The Most Precious Moment

Viral Videos — This may well be the most precious 60 seconds of CrossFit you’ll watch in 2017. This little girl does snatches alongside a video of Sheila Barden from the 2016 Regionals Event 1.

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“How Kelly Starrett Became CrossFit’s Mobility Superhero” by Men’s Fitness

Kelly Starrett looks more like an Olympic weightlifter than your typical physical therapist. At 6’2″ and 227 pounds, he’s thick, imposing, and covered in a hodgepodge of tattoos that stream down his left arm and cover his bulging calves. So it’s fitting that when this doctor of physical therapy launches into a sermon about athletic performance, he skips the anatomy lesson and uses race cars to make his point.

You can drive a Beemer around a racetrack in second gear at 60 miles per hour, but you can’t do it forever, he says. Not only are you undermining performance, but you’re also priming the car for catastrophe. Starrett says this is what we do with our bodies on a daily basis: We sit all day, shortening our hip flexors, hamstrings, and calf muscles. Then we hit the gym with dysregulated tissue and complain when we get knee pain. It’s like we’re driving around with the emergency brake on, and eventually we blow out a knee or a hip. “So we need to fix our basic spinal position before we go after poor movement in the hips or shoulders,” he says. “You’ll never fix the big engine if the chassis’s broken.”

“I knew I was paralyzed immediately.”

As Holtry lay helpless, the suspect kept firing. He shot fellow officer, Cpl. Chris Davis, who survived, and fatally wounded Jardo, a K-9 police dog.

While seated on a table during a recent physical therapy session, he grunts and winces as he lifts himself. His arms quiver under the weight of his body, as he tries to scoot, inch-by-inch, across a table, pausing after each movement to catch his breath.

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