Dr. Kelly Starrett

Did you get stronger?

Like, what are your metrics?

Like, you're just sore?

You did a bunch of work and are sore?

Again, there's no, you haven't moved the needle.

You've just created a lot of noise.

Right.

Well, first of all, let's...

say that there's very much technique involved with putting weights over our head as effectively and powerful as we could i know you have an excellent coach number two is that we might become curious about the fact that hey i have tissues that are really fibrotic and stiff is there anything we could do about that so if we just played press and guess traps feel tight afterwards like let's get you on a roller let's get you on a ball let's start working and see if we can restore motion to these segments and and then run our test again does it make us feel better

Then we could also ask, do you have full range of motion overhead?

And it could be that you're working in positions because you have incomplete overhead position.

You can still do it and it doesn't hurt, but you're not doing it as efficiently.

And maybe this signal is one of those things that we can improve that.

And I believe in serial anecdotal empiricism, which is what you described.

And how reasonable that you're like, hey, I do this exercise and it hurts me or makes me hurt or I don't feel good afterwards.

I'm a little afraid of doing that exercise.

That seems very reasonable to me.

An easy way to start.

So number one, as I would say, hey, let's start getting you some hanging where your arms are parallel over your head and taking some breaths and do that.

And let's see if we start to expose that overhead position.