Dr. Kelly Starrett

But we want you to not, I've been saying this lately and it's very unpopular, but pull-ups are the worst sport there is.

It's what a terrible sport pull-ups are.

It's not interesting.

No one cares.

Like going from 20 to 25 pull-ups is great for you.

Did it make you a better swimmer?

Did it make you a better surfer?

Yeah.

So ultimately, in this quest for bigger front squats, like strength is never a weakness, you know, let's slave to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

At what cost to actually have you left the house and done a sport?

Have you tested your fitness?

Have you spent your fitness credits?

We run a program for adults over 40.

It's like what does a strength and conditioning movement lifestyle program look like for a busy person who's not interested in necessarily snatching one rep max at the Olympics again?

And one of the things that we see there is that –

people are still treating exercise like a commodity where it's, I have to do the makeup sets of math homework.

If I miss a day, I go back.

I'm like, hold up, hold up, hold up.

That's not what good consistent strength and conditioning practice looks like at any sport level.

If you and I are competing,