Dr. Kelly Starrett

Three minutes, in total.

What we're really doing when we're hanging is an isometric.

And we're just telling our brain these are really important positions to be in, and that hanging, really popularized by Ido Portal, was the first reason to be like, let's aggregate hanging.

We start to see that shoulders hurt less, back works better, neck functions more effectively, because we're just spending time in these end ranges.

You don't like to hang?

Let me introduce you to downward dog.

Downward dog is another version of spending a lot of time with your arms over your head.

And if you've ever gone to yoga class, you spend like two and a half years in downward dog for a reason, because it's a really important position.

So now, theoretically, I can take all the things Dr. Patrick does, all the things that Dr. Kelly does, and then we can test them and say, who's got the best?

And does it get me if my VO2 max has improved a little bit or it's good enough?

Isn't that what we want to do?

Just discover what's good enough, right?

So that we, again, can be pain-free, have the most movement choice, play, pick up skills, occupy our role.

And then if we want to go to the Olympics, that's a slightly different conversation.

But for the average person, we should be able to say, hey, our goal isn't to be so specialized that we're afraid to have a margarita or eat an acai bowl, right?

Like we want to have tolerance in the system and be amazing.

One of my personal bugaboos is I don't always want to talk about body composition.

I really stayed away from nutrition conversations because it was always about losing body fat.

I have to talk about it because I want to talk about your tissue health.

I want to talk about all the things that are going to allow you to not get injured or tweaked.