have to take some injuries you eat like crap sometimes that's a big one isn't
it the software
for your beautiful hardware that goes with the mind as well like man just
managing being a human
it's difficult it's not that easy well who says it should be like it's not an
easy skill so the
bottom line is that we've been sort of kind of sold this horrible mess that
like you can just get on
the treadmill you don't have to think bullshit like you are a very very skilled
human being that skill
takes work probably work every day so meaning that you can't just get on a
treadmill and be a healthy
person with no pain like you have to do physical real physical work you have to
do real workouts well
i think we've moved beyond i think everyone knows you need to probably put the
time in under some
weights you probably need to breathe really hard but really talking about as
being a skilled human
can you do everything that a human being needs to be able to do yes or no can
you can you squat down
with your feet together like you're in thailand having dinner yes or no if you
can't you don't
have flank or range of motion why not that's why you have plantar fasciitis
that's why you tore your
achilles this is why you have back pain so the thing is that you're you should
be very very skilled
in your thinking very very skilled in your and cultivate the practice 350 years
ago musashi
writes the book of the five rings he says your combat stance is your everyday
stance and you're like
wow that's so deep where the short sword goes your belly needs to be firm he's
talking
about your core you know from your feet to your knees you need to be able to
create tension he's
probably talking about torque and having your feet straight so we're not the
first people to take a
crack at it but we are the same people who've made the same mistakes over and
over again and you should
be skilled we don't teach the skill you've been spending your genetics and then
you wake up one day and
you're herniated disc you know what the hell happened so your your skill in
movement like you need to
know how to stand you need to know the correct posture is that what you're
saying like that kind of thing or look my
life's work as a dream as a child was not to lecture adult men about posture
like this is not the apex
but it turns out good standing position and yoga is called tadasana right you
should know how to do
that yes or no it's also the setup position for the deadlift the problem is
that it's hard to kind of
understand what positions need to be in what is full range of motion finally we
have a language and that
language is the modern language of strength conditioning if you can press and
pull and roll you know we you know
you hear the debunked uh thinking about the old strength coaches say like bench
press it ties the
shoulders to the arms and you're like what the hell does that mean it turns out
if you teach kids to
create torque off of a fixed object and explain what the purpose of that is you
need to be skilled
well then it turns out in guard you can create torque off of any position you
can grab grab the
shopping carton be in a stable shoulder position so it turns out that the
posture that we adopt day to
day like right now are you in a good position or bad position horrible position
i'm always in a horrible
position 24 hours a day that's right so is it okay to be unconscious in a
zombie and turn your abs off
you've already scared him so much that he'll never work out for like the next
month he's not going to
work out now you're freaking him out man no i just have this thing every time
like i know i slouch my
my whole life is slouching if i sit like this it looks like i'm trying to show
off my delicious
boobs but you should that's how you should think no this is how you want to be
healthy just tell the
world here's my delicious boobs but i've been doing that lately man and i'm
telling you that is
there's been a bunch of different things that i've done lately that have mitigated
my back pain but
one of them is i've been really really cognizant of my posture for like the
first time in my life i
have a horrible slump and i just didn't think it was no big deal i thought it
was like so i don't
like standing up straight what do i give a fuck but i didn't think it had like
health repercussions
i didn't think the damage it could do for your your discs well let's let's look
at it so you know you
you get away with it you're a pretty good athlete you have been an athlete your
whole life you know
you're black belt you know how to train you take care of yourself doing these
things and all of a
sudden something's not working right and the the type one error that we make as
as humans is that
hey i've always done it and i'm the could be the best in the world i know so
many gold medalists
and so many world champions world record holders who have terrible positions
and bad mechanics and pain
they're still the best in the world so if you can't use that i'm the best in
the world excuse
the issue is are you optimized are you in the best position possible for you or
we maximize your
potential comma we use pain as a lagging indicator i wait till i have pain
swelling uh numbness and
tingling loss of range of motion then suddenly oh i have a problem that's like
driving your car
around until it blows up and then be like i should put some oil in yeah i know
i fucked up and not
getting regular massages i know i fucked up by not doing enough yoga i i know i
know i fucked up
no no that that's not so this is the problem is that yeah yeah so massage is
great it helps you
down regulate take care of your tissues you know having some really good idea
right it's a great
and stretching so but the problem with stretching we'll talk about that
stretching doesn't work
stop stretching after you work out stop stretching well how do you get really
flexible well we take a
systems approach that doesn't include the word stretching because stretching
has sort of been co-opted by
thinking about lengthening your muscles so okay let's take let's take your neck
for example right
one of the things we look at is you know is your spine in an optimal position
yes or no and what
we see is that if you're rounded in your thoracic spine we'll get that little
hunch right right which
is easy if you're texting or sitting all day long yeah your head ends up a
little forward for every
inch in front of your center of mass your head is it's plus 10 pounds so your
head weighs 11 pounds
plus inch it's another 22 pounds eight okay so it's super it's light it's not a
lot going on so let's
extrapolate that out so running 400 meters it's 330 steps right that's 330
loads if you look at sort of the
flexion load moment on your neck extrapolate out times force so it one line is
that your nervous system
isn't optimized this this is the physiology of the human being is no longer debatable
we know what
the best position is right if i put your head in this position i can decrease
your force production
instantaneously when did everybody sort of come to a consensus on this like
when did people
really start understanding like real physical training and how do you correct
bad posture and
issues like what you're talking about is this like fairly recent information i
would say this is very
recent and the reason it's recent when the book come out right um when we start
mobility wad the issue
is that for the first what is wad workout of the day is that what it is the
idea is like crossfit
fuckers and their acronyms hey we'll do thrusters later it's cool thrusters
look the bottom line is
the guy who's got a book about being a supple leopard and then he wants to do
thrusters what is this show
fill in the blank i'm from san francisco say that to people i lived there as a
child so uh it's a great
town confed thrusters okay buddy settle down over there sorry i don't remember
where we were he's a grown man
um we were talking about how long this information has has been out there so
look at look at what's
happened with the onset of the internet we have literally kind of hit some kind
of threshold where
for the first time in real time we have the best practices test retests being
shared platforms coaches
are talking to strength coaches talking nutritionists let's use your own uh you
know show as a model look at
the people you've brought on right experts in their fields legitimate and for
the first time we start
to kind of tie in these very disparate uh systems uh you know suddenly
nutrition guys are talking to
gymnasts talking to physios and we're able to connect the dots in ways we
wouldn't i mean 2 000 years ago
the yogis figured out that putting your arms over your head didn't align the chakras
it put the shoulder
into a stable position you know and so it's not like we haven't taken a crack
at the human condition
before but for the first time we can sort of integrate the fields well it turns
out that that
that shoulder position is the same position you should have your shou