Ready to Run Quotes

“When you can, avoid sitting, or even open up a direct attack. Set your phone or watch timer to go off every hour so that you get up out of your chair, mobilize for a minute or two, and then (if you have to go back to sitting) sit down with your butt and stomach muscles turned on and engaged.  ”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“Neutral feet start in your trunk, so really go after those tight hips:”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“The shorter the event, the more speed and power required, the more warm-up.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“It’s simple, but it’s not easy, and the first thing you have to let go of is the belief that all you have to do (or all you can do) is hand your credit card to a physical therapist, a podiatrist, or a salesperson at a running shoe store and expect someone else to fix the problem.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“You'll be better able to climb and descend stairs like a healthy person as opposed to a broken runner who navigates steps like landmines.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“What’s tremendous about runners is their task-completion mindset. It can also be their undoing.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“If you’re heel-striking, you have to stop. It’s eating you alive.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“Routine maintenance on your personal running machine can be and should be performed by you.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“All human beings should be able and willing to perform basic maintenance on themselves.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“Cultivate an awareness that each minute you tick off sitting is doing damage to your body and to your running.”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally

“Sitting shuts down the recovery mechanisms that are critical to your training adaptations. Your circulation is compromised, and so is your lymphatic system. It’s like tying knots in a bunch of garden hoses. Here’s”
― Kelly Starrett, Ready to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally