Dr. Kelly Starrett

As you've talked about, like, I don't really care what your grip strength is.

I care what you do with that grip strength.

But if you're doing a lot of fun stuff with your grip strength, your grip strength is going to be good.

So it's a proxy for all these other things, right?

And that test tells us a lot about your movement choice, your ability to solve movement problems, your ability to modulate your balance.

And so it may not be that that's the end all be all.

If you put a hand down, you could probably still be a hundred.

I mean, we probably have some aunties in our lives who are over 90, who've never done the sit and rise test, never done keto, never went to a high intensity exercise class, but there's something about their lifestyle.

We just got back from Japan.

We're sleeping on the ground.

Cultures that toilet on the ground, sleep on the ground, eat on the ground, fall risk in the elderly drops to almost zero.

Osteoarthritis in the hips and low back drops to almost zero.

There's something about maybe we should touch these shapes once in a while.

And then that makes it so that it's on the map of the brain.

We're touching and loading those tissues.

The brain doesn't start to pare down some of that movement as irrelevant.

So really the question is, what should I do every day?

And then now we can ask the next following questions.

What are essential movements and strength and conditioning, which is really just a formal movement practice under load?

That's right.