Dr. Kelly Starrett

But if you're not practicing and in those shapes ever, it's going to be tricky.

And if you start loading the upper body significantly the way you are, the way we're kind of modern training has sort of influenced us, remember that the first thing the body does after training stimulus

is it lays down more collagen.

It makes the container stronger to withstand.

Now, when it starts to put the muscle down inside that, the fascial connective tissue containers are set up first.

We have a bigger engine frame, then we can make a bigger engine.

So if you don't do anything, you're going to become stiff and fibrotic.

Like, welcome to being, you know, big squats.

I mean, they're going to make your quads stiff if you don't keep your eye on it.

All that running can make your quads very stiff, right?

So...

Suddenly we can ask around the shoulder, well, let's make sure that we're doing something to keep an eye on this range of motion.

And I could hint at, you could do something like the shoulder spin up in the morning, which is just touching some fundamental shapes with some arm swings.

It's very simple.

You could do something like David Weck's Rope Flow, which is super fun and very easy to touch a bunch of shapes.

It's basically, imagine like PNF patterns, which were this kind of model of looking at how we load the shoulder in this rehab that came out, these diagonals and rotation.

And if you just spin a rope a whole bunch, you're going to touch a ton of rotation.

You're going to be in some fundamental shapes.

It's really fast.

It's easy.