The Value of Three-Dimensional Movement

I'm a big believer in everything has its place. And everybody's on a different part of their journey. So I always tell young guys, look, I know it's like in vogue to use machines and barbell stuff's out of vogue. But I would plead with you to start with the barbells, dumbbells, start with three-dimensional based movement before you move the machines and just build just a raw, massive piece of flesh. Then go to the machines after that, or then use machines for things you simply can't get out of freeway. So like a leg curl. Like not a lot of people are going to rep out glute ham raise, and they're not going to rep out Nordic. So it's like, okay, seated leg curl, lying leg curl, standing leg curl, kneeling leg curl. Those are all good because they're easier to scale that. So there's some things that are just going to be way better with a machine because you can really train them effectively with your body But when you looking at bodybuilding it an aesthetic sport So it more it just as much art as it is science So if you were a sculptor and you got hired, you were hired to build something out of a piece of granite. First thing you get is a big piece of granite. Well, where do you get that? We get it from a granite quarry. What do they do? They use dynamite and bulldozers and shit to blast out a big piece of rock. Use the big shit for a few years to just get a big, raw, nasty, like 70s power builder body, then start chipping away and you get your chisels out and start chipping it away with the machine stuff. And the other thing with the machines, if you have injuries, machines are a good choice because you can stabilize, especially if it's a stability or a joint issue. You can almost always set up a machine to work around that. But the problem with that is people will just constantly try to work around their issues. They won't try to fix their issues. And then all of a sudden they get on that machine last week. It was fine. Now they hurt in any position that machine. So they try to find a different machine and they keep working around things until they run out of options and then they can't lift at all. And I see this all the time. I was talking to one of my coaches this morning with a client that just came on for customized training. He's the same thing. He just did a lot of bro bro stuff. And now his shoulders all jacked up, his knees all jacked up and he's run out of options he goes i can't do anything with his shoulder this knee like okay you're gonna have to fix it now or you're gonna fix it later it's a lot easier to fix it like preemptively and not get to that point where you've now run out of a lot of options with rehab stuff like that right where you do have to fix something and like whether it is like you know your hip shoulder whatever back i guess like a lot a lot of people especially who are maybe kind of more average trainees they without seeing a physio they might just think i should just uh you know just take time off the gym wait for it to heal and sometimes then when they're doing rehab a lot of people just poorly rehab injuries because they just don't implement their rehab work either consistently or they don't do it like you know properly so i guess like if you have a client who's working with you and they kind of you know they have something happen in their lower back for example right very very common thing to happen they're doing it that left and all of a sudden they just feel something go and you need to kind of factor in some type of rehab process maybe this is going to linger around for like last two weeks so just a kind of like leaving the area to just chill out hasn't really kind of helped how are you kind of factoring in some type of work into the program to kind of ensure that they are doing it And, you know, make sure it's not boring.