Joint Health and Range of Motion

I think for what, what, what body builders need to get out of the length and stuff is like 10 years ago when I started muscle nerds, we came out in our program design course and we said, look, most of your clients, when they first come to you, whether they're gen pop and sedentary or whether they're an elite level bodybuilder, most everybody lift in mid range, mostly in some shortened range position, and they don't really go to a full lengthened position. So start people's periodization with mostly exercises that reinforce the length and position. Now there was no research on that being superb for muscle growth. I was just telling people to do that because we need to take care of our joints. Everybody goes to the gym and they work their muscles, but they don't think about their joints until they can't get into a position. And for a bodybuilder, that's important because the more dysfunctional a joint gets, the more you're going to have to work around that. So it's like, you're like, well, I can't overhead press anymore. So then I don't know, maybe I'm going to use a Vulcan press. Oh, well now just even that machine hurts. So now I have to make a compensation pretty soon. You can't get your arm over your head. It's like, well, if you can't get your arm over your head without impingement, how the fuck are you going to do a double biceps? I feel like what we learned from people like knees over toes guy is to do the exercise that hurts. Yeah. Just, you know, less, less weight. The thing is, like, try to go full range, not all the time, but try to try to reestablish that range of motion. Because the more muscle you put on, the stronger you get. If you don't work that out, it just typically usually gets worse. And it's harder to fix it when you have gobs of muscle than if you just did it right the first time. so you know there's like a lot of guys that come to me where they have pathological shoulder issues and i have to have this conversation of look i'm going to tell you to do something you're not going to want to do you actually need to atrophy a little bit like i've worked hard for this muscle like yeah but now it's fucked your shoulder and you are really close to having something happen your shoulder where you're going to have to have to have surgery so if you don't lose a little bit muscle right now and we do some things to reorganize a tissue like biological tissue change we need to reorganize this so that you can get now keep progressing if you keep doing what you're doing and you blow your shoulder out you're gonna you gonna be forced to stop training anyways yeah and you gonna atrophy to a larger degree so let take two steps back to move five steps forward and they hate it but you know sometimes that if they not taking care of business that's what we have to do yeah it sounds like retraining someone to do the squat form perfectly or more correctly