Dr. Kelly Starrett

We love something called an ETOP.

which is every 30 seconds, you have to do a lift.

It's an easy way for adults, for me to rate limit my ego, protect myself, put a little cardiorespiratory demand or metabolic demand on my working.

And, but sometimes I've done 20 lifts, 20 singles before I'm like, oh, okay, now I'm connected again.

Now it's starting to go.

So putting that skill in there

It's very much the game.

And it's okay for us to be skill limited, not be limited by how strong your hips are.

Like how nice that we have to, we look at all the things and I'm like, well, it looks like the limitation for you is that you're just not very good at this.

That's really fun.

But in that moment, I'll tell a story about one of our two-time Olympians in heavyweights.

His name's Wes Kitt.

And he's an incredible athlete and an Olympian in Olympic lifting and heavyweights, which are the strongest humans on the planet, right?

his coach, Dave Spitz, who's a genius local at Cal Strength, was like, hey, can you meet with Wes?

He was just at the Pan Am Games, received a heavy clean over 400 and passed out on stage, pressurizing for the next jerk.

Cleaning is getting up to your shoulders, jerking is put over your head.

And I was like, well, that doesn't sound like a good way to win.

And so Wes came in and what we worked on was him pressurizing.

Under those loads, could he sequence and take a second and do a little bit more diligence about getting more air in, creating this high intra-abdominal pressure?

And when we started working on that with him, same drill, same skills, but just – and then also being a little conscientious, he never missed a jerk again, like set the American record, qualified for the Olympics.