Dr. Layne Norton

Because if I'm training for powerlifting and trying to get stronger, I'm going to have to train under fatigue.

I've had way less back pain and I don't think I've had any acute injuries on deadlift because

And so – Because you progressively – Because I progressively loaded those tissues.

Now, if you're – I think all things being equal, if you can deadlift straight back, do that, right?

But I think the idea that we need this like perfect form to prevent injury, actually the research shows people who believe they need really good form are actually more likely to have pain and get injured than people who believe that they're resilient and strong.

And actually people who get injuries –

mindset is actually a big factor for recovery.

People who believe that they are strong and resilient recover faster from injuries and have less pain than people who believe that they're fragile.

And this gets into really the biopsychosocial model.

So the other big levers for injury risk are psychological stress.

That is a massive, massive lever for acute injury and overall pain.

So if you look at fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, in fact, a lot of autoimmune disorders are very tightly associated with psychological stress and psychiatric disorders.

IBS as well.

And they show, there's this really classical pain study.

I think they did a skin pressure test.

And they had people, they standardized the pressure.

And they had people rate it zero to 100.

Zero being absolutely no pain whatsoever, didn't feel anything.

100 being most painful thing they've ever felt.

And the average was like, I think it was around a 50.