Kelly Starrett – Maintaining Your Body

Learn to live The Supple Life in this ultimate guide to resolving pain, preventing injury, and optimizing athletic performance. Mobility expert Kelly Starrett has taught tens of thousands of people, from elite athletes to weekend warriors, how to improve their movement and positioning to fix inefficiencies and avoid injuries. In this exciting 2-day creativeLIVE course, Kelly offers a healthy “how-to” blueprint for moving about in our hectic everyday lives. How do you fix your position while sitting at your desk at work for hours on end? How can you lift your kids without hurting your back? What’s the best way to run to avoid long-term injury? Kelly will give you all the tools you need to perfect your movement and ensure long-lasting health and mobility, unlocking reservoirs of athletic capacity you didn’t even know you had.

BIO: Kelly Starrett is a coach, physical therapist, author, speaker, and creator of this MobilityWOD.com, which has revolutionized how athletes think about human movement and athletic performance. MobilityWOD was voted #4 in Outside Magazine’s Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, Breaking Muscle’s Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, and Health Line’s Top 100 Health Blogs of 2011. Kelly and his work have been featured in Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Body, Inside the Box, Brian MacKenzie’s Power Speed Endurance, Competitor Magazine, Inside Triathlon, Outside Magazine, Details Magazine, Power Magazine, and the CrossFit Journal. He teaches the wildly popular CrossFit Movement & Mobility Trainer course and has been a guest lecturer at the American Physical Therapy Association annual convention, Google, the Perform Better Summit, the Special Operations Medial Association annual conference, police departments, and elite military groups nationwide.

Coach Kelly Starrett received his Doctor of Physical Therapy in 2007 from Samuel Merritt College in Oakland, California. Before starting his own physical therapy practice at San Francisco CrossFit, one of the first 50 CrossFit affiliates, he practiced performance- based physical therapy at the world-renowned Stone Clinic. In his current practice, Kelly continues to focus on performance-based Orthopedic Sports Medicine with an emphasis on returning athletes to elite level sport and performance. Kelly’s clients have included Olympic gold-medalists, Tour de France cyclists, world and national record holding Olympic Lifting and Power athletes, CrossFit Games medalists, ballet dancers, military personnel, and competitive age-division athletes.

Kelly’s background as an athlete and coach includes paddling whitewater slalom canoe on the US Canoe and Kayak Teams, and leading the Men’s Whitewater Rafting Team to two national titles and competition in two World Championships. In his free time Kelly enjoys spending time with his wife Juliet and two daughters, Georgia and Caroline, surfing, paddling, Olympic lifting, hot-tubbing, and so-you-think-you-can-dancing.

Session 1 January 30, 2013 Day 1 Pre-Show 9:00 am – Introduction 9:30 am – The Mobility Paradigm 10:45 am – MobilityWOD Principles 11:45 am – Spine & Torque (with guest Jill Miller) 1:45 pm – Real World Action Breakdown 2:15 pm – Making the Invisible Visible 2:45 pm – Burpees & Pistols (with guest Carl Paoli) 3:45 pm – General Q&A Day 1 Wrap-Up

Session 2 January 31, 2013 Day 2 Pre-Show 9:00 am – Introduction 9:15 am – The Invisible Inside (with guest Jim Kean) 10:00 am – Rules for Mobility 11:00 am – Muscle Dynamics 11:45 am – Sliding Surfaces (with guest Jill Miller) 1:30 pm – Joint Capsule Mobility 2:30 pm – The Runner (with guest Brian Mackenzie) Day 2 Wrap-Up