Kelly Starrett - Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully

Two people are at the top of the long list of people who made Built to Move possible. The first is our agent, Dado Derviskadic, who patiently waited for us for many years to be at the right place and in the right frame of mind to write this book. His vision, wisdom, guidance, and creative brilliance throughout have blown our minds and bound him to us for the rest of our book-writing lives. Thank you, Dado. You are stuck with us.

The second is our cowriter, Daryn Eller, without whom this book would not exist. Daryn took our (often) frenetic energy and excitement about this topic and somehow managed to transform it into a relatable, accessible, and eminently readable book. It is also very difficult to write a book in two authors voices and she managed that task with perfection by honoring both of our perspectives and contributions. Daryns willingness to be the test subject for all of the Vital Signs and her advice about what would and wouldnt work for our readers has been invaluable and made this book what it is today. Daryn, your next-level writing chops, professionalism, and kindness have made this experience a joy from start to finish. We hope this is the first of many times we get to work with you. Thank you.

Wed also like to thank our editor, Andrew Miller, for his attention to detail, keen insight, and willingness to be a test subject for the Vital Signs to bring his unique perspective to the book. Josh McKible, the human body is the most complex structure in the known universe. Thank you for your amazing illustrations that help make the invisible visible in this book. We still cant believe our good fortune in being able to work with the team of true experts on our greater Knopf team, including Chris Gillespie, Emily Reardon, Sara Eagle, Matthew Sciarappa, and Tiara Sharma.

Special thank-you to Reagan Arthur for believing in us and our vision for this book and for supporting us fully. We are truly humbled and honored to be writing a book under the Knopf banner. Tim OConnell, thank you for your early support and advocacy for this book.

This book would also not have been possible without the support of our entire Ready State team, including Margaret Garvey, Lisa Schwartz, Dave Beatie, Nicole Jerner, Ben Hardy, Ryan Fredericks, Mike Sloat, Chris Jerard, Kaitlin Lyons, and Sean Greenspan and his team. If you are reading this, its because of their day-to-day hard work in supporting The Ready State brand and helping us get the word out on our website, on social media, and beyond about this book. They take care of so many details, small and large, that are never seen or acknowledged by the greater community. We are amazed every day by what we can pull off as much as we do with a small and mighty team. We see you and thank you.

Georgia and Caroline. We are so proud of the mature and capable young women you have both become. Georgia, thank you for being so damn kind and competent. What other sixteen-year-old kid cooks healthy dinners from scratch for the whole family on the regular? Caroline, thank you for making us laugh and reminding us there is so much joy to be experienced every day in life. This book is dedicated to you both because, if weve done one thing right as parents, its taught you that you have to keep moving.

Thank you to the brilliant EC Synkowski for allowing us to feature the #800gChallenge in this book. Its such a simple yet brilliant idea that could not be more essential in a world with ever changing and confusing messages about what we should and should not eat.

To Gabby Reece and Laird Hamilton for your friendship and support of us, always.

Joyce Shulman, thank you for cutting through the noise in the health and fitness space to say that people need to move more and connect with one another more and that walking is the perfect way to do that.

Stacy Sims, we are so lucky to have connected with you all those years ago. We have relied on you for so much advice over the years and consider you a friend and mentor. Thank you for your willingness to support us and answer our questions, even from halfway across the world in New Zealand.

To the original built-to-movers, Janet and Warren Wiscombe, Juliets parents, and their respective spouses, Ed Lai and Helenka Wiscombe. Youll never see a healthier group of seventy-plus-year-olds. We learned by their example starting in childhood that simple health habits (many of which are in this book), applied consistently, are the way to keep moving well into your seventies and beyond. Thank you also to each one of them for helping us raise our awesome kids so that we could manage to be parents and also have an expansive professional life.

Thank you to Wes Kitts, Dave Spitz, Chris Hinshaw, Mark Bell, Jesse Burdick, Stan Efferding, Joe DeFranco, Travis Mash, Mike Burgener, Gray Cook, and Chris Duffin for your stories, tests, anecdotes, and inspiration for this book.

To Kellys parents, Don and Hallie Ward, who have been showing up to races and events all over the planet for as long as Kelly can remember. Dons view as a DO and Hallies perspective as a psych professor were the original influence on body and mind for Kelly. All you need to do is show up at their home in the Colorado mountains to be reminded that we all need more fresh air and our own skulk of foxes. Theyve also had a sauna longer than anyone else in our lives.

To Juliets brother, Tom Wiscombe, and his partner, Marrikka Trotter. We arent sure how we all ended up choosing the entrepreneur path in life, but its been extra special to be on a parallel journey with you. Thank you for your counsel, support, and commiseration, and of course for insisting that our first book be called Becoming a Supple Leopard.

We also won the lottery of friendship in life and wed like to thank the following people for loving on us in this life (in no particular order because they are all awesome), for being test dummies for all our wacky health ideas, and for sticking by us as friends even though our schedule is not often conducive to hanging out as much as wed like: Soman Chainani, Jim + Tricia Lesser, Erin Cafaro, Tim Ferriss, Bill Owens, Matt Vincent, Rich Froning, Jason Khalipa, Margaret Garvey, Mike Norman, Lisa + Zach Schwartz, Beth Dorsey + Jeff Trauba, Darcy Gomez + Chris Young, Adrienne Graf + Adam Forest, Diana Kapp + David Singer, Robin + Chris Donohoe, Brody Reiman + Serge Gerlach, Ben + Ariel Zvaifler, Jameson + Elena Garvey, Alice Tacheny + Michael Lynn, Orea Roussis, Anastacia + Steve Maggioncalda, Heidi Taglio + Michael Hazelrigg, Pam + Bernard Lauper, Kelli + Brendan Robertson, Kristina + John Doxon, Mitra + CJ Martin, Matt and Tezza Hermann, Allison + TJ Belger, Leigh + Thad Reichley, Justin + Clea Hovey, Levi Leipheimer, Shane Sigle, Jami Tikkanen, John Welbourn, Jen Widerstrom, Rachel Balkovec, Stuart McMillan, Caity + Bill Henniger, Kyla Channell and Sid Jamotte, Dan Zmolik + Maria Quiroga, Rebecca Rusch, Julie Munger + Abigail Polsby, Beth Rypins, Sue Norman, Damara Stone, Anik + Jay Wild, Kenny Kane, Marc Goddard, Travis Jewett, Kingsley Yew, Danny Matta, Sean McBride, Sue Wyatt, Erica Providenza, Catherine + JD Cafaro, Diane Fu, Mark Anderson, Jamie + Mary Collie, Christina and Eron Kosmowski, Stacy + Matthew Perry, Noel Kosiek, Cody West + Maija Blaufuss, Emma Bird, Chris Gustavson, Catherine Picard, Carolin Loose, Corby + Molly Leith, Gretchen Weber + TJ Murphy, Rich + Wendy Starrett, Cindy + Phil Rach, Natasha Wiscombe, Kristina Lai + Justine Okello, Lauren + Andy Lai, Kate Courtney, and Rory McKernan.

Lastly, thank you to our Ready State partners, whose products and support have helped us stay healthy, recover from one too many surgeries, and have all the right tools to play hard: Chad Nelson at YETI, Jeff Byers at Momentous, Ryan Duey + Michael Garrett at Plunge, Mike Sinyard at Specialized, Ryan Heaney at Marc Pro, Star Sage at Hyperice, Craig Storey and Jason McCann at Vari, and Todd Youngblood at Chili Sleep.