Dr. Kelly Starrett

Don't get injured.

I'm not injured.

What's going to happen that I'm going to get injured?

Instead, we think, hey, we can actually get more work done.

We can feel better as we do it.

We have less discomfort as we do it.

And what we tend to see is we don't get as stiff afterwards.

And so oftentimes when we're trying to compress a lot of really dense work into a little time, we don't leave permission for us to really get tissues hyperperfused, like blood flow, ready to go.

If the first motion you do is push the sled and you tear your Achilles, I'm like, well, that tissue wasn't as prepared maybe as it could have been.

Maybe we could have mitigated some of these aches and tweaks.

Maybe some of those insertions of those connective tissues weren't so friable and dry.

Just like the rotator cuff, for example, it just takes a minute.

It's like hard-packed earth.

And if you just take a, you know, exercise, which is like a hoe is blasting on hardback earth, the water doesn't really soak in.

Takes a second for those tissues to, you know, to really become well perfused.

And then you might have better range of motion.

And more important, you'll have better power, better work tolerance.

And then afterwards, there's all these models that exist already.

Like the Soviets used to say, if you leave the gym stiff, you're going to be stiff.

I think if we take a look at some of our movement traditions, people have been training and thinking seriously about this for a long time.