Dr. Andy Galpin

Things like that.

So paying attention to your movement quality is the fastest way for most people to actually move faster and move stronger.

Improve technique first and then chase after improving maximal capacity of the actual muscle fiber and tissue.

The third is in making sure you're balancing movement planes and posture.

So if you want to get a better squat, make sure that your glutes aren't significantly stronger than your hamstrings or that your adductors, your groin and the muscles that kind of pull your knees together aren't significantly weaker.

You will only ever be as strong and as fast as your weakest link in that movement chain.

So ensuring you don't have anything grossly behind something else and that you're training yourself so that the muscles move appropriately.

Think about it this way.

There are some muscles and joints that are meant to be stable and others that are meant to be movers.

And they tend to stack in an every other one fashion, such as this.

I gave examples of the knee and the hip earlier.

The ankle is meant to be highly mobile and to move a lot.

The knee is meant to be stable.

So if the knee is stable, this allows the ankle to move a lot.

And then the opposite direction would be the hip.

So you want a highly mobile hip

a highly stable knee so you can have a highly mobile foot.

Going above that, since the hips are mobile, you want the low back and the lumbar spine to be stable so that the thoracic and kind of mid-back spine can be mobile so that your shoulder joints and your neck can be stable.

This allows then the shoulders to be mobile, the elbows to be stable, and the wrist to be nice and mobile.

Now, it is more complicated than that, but really at the highest level, that is a nice summary of how the muscle actions are supposed to work.