Dr. Kelly Starrett

skill, right, coordination, but I can generate thousands of watts over here, but I'm not very coordinated.

Or because I've generated thousands of watts over here, it's cost me my rotation of my hip or my hip extension.

And ultimately, you can do that for a while until you want to learn a new skill, until that tissue is somehow a little bit misused because it doesn't have its normal ranges of motion.

And I think when we ask people to sort of engage in some baseline testing, then we can start to understand inputs and outputs.

And so if I have an elite cyclist, I'm working in the Tour de France, we don't really spend a ton of time in hip extension training knee behind the butt like a lunge.

We are in those shapes to make sure that we restore power, keep the hip doing what it needs to do.

We don't necessarily have to train in those shapes as heavily as we might with an Olympic sprinter.

But we need to look at where is this person able to put some of these isometrics or some mobility work or some soft tissue work to keep the window open.

Because what we're really trying to do for the typical person, again, we're all basically rec athletes at some point,

We're trying to say, let's maintain as much range as we can.

And by that, we'll say, how do I maintain movement choice, movement options?

How do I pick up a new skill?

How do I have a body that's free and unencumbered?

Yeah.

Let's take a look and we'll split the upper body from the lower body.

Because it's easy to go for a walk and we can decongest, right?

The lymphatics are built into our muscle system.

The lymphatic system is the sewage system of the body.

And it's bootstrapped into our muscles.

And so if we go for a walk, that calf is acting like a second heart.