Jeff Cavaliere

Because I don't want it to be an afterthought.

I think it should be, it's a key component of what I do to keep a strong core.

So I want to focus it, and I don't want to add it to the end of my workout when I'm already mentally checked out.

So I do that.

I think when you start to have these issues,

that require special programming, then you should own that special programming because it's yours.

It's what you need specifically.

Others might need things for their shoulders or for the rotator cuff.

But whatever special programming is, do it as a small routine on its own day at its own time.

Or even it could be on a workout day, but a separate time that you just go through as a routine, five minutes to seven minutes, three times a week or so.

That's it.

If you want to put it on a training day, it's actually not a bad idea to put these smaller muscle exercises or smaller focused exercises after your bigger training.

Because A, you're not going to compromise your big training and the goals that you have for...

for that but you also are pre-fatiguing some of those bigger muscles that are going to want to dominate these small movements anyway the compensations that you're going to see on these small movements are always going to be the big muscles trying to kick in and do what they've always done which is take over and you're trying to get them to not so if you can pre-fatigue them a little bit prior to doing these small exercises you're actually setting the smaller muscles up for more success

When you're young, those things that...

appear as post-workout soreness even can be masquerading for long-term pain problems and dysfunction down the road right because you're again when we're young we just feel hey i'm sore i had a hard workout yesterday i'm a little stiff again we get through it we manage it it's not that uh interruptive of our life at that point so we move on but i believe that those are

many examples of what is potentially happening beneath the surface that if you continue down that road, that normal workout soreness becomes more chronic joint pain, discomfort, movement limitations.

And we also lose range of motion as we get older.

So if we're not focusing on actually trying to maintain that, it just...

starts to pile up.