Dr. Kelly Starrett

Let's – if we just took the word imbalance and put it to the side for a second because it's sort of a nonspecific term. Like are we testing your hamstring to your quad? Like what's the ideal ratio here? Like if you're a professional pitcher, I hope your right arm looks different than your left arm, right? But what we can say is – Number one, imbalances don't necessarily cause pain.

Let's – if we just took the word imbalance and put it to the side for a second because it's sort of a nonspecific term. Like are we testing your hamstring to your quad? Like what's the ideal ratio here? Like if you're a professional pitcher, I hope your right arm looks different than your left arm, right? But what we can say is – Number one, imbalances don't necessarily cause pain.

Let's – if we just took the word imbalance and put it to the side for a second because it's sort of a nonspecific term. Like are we testing your hamstring to your quad? Like what's the ideal ratio here? Like if you're a professional pitcher, I hope your right arm looks different than your left arm, right? But what we can say is – Number one, imbalances don't necessarily cause pain.

Let's be clear about that. We should be using our time in the gym as training to find deficiencies and blind spots in our patterns, in our skill, in our brains feeling comfortable with a certain movement. And what you just hit was that it's, boy, it's really easy to get a lot of variability just doing the things I want to do anyway. So now I'm in a tandem stance. I skate left foot forward, right?

Let's be clear about that. We should be using our time in the gym as training to find deficiencies and blind spots in our patterns, in our skill, in our brains feeling comfortable with a certain movement. And what you just hit was that it's, boy, it's really easy to get a lot of variability just doing the things I want to do anyway. So now I'm in a tandem stance. I skate left foot forward, right?

Let's be clear about that. We should be using our time in the gym as training to find deficiencies and blind spots in our patterns, in our skill, in our brains feeling comfortable with a certain movement. And what you just hit was that it's, boy, it's really easy to get a lot of variability just doing the things I want to do anyway. So now I'm in a tandem stance. I skate left foot forward, right?

But you know, suddenly that's my dominant stance. If you're going to ask me to do anything of consequence, I'm going to adopt that stance. But suddenly I get to have some exposure here. So what's the point of the gym? What's the point of training? just to work on some cardiorespiratory output that the science says? Is it to move and to play?

But you know, suddenly that's my dominant stance. If you're going to ask me to do anything of consequence, I'm going to adopt that stance. But suddenly I get to have some exposure here. So what's the point of the gym? What's the point of training? just to work on some cardiorespiratory output that the science says? Is it to move and to play?

But you know, suddenly that's my dominant stance. If you're going to ask me to do anything of consequence, I'm going to adopt that stance. But suddenly I get to have some exposure here. So what's the point of the gym? What's the point of training? just to work on some cardiorespiratory output that the science says? Is it to move and to play?

If the brain's a problem-solving machine, let's give it some problems to solve. So you suddenly have a new problem to solve. And I would even say that weakness isn't even the right idea. Just like here is a pattern that I'm not as effective at, as efficient at. So when we go into the gym sort of with this great curiosity, then it's a really rich place

If the brain's a problem-solving machine, let's give it some problems to solve. So you suddenly have a new problem to solve. And I would even say that weakness isn't even the right idea. Just like here is a pattern that I'm not as effective at, as efficient at. So when we go into the gym sort of with this great curiosity, then it's a really rich place

If the brain's a problem-solving machine, let's give it some problems to solve. So you suddenly have a new problem to solve. And I would even say that weakness isn't even the right idea. Just like here is a pattern that I'm not as effective at, as efficient at. So when we go into the gym sort of with this great curiosity, then it's a really rich place

And really, frankly, the only safe place because there isn't contact and sport and we're not fighting and dancing and moving. And we can really do this controlled formal movement where we can really see inputs and outputs. I explained my mother-in-law a long time ago. what was happening when we were developing our model to understand movement.

And really, frankly, the only safe place because there isn't contact and sport and we're not fighting and dancing and moving. And we can really do this controlled formal movement where we can really see inputs and outputs. I explained my mother-in-law a long time ago. what was happening when we were developing our model to understand movement.

And really, frankly, the only safe place because there isn't contact and sport and we're not fighting and dancing and moving. And we can really do this controlled formal movement where we can really see inputs and outputs. I explained my mother-in-law a long time ago. what was happening when we were developing our model to understand movement.

And I explained it and she was like, oh, you mean it makes the invisible visible? That's right, is that this is a place to understand how your range of motion is changing, how your skills are changing, right?

And I explained it and she was like, oh, you mean it makes the invisible visible? That's right, is that this is a place to understand how your range of motion is changing, how your skills are changing, right?

And I explained it and she was like, oh, you mean it makes the invisible visible? That's right, is that this is a place to understand how your range of motion is changing, how your skills are changing, right?

Over the course of a season or the course of, you know, something going on in your life, a season in your life, suddenly you're like, wow, my left hip is a little tight or my left shoulder is, my internal rotation is going away. Hard to see when you're swimming, really easy to see when we dumbbell snatch.

Over the course of a season or the course of, you know, something going on in your life, a season in your life, suddenly you're like, wow, my left hip is a little tight or my left shoulder is, my internal rotation is going away. Hard to see when you're swimming, really easy to see when we dumbbell snatch.