The LIE of Traditional Strength Training: Why I Moved On

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puoOeoE5x6A

概要

TLDRThe video emphasizes the importance of focusing on movement and flexibility instead of just aesthetics in bodybuilding. The speaker, a natural bodybuilder and martial artist, shares his journey toward improving his movement and reducing stiffness. He critiques traditional weightlifting for causing rigidity and highlights the benefits of integrating holistic training practices like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and focusing on the spinal engine theory. The discussion includes the role of fascia in movement and the use of tools like ropes, sandbags, and kettlebells to enhance flexibility and coordination.

収穫

  • 🏋️‍♂️ Movement matters in bodybuilding: Building muscle shouldn't compromise fluidity and flexibility.
  • 🤔 Question traditional lifting: Traditional weightlifting can lead to rigidity and inflexibility if overdone.
  • 🥋 Martial arts influence: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu helps blend strength with dynamic movement.
  • 🗒️ Spinal engine theory: Suggests the spine is the main driver of movement, not just limbs.
  • 🌀 Fascia's role: Fascia, a connective tissue, is vital for force transmission and flexibility.
  • ⚖️ Balance strength and flexibility: Important to improve dynamic movement while maintaining strength.
  • 💪 Natural bodybuilding choices: Not using steroids, focusing on natural muscle development.
  • 🧘‍♀️ Holistic training: Incorporating multiple aspects of movement improves overall athletic ability.
  • 🔄 Importance of rotation: Using tools like rope flow to enhance spinal rotation and full-body coordination.
  • 📈 Bone density boost: Nontraditional training can improve bone density.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker discusses the drawbacks of traditional bodybuilding, highlighting the potential for stiffness, joint pain, and loss of movement flexibility. He contrasts this with his personal journey through Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, where he discovered that reducing traditional weightlifting improved his mobility and maintained strength. The speaker emphasizes the importance of training for movement ability, not just muscle size, by referencing the spinal engine theory, which suggests that the spine, rather than limbs, drives movement. This approach benefits athletes in avoiding rigid movement patterns and ensuring more dynamic, efficient body mechanics.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The speaker introduces fascia as a key player in efficient movement, describing it as connective tissue that wraps and supports muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Gil Hedley explains fascia's role in movement and structural health, highlighting that it can become less efficient due to dehydration, inflammation, or lack of use. Such changes lead to stiffness and reduced flexibility. Maintaining fascia health through movement, massage, and pressure is essential, ensuring the tissue remains elastic and helps in absorbing shocks. The speaker relates efficient movement to optimal fascia condition, stressing its influence on overall mobility.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The speaker shares insights on training the spinal engine with tools like ropes and sleds to enhance dynamic, functional movement while maintaining strength and bone density. He critiques mainstream fitness approaches that focus on muscle isolation and rigidity, explaining that his strategy avoids spine bracing and breath holding to better mimic real-world demands and sports like grappling. He mentions using sandbags and sled pushes to simulate dynamic movements, training the body as a whole with contralateral movement. These practices aim to harmonize muscle strength with movement fluidity.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:22:07

    The speaker describes using various fitness tools like sandbags, sleds, kettlebells, and cable machines to train both muscles and holistic movement. He emphasizes maintaining a strong core and allowing spinal movement rather than rigidity, adapting exercises for functional benefits. He addresses misconceptions about strength training, urging a focus on overall body coordination and breathing during lifts. The speaker's unique approach integrates strength building with movement training, aiming for a blend of muscle growth and agility, supported by personal results and upcoming programs designed to teach this methodology.

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  • Why does the speaker emphasize movement over aesthetics in bodybuilding?

    The speaker believes focusing solely on aesthetics can lead to rigidity and inflexibility, whereas prioritizing movement and flexibility results in better overall health and aesthetics as a byproduct.

  • What is the spinal engine theory about?

    The spinal engine theory suggests that the spine is the primary driver of movement, with limbs following its rotation, rather than being the main locomotion drivers themselves.

  • How has Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu impacted the speaker's training?

    Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has helped the speaker balance strength with dynamic movement, teaching him the importance of maintaining flexibility and coordination.

  • What role does fascia play in movement?

    Fascia is a connective tissue that aids in transmitting force efficiently, storing and releasing elastic energy, and providing support to posture and joints.

  • How does traditional weightlifting impact athletes according to the speaker?

    Traditional weightlifting can lead to muscle imbalances, reduced flexibility, and rigidity if overemphasized, which may impact the dynamic movement ability of athletes.

  • What training tools does the speaker use to enhance movement?

    The speaker utilizes tools like rope flow, sandbags, sleds, and kettlebells to develop dynamic movement and full-body coordination while maintaining strength.

  • How can nontraditional training methods improve bone density?

    The speaker's experiences suggest that nontraditional training, which emphasizes movement and proper skeletal alignment, can lead to improvements in bone density.

  • Why does the speaker incorporate breathing into lifting exercises?

    Breathing while lifting helps maintain a strong core and promotes functionality, avoiding the restriction of movement commonly associated with holding breath during traditional lifts.

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    [Applause]
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    ever seen how a bodybuilder
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    [Music]
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    walks okay that's a bit much but let's
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    be real it's not far off from how a lot
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    of lifters move and if you train like
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    them without being mindful you might
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    find yourself moving the same way in a
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    few years this is exactly why I don't
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    train like everyone else because I don't
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    want to move move like them that's why
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    my Approach isn't just about Aesthetics
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    it's about how you move and feel and
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    when you focus on that looking better
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    becomes a natural byproduct my goal is
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    to convince you to focus on improving
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    your movement ability and living
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    pain-free rather than just chasing lean
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    rich and aesthetic in my early 20s I
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    became a professional natural
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    bodybuilder yeah no steroids no
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    performance enhancers but hey feel free
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    to drop a comment Natty or not even
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    though I carried a lot of muscle I was
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    stiff rigid and inflexible people
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    thought I looked great but I knew I
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    moved like the Tin Man sure I could lift
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    heavy weights but also found myself
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    bracing myself just to tie my shoes my
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    joints hurt jump roping hurt my knees
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    running completely out of the question
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    and that's when it hit me what's the
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    point of looking like an athlete if you
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    can't move like one that's what I
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    decided I needed to make a change I saw
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    a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in December of
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    2015 and since then I've competed
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    extensively winning two Master's World
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    titles at brown belt this year I earned
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    my black belt from Professor Casio
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    werick after a few early injuries in my
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    Jiu-Jitsu journey I realized that
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    lifting was essential for staying
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    structurally strong because let's face
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    it I'm fighting people every day however
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    as I moved away from traditional
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    weightlifting I noticed something
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    interesting even though I wasn't lifting
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    as heavy my movement ability improved my
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    strength remained intact and my bone
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    density increased a topic I'm going to
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    dive into later many athletes and
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    martial artists say that lifting weights
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    makes them feel stiff and immobile and
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    they're not entirely wrong some of the
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    greatest athletes like Bo Jackson
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    Hershel Walker Larry Bird Steve Adams
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    they barely spent any time in the gym
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    when athletes overdo traditional lifting
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    they develop adaptations like spinal
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    rigidity muscle imbalances reduced
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    flexibility and mobility and sometimes
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    loss of Speed and Agility if taken too
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    far these adaptations can leave athletes
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    stiff and less Dynamic you can see it in
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    the walk and keep in mind I used to walk
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    like this too no shade to any of these
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    Educators I respect all of them but the
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    thing is I don't want to move like any
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    of them I know how it feels many lifters
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    walk stiffly because they've lost access
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    to their spinal engine the natural
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    Figure 8 rotation of the spine that
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    powers efficient movement I've explained
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    this a small bit bit in this video
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    explaining rope flow but let's get
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    deeper into it you see the spine moves
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    in multiple ways and I would add in two
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    more movements that you won't find in
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    any textbook the backside and front side
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    coil popularized by David wck these
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    combine lateral flexion with either
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    flexion or extension of the spine you'll
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    see these two pop up in a lot of martial
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    arts the traditional view is that the
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    hands and legs are the primary drivers
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    of locomotion but the spinal engine
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    Theory flips that idea on its head the
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    spinal engine popularized by Dr Serge
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    grety suggests that the spine is the
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    primary driver of movement the limbs
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    follow the spine's rotation if you need
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    proof check out this patient he doesn't
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    have any arms or legs yet his spinal
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    rotation propels him forward through
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    space if the arms and legs were the main
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    drivers of locomotion how's this
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    possible so when you train too much
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    compression through traditional forms of
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    lifting keeping the spine in a neutral
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    position constantly in training
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    your movement will reflect that your
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    walk will be stiff you'll become
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    inflexible immobile and you might feel
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    like it's unsafe for your body to move
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    into certain deep range of motion and
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    it's not necessarily your fault the way
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    you train or don't train your spine
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    makes you feel that way because you're
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    not training your full spinal engine
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    you're training your muscles and
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    isolation while compressing your spine
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    and keeping it perfectly neutral all the
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    time your pelvis also plays a huge role
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    in this Theory here's an example as the
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    spine rotates to the right the left hip
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    moves forward driving the left leg
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    forward for propulsion and as the spine
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    rotates the left the right hip moves
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    forward driving the right leg forward
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    for propulsion you can also see this in
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    the pelvis of the man with no arms or
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    legs now before I get to the last part
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    of the theory I want to mention the
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    elephant in the room critics of the
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    theory believe that it's still the
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    muscles of the legs and arms that drive
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    propulsion but I think the thing we need
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    to realize is that it all works together
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    just like the third crucial aspect of
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    this Theory there's a remarkable tissue
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    that surrounds and permeates every
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    muscle ligament and tendon in your body
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    yet it's overlooked it helps you
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    transmit Force efficiently it can store
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    and release elastic energy and it's an
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    essential support structure for your
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    posture and your joints and here's
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    something fascinating it makes up at
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    least 20% of your total body weight it's
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    not muscle it's not bone can you guess
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    what it is I'm going to give you a
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    second
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    [Music]
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    fascia fascia fascia fascia fascia F
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    fascia FAS it's your fascia and it's a
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    living elastic tissue grab this book if
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    you want to learn more about fascia and
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    let me tell you you do there are ways
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    you can take care of your fascia like
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    working on your soft tissue through
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    pressure and massage which I talked
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    about in this video here so check that
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    out if you want to learn more I also
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    have a full soft tissue care course in
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    the stronger human community link below
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    but I want to take a second and let you
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    hear about fascia from a man who's
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    likely cut into more cadavers and
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    touched more fascia than any human being
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    living or dead Gil Hedley has spent his
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    life dissecting and researching cavers
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    to expand our knowledge on the human
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    body listen to his beautiful explanation
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    fascia is aggregate of connective
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    tissues that can be dissected into a
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    sheet that would be a real basic
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    definition of fascia it wraps around
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    other tissues um so you can Define it in
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    negative that way but fascia also is a
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    is a living Matrix of your body right
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    it's it's that it's that in which
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    everything else is growing and taking
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    form it's the shaping element of your
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    body but it's also a whole body
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    Communication System right because
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    forces transmit through it so your
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    forces of just your gate or your
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    stepping or your movements your
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    behaviors your emotional life all those
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    forces are going through the fashional
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    network and impacting the whole body my
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    friends Rosemary fius and Louis Schultz
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    called an endless web that lless web is
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    the fasal Matrix uh of your body you can
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    also train your fascia through movement
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    you see lack of holistic movement is the
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    main reason why fasion becomes stiff the
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    sedentary lifestyle tissue dehydration
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    lack of walking and full body
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    coordinated movement leads to FAS
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    adhesions and stiffness that make
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    movement worse all right guys this next
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    part with Gil Headley is meaty and
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    packed with amazing Concepts when it
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    comes to fast of that you don't want to
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    miss but it's 3 minutes so if you do
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    want to skip it go to 10 32 but don't
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    skip it tissues that have differential
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    movement in the muscular sceletal system
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    have that differential movement because
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    intervening between the two moving
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    tissues is another tissue and that is
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    continuous tissue tissue tissue but the
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    one in between is slippery wet and
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    membranous whereas these ones might be
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    muscle fibers so you have muscle fiber
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    group muscle fiber group and between
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    them a membrane so there can be activity
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    in one group of muscle fibers when
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    there's no activity in this group of
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    muscle fibers and we do that all day
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    long you don't recruit every muscle
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    fiber in a given muscle group every time
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    you do something if you did you'd have a
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    charlie horse that sucks right that's
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    when all of the motor units of your calf
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    are firing at the same time that's not
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    functional right but what is functional
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    is some on some off and what permits
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    some on and some off to happen is that
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    there's membrane in between them but if
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    the quality if the status of that
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    membrane changes right and gets loses
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    some of its slipperiness in any
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    gradation from 100% to you know to zero
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    right so we have 100% slipperiness and
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    say you lose say you lose
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    10% of your slipperiness throughout that
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    tissue and it's a little gluer a little
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    gummier not it's not as slippery it's
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    getting more viscous it's getting
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    thicker why could be dehydrated could
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    have certain chemistry that's suboptimal
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    could be underused could be inflamed
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    these different factors are going to
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    contribute to a reduction of the
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    capacity of there to be differential
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    movement way down low inside inside of
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    the system and and it can go further if
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    you have a place in your body that's
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    chronically not used that's chronically
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    inflamed right then ultimately you're
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    going to start generating like uh
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    Crystal formations inside of that
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    membrane and it's going to move from
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    gummy towards brittle even right now
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    might even calcify it could calcify yeah
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    it could do that and then that that tend
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    in's at risk of snapping right and the
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    differential movement is being reduced
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    over time right from lack of use or from
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    chronic inflammation stasis dehydration
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    and inflammation cause adhesion right
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    and movement is the opposite use right
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    so once you activate those tissues
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    they're like oh this is what we do we do
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    this and then your body's going to bring
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    fluid to that AA and things are going to
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    get improved even even the pressure on
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    the muscle is kind of moving
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    in a way stretching in some it is or the
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    elbow of a raer or a body worker right
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    some a PT what have you right you put
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    pressure you call for movement right
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    someone Wiggles their foot while your
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    arm is on their calf and you are
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    literally changing the texture of the
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    tissue both at a neurological level but
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    also at a physiological level in terms
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    of the
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    viscosity of the of the interfaces of
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    the tissue right you can bring back
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    fluidity to tisue tissues through
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    through movement whether it's yours or
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    or whether it's through help this is why
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    I'm serious about taking care of my soft
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    tissue with pressure and massage a lot
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    of coaches say this doesn't make a
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    difference and well that's kind of
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    ridiculous actually to say you can't do
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    it and and those people who say you
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    can't do it won't do it and they can sit
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    on their asses and turn into wood you
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    know [ __ ] you now here's a good example
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    of fas at work someone who has trained
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    their muscles more than their movement
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    and someone who's trained their
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    movements more than than their muscles
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    this is an example of the visco
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    elasticity of fascia at work and how it
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    helps with effortless movement ability
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    all right let's talk about visco
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    elasticity When jumping rope the
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    Achilles tendon and the surrounding
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    fascia store energy when you land on
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    your foot and release it when you push
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    off making your jump more efficient now
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    without access to that elasticity your
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    jump won't be as smooth it'll lack That
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    Bouncy effortless look and feel you
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    might feel the tension go to your knees
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    lower back and you'll probably tire out
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    quickly fascia's visco elastic nature
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    helps in absorbing shocks and protecting
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    muscles tendons and joints from
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    excessive force when a Sudden Impact
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    occurs when jumping the viscous aspect
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    of fascia dissipates some of the energy
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    through the body more efficiently now
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    the elastic part helps the tissue recoil
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    without damage and that's just the tip
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    of the iceberg when it comes to fascia
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    you should really check out that podcast
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    who did with Gil because it was truly
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    eye openening so we've got to ask why
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    does this this happen how can an athlete
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    be so strong and muscular but move so
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    poorly well it's because as humans we're
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    pretty amazing species our structure
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    adapts to the stress placed upon it for
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    example as you get better at squatting a
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    barbell and you squat more and more
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    weight you'll develop neuromuscular
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    adaptations strength and bone density
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    needed to move the weight safely you
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    don't want your spine to move under that
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    weight so you also develop a level of
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    spinal rigidity so it becomes resistant
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    to flexion and extension these positions
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    wouldn't be safe if you're squatting and
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    deadlifting hundreds of pounds I was a
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    pro- natural bodybuilder and Elite level
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    powerlifter and let me tell you at this
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    time in my life my Dynamic movement
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    ability was trash I definitely didn't
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    run jumping hurt and sprinting
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    proficiently was an absolute pipe dream
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    that's why I totally changed the way I
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    train and it's not what most other
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    strength coaches are telling you to do
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    actually they'd probably roll their at
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    some of what I'm about to tell you but
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    once again I don't care I don't want to
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    move like any of them I don't want to be
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    stiff rigid and inflexible I want to be
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    strong while having the ability to move
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    dynamically and athletically and I don't
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    want to deal with chronic pain so now
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    I'm going to give you a quick rundown on
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    my system for training my spinal engine
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    so that I can still gain muscle strength
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    bone density but most importantly move
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    well and quick note before we dive in I
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    have a video coming up about bone
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    density and you always hear that after
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    30 your bone density starts to decline
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    but here's something interesting I'm 32
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    years old and back in May my bone
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    density t- score was 7.2 by October it
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    had increased to
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    7.7 this is the biggest boost in my bone
  • 00:13:47
    density since I've had it tested in the
  • 00:13:48
    past 8 years ENT context a score of 7.7
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    means my bone density is 7.7 standard
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    deviations above the mean we'll talk
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    more about this in the next video the
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    first step in training the spinal engine
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    is learning to coordinate it through
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    space the foundational movement practice
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    for this capacity is rope flow I've
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    talked about it in a lot of my videos
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    and you can get a detailed rundown in
  • 00:14:11
    the video here this practice allows me
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    to train the natural figure8 rotation
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    the spine creates in movement I'm also
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    able to train rotation on both sides of
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    the body so I build movement symmetry I
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    make the proficiency of the left side of
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    my body catch up to my right we all have
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    a weak and strong side
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    and the Rope helps us fill the gaps
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    think about a boxer throwing a right and
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    left bobbing and weaving for all my
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    anime fans the Dempsey rope when you
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    begin the practice initially you'll be
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    moving the Rope mainly with your arms
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    but over time you'll learn to control
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    the rope with your spinal engine and
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    body I can progress this in increased
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    difficulty with a heavy rope heavy ropes
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    teach you how to leverage your skeletal
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    structure so you can move the Rope
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    through space in a fluid fashion if
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    you're only using your arms you're going
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    to get tired very quickly but if you
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    learn to use your whole body your
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    skeletal structure and your spinal
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    engine you'll be able to do this for a
  • 00:15:05
    very long time and when I say skeletal
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    structure here's an example that should
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    make this idea click when performing a
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    sled push it'll be hard to get the sled
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    moving if you don't stack your skeletal
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    structure if my hands are down here my
  • 00:15:19
    back is arched and I try
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    pushing it's not going to budge but if I
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    stack my skeletal structure I get low
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    wrists front of elbows comes much
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    easier to move this sled through space
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    this is the same concept that we keep in
  • 00:15:37
    mind when rolling a heavy rope but now
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    you're training your skeletal structure
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    dynamically in movement your natural
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    contralateral movement of the spine
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    improves your weight shifts on both
  • 00:15:47
    sides of the Body for perfect balance
  • 00:15:50
    and if you want to unlock pain-free and
  • 00:15:51
    effortless movement ability through rope
  • 00:15:52
    flow then I have a free course that
  • 00:15:54
    walks you through the exact steps to get
  • 00:15:56
    started in just a few short days
  • 00:15:59
    you can join the strong human Community
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    the links in the description below and
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    if you're serious about training
  • 00:16:04
    differently and I know you are then hit
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    that subscribe button and let's take
  • 00:16:09
    this journey further together now I have
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    other movement practices that help the
  • 00:16:13
    rotation and fluid movement the
  • 00:16:15
    Bulgarian bag the jump rope running and
  • 00:16:17
    sprinting but the Rope is the foundation
  • 00:16:20
    the Rosetta Stone of movement that helps
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    with all of this now there's more to
  • 00:16:26
    training the spinal engine than just the
  • 00:16:28
    Rope I use other implements to train the
  • 00:16:30
    engine through movement let's talk about
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    lifting first I want to say that lifting
  • 00:16:34
    with a neutral spine in the traditional
  • 00:16:35
    sense isn't all bad The Squat and
  • 00:16:38
    deadlifts are great movements thing is
  • 00:16:41
    I'm not just chasing numbers in the gym
  • 00:16:43
    I want strength that translates into
  • 00:16:44
    fluid functional movement this won't
  • 00:16:46
    take too long to explain but here are a
  • 00:16:48
    few Concepts that are different from the
  • 00:16:50
    norm that I keep in mind when I lift
  • 00:16:52
    first I always breathe when I lift it's
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    rare that I hold my breath or brace my
  • 00:16:58
    spine and hold a neutral position like
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    we've all been taught instead I've
  • 00:17:02
    learned to keep a strong core while
  • 00:17:04
    breathing which relates better to life
  • 00:17:07
    and for me specifically grappling
  • 00:17:09
    traditional lifting teaches you to brace
  • 00:17:11
    and hold your breath to move heavyweight
  • 00:17:14
    and for that purpose it makes sense but
  • 00:17:17
    it's rare to hold your breath in life
  • 00:17:19
    and you definitely wouldn't hold your
  • 00:17:21
    breath in combat instead of picking up
  • 00:17:23
    the fixed barbell where the neutral
  • 00:17:25
    spine is King I generally opt in for a
  • 00:17:28
    few different tools I do still use the
  • 00:17:30
    barbell from time to time but it's
  • 00:17:32
    definitely not my go-to piece of
  • 00:17:34
    equipment I'll start with the sandbag
  • 00:17:36
    this will allow me to exude the
  • 00:17:37
    different movements of the spine through
  • 00:17:39
    throws and rotations and even when
  • 00:17:41
    picking it up there's some slight
  • 00:17:42
    rounding of the back I can also carry
  • 00:17:45
    this through space and focus on
  • 00:17:47
    maintaining a strong solid spine
  • 00:17:49
    position it's kind of like carrying a
  • 00:17:51
    human and by the way I'm still breathing
  • 00:17:55
    into my diaphragm the training sandbag
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    also allows for even more more
  • 00:17:59
    modalities of movement and spinal
  • 00:18:00
    rotation this is key my movement ability
  • 00:18:03
    is in compromised and I'm building
  • 00:18:05
    strength through my whole body I'm
  • 00:18:07
    learning to move with weight now the
  • 00:18:10
    next criminally underrated piece of
  • 00:18:11
    equipment is the sled now of course you
  • 00:18:15
    can push and pull the sled and if the
  • 00:18:18
    weight's just too heavy or you don't
  • 00:18:20
    have the ability to leverage your body
  • 00:18:22
    to make the sled move it just won't
  • 00:18:24
    budge making it safe for pretty much
  • 00:18:27
    everyone I use the sled to improve the
  • 00:18:29
    body's abilities to create all of the
  • 00:18:32
    spinal shapes I call this the sled Bible
  • 00:18:35
    now in book one of The Sled Bible you
  • 00:18:37
    learn to master moving the sled with a
  • 00:18:39
    neutral spine this has to be mastered
  • 00:18:41
    before extension flexion coiling and
  • 00:18:44
    dynamic movement through space doing
  • 00:18:47
    these too soon can lead to injury this
  • 00:18:50
    is a full body exercise and once again
  • 00:18:53
    I'm leveraging my skeletal structure to
  • 00:18:56
    move this weight now the kettle bell
  • 00:18:58
    this one is a staple when it comes to
  • 00:18:59
    functional fitness it's another amazing
  • 00:19:01
    tool to train strength and movement
  • 00:19:03
    ability and as you become proficient
  • 00:19:05
    with the Bell you can begin to throw it
  • 00:19:07
    around the practice is known as
  • 00:19:09
    kettlebell juggling and I like to refer
  • 00:19:10
    to it as kettlebell flow it may look
  • 00:19:13
    dangerous and when you've never
  • 00:19:14
    practiced it it is that's why you start
  • 00:19:17
    slow simple and easy like everything
  • 00:19:20
    learning fundamental kettleball moves
  • 00:19:21
    first then you throw and catch the
  • 00:19:24
    kettle bell now I still like to work my
  • 00:19:27
    muscles like a bodybuilder bigger
  • 00:19:29
    muscles serve an essential function you
  • 00:19:32
    have the potential to generate more
  • 00:19:34
    strength and power additionally they
  • 00:19:36
    boost insulin sensitivity and
  • 00:19:37
    significantly slow the onset of
  • 00:19:39
    sarcopenia and I work them in three ways
  • 00:19:43
    first I use my body calisthenics
  • 00:19:46
    mastering my body weight skill is
  • 00:19:47
    invaluable so I take time to work on
  • 00:19:50
    that skill in some way shape or form
  • 00:19:52
    every single day and it's so amazing
  • 00:19:54
    that a gym isn't needed for this next I
  • 00:19:57
    still do the classical from time to time
  • 00:19:59
    the axial compression forces me to learn
  • 00:20:01
    to maintain a strong structure under
  • 00:20:03
    load Barry Sanders one of the greatest
  • 00:20:06
    running backs and most agile athletes in
  • 00:20:08
    NFL history remained injuryf free
  • 00:20:10
    throughout his career football he
  • 00:20:13
    attributes his resilience to
  • 00:20:15
    weightlifting a critical factor in
  • 00:20:16
    thriving in one of the most physically
  • 00:20:18
    demanding Sports on the planet
  • 00:20:20
    personally between sets of weightlifting
  • 00:20:22
    I always incorporate rope flow when
  • 00:20:24
    using the heavy rope I experienced
  • 00:20:26
    natural joint decompression which help
  • 00:20:28
    helps counteract the compression caused
  • 00:20:31
    by lifting it also helps me re-engage my
  • 00:20:33
    spinal engine resetting my body after
  • 00:20:35
    the strain of heavy lifting I get it if
  • 00:20:37
    you're in a gym rope flow between sets
  • 00:20:40
    might feel a bit out of place so if you
  • 00:20:43
    need to try it after your workout now
  • 00:20:45
    the cable machine this is where some
  • 00:20:47
    magic happens and this is where I like
  • 00:20:51
    to do my bodybuilding but I'm not only
  • 00:20:53
    working my muscles I'm also working my
  • 00:20:55
    spinal engine you see when I move my my
  • 00:20:58
    spine is the fulm that my body rotates
  • 00:21:01
    around so when initiating a bicep curl
  • 00:21:04
    I'll rotate my spine which moves my legs
  • 00:21:08
    I can then rotate again for a press and
  • 00:21:12
    you got to note I'm still always
  • 00:21:14
    breathing I do this with all types of
  • 00:21:16
    movement and my muscles still reach a
  • 00:21:18
    state of fatigue that will lead to
  • 00:21:21
    hypertrophy but my human movement isn't
  • 00:21:24
    compromised I get the benefits of
  • 00:21:26
    resistance training without the
  • 00:21:27
    drawbacks I'm not just isolating muscles
  • 00:21:31
    I'm integrating them into movement and
  • 00:21:33
    that's why I don't train like everybody
  • 00:21:35
    else because I don't want to move like
  • 00:21:38
    everybody else and if you resonate with
  • 00:21:40
    this and want to learn to train your
  • 00:21:41
    spinal engine I've got some cool
  • 00:21:43
    programs coming your way at the flow
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    Matrix head over to the stronger human
  • 00:21:47
    community and you can learn more about
  • 00:21:49
    it now if you enjoyed this video this
  • 00:21:50
    video was inspired by Goku and if you
  • 00:21:52
    want to learn train like him check it
  • 00:21:53
    out and this video goes to 37 of my
  • 00:21:57
    favorite habits that help improve my
  • 00:21:58
    health both are
  • 00:22:01
    solid got a soft spot for the Dragon
  • 00:22:03
    Ball one though so maybe you want to
  • 00:22:04
    check that out
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