Dr. Kelly Starrett

It's pumping.

We're dumping all those lymphatics through the groin, through that muscle contraction.

And it's easy to say, hey, let's decongest, right?

I ran, I did something, and now I'm just going to walk a little bit more for the day.

It's one of the reasons...

You know, if you fly on an airplane, you get cankles.

It's lack of movement that's giving you those cankles, right?

That's congestion of the tissues.

Well, it's easy on the... But if I say, hey, I'm going to need you to get on this rower for an hour, you're going to be like, bro, I'm not doing that.

Get on this assault bike for an hour, decongest.

What?

It's impossible.

And so sometimes it's hard to get enough exaggerated cross-pattern motion and movement of the upper body to decongest it the way we're working.

So...

What we can say then suddenly is, well, what tools do I have available to me?

Well, number one, maybe a little bit of shoulder motion where I'm touching some fundamental shapes during the day.

That'd be easy.

And that's an easy place to start because it's, you know, for example, it's easy never to have to put your bra on in the back, right?

That would be a test of internal rotation and some extension.

That aptly scratch test, all the, you know, hey, let's look at the, if you do the FMS test, can you get your hand behind your back?