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We’ve been training our whole lives for this one. 🇦🇶Antarctica is calling, and Juliet and I want you to come with us.One...
10/20/2026

We’ve been training our whole lives for this one. 🇦🇶

Antarctica is calling, and Juliet and I want you to come with us.

One of the reasons we care so much about strength, mobility, aerobic capacity, and all the other things we spend our lives nerding out on is pretty simple:

We want to be able to say YES when an opportunity like this comes along.

This December, we're taking that philosophy to the seventh continent.

From December 4–13, 2026, we're teaming up with for a 10-day adventure aboard the Magellan Discoverer, exploring one of the most extraordinary places on Earth.

We're talking Zodiac excursions through towering icebergs, penguins, whales, glaciers, and some of the most spectacular landscapes on the planet.

Juliet and I will also host onboard sessions and conversations about mobility, durability, longevity, and what it takes to build a body that can keep saying yes to adventures like this.

We'll be traveling with a small group of fellow adventurers, and I can't think of a better place to put our Live Ready philosophy into practice.

The whole point of building fitness is to spend it… and this is going to be one hell of a way to do that.

Want to join us? We've got $5,000 off your expedition when you use code STARRETT at checkout.

Head to the link to explore the trip, grab your spot, and start planning your Antarctic adventure: https://insiderexpeditions.com/livereadyantarctica/

Who's coming with us?! 🐧

10/19/2026

At some point, adding more to your program makes it harder to understand what’s actually working.

Every new exercise, recovery tool, metric, supplement, protocol, and piece of advice creates another variable.

Eventually you can end up with so many moving parts that it becomes nearly impossible to tell what’s actually producing the result you care about.

Consider informed simplicity, friends.

Simplicity after years of experience is different from simplicity because you only know three things.

You’ve explored the complexity, tested ideas, made mistakes, accumulated tools, and developed enough understanding to recognize which pieces consistently matter.

Then you start editing.

For a coach, that might mean looking at a program and asking whether every element has a clear job.

For the rest of us, the same exercise applies to how we approach nutrition, sleep, mobility, recovery, and health.

Can you identify the handful of big rocks making the biggest difference? Do you know why each piece is there? Can you tell whether it’s working?

If you add something new, what happens to everything already competing for your time and attention?

More knowledge should eventually help us make better decisions with less guesswork and chaos.

That’s a standard I keep coming back to in my own thinking: understand the complexity well enough to earn your way back to simplicity.

10/18/2026

LAST CALL! 🚨 Today, October 18, is your final chance to save 20% on all Ready State Pain Protocols.

What have you gradually stopped doing because it hurts?

Your shoulder gets cranky overhead, so you use the other arm. Your knee complains when you get down on the floor, so you avoid it. Your back bothers you on longer walks, so you shorten the route.

Humans are good at finding workarounds. But over time, “that bothers me” can turn into “I don’t do that anymore.”

That’s one of the reasons we created The Ready State Pain Protocols: to give you something specific to work on when pain starts limiting what you do.

Each Protocol gives you a step-by-step plan for a specific area of your body, with guided exercises and mobility techniques to help you move more comfortably. Follow the videos at home to learn what to do, how to do it, and how to build from there.

Shoulders, low backs, knees, Achilles, feet, and more—all 20% off through tonight.

We won’t be discounting Protocols for Black Friday or Cyber Monday this year, so if you’ve had your eye on one, now’s the time.

Think about what you’d love to get back to doing. Head to the link, choose your Protocol, and save 20% before the sale ends tonight: https://thereadystate.com/product-category/pain-protocols/

10/17/2026

Take away the fancy equipment… can you still coach?

I think one of the signs that someone really understands their craft is that they can walk into an unfamiliar space, look around, and start seeing possibilities.

Coaching is ultimately an exercise in problem solving. 🧠

You have a human in front of you. You know what capacity you’re trying to develop. You understand the stimulus they need and how to dose it.

From there, the equipment becomes a set of variables you can play with rather than the thing dictating the program.

A good coach can preserve the intention of a session even when the setup changes completely. They know which variables matter, which ones they can manipulate, and where they can get creative without losing the plot.

Athletes travel, equipment breaks, hotels have terrible gyms, clients train at home… Real life rarely hands us the perfect setup.

Understanding principles gives you options.

So yes, I’m always going to appreciate a beautiful gym full of great equipment… but show me what you can do with a barbell, a couple dumbbells, a bench, and whatever else happens to be lying around.
That’s skilled coaching.

Follow me for more practical coaching principles you can use in the gym, clinic, garage, basement, or wherever the hell you happen to be working.

10/17/2026

Your spine rotates when you run, throw, cut, and change direction… but I’d like to know: where are you practicing that in training?

A lot of traditional strength and conditioning happens in relatively predictable shapes. We brace, create stiffness, produce force, and get very good at controlling the trunk under load.

Then we sprint, throw, wrestle, or move through the world and ask the spine to rotate while the hips and shoulders are solving their own movement puzzles.

That’s why I like looking at spinal movement in the context of different lower-body positions.

What happens to your rotation from a split stance? Can you access it from a hinge or squat? Can your trunk move while your pelvis and legs are organized differently?

You don’t have to make training dramatically more complicated to explore this…

Warm-ups are a great place to start ➡️ Medicine-ball throws, rope flow, rotational drills, and stance variations all give you opportunities to move your trunk while the rest of your body has another job.

The goal is exposure:

Give your brain and body experience coordinating these shapes so you have more movement options available when your sport (or life) asks for them.

Follow for more practical ways to build strength and prepare your body for the demands outside the weight room.

10/16/2026

Parents of young athletes often discover low ferritin through bloodwork and are left wondering what the number actually means for an active body.

Juliet shares what she’s encountered with endurance athletes and asks Dr. Kate Ackerman to unpack how we should be thinking about ferritin, iron status, and the needs of athletes.

🎧 Our full conversation Kate Ackerman is live now on The Ready State Podcast. Comment “213” and I’ll send it directly to you.

10/16/2026

How long has that one cranky body part been on your list of things to deal with?

You know the one. The shoulder that keeps getting irritated, the knee that complains every time you train, or the low back that seems to have its own agenda.

You may have found a stretch or mobility technique that helps temporarily. Great. That's useful information… but where do we go from there? ⤵️

Sometimes we need to restore access to a position, build strength, or change how we're loading and moving through a particular range. Figuring out how to put those pieces together can be a project all on its own.

That's why we built The Ready State Pain Protocols.

We've taken the same principles and techniques we've used with athletes, coaches, and everyday humans for years and organized them into step-by-step plans for specific areas of the body.

Shoulders, low backs, knees, Achilles, feet, and more ➡️ each Protocol walks you through exercises and techniques designed to help you address restrictions, build capacity, and move more comfortably.

Right now, every Protocol is 20% off through October 18.

One important heads-up:

We won't be discounting Protocols for Black Friday or Cyber Monday this year, so if you've had your eye on one, this is the sale to take advantage of.
Your body maintenance to-do list has been waiting long enough. Let's get to work.

Head to the link, find the Protocol for the area you want to work on, and save 20% through October 18: https://thereadystate.com/product-category/pain-protocols/

10/15/2026

Thinking about bone health later in life? Sure. But that story starts much earlier than most of us realize.

Dr. Kate Ackerman brings this important conversation to the table this week on The Ready State Podcast.

During adolescence, bone density climbs rapidly as the body works toward peak bone mass. Dr. Kate spent 19 years at a pediatric hospital, where she saw young athletes who had stopped getting their periods and whose bone density was already lower than expected for their age.

The peak you build early on becomes part of the equation for decades. Bone density rises a little more in our 20s, tends to hold through our 30s, and then menopause brings an abrupt decline.

As Dr. Kate put it, you want to arrive at that stage having built as high a peak as possible.

Bone was only one thread in a much larger conversation about what happens when we actually study female athletes across the lifespan.

Dr. Kate is the first physician triple-boarded in internal medicine, sports medicine, and endocrinology, and we got into everything from the Female Athlete Triad and RED-S to iron deficiency, underfueling, menstrual health, menopause, strength training, and the questions researchers still need to answer about women’s health and performance.

We also talked about her own years as an elite lightweight rower, when losing a period could be treated as a badge of honor and athletes were navigating fueling and weight cuts with very little useful guidance.

There’s a throughline here ➡️ the health and performance decisions made at one stage of life can (and will) reverberate much further down the road.

Comment “213” and I’ll send you our full conversation with Dr. Kate Ackerman.

This episode is brought to you by .momentous, , and .

https://thereadystate.com/trs_podcast/kate-ackerman-female-athlete-health

10/14/2026

I’ve spent a couple decades figuring out what to do when your body gets stiff, sore, and weird.

One of the things I’ve learned is that having a structured, tested plan makes body maintenance a whole lot easier.

That’s why we created The Ready State Pain Protocols.

We took the mobility principles and techniques we’ve used with athletes, coaches, clinicians, and everyday humans and organized them around specific areas of the body.

So if your shoulders need some love, your hips have been feeling like concrete, or your ankles haven’t moved well since 2007, you have a place to start and a progression to follow.

Right now, all of our Protocols are 20% off.

And a little heads-up for anyone who usually waits for Black Friday…

Protocols won’t be included in our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale this year.

This is the Protocols sale for the year, so if you’ve had your eye on one (or want to stock up on a few) now’s the time.

Head to: https://thereadystate.com/product-category/pain-protocols/ to save 20% on all Protocols while the sale is live.

10/13/2026

Your shoes have a job. The question is whether you’re asking the same pair to do all of them. 👣

The model I keep coming back to is pretty simple ​​➡️ spend as much of your everyday life as reasonably possible close to barefoot, and choose more specialized shoes for more specialized jobs.

Your feet are designed to interact with the ground. They need room for the toes to spread, enough flexibility for the foot to move, and regular opportunities to actually do some work.

That doesn’t mean you need to walk barefoot over gravel or spend eight hours standing on concrete in the thinnest shoe you can find. Your environment matters.

Cushioning can be useful… so can a heel-to-toe differential when you’re running, a raised heel when you’re Olympic lifting, or a rigid shoe when you’re cycling.

Choose the shoe for the task.

Then come back to baseline. Get barefoot when you can. Spend time in flatter, flexible shoes with enough room for your toes. Give your feet opportunities to move, load, and adapt.

You can wear the shoes that help you perform while still maintaining the feet inside them.

If your feet and ankles could use some attention, comment TRIAL and we’ll send you a free trial of Mobility Coach to help you start putting that maintenance into practice.

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