Transition to Movement and Mobility

moving sort of like into into some of the into some of the training stuff and we spoke about jumping on this and talking a little bit about you know you've been known for the least most stuff and improving something you know stress and mental states with regards to training and a lot of fat loss stuff with that but for people that might not know if they're not in the program design course on the back end and see all the good stuff you've done some of the most impressive results you've come out um at the moment is improving people's mobility resting posture getting people out of pain you know and before we go into some of the specifics with that like for people i always say that someone was telling me this yesterday there is when you get to around about your early 30s there's a point where you know just bodybuilding becomes sort of like uh you know you start going into other realms that people start becoming osteos or they start doing bjj and you know they always have an injury story or two that's sent them down this path like what is it for you that got you more into looking at like movement because you've always known as a nutrition guy like how have you become like you know there how's your journey to learning this you know it's it's funny it's funny that i became the nutrition guy uh because people don't realize i was a competitive national level competitive power lifter i was i competed in strong man i competed in bodybuilding and men's bikini and physique like i've i've done a lot i've competed in martial arts stuff like i've done all of this high performance sports stuff and everyone always comes to me to make them lose weight it's like fuck man i could make you an absolute fucking weapon but it's been in the last couple years we've actually got people coming in it's like i want to be a fucking assassin cool i got you bro like there's we've got so much other things right but um with the movement of mobility stuff it kind of came along um when i left polican group and i was like man we're teaching all these people how to train professional athletes and none of them are training professional athletes. And if there's a really hardcore, um, emphasis on maximal strength and man, that's just like maximal strength is important, but it's important as a foundation for other sports development, sports, um, quality, uh, what am I looking for? The development of other sports qualities, like speed and power and, and change of direction and agility and things like that. and I went, man, you know, I'm seeing a lot of the people that I'm dealing with have really horrible movement issues. Like they can't, I'm done level one and level two animal flow. I try to teach a client how to do an animal flow position. They can't even get set up for it, man. This is really fucking bad. You know, like squatting, deadlifting, benching, all that stuff's cool, but fuck man, someone can't even get on and off the ground without having like 800 different points of contact trying to get up. There's something wrong with that. Like we need to start thinking about where we need to put what we need to put first, the horse or the cart. And I just got to the point where I realized strength is cool, but mobility and flexibility and the ability to control yourself in positions is probably the most important thing you can do from a locomotion standpoint. And because strength is stupidly easy. It's stupidly easy to get real fucking strong. You know, when I was a kid and I started trading, I started training when I was like eight years old. That was back in 19. God, that was like a night. What is that? Eight, 1986. That's when I started like actual lifting and like lifting hard out for, for, you know, Texas football. And, uh, it was super easy bench, squat, deadlift, go home, eat a lot, come back, add more weight to the bar, bench, squat, deadlift, like getting really fucking strong is not rocket science, but getting really strong without creating a lot of fucked up shit in your body. That's the, that's the true art of how do I get real fucking strong, but not create an impingement in my shoulder FAI in my hip lower back compression and pain And I think we lost sight of that because a lot of these different a lot of these people who should be talking and exchanging information on methods, they should be agreeing with each other that everyone's right in certain situations and everybody's wrong in certain situations. They've all decided, no, we're just going to tell each other to fuck off and go our separate ways. So you got these, this side of all these powerlifters going, nah, just use less weight and squat with less weight. Find the weight you can squat at that you don't have any pain. Just keep squatting. I'm like, cool. Then you got these guys doing, do all these sissy ass fucking rehab exercises, do a bunch of fucking open cans and fucking clam shells and just do that shit for fucking four years and never feel better. Like somewhere between both of those sides is the truth. So that's where I've kind of headed off about six years ago i went on this journey to find out what's the truth between both of these sides yeah i i had this i was speaking to a topic recently this thing about like warm-ups like people end up getting into these 40 minute warm-ups and you know hardly have any time for their training and you know it's you never ever get any better they never get any closer to you um you know do you feel like when it comes to you obviously going into the strength stuff you you notice a lot of guys were tight, were having a lot of pain.