Why Most People Are Breathing Wrong (And How to Fix It) | Dr. Kelly Starrett | Align Podcast #530

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Align podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Kelly Starrett to break down the connection between breath, movement, and performance. He highlights the common pitfalls in training with breath, demonstrating how tweaks in our breathing technique can be a game-changer in our performance and vitality.

Whether you're an athlete or just looking to move and feel better, this conversation is for you. OUR GUEST

Dr. Kelly Starrett is a coach, physical therapist, two-time New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, speaker, and co-founder of The Ready State, the world's most comprehensive collection of guided movement, mechanics, and mobility instructional videos.

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ABOUT

Aaron Alexander is a pioneering manual therapist and movement coach with over 5 years experience. He is the founder and creator of The Align Method, author of The Align Method book, and host of The Align Podcast which has ranked #1 in Nutrition on Apple Podcasts.

Aaron has worked with some of the world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, and celebrities to help relieve pain, improve strength, better flexibility, and ease the mind and body.

On this channel, Aaron interviews renowned experts in a range of fields focused on improving the mind and body. This mind and body podcast will teach you all that you need to know to become the healthiest version of yourself by integrating simplified ancient techniques and the foundational principles of The Align Method to strengthen your body, balance the mind, and activate healing systems in daily life.

The mission? To be the best personal growth podcast about healthy habits, redefine functional movement, and make fitness who you are; not what you do.

TOPICS

1. Breath and movement connection

2. Athletic performance and breathing

3. Mobility and longevity

4. The role of the diaphragm

5. Hip function and movement efficiency

6. Functional fitness principles

7. Yoga and mobility training

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Latin podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. Today's conversation is with
0:04.4	the great and powerful Dr. Kelly Starrett. Kelly is a doctor of physical therapy.
0:09.7	He is the author of one of the most best-selling books in the space of movement and exercise and training
0:16.7	and such referred to as becoming a simple leopard. He's also the author of many more,
0:20.9	including Ready to Run,
0:22.0	built to Move.
0:23.0	If this episode had a name,
0:25.0	it would probably be called Ready to Breathe.
0:27.1	We go, it's pretty nerdy.
0:29.0	If you guys want to buckle up,
0:30.6	put your nerd hats on.
0:32.0	We go into some of the specific mechanics
0:35.7	around the diaphragm and the pelvic floor and hip function and also
0:41.4	just fun banter.
0:43.1	I think you guys are really enjoy this conversation.
0:45.1	If you are interested in going deeper into the realm of breath, I invite you over to take
0:51.0	the breathing archetype quiz.
0:53.7	This goes through a few subjective questions
0:56.5	around mood and personality and then ask you two questions around your breathing. So you do
1:02.5	two specific breathing tests. And from there we provide you a category of what type of breather
1:08.8	you are. And I find it really interesting. I find it very
1:11.8	informative and it's very fascinating to see the bridge between the way that we breathe,
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