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Stuart McGill

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

Right. Okay. So let's say today I'm going into our clinic gym, and I will start with doing the big three. So I will do bird dogs, and I'm going to work on good form, and then I'm going to put some dynamicism into it. I don't lift the leg so much. I push the heel away, and it really โ€“

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

Right. Okay. So let's say today I'm going into our clinic gym, and I will start with doing the big three. So I will do bird dogs, and I'm going to work on good form, and then I'm going to put some dynamicism into it. I don't lift the leg so much. I push the heel away, and it really โ€“

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

Right. Okay. So let's say today I'm going into our clinic gym, and I will start with doing the big three. So I will do bird dogs, and I'm going to work on good form, and then I'm going to put some dynamicism into it. I don't lift the leg so much. I push the heel away, and it really โ€“

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

causes you to lock the core to create the proximal stability, and then pushing the heel away really engages the glutes and hamstrings. Then I draw small squares. I square out with the hand and foot, down towards the midline and up. So now I'm creating a little bit of a disassociation through the ball and socket joints with I want, which is what I want, with the core control.

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

causes you to lock the core to create the proximal stability, and then pushing the heel away really engages the glutes and hamstrings. Then I draw small squares. I square out with the hand and foot, down towards the midline and up. So now I'm creating a little bit of a disassociation through the ball and socket joints with I want, which is what I want, with the core control.

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

causes you to lock the core to create the proximal stability, and then pushing the heel away really engages the glutes and hamstrings. Then I draw small squares. I square out with the hand and foot, down towards the midline and up. So now I'm creating a little bit of a disassociation through the ball and socket joints with I want, which is what I want, with the core control.

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

So that is translatable. We did an experiment with the Pensacola Fire Department, by the way, where those firefighters who were trained with a coach who explained why they were insisting on certain exercise forms- We measured them doing fire ground tasks before the training sessions.

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

So that is translatable. We did an experiment with the Pensacola Fire Department, by the way, where those firefighters who were trained with a coach who explained why they were insisting on certain exercise forms- We measured them doing fire ground tasks before the training sessions.

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

So that is translatable. We did an experiment with the Pensacola Fire Department, by the way, where those firefighters who were trained with a coach who explained why they were insisting on certain exercise forms- We measured them doing fire ground tasks before the training sessions.

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

In other words, we measured them putting up a fire ladder, advancing a loaded fire hose, which is a tremendous reactive push, as you know. Piking open an elevator door, chopping a hole in a burning roof. Then half of the group trained with this attention to exercise form, and we explained the principles to them.

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

In other words, we measured them putting up a fire ladder, advancing a loaded fire hose, which is a tremendous reactive push, as you know. Piking open an elevator door, chopping a hole in a burning roof. Then half of the group trained with this attention to exercise form, and we explained the principles to them.

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

In other words, we measured them putting up a fire ladder, advancing a loaded fire hose, which is a tremendous reactive push, as you know. Piking open an elevator door, chopping a hole in a burning roof. Then half of the group trained with this attention to exercise form, and we explained the principles to them.

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

And then the other half of the firefighters had trainers who were more like cheerleaders, trying to get them to do more reps and encouraging them. Both groups got fit. And then we measured them all again out on the fire ground. Remember now, we never trained them how to do the fire ground tasks. They went back to the fire ground.

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

And then the other half of the firefighters had trainers who were more like cheerleaders, trying to get them to do more reps and encouraging them. Both groups got fit. And then we measured them all again out on the fire ground. Remember now, we never trained them how to do the fire ground tasks. They went back to the fire ground.

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

And then the other half of the firefighters had trainers who were more like cheerleaders, trying to get them to do more reps and encouraging them. Both groups got fit. And then we measured them all again out on the fire ground. Remember now, we never trained them how to do the fire ground tasks. They went back to the fire ground.

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

Those who trained with the cheerleader types of, oh, just do more reps, had more experience. Known injury markers. Do you know valgal collapse of the knee is a very strong predictor of future risk of ACL injury being one of them. So there would be an example of that. Sagittal plane spine motion under load.

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

Those who trained with the cheerleader types of, oh, just do more reps, had more experience. Known injury markers. Do you know valgal collapse of the knee is a very strong predictor of future risk of ACL injury being one of them. So there would be an example of that. Sagittal plane spine motion under load.

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

Those who trained with the cheerleader types of, oh, just do more reps, had more experience. Known injury markers. Do you know valgal collapse of the knee is a very strong predictor of future risk of ACL injury being one of them. So there would be an example of that. Sagittal plane spine motion under load.

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

I mean, every study that surveils groups who have to bend down through their spine and pick up more load has a much higher incidence. Bill Maris' study showed 10 times the risk factor to having a disc injury. if you do that. So I will then do side planks, rolling side planks.

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

I mean, every study that surveils groups who have to bend down through their spine and pick up more load has a much higher incidence. Bill Maris' study showed 10 times the risk factor to having a disc injury. if you do that. So I will then do side planks, rolling side planks.