Jeff Cavaliere

Again, we're not talking traps.

Traps get a lot of work.

But those deep muscles of the neck don't get trained very often at all.

And it's so cool.

Surprised it hasn't come on my feed.

But it doesn't, that's not to say that when you do the things I'm saying, you do the small things that you're not going to still have aches and pains and things that you, you have to be able to also manage that.

Like, how can you show up each day and still manage the fact that, yeah, this shoulder is still a little bit sore, this shoulder is still, or this, this knee is a little cranky.

you have to continue to show up if you're going to play this longevity game, right?

Because stopping is the fastest way to slow your body, right?

So I think to slow your body down to a point of really poor quality of life, you have to figure out how to manage through these injuries and train around and through these injuries.

And a simple example of that, I always have to use an analogy of like a construction zone.

If there's one street that's shut down, you're not going to shut the whole city down, right?

You need to find a way to redirect traffic around there so the city can operate.

So if it was, let's say, that shoulder and you were doing a, I don't know, a dumbbell or a barbell overhead press, you can't do it.

It hurts.

you have to have a way to reroute that so let's say it's a machine press is that my first choice based on the things we talked about you're sitting down you're on a machine you're in a fixed pattern no but if it allows you to still train you're getting a lot of other benefits number one you're getting some additional strengthening of the inactivation of the deltoid you're getting some movement through the joint itself which we know bathes the joint surfaces and helps to provide nutrition to the joint

You're moving that capsule so it doesn't get stiff and tight.

You're doing a lot of things right, even though it might be choice B for the exercise.

Let's say you can't do any pressing at all.

Again, you don't shut the city down.