Dr. Kelly Starrett

So an incident is I want us to start to think about incident-level problems, our pain, loss of range of motion, numbness, tingling. We're becoming curious. Why is the brain sending me the signals? Pain is a request for change. So if we ask our athletic population, I just did this with 100 kids. I'm like, how many of you are pain-free? 100 high school kids. Two hands go up. High school.

So an incident is I want us to start to think about incident-level problems, our pain, loss of range of motion, numbness, tingling. We're becoming curious. Why is the brain sending me the signals? Pain is a request for change. So if we ask our athletic population, I just did this with 100 kids. I'm like, how many of you are pain-free? 100 high school kids. Two hands go up. High school.

High school. So what we're suddenly realizing is that pain is very much a part of the athletic condition, the human experience, certainly the athletic experience. You've been in pain a billion times and still gone out and done the thing. So what we want to do is say pain is not always a medical problem. It's a medical problem when?

High school. So what we're suddenly realizing is that pain is very much a part of the athletic condition, the human experience, certainly the athletic experience. You've been in pain a billion times and still gone out and done the thing. So what we want to do is say pain is not always a medical problem. It's a medical problem when?

High school. So what we're suddenly realizing is that pain is very much a part of the athletic condition, the human experience, certainly the athletic experience. You've been in pain a billion times and still gone out and done the thing. So what we want to do is say pain is not always a medical problem. It's a medical problem when?

The rest of the time we're saying, how are you using fitness training as a scaffolding to understand nutrition, hydration, soft tissue work, desensitization, reperfusion of the tissues? So that's what we're trying to do in sport and training is empower people to say, what's going on with my body? And why don't I feel the way I do or why does something hurt and why can't I remedy that?

The rest of the time we're saying, how are you using fitness training as a scaffolding to understand nutrition, hydration, soft tissue work, desensitization, reperfusion of the tissues? So that's what we're trying to do in sport and training is empower people to say, what's going on with my body? And why don't I feel the way I do or why does something hurt and why can't I remedy that?

The rest of the time we're saying, how are you using fitness training as a scaffolding to understand nutrition, hydration, soft tissue work, desensitization, reperfusion of the tissues? So that's what we're trying to do in sport and training is empower people to say, what's going on with my body? And why don't I feel the way I do or why does something hurt and why can't I remedy that?

And then when I run out of ideas, let me go get some help.

And then when I run out of ideas, let me go get some help.

And then when I run out of ideas, let me go get some help.

No, it means, it means that, for whatever reason, those tissues have become sensitized and that your brain is interpreting that stiffness as a threat and it's reading it as pain, right? And some people, they don't have that. They just, their tissues feel like this, but they don't have pain when they do that. But that's not a normal tissue.

No, it means, it means that, for whatever reason, those tissues have become sensitized and that your brain is interpreting that stiffness as a threat and it's reading it as pain, right? And some people, they don't have that. They just, their tissues feel like this, but they don't have pain when they do that. But that's not a normal tissue.

No, it means, it means that, for whatever reason, those tissues have become sensitized and that your brain is interpreting that stiffness as a threat and it's reading it as pain, right? And some people, they don't have that. They just, their tissues feel like this, but they don't have pain when they do that. But that's not a normal tissue.

You should be like layers of warm silk sliding over steel springs.

You should be like layers of warm silk sliding over steel springs.

You should be like layers of warm silk sliding over steel springs.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely.