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Stuart McGill

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897 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If you can pre-turn the pelvis with a lot of lordosis in the spine, you get much more power development behind the center of mass through the extensor range. If you have a flat back, it's difficult now. You've just shortened up the range that you can pulse into propulsive force as a sprinter.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

If you can pre-turn the pelvis with a lot of lordosis in the spine, you get much more power development behind the center of mass through the extensor range. If you have a flat back, it's difficult now. You've just shortened up the range that you can pulse into propulsive force as a sprinter.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Yeah. But you'll notice it's very difficult for a sprinter to kick high. So I look at these different forms in the combat athletes. If you look at someone who can kick high in a roundhouse, they will tend to have a flatter back. So combat athletes tend to have a flatter back.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Yeah. But you'll notice it's very difficult for a sprinter to kick high. So I look at these different forms in the combat athletes. If you look at someone who can kick high in a roundhouse, they will tend to have a flatter back. So combat athletes tend to have a flatter back.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Yeah. But you'll notice it's very difficult for a sprinter to kick high. So I look at these different forms in the combat athletes. If you look at someone who can kick high in a roundhouse, they will tend to have a flatter back. So combat athletes tend to have a flatter back.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Going back to the runners, you'll notice that the Michael Johnsons and the runners with more distance have a flatter spine. They're more upright and they're tuning that ability to store and recover elastic energy. Where the sprinter out of the blocks, it's horsepower. It's concentric and eccentric muscle pulsing.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Going back to the runners, you'll notice that the Michael Johnsons and the runners with more distance have a flatter spine. They're more upright and they're tuning that ability to store and recover elastic energy. Where the sprinter out of the blocks, it's horsepower. It's concentric and eccentric muscle pulsing.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Going back to the runners, you'll notice that the Michael Johnsons and the runners with more distance have a flatter spine. They're more upright and they're tuning that ability to store and recover elastic energy. Where the sprinter out of the blocks, it's horsepower. It's concentric and eccentric muscle pulsing.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

But anyway, there would be an example since you mentioned it with running, the style of running, the event. Running isn't running. Running is very different. And again, look at the podium winners of the sprinters versus the 10,000 meters. Very different architecture.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

But anyway, there would be an example since you mentioned it with running, the style of running, the event. Running isn't running. Running is very different. And again, look at the podium winners of the sprinters versus the 10,000 meters. Very different architecture.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

But anyway, there would be an example since you mentioned it with running, the style of running, the event. Running isn't running. Running is very different. And again, look at the podium winners of the sprinters versus the 10,000 meters. Very different architecture.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm going to go back to the fact that they're coming to me with pain. We are going to figure out through the thorough assessment what triggers their pain. Most people, it's true, don't want ultimate performance. They're not being paid $10 million to be able to throw a fastball or something like that. They want to enjoy life. Let's say they love golf.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm going to go back to the fact that they're coming to me with pain. We are going to figure out through the thorough assessment what triggers their pain. Most people, it's true, don't want ultimate performance. They're not being paid $10 million to be able to throw a fastball or something like that. They want to enjoy life. Let's say they love golf.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

I'm going to go back to the fact that they're coming to me with pain. We are going to figure out through the thorough assessment what triggers their pain. Most people, it's true, don't want ultimate performance. They're not being paid $10 million to be able to throw a fastball or something like that. They want to enjoy life. Let's say they love golf.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

My job is to get them sufficiently robust and out of pain to go and play recreational golf. So it becomes a moot point now, whether they have a willowy spine or not. I will look at their basic golf swing. if I can divide that up to just binary, some people are what we call twisters. They don't have a lot of hip mobility and they twist their spine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

My job is to get them sufficiently robust and out of pain to go and play recreational golf. So it becomes a moot point now, whether they have a willowy spine or not. I will look at their basic golf swing. if I can divide that up to just binary, some people are what we call twisters. They don't have a lot of hip mobility and they twist their spine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

My job is to get them sufficiently robust and out of pain to go and play recreational golf. So it becomes a moot point now, whether they have a willowy spine or not. I will look at their basic golf swing. if I can divide that up to just binary, some people are what we call twisters. They don't have a lot of hip mobility and they twist their spine.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So it's called the X factor in golf and they store and recover elastic energy. Again, it is an elastic athleticism. But the next person isn't so much a twister, they're a turner. They have what we call quick hips. So their hips turn and their spines don't sustain as much twist.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So it's called the X factor in golf and they store and recover elastic energy. Again, it is an elastic athleticism. But the next person isn't so much a twister, they're a turner. They have what we call quick hips. So their hips turn and their spines don't sustain as much twist.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stuart McGill: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

So it's called the X factor in golf and they store and recover elastic energy. Again, it is an elastic athleticism. But the next person isn't so much a twister, they're a turner. They have what we call quick hips. So their hips turn and their spines don't sustain as much twist.