The excellent Justin Goodhart (WellRoundedAthlete.net/home) interviewed me back in 2014. He wanted to know about the ideas and experiences that led to Stretch Therapy—and we talked up a storm. The following is a partial list of what is covered:

The difference between children’s and adult’s bodies and what that means for your flexibility training.
The two different stretch receptor systems in the body and what that means for your mobility training.
The human body is the ultimate adaptation machine.
The body is motiveless in its adaptations.
Stretching is taking your body and brain to the end of the “known world”….and that’s a scary place for the body.
How Kit completely rebuilt his body after a mysterious virus that left him in the ICU for 10 days (and down 20 kg).
We live in an invisible sea of gravity…what does this mean for your movement?
Why shoes insulate us from THE most important proprioceptive feedback the body has (the feet).
Stretching your neck and jaw muscles will change your mental state. Stretching your calves will not.
The jaw is the last opportunity for the body to resolve forces and tension that begins in the feet .
How to develop grace and ease in the body.

When you have an hour or so, and if you really want to know what’s the thinking; the ideas, behind the physical activities we are all pursuing, please put on your headphones and listen to this (link at bottom of page).

And Andy Lim very kindly made a transcript of the talk too, if you prefer to read; this is available here:

Kit-Laughlin-Justin-Goodhart-transcript

Cherie Seeto listened to this interview; she said this is “the three days of the Into the Stretch workshop condensed into one hour”; not too far from reality, I feel. Please let me know what you think, and please share the link—and last, and most, my deep thanks to Justin and Sean for allowing me this opportunity.

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