How To Get Faster and More Powerful without Getting Hurt | Mind Pump 2925
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The video addresses a common frustration among fitness enthusiasts: possessing significant gym strength that fails to translate into real-world functionality, often leading to injuries during simple activities like playing with children or picking up objects. The hosts argue that traditional training frequently focuses too heavily on aesthetics and linear strength in the sagittal plane (forward and backward movements), neglecting the dynamic demands of daily life. They use a car analogy to illustrate this point, comparing a powerful engine without a reinforced frame to muscles that are strong in one direction but lack the stability to handle lateral or rotational forces. Consequently, individuals may feel confident and strong in the gym yet suffer tears or strains when their bodies are asked to decelerate quickly or move in unfamiliar patterns, creating a dangerous gap between perceived capability and actual physical resilience.
To bridge this gap, the hosts propose three essential components that must be integrated into any training regimen: explosive strength training, unilateral work, and multi-planar movement. Explosive training teaches the body to generate force quickly and, crucially, to decelerate safely, preventing injuries like hamstring tears caused by an inability to relax muscles rapidly enough. Unilateral training involves working one limb at a time to identify and correct imbalances between the left and right sides of the body, which is vital since real-world tasks almost always require single-limb support. Finally, training must incorporate lateral and rotational movements, as most traditional routines ignore these planes. By strengthening the stabilizing muscles around joints through activities like lateral sled drags or tube walking, individuals can build the necessary stability to prevent chronic pain and injuries that often stem from weakness in these neglected areas.
A critical misconception discussed is the fear that prioritizing functional strength will compromise aesthetic goals; however, the hosts insist that these approaches are complementary rather than contradictory. By dedicating specific blocks of time, such as six to eight weeks, to unilateral training or multi-planar programs like MAPS Symmetry and MAPS Performance, individuals can actually build more muscle in previously underdeveloped areas while reducing injury downtime. The concept of "use it or lose it" is emphasized regarding speed and agility; if a person stops practicing explosive movements, their body will adapt by losing that ability, making them vulnerable to falls and strains even at rest. Therefore, the advice extends beyond the gym to include maintaining an active lifestyle through sports and play throughout adulthood, ensuring that the body remains accustomed to the varied forces encountered outside the controlled environment of weightlifting.
Ultimately, the conclusion is that longevity in fitness and a high quality of life depend on training for real-world application rather than just lifting heavy numbers. The hosts share personal regrets about their own injuries resulting from an over-focus on linear strength and aesthetics, noting that even elite athletes or powerlifters can be vulnerable if they lack stability in other directions. By implementing a balanced approach that includes unilateral exercises, rotational work, and speed drills without inducing fatigue, lifters can enhance their performance and appearance while significantly lowering the risk of injury. The video encourages listeners to view functional training not as a sacrifice but as an enhancement that allows them to continue playing sports, running, and engaging in daily activities safely well into old age, proving that one can indeed live successfully in both worlds of aesthetics and practical durability.
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Look, being able to use your gym
strength in the real world makes life
awesome, but sometimes gym strength
doesn't translate and may actually make
you more prone to injury. Today, we're
going to show you how to have real-world
strength, speed, and power
without hurting yourself. We're going to
talk about how to get faster and more
powerful. Everybody goes to gym to look
better. That's the That's just to be
honest. That's the number one goal.
But, being more fit without that fitness
really
uh translating into the real world uh is
a travesty.
>> [snorts]
>> Uh to take it a step further, you can
train yourself in the gym in a way to
where you're consistent, you're getting
uh you're improving in the gym, but you
actually increase your risk of injury
because the kind of strength that you're
building um doesn't translate to how
strength tends to get applied
in the real world. Um and this can be a
real problem. It's really frustrating,
by the way, for people. This is like,
you know, you work out all the time,
then you go to the park, you throw a
Frisbee or baseball, shoulder hurts, or
you go play a pickup game of basketball.
You haven't played basketball in a few
years, and you hurt something, and it's
like, "What the heck, man? I'm I work
out in the gym all the time.
Uh I'm strong. I feel like I'm fit, but
it's just not translating." Or worse,
I've had clients like this where they go
reach down to pick up a shampoo bottle
or they grab their kid, yeah, and they
throw their back out. Um and this is a
real thing. And this is not uh really
this has to do with how you train. There
is a way to train
that will not just give you great
results in terms of how you look, uh but
it'll improve your real-world fitness.
It'll make It'll improve your quality of
life because you can play more and do
all those things uh in the real world um
without hurting yourself.
>> Dude, this has been like my soapbox
forever. And really, it's
it's mainly just people don't really
consider the fact that um
you know, how you train does affect how
you function in in you know, where that
strength applies.
Uh and, you know, you can look great and
you can look awesome, but be
dysfunctional, and, you know, it's going
to be problematic down the road. It's
going to increase
uh in terms of like tightness and and
pain [clears throat] and uh and all
could be avoided. And you can have uh
you can live in both worlds. You can
have that aesthetic physique that's, you
know, something's desirable, but also
too, you just have to consider uh we
have to implement ways where um you
know, you're going to train your your
joints correctly so that way they get
exposure to these angles and you get
strong in these angles
um and and you're able to avoid like
long-term uh pain discomfort.
>> Uh I feel like this is one of my biggest
regrets in the last decade
is being so
hyper-focused on on strength and
aesthetics that I've neglected so much
of this.
And I I feel like it
a lot of that was
made really obvious in the last couple
years.
Cuz I've had so many injuries. I've had
so many injuries doing uh
you know, I was doing sport. Uh so it
wasn't like I was picking up a shampoo
bottle.
>> Yeah.
>> But uh I'd gotten so strong
um in the sagittal plane that I had
neglected a lot of my training to
bulletproof uh those joints and uh get
strong in uh multiple directions. And
then when I go do something that I've
loved to do my whole life cuz I played
that sport as a kid or wakeboarded
behind a boat, um I had all these
injuries and I know exactly why. I know.
And I you know,
I think this is
um
even worse. I've said I've made this
case on the podcast before that I I I
almost think cuz I I have I have buddies
of mine that um we're all the same age
and we all grew up doing these things,
and they have gotten hurt less doing of
this stuff, and I'm the fitness guy. And
so it's like extra frustrating for me.
Yet, they I mean
they don't do anything for strength
training, so they didn't get like really
strong in a certain direction. And so I
almost feel like
I've I've done more harm than good in
some areas by getting so strong in one
direction. It's like
>> [clears throat]
>> I built up all this horsepower in this
in this car, you know, I built put I
built the engine
>> to exceed the threshold is a lot higher.
>> And so but I didn't do enough work on
reinforcing the suspension and the frame
and everything else. And so my my brain
says, "Oh, I'm strong enough and capable
to do all these things." And I go to do
it and I'm explosive, and then that's
where stuff went wrong.
>> I So funny, I had a buddy just made me
remember this long time ago. He
[clears throat] bought It was a
It was like one of those pickup trucks
from the '80s that people tend to soup
up to make it really fast. I'm not super
familiar with cars, but he bought a
truck that often times people will use
to drag race. And what he did is he
made it really He put an engine in there
that was really really powerful, but he
didn't reinforce the frame, and he
twisted the frame.
>> Mhm.
>> He took off
all that horsepower hit the frame. The
frame wasn't strong enough to support
it, and it literally twisted the frame
of the car to the point where he had to
go in
>> Too much torque.
>> and spend all this money on repairing
and then reinforcing. Um and you know,
we you mentioned joints. It's not just
your joints, it's also your muscles.
This is where it gets really weird,
right? So
>> Yeah.
>> Your muscles can get really strong
in a particular way, but not have the
ability to decelerate or relax when they
need to or contract quickly. And this
can increase your risk of injury
for like pulls and strains or tears.
That happened to me. So uh and like you,
Adam, this is a huge regret for me.
I think part of it is I took for granted
when I was younger
um I wasn't a big sports guy. I did, you
know, judo, wrestling, that kind of
stuff. But if I ever wanted to do
something, I'd just kind of pick it up
when I was younger. And then as an
adult, you don't really have tons of
opportunities
unless you go out and do it. So, I just
didn't do it for a while.
Um but I've been lifting weights this
whole time. Um and I was in Hawaii and
my daughter, my 16-year-old daughter who
plays
uh she was playing soccer at the time,
wanted to race me. And
we took off once and I beat her, but
she's like, "Let's go. I'll go even
faster." So, the second time around, I
said, "I'm going to go as fast as I
can." And I tore my hamstring. Now, keep
in mind, I'm a guy that could deadlift
600 lb. Meaning, my hamstrings are
tremendously strong cuz hamstrings are
one of the main muscles in a deadlift.
It's a posterior chain exercise. And
yet, running for less than 50 yd, I tore
my hamstring. How is that even possible?
Well, it's possible because I'm
generating all this force. When I When I
extend my leg, my hamstring doesn't know
how to relax fast enough to allow my leg
to come forward. And so, it would remain
tight. I kicked my leg forward,
hamstring tore. Um and this is really
frustrating, again, coming from someone
who's the gym guy, who's the fitness
guy. And it's 100% a result of my lack
of training properly.
And now, here's the kicker. Had I
trained properly, which now I'm starting
to incorporate,
but had I trained properly, I would have
compromised zero aesthetics. This is
where I think the challenge uh or where
the confusion comes from. People think
that in order to train for the you know,
for your gym strength to translate into
the real world, well, now I'm going to
compromise aesthetics. So, I got to move
away from the exercises that make me
look good or give me the shape I want
cuz I got to focus on this quote unquote
[clears throat] functional correctional
stuff.
Uh and so, okay, fine. I'm going to
sacrifice some aesthetics for uh
performance. Not true. Not true at all.
Now, you could train pure performance,
which is not even what we're talking
about. What we're going to talk about is
how you could train the way you train,
but inject uh and implement uh styles of
training that'll make your gym strength
real-world strength. That'll make it so
that when you go in the real world, um
you can do the things uh that you want
to be able to do and not hurt yourself
uh where you're actually strong in the
real sense. Um there's two there's two
main pieces
uh I'll say two or three main keys to
training this way. And these are the
three things that people lack in their
training.
Traditional strength training
traditionally uh stays away from three
things. Uh some of them they stay away
from more than others. One of them is
explosive training. You find almost no
explosive style training in traditional
strength training routines.
Explosive strength training all it's
trying to do is get you to take your
strength and be able to move it quickly.
>> Mhm.
>> Which by the way, in the real world,
there's two ways you're going to use
your strength. One is the traditional
kind of grinding, I'm picking up the
couch.
The other one is, oh oh, my kid's
running across the street, I got to grab
him real fast.
>> Right.
>> Or something's falling off the shelf, I
got to grab it fast.
>> a lot of load to produce uh that type of
training.
>> So, it's it's it's speed strength. And
then, you know, from an athlete's
perspective, speed strength is what it
really matters. Matters the most um in
athletics, but it also matters a lot in
the real world.
>> [snorts]
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The second thing that is often neglected
is unilateral training. When you see
unilateral training, it's so unilateral
training for people aren't familiar is
where I'm training one arm or one leg at
a time. So, bilateral is both arms or
both legs. Unilateral is one arm or one
leg. So, an example of bilateral would
be for upper body would be like a bench
press.
Unilateral would be like a one-arm
dumbbell chest press, okay?
Um when you see unilateral training in
traditional strength training, it's
always thrown in as an afterthought.
It's not really a focus of training. And
unilateral training is a remarkable way
of identifying, isolating, and
correcting imbalances between the right
and left side. It's a really It's an
awesome way. Actually, it's a very easy
way to do to do correction exercise. You
don't even need to know much about
correction exercise, but doing
focused, uh you know, blocks of training
on unilateral training will often times
solve many of those issues.
Um and then so, you have explosive
training, unilateral training, and then
the third thing that is neglected are is
training in different planes. So, Adam
mentioned something that you know,
coaches and trainers refer to as a
sagittal plane.
Sagittal plane is like your deadlift,
your squat, you know, things in front of
you. But, there's also
>> forward and back.
>> There's also move you know, moving
laterally, there's rotating and
twisting.
And very few exercises that we do
strengthen our bodies, especially
laterally. Like think about how many
lateral exercises that you'll find in
traditional strength training
uh workouts.
>> Very little.
>> Rotation. Rotation is often the extent
of rotation in programs is typically
like an oblique exercise.
>> Yeah.
>> And you'll do it once a week. Maybe. A
lot of people even skip that. And you're
doing a couple sets.
>> Yeah.
>> So, when you when you're those three
things, when you lack those three
things,
what happens is you you become really
good at this one expression of strength,
but you lack being able to move quickly,
you lack uh balance between the right
and left side, and you lack being able
to move in different planes. And so,
when you go in the real world, okay,
think about the real world. How many
times do you need to express strength
quickly? Well, anytime you play any kind
of a game with anyone, you're going to
have to express uh speed.
>> [snorts]
>> Think about when you have to express
strength unilaterally. All the time. All
the time. One leg is forward, well one
leg is back, or you're holding something
with one hand, or whatever. All the
time. Now, think about all the times
you're caught off guard and you have to
move laterally or rotate. All the time.
So, what happens is you create this huge
gap between those things and your
traditional strength training, and you
become fit and prone to injury. This is
a terrible place to be.
Fit and prone to injuries. Very
frustrating. If you're listening to
this, you've probably experienced this
where you're just befuddled. What
happened to me? I thought I was strong.
I thought I was fit. How did I hurt
myself playing a super silly game of
basketball, or throwing the baseball
with my kid, or you know, going for a
light jog. Like what is going on here?
What's happening here is that
discrepancy.
>> Well, this is why if you've listened
long enough or listened to when we
answer live callers, uh we almost always
rec- at least I'd say
once a batch, um to somebody
>> 25% of the time.
>> Yeah, we are recommending that somebody
uh at least once a year you are running
a symmetry or a performance type of a
program within the rotation of whatever
your goal is. So, I don't care if you're
a powerlifter, I don't care if you're a
bodybuilder, if you're an athlete, if
you're just looking for aesthetics,
longevity, the whole rate, doesn't
matter
that everybody should be running at
least one of those programs per year
just to keep that in balance.
>> Totally.
>> Because it's it's that important to real
life. And if you go so hard in one
direction, performance-wise as far as
strength, just getting really strong, um
or you just want to look really good,
you neglect this stuff. And then it then
again, I'm a perfect example of then you
are at even a greater risk. Then it
doesn't take much and and you get hurt
doing something so simple that you take
for granted that's just like, "Oh man,
I've done this going behind a boat and
wakeboard thousands of times." And to
get hurt at such a simple thing. I
wasn't doing anything crazy.
>> to add to that, Adam, you even start to
get
and I'm sure people listening can
identify with this.
If you're gym strong, but you don't but
you lack in those areas, you have a
false sense of confidence.
>> No, that's exactly what it is. It's a
huge false sense of confidence. I'm
like, cuz from an endurance perspective
and it just an overall strength, cuz
there's obviously there's a strength
component to there, too. Just if
anyone's ever just held onto a rope
behind the boat, that takes good
isometric strength to to do that. And
and your legs are in a slight bend, so
it takes some quad strength to do that.
So, that I'm I'm good there, you know?
And so, I I look at my peers, my buddies
who haven't been doing that much, I'm
like, "Oh, I can do this. And I've done
it like I said a thousand times. So, in
my head, I have this false confidence
of, oh, I'm strong, more strong than the
group that's with me, done this a bunch
of times, so I'm overly confident. And
then that's all it What it took was just
an explosive movement that my body
wasn't able to decelerate fast enough
and controlled, and then pop, there goes
my pec minor.
>> Well, yeah, and I guess even another
angle to this, and I um will just bring
this up. A lot of times I'm trying to
sell this, you know, to
uh regular gym goers who just love
powerlifting or they love bodybuilding,
but uh to to really focus on multiple
planes and to find these unique
exercises that will actually enhance
your stability within those bilateral
lifts. It's it's unbelievable what kind
of performance output and and how much
more force you can produce when your
body is super stable. And you're only
going to provide that if you give it the
right stimulus uh where it's overcoming
rotational forces, it's overcoming
lateral forces. That becomes obsolete.
So, now you can just anchor your body
and really express that ultimate amount
of force. And this is something I
learned, you know, late in the game that
that really translated to like these
enormous like PR bumps.
>> Oh, no, we have a friend. I won't say
too much I won't say his name, but we
have a friend who's one of the world's
best lifetime natural deadlifters.
And had suffered from repeated back
injuries, which not uncommon when you're
pulling, you know, 600 700 lb
off the ground. And he had to do some
correctional exercise uh to solve some
of the issues.
And one of the movements that he did,
one of the staple movements was
tube walking.
>> Yeah.
>> You'll see powerlifters tube walk all
the time. Why are they tube walking?
It's a it's a light resistance band
>> Seems silly. Yeah.
>> Because they lack lateral stability.
>> Yeah.
>> The reason why they're hurting
themselves has to do with lateral
stability. Now, you could solve that or
never have that happen, I should say, by
training that way right off the gate.
>> it in.
>> Meaning, let me let me I'll put it
differently. The number one thing that
gets in the way of a fitness fanatic's
fitness goals, so somebody who's
consistent,
somebody who never misses the gym,
what's the number one thing that gets in
the way? Injury. Injury sucks. You hurt
yourself, ah, I can't work out. I can't
be consistent. I can't train.
>> setback.
>> That's right. Uh, and the injury happens
because there's a uh, a lack in uh,
stability. Uh, there's a lack in
performance uh, in a direction that you
just don't have, and so injury is there.
Um, and again, I want to be very clear,
training in the way that we're about to
talk about does not take away from
aesthetics. If we actually look at the
big picture, it contributes to
aesthetics. And now you've reduced
injury time, you've reduced uh, I can't
go to the gym, that time goes away.
Um, you're not it's not uh, play it's
not compromising your current training,
it's adding to enhancing
>> Enhancing it, yep.
>> your current training. So, even if your
goal is aesthetics, don't neglect this.
Now, if your goal is to, you know,
improve your athletic performance,
and your goal is to go out and be strong
out in the world just like you were in
the gym, you're definitely going
>> to live here.
>> 100% 100%. So, here's the first thing.
First things first,
do a full cycle of unilateral training.
Not I throw in a unilateral exercise at
the end of my leg workout or the end of
my back workout or I throw it in here
and there. No, no. Make it a focus. Make
it a focus for like 8 weeks. For 8
weeks, this is how I'm training. And if
most people if if people did this every
single year, like you said, Adam,
regardless of the goal, if you did
unilateral training for 6 to 8 weeks
every single year, you would see a
dramatic decrease in injury and an
improvement in performance in the gym.
>> Very very few people, including myself,
until uh, until we wrote that because in
the past, that's what it looked like was
it would intermittently make it into my
routine.
>> An exercise
>> It wasn't until we had we had programmed
symmetry before we before I actually
spent that kind of time and the benefits
of dedicating a full phase or two to
nothing but unilateral.
>> Yeah, you really focus on it.
>> Oh, it's massive and I mean we see the
result I mean we see the results on
these clients that do these DEXA scans
before they go into it. It's incredible
what what we've seen.
>> They build more muscle because when you
expose
symmetrical imbalances in the body
and you train them, your body really
tries to balance them out
faster, definitely faster than had you
not exposed those and when your body is
trying to
patch up or or strengthen
an imbalance, you build muscle. So, what
we see on the DEXA scans are
people are writing in
fitness fanatics, so they already have
good muscle and strength. So, these
aren't beginners, okay? These are people
who've been working out for a while.
They do a whole cycle of MAPS Symmetry
where the vast majority of the program
is pure unilateral. And what's cool
about DEXA scans is it'll show you
lean body mass in your right arm and in
your left arm, in your right leg and in
your left leg. And they're gaining 3-4
lb of muscle, which is a lot of muscle
to gain in 2 months for somebody who's
experienced, but where they're gaining
it is in the area that they that needed
it. So, they gained a pound and a half
in the right arm and you know, a pound
and a half in the left arm left leg or
whatever. So, you do you build muscle as
a result. Next is to train in different
planes of motion. Are you strengthening
your body laterally? Are you
strengthening your body with rotation?
If not, make sure you put that in your
regular programming
because if you don't, then those can
become big problems. Person this again,
personal, uh, story. Um,
I started going back to jiu-jitsu
relatively recently. I hadn't done it
for almost 20 years.
And my left hip
was just it just kept hurting. It just
it would just hurt and I'd stretch it
and it would hurt and, you know, I'm a
guy that squats and deadlifts and I do
Romanians. I do all all that stuff.
But I knew it was lateral stability. I
knew it was because every time I would
go try a little lateral stability
exercise, I could see a difference
between my right and left. And I could
just see overall, I'm not good
laterally, period. All I did All I did
was on a regular basis now, I do lateral
sled drags. Nothing crazy, nothing
heavy. I'm just walking across the turf
sideways, dragging a sled back and
forth. By week three, the hip pain is
almost completely gone.
>> Mhm.
>> It's wild. It was just one thing almost
completely took away the pain.
>> to familiarize the body to these
movement patterns and, you know,
the body when it's when it's unfamiliar
with certain positions and then, you
know, where these forces are coming
from, how to react appropriately, it's
going to overreact. And a lot of times,
you know, that's where you're going to
get like a lot of the cramps and the
knots and, you know, your body's just
trying to prevent you from exceeding
that limit and, you know, injuring
yourself. And so, to to gradually,
progressively introduce these movements
and and familiarize the body to it, uh,
you're going to be stronger in those
movements. Then you can start loading
those movements and then, you know,
watch what happens to your overall
muscular development.
>> Well, this is this is especially
you know, exacerbated with somebody like
you who can deadlift 5 600 lbs, you
know, because when you think about that
that lateral strength in in, you know,
relative to what a deadlift looks like
is that lateral strength is keeping that
weight from shifting left. Those
muscles, right, are responsible for for
keeping
>> good enough to do that.
>> Yeah, right? [laughter] And so, when
you're only doing 100 lbs or 200 lbs
deadlifting, doesn't take that much
strength to help stabilize that if you
especially if you have really beautiful
technique and form, you start getting 4
or 500 and just the slightest bit of
shift left or right wakes those those
muscles up that are dormant and that
don't get a lot of attention because
you're not strength training them. And
then that's where all this this this
pain comes from. And then and that
that's just an example with the hips and
deadlifting and every every joint has
got these supporting muscles all the way
around them and we tend not to move
laterally or rotationally. Um and so
it's important that you include that. If
you do that, a lot of the chronic pain
that most of your middle-aged people are
feeling is just a lot is weakness.
That's right. I did a video just
recently about that with uh low back
pain. And of course it gets you know,
Instagram criticism around it like that
I'm like I'm diagnosing the internet.
It's like, "No, I'm not diagnosing the
internet. Just in my experience
of of working with you know, hundreds of
people that have had chronic low back
pain that wasn't suffering from an acute
injury, almost always was related to
weakness.
Weakness and instability somewhere else.
And more often than not in the hips.
Hips and glutes were weak. They were
weak and unstable and addressing that
stuff, lateral rotational movement
supported that and voila, all of a
sudden low back pain gone, hip pain
gone. Uh they were weak and that's a lot
of times especially when it's somebody
who actually does lift weights uh on a
regular or semi-regular basis and
they're dealing with this chronic pain,
a lot of times that chronic pain is
pointing to weakness and instability
somewhere. And normally weakness and
instability has a lot to do with the
lack of rotation, lack of lateral type
movements.
>> Next is to practice moving quickly. Uh
so you want to incorporate
some kind of training in your regimen
where you practice moving quickly. Now,
uh this is there's a huge uh
there's a big difference between
individuals and what is considered
appropriate from person to person, okay?
If you're not doing this now,
and you want to start incorporating some
of this, let's say for your lower body,
a very simple way to do this would be to
jump in place, to try to [snorts] jump
as high as you can in place, okay? That
would be like one way to do it. More
advanced would be to try to jump up on
top of a box or jump down from a high
box and catch yourself, right? Or jump
with some kind of a twist, right? But
essentially the the goal here is to
practice moving quickly. Now, here's
what happens when you don't.
The truth is if you stop practicing
moving quickly, you lose the ability to
do so.
You could be a fit, muscular, strong
person and not be able to jump very
well. Or you be a fit, muscular, strong
person, jump down from something and
injure yourself because you just don't
have the ability to do so. Your body
literally prunes away what you don't
train. I used to I used to think that
explosive training or speed training was
only for athletes.
And then I quickly learned as a trainer
and also through talking to some really,
really good trainers like Joe DeFranco,
he's like, "No, no, you stop practicing
that, it goes away. Next thing you know,
you got to jump off a curb for whatever
reason and you hurt yourself." And I'm
like, "Oh my gosh, you're 100% right."
>> These things present themselves all the
time in real life, you know? You'll
you'll hit a slick surface, but now you
have to like quickly be able to react
and you know, gather yourself and and
stabilize. And and a lot of it, too, is
is not just the ability to generate that
acceleration, but to be able to
decelerate.
And I think that's such a skill that
everybody needs and and could, you know,
utilize.
>> I always just This just happened to me
yesterday. I was in my flip-flops in my
backyard and I have an I have an ice
machine in the backyard that it dumps uh
water with that that melts and it got I
get on the tile and it's on my way to my
my grill and I can't tell you how many
times this happened to me. Now it's like
I know it's there and I still this still
happens to me where it just it slips my
mind that it's there.
And and just have to to catch myself.
>> Yeah.
>> And it it
and it just like crossed my mind it's
like, "Man,
what age am I going to be when that is
like a fall
>> your whole back, dude.
>> Yes, like right that's a throw and break
your back thing like that just such a
reminder of stay staying on that stuff
because that's how it happens right
there.
>> You know the old saying, "Use it or lose
it." That's where it comes from. By the
way, you know, look, we've I don't know
if you guys I've seen this before. I'm
sure you guys have, too.
Where you'll see somebody who's in
advanced age
start to trip
and it's a small trip and it and it
turns into a fall.
>> Yeah. It's like trip they can't catch
themselves and boom.
>> get it back.
>> looks like it's in slow motion. Have you
seen that before where you see someone
go down and it's like it looks like it's
in slow motion.
>> their bodies uh they stopped moving uh
quickly. But here's here's the mistakes
people make with this, by the way. When
people try to practice moving quickly in
the gym
often times they turn it into a way to
get tired. Okay? They turn it into a
fatigue
>> No, stamina building.
>> goal. It's a stamina goal. That's not
what we're talking about. So, I'm not
talking about jumping in place until
you're tired, right? The idea is to
practice being able to jump quickly.
Uh to practice being able to lift
something quickly or throw something
quickly.
>> Land really softly.
>> And you have and you and you and you
don't let fatigue come into play. If you
allow fatigue to start to set in
you're no longer training this uh
strength speed that we're talking about
with this power. You're now just
training stamina. So, the set actually
feels relatively easy. The only thing
that should feel hard is actually
practicing the movement and trying to
move quickly. Everything else is like,
"This feels easy. I don't even feel like
I'm working out." That's the idea behind
it. And here's the last one.
Uh never stop playing.
Never stop One of the easiest ways to
maintain
a level of functional strength in the
real world while you're working out at
the gym is to occasionally, but
regularly, play. Play basketball. Play,
you know, run, hike, uh swim, play
baseball. Uh because if you do that
throughout your entire life, uh sports
are phenomenal. They're great ways to
maintain that kind of uh you know,
functional strength that we're talking
about. Where we tend to run into
problems is we play games and sports
when we're kids. We stop sometime in our
20s. We become gym rats. But then by the
time we're 40,
we're like, "Okay, cool. I think I'm
going to go play some pick up whatever."
And your body doesn't move like that
anymore. So, just continue to play. Go
outside, play, take it easy, but do that
consistently. It's a great way to
maintain uh what we're talking about.
>> this is my other biggest regret because
that when you if you just continued
playing,
uh
>> You'd be fine.
>> It it it it covers so much of this.
There's so much unilateral, rotational,
lateral stuff going on in all play, all
sports. Like, every sport requires some
>> there.
>> Yeah, some so sort of exposure to all
those movements. And you may you may not
be progressing it and strengthening it
real high levels, but it's enough to
maintain it to where you're probably
going to be pretty good. It's exactly
what you said. Where we go wrong is we
break from it for a really long time,
and then we try and come back, and you
assume that, "Oh, it's cuz this sport I
played my whole life." And you aren't
you aren't properly trained for it.
>> Now, look, if you're listening to this
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What does that look like? What do the
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