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Now I'm not just talking about passive range of motion.

But do you have strength with that new range of motion.

You could sit in weird positions, but you put load on your back and you get hurt.

So you want functional flexibility, the kind that prevents injury, lift weights with the full range of motion.

I also don't think that it's still common knowledge.

I think it's still I still think most people think that lifting heavy weights is what makes you tight and not flexible.

So this and to be honest, this is not something that I I fully understood even as a young trainer when I first started training because you feel soreness and tightness in the muscle.

And if you ever lifted chest heavy or legs heavy the next day you try to move, you do.

Well, lifting weights is not the best thing for flexibility.

Because you can make yourself tighter if you lift wrong.

Like, if you always train in the same planes of movement.

You can get really strong in particular exercises.

But then because you're weak outside of that, let's say laterally or rotationally, then your body tightens you up because you have all the strength going in 1 direction.

It'll tighten you up so that it doesn't allow you to move outside of that because All that power can then hurt you.

So it can't make you tired if you do it wrong.

The key here is to train with a variety of movements, train in all different planes of movement.

And to train with the full range of motion.

Now what happens is you get strong with that new range of motion.

Otherwise, it's like that example I gave, like, I have a I have a 7 month old daughter she's flexible as hell.

I mean, she could put her toes in her mouth and I could bend her all over the place, but she's unstable.

And trainers who've worked with lots of people have encountered this occasionally where you have that hyper flexible, weak client, and those people hurt themselves.

What that does, that increases range of motion, but it doesn't give you functional flexibility.

In the real world, it's all about functional flexibility.

this was an evolution for all of us and and definitely it was for me in terms of, like, stretching my clients out and trying to get them to achieve, like, certain new ranges of motion.

And so a lot of times would intervene and would help kind of be that sort of external force to help kinda pull their arm back, like, and get it to go a little bit further back passively.

But they could never hold and sustain it or try to do that on their own.

And then, you know, once I figured out that, like, adding muscle tension.

So if I'm doing this now and I'm squeezing my muscles and pulling and trying actively to get in that position.

You can go further and also you have access to be able to actually lift weights or or do something functionally in that range of motion.

Well, do you think what also contributes to the stigma around lifting weights making you tighter and less of a range motion has to do too with after you train a muscle, especially in an exercise you haven't done a long time, the soreness is is typically in the origin or insertion of the muscles where you feel most and so you tend to like, when you're sore,

You don't wanna move to range of motion because it's like, you know, you just you just trained it hard.

And so because your sore and the soreness is normally at the end ranges of motion, that it feels like, oh, that's shortening my range of motion up, but it's just because you're

less That's what you're signaling to your body.

gonna use an analogy to see if this works out.

Like, imagine a a super powerful train on rails.

The the more powerful and fast that train goes, the the the the less sharp turns can be because any sharper and it can go right off the rails because requires tremendous amount of of stability to support that speed.

So you can't take super sharp turns because of that momentum.

So if you train with short ranges of motion, like bodybuilders do.

You don't train all the different planes of motion.

To limit where you can access that power because you're so strong pressing forward, but you've got no strength with stabilizing your let's say, internal external rotation.

Well, now, yeah, you do get you you can find yourself getting a little tighter.

But if you train right, and do it properly and train all those planes of movement and train them full range of motion.

What happens is you you develop strength and stability and all of these.

Like, you can be hyper flexible, but if you don't have strength, you're screwed.

You're gonna get hurt because injury happens, not because I mean, yes, freak things can happen, but typically, injuries happen because you don't have the strength to support yourself in a range of motion that just happened.

Like, you you step off a curb or you reach to grab something

maybe you move faster than your stability allowed you to stabilize or you lifted something in a position where you didn't have the strength of stability to support.

I mean, the analogy you're giving with the train is the the example that we probably saw a lot as as trainers, which was the strength training athlete or the bodybuilder guy who, you know, decided to go throw a baseball or or throw a frisbee, you know, for the first time in years.

And, you know, tore felt like they ripped their shoulder off.

It it was it was because they're so strong in a in a specific plan of motion that

You know, you you throw it, and then you're you should be able to move in that range of motion.

But because you're so strong in 1 and weak in out side of that, it was real easy to injure yourself.

And now this is why for the person now somebody listening is like, I don't care.

But now in the real world, you're actually less capable.

Your body has protection mechanisms, it has limiters, governors.

And what it'll do is it'll actually limit your potential for strength and muscle, or it'll try to.

So if you're so if your body starts to develop too much instability, your bench press won't go up, your deadlift won't go up, your squat won't go up, your overhead press won't go up.

You won't build as much muscle as you can.

So mobility work and training in different ranges of motion.

This is why a program like maps performance.

This is an athletic functional minded strength training program.

Do you know how many bodybuilders would build more muscle if they followed a 3 month training program like that every 2 years?

Once every 2 years, 2 or 3 months of that style of training.

So it's totally different from bodybuilding.

You're not doing your normal bodybuilding training.

Then you go back to your traditional training.

And now what what's happened is you've taken those governors that were stuck at 8, and you've allowed them now to move up to 9 or 10.

So regardless of what your goal is, this is something that's very important.

But I do like to touch on this flexibility component because the the myth there's a myth out there that strength training is not only not the best way to get you know, real flexibility, it actually does the opposite.

If you do it right, you become flexible in real ways.

What what percentage of genetics play in in flexibility, would you say?

I I it's funny because I know that, like, you you find, like, these, like, yogis or or, you know, guys and girls that love, like, doing classes like that.

And many times it's it's less about that they got so good at doing that.

They were already really good and it had, like, extremely large ranges of motion in most of their joints.

Is it what percentage would you say is genetics of people that have this

Like any physical pursuit and it plays a role.

So you would you then would you categorize it just like string genetics play role and building strength or muscle.

So so wherever you're at, you can make tremendous progress.

But can everybody become you know, the guy, I went to the circus O'Leigh performance wise, and there was this dude there that folded themselves himself -- He's still -- -- pretzel.

Girl, Unthought, it was it was actually disturbing.

Like, he would literally fold himself in half like a like like, he was, like, pressed in half like a piece of paper.

crazy is, like, yeah, he starts out being super flexible, then he actually trains it even further.

To the point where, like, yeah, he can actually have his legs completely behind and in his head through.

So, like, that's somebody in a propensity towards.

Already, like, he did he was more flexible than somebody who probably has been working on flexibility for 10 years straight.

And then he also took it to the, you know, level like a professional

Well, actually, in fact, I remember I was because this is remember Jessica knows people that work for circular solace.

So we got to, like, meet some of the people, whatever, and we're kind of backstage.

And because he trains with such an extreme level of flexibility, he had the strangest looking posture and movement.

Like, I like watch, you know, somebody who understands movement, biomechanics.

If I didn't know that that's what he did and I just saw him walk around, I would think something is some was y'all, like, it was just weird.

He just didn't move like a normal person and his spine wasn't you know, you know, you know, you got that normal kind of slight s curve.

It was almost like his back was totally straight, almost.

Like, you could tell something and it's because he did so much, like, like, 1 of, like, 1 of his key acts was he would, like, bend himself backwards and then twist his spine and walk his feet around while he was doing it.

There was also this woman and another 1 I went to where they heard ponytail.

And she would spin and do crazy acrobatics.

And you and then I wasn't I really paid attention.

And you could tell she'd ripped out so much hair that, like, her hair started right here.

Like like, there's gotta be some long term

And and are those, like, clamps that they have, you know, or they just have piercings that they have.

Some people do, like, crazy stuff with their skin.

I do I do like to see the extremes though.

Like, I appreciate it, you know, people that put that kind of, like, discipline into

Well, the the thing about extremes, I think that messes people up is that they look at extreme physical pursuits or athletes and then they attribute a style of training to creating that in reality.

It's like they're genetically gifted for that.

Then they train at such a ridiculous obsessed already being gifted yet.

They've gone well beyond, like, this is good for me.

And so you can't really judge you know Yeah.

I think judging strength training by looking at a pro body builder.

It is strength training, but there's extreme It's well beyond what the average person would even want.

I wanna do bring something that's, like, off subjects.

So there's a little bit of a left turn here, but I keep forgetting to talk with us.

And I figure since I've been kind of a grumpy bear lately, that I I should say something.

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