Dr. Kelly Starrett

Like that's a really nice sort of rubric for, am I prepared or have I used this warmup as an opportunity to be like, I am not good today.

I'm just going to take it easy, right?

I can use it as a self-assessment.

So that's what we try to do in the warmup.

Sometimes it gets a little bit watered down.

As a coach, I try to not do the same warmup every single day.

I try to keep my athletes guessing.

I want them to be entertained.

I want them to be curious.

And that's a real opportunity to put some of these things we see on the internet.

Hey, that looks like fun.

Let me try that as part of my warmup.

Well, I think from a simple idea that we have a chance to prime and remind our brains that movement is a skill, right?

Sometimes we have like, we're like, all movement is good, right?

It's all like the movement optimists are like, it doesn't matter what you do.

And we're like, well, from injury perspective,

Which is not what we're trying to do.

We're never on this track of, hey, let's warm up so we don't get injured.

I think that's kind of a fool's errand.

And it's not really inspiring.