Dr. Kelly Starrett: How to Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility

Muscles and tissues are like obedient dogs. At no age do you stop adapting. At no age do you stop healing. Those things slow down. It's a little bit harder to have the same adaptation we did ... But you can always adapt.

One aspect of your physiology that will not change, doesn't have to change, is your range of motion as you get older. We should be able to maintain our range of motion.

If we have a movement language, an actual language, made up of words, how many words are you using today? And most of us aren't using that many words, very few words. So I sit, I stand, I walk very slowly. I sit, I stand, and walk very slowly.

One of the ways we define best athlete is who's the person who can transfer the skill, their current skillset, and pick up the new skill the fastest ... If you want to test how fit you are, how good your program is, go ahead and jump in someone else's program; let me know how that goes.

If you went through your warm-up and said, I'm going to be in a fight, am I prepared for that or not? And that's a nice rubric to say, nervous system arousal, I have a little sweat on, I've practiced, right? I've touched some positions and shapes.

For example, one of the things that we're huge fans of: in the evening, sitting on the ground for 20 or 30 minutes.