Arete Podcast #14: Get Fit & Flexible! Fascia Training with Self Health Fitness

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[00:00:36] Hello everyone, welcome to the RIT podcast. I am joined this time by my friend and life changer. I don't think that's an overstatement

[00:00:46] Kyler

[00:00:48] Of self-help fitness Kyler, how you doing tonight? Good man. How are you?

[00:00:52] I'm hanging in there. Fun fact, I was actually doing some of the wall poses before we got started here.

[00:01:00] Perfect

[00:01:02] Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. That was a lot more painful than I thought it was gonna be

[00:01:08] We'll talk about that for sure

[00:01:11] I mean I was shocked like literally I didn't think like I thought it was gonna feel it but I didn't know I was gonna feel that much which

[00:01:20] Not that I doubted you but you were right when you don't

[00:01:26] Change your body positions very often for reasons that you'll get into

[00:01:31] Your body gets pretty set in its ways

[00:01:33] Yeah, then a lot of what a you know personal training is gonna is it's already changing in some ways or how the gym scene goes

[00:01:41] But what I talk to clients about is you know, I'm trying my job is part mostly to expose you

[00:01:47] I mean obviously you have goals

[00:01:49] You know and each person you know whether it's weight loss or whatever

[00:01:54] But the main thing that I have to do is expose you, you know so that you can see what you can't do and why you can't get to your goals

[00:02:01] Especially like we talked about before with obesity not going down and interestingly pain is going up

[00:02:07] And there's almost as many people in pain as there are overweight or oral beasts and pain is a big issue here

[00:02:13] You know like I've talked about as far as you know people don't realize when they're in pain you might think about you know if you've been through it maybe but

[00:02:21] You know it keeps you from wanting to work out. That's one thing that people that are in pain though, you know if your knee hurts

[00:02:27] It's your less likely to go do stuff

[00:02:29] But you know I also tell people even if you're not in pain part of what the flexibility work does is it exposes you to how tight you are

[00:02:37] And you don't realize how much clogged up kinetic energy you have

[00:02:41] And so for example let's say you have to walk a couple flights of stairs every day during work

[00:02:47] You don't realize how exhausting that is for your body, you know and all this is adding up throughout the day

[00:02:53] So you open up your body with flexibility, mechanical training

[00:02:56] And all of a sudden you're gliding up the steps in comparison which is on I've experienced

[00:03:01] And my clients have experienced and stuff

[00:03:03] And you know you get to this top of the stairs because even have a sudden athlete when I wasn't super flexible like if I walked a few couple flights of stairs

[00:03:10] I get to the top of my hamstrings would start to have a pump, you know so I can see where I'm wasting energy here in a sense

[00:03:17] Whereas now you know it's like I go upstairs and I don't even feel it. It's very weird

[00:03:22] It's much weird it's very weird because I didn't you know it's just to get up to the top and

[00:03:27] It's like yeah, that was nothing, you know and like I was carrying some stuff

[00:03:31] Earlier when I was getting this chair over here and organized and getting set up for you

[00:03:35] And with the mechanical training and stuff and the flexibility carrying stuff it's like my biceps aren't burning up

[00:03:41] You know so I'm not overusing all this energy and

[00:03:44] Overall I think people don't realize that it's not just pain, you know because like you know people in the beginning of the year everybody starts working out

[00:03:52] And before you know it you kind of quit because like I tell people now if you train for mechanics, you will get aesthetics

[00:04:00] But what people do is they go in and they train for aesthetics and you know they get a great workout maybe they feel sweaty and stuff

[00:04:07] But in three months if you're not sleeping better

[00:04:10] If it's not easier for you to cook and clean, make food, play with your kids, do outdoor stuff

[00:04:15] If it's that stuff is not easier then it's really not very valuable to you because you get to where you're tired like okay I did it for three months

[00:04:23] I got some results maybe I did and I'm not you know I'm kind of it's kind of plateauing and I'm kind of over it

[00:04:29] Because you're just focusing on aesthetics and I hear it all the time, you know hey I've been working my chest for two years

[00:04:35] My butt it's not growing what do you think it is? And I know it's mechanics because you have poor mechanics

[00:04:40] So when you're going to train these things, you're not getting blood water electricity or oxygen into them properly

[00:04:47] So your chest isn't growing, you know and you're trying all these different angles listening to all these bodybuilders and all this other stuff who are training for aesthetics

[00:04:55] You know and you're just hoping hoping you find the right angle the right program

[00:05:00] But mechanical training and doing flexibility work like the book you're doing it opens up the blood water electricity and oxygen to every tissue

[00:05:08] And it aligns the bones, it releases the knots and the tendon muscle ligament structure. So you know so now we're getting blood flow

[00:05:17] And now like I have buried brown muscles but that's because I have a lot of flexibility

[00:05:21] It's because I'm doing mechanical training so my muscles are nice and round like they should be and everything's balanced

[00:05:26] So you know that's kind of a gist of a little bit of what when we're talking about pain and what you're saying is

[00:05:34] Doing the wall stretches maybe you're not in a lot of pain, but you start doing them. Oh I was in a lot of pain

[00:05:41] I mean I don't want to make it sound like it was like unbearably painful but I talked about this last time we talked

[00:05:48] My hamstrings have been super tight for years but what I didn't realize until I became acquainted with your work is I always assumed it was just tight hamstrings

[00:05:57] It's tied to my lower back which is tied to my upper back which is tied to my neck and fun fact

[00:06:03] tight neck tight hamstrings tight lower back and it's all connected. So when I was doing those wall positions

[00:06:09] I felt it everywhere but in particular my lower back and my hamstrings because that's kind of where we're connected

[00:06:15] I'm going to let you dig real deep into this just real quick

[00:06:19] I want to let everyone know because we've got some people watching live if you have any questions for Kyler

[00:06:25] Go ahead and throw them in the chat. I'll let him know

[00:06:28] and same for because your live on TikTok as well correct so

[00:06:32] Yeah, if you take that question

[00:06:35] We love questions. We love conversation but I will kind of let you go and I know what everybody who is watching this live or later is probably thinking right now

[00:06:44] It's like okay, I get what he's saying but how do I fix it?

[00:06:48] Right absolutely so let me screen share

[00:06:52] to start with and we'll just go over because a lot of this is after everybody's understanding is

[00:06:58] how you your mind views your body does make a difference. So what we've done in the past is we've done

[00:07:05] what I would say is very compartmentalized training where we are you know training and thinking of just the hamstring

[00:07:13] Okay, and all this and just the biceps and all this stuff so you guys should be able to see my cursor. So just for example, we're not going to go through all of these

[00:07:22] but it's important that you understand how this is working because it is going to change how you

[00:07:27] deal with your workouts, how you think about it, how your body moves energy

[00:07:31] and ultimately get you out of pain which I believe you know as you get out of pain it will help us reduce obesity officially too

[00:07:37] and start working towards that because when you start feeling better beyond like I said, when you're training for mechanics and you're going to the gym

[00:07:44] and you're not just getting a pump and feeling good but you're leaving and you're going hey you know like I had a client that had started and after a month she's about 68

[00:07:55] so after a month of doing the flexibility work, doing mechanical training she says hey Kyler

[00:07:59] and again she's 68 retired, she says I just worked out in my yard for three hours with no pain

[00:08:05] and so for somebody that for that age and now everybody responds differently. That doesn't mean that you're going to have that response

[00:08:13] you know it just depends on how athletic you've been, how much nodding you have, how much work you put into it but that made a huge difference to her in her life

[00:08:22] because that's something that she can live through every day as opposed to okay my biceps got bigger I hope I think

[00:08:27] you know do they look bigger you know is my diet right like there's so much other stuff

[00:08:32] so when we're looking at these lines, we'll go through a couple that I think are important to understand

[00:08:38] so what you're seeing here is obviously the bone structure and what they're doing anatomy trained with Dr. Thomas Myers what he's done is showing you here through the blue and the white

[00:08:47] how this is all one kind of piece meaning so if we look at this far one on the left

[00:08:52] so let's say you're having pain like a lot of people have pain here in the rhomboid, you see where I'm pointing there

[00:09:00] so when people are having pain there you can see where it's going to start to crinkle and it can affect anywhere in this line

[00:09:08] and this line actually attaches to the front forehead above the eyebrows

[00:09:13] so imagine if you're and it sounds silly at first but once you realize so everything's always being used right

[00:09:19] so even if it's 0.001 percent you could say you're still affecting so let's say you're doing calf raises, it has a 0.00 I don't know we don't have the exact statistic on it

[00:09:30] but it's still affecting the skull in some way right so you're isolating the calf because it's pulling it's like a

[00:09:35] it's like they'll show you in the anatomy trains book it's like a spider web

[00:09:40] you know if you pull anywhere on the spider web it starts affecting the rest of the web and the closer you are to the pole

[00:09:44] the more dramatic the effects going to be so imagine if this if this back superficial backline is connected to the eyebrows and you're walking around angry all the time

[00:09:55] then you're always pulling on it, you know but more so when you look at it like if you have tight hamstrings like you were saying

[00:10:02] you know from sitting tight quads whatever you got an injury to the calf

[00:10:06] it's going to begin to affect all these areas and this is why we notice people so if let's say we go to the front superficial frontline here

[00:10:15] this is why like with clients and people if you pay attention to your injuries and stuff

[00:10:20] if somebody has an injured say left hip here right so it'll injure here and the body will compensate up here to the shoulder

[00:10:28] and this isn't all the lines just so everybody understands this is just the main ones so you can understand it because I don't think the average person needs to know everything that is to know about the facial lines

[00:10:39] because there are a lot of layers overlapping but you need to start getting an idea of it so that when you're working out when you're doing your quads, you're understanding I'm working my abs a little bit

[00:10:49] okay and if I'm having pain and then again that's what the books are for I got the first flexibility book and as we get the other one out the mechanical book

[00:10:55] it'll help you guys organize all this stuff but what we see in clients like take one of my clients that I work on so I work on him and then train him right so his left hip is bothering him real tight hip flexor

[00:11:09] right but then his right shoulders bothering him because it's crossing to compensate okay so to move forward real quick so this one here is interesting

[00:11:20] because everybody knows about the IT band most people have heard about their IT bands and it's also oops go back you can do that

[00:11:30] so this IT band here it's one of the tightest spots because of sitting and it's also the band that your body every movement you do your body tries to generate energy from this IT band

[00:11:43] it's very interesting but if you look at this you can see where it attaches at the foot it goes through the ribcage here and goes up into the neck

[00:11:53] so imagine you're sitting all day you're tightening this up so where is it going to cause pain as well

[00:11:58] it's going to tighten up the side of the neck as well

[00:12:02] so basically you've just explained my chronic headaches

[00:12:05] right so and this is where because headaches used to be take medication but more so they realize it's muscular

[00:12:11] but the muscle knotting is controlled by the fascia tissue we know now

[00:12:15] so the way I kind of explain it is your bone structure is controlled by your tendon muscle ligament structure right

[00:12:22] and how tight or loose it is but that's controlled by these fascial lines and where they decide to not

[00:12:28] because the fascia is trying to keep your bones from touching it's trying to optimize the performance of the shapes you're making each day

[00:12:35] so if you're sitting all day your body is trying to optimize that performance but it goes to sleep you know

[00:12:42] and it's like I've been sitting for 10 years straight and it's trying to optimize that

[00:12:46] so what it's doing within these layers is it may knot up your abs like a lot of people have knotted abs

[00:12:52] because you know how everybody has that lower belly fat they can't get off

[00:12:55] it's not just fat it's fascia that's been knotting up from people sitting in their belly

[00:13:00] okay and so this is what's causing some hip issues and it's erotating everything

[00:13:05] so you can just see how again it's all interconnected and it's going this is again so if you hit your head

[00:13:12] and you hurt your neck it may affect your knee

[00:13:16] you know or like for me when I fell one time real hard or bleeding

[00:13:20] I hit right here and it went down into my knee and went up into my shoulder

[00:13:26] you know and again this isn't all the layers because all these are overlapping as well

[00:13:30] so you can see how like this functional line of the back right here with the lat, glute hamstring interconnection

[00:13:36] it's overlapping with this line as well

[00:13:40] okay so this is your spiral line for example now these are two pieces

[00:13:44] so this one starts on this side of the neck and then it wraps around the body and attaches

[00:13:49] to the foot it is what helps you turn your body you know because these are mechanical lines

[00:13:55] meaning that when you turn your body right so say you're running and you know how your torso is designed to create torque

[00:14:00] I was just going to bring that up yeah, so the torso it's in the word is designed to create torque

[00:14:06] so this spiral line here is what's turning the torso but again the tighter it gets based on how tight this guy is

[00:14:14] this guy you see how they're all interconnected because your brain's very smart and it's trying to manage all these at the same time

[00:14:19] and those where they should be and again trying to keep the bones from touching

[00:14:23] but the big guy that's real hard to get to is here

[00:14:26] so you can see that these are all lines right in a sense they're kind of over the bone

[00:14:30] but this is your protector here of your spine up into your skull and your jaw

[00:14:36] and it's wrapped around that spine inside the rib cage

[00:14:40] I can't massage that you know what I'm saying so this is where flexibility training

[00:14:45] and moving all these lines to open this deep fascia so that we can move the spine back in place

[00:14:52] so open the rib cage back up and get everything so again it's trying to help people understand that in the past

[00:14:59] we thought very compartmentalized with everything so we would say you know here's my back

[00:15:05] here's my arm my bicep and for example here

[00:15:12] let me show you guys real quick where to go

[00:15:17] just remind anyone any questions you may have go ahead throw them in the chat don't you don't be shy

[00:15:23] no need to raise your hand

[00:15:25] alright where is the arm and if you have and if you have trouble raising your hand

[00:15:31] let Kyler know and he can tell you how you can loosen that shoulder up

[00:15:34] so look at your arm line for example so you can see they're showing different layers here

[00:15:38] but this is one interconnected piece

[00:15:41] okay so again what we want to is get people away from thinking I'm curling my bicep

[00:15:48] you're not just curling your bicep all of this is being worked at the same time

[00:15:55] okay so if your tricep is tight it's gonna because it's attached to your scapula

[00:16:00] it's going to pull on your scapula if your bicep tight it's going to pull on your scapula

[00:16:04] but it's going to pull on this whole network here

[00:16:08] so same thing with the peck line so you can see where this peck line here even is going down into the hand and in the forearm

[00:16:14] so if your forearms tight your pecs are gonna have some tightness probably too

[00:16:19] but everybody's about everyone you know everyone's body tightens up differently as well

[00:16:24] so that's part of what we don't really know

[00:16:28] because I don't have a machine that I can scan you and say here's where every little knot is

[00:16:33] and here's exactly what you should do we don't we haven't gotten that far hopefully maybe we do

[00:16:38] but the goal is this for you guys to change your mind and reorganize it

[00:16:42] and start thinking about how this is you know just one big piece

[00:16:51] so you know instead of thinking like if you're doing you know say crunches or abs

[00:16:55] or whatever just think about how this is all one piece so when I do my abs

[00:16:59] I understand like if I pull my legs up to do a hanging leg raise

[00:17:03] I understand all these different interconnections that I'm making and I'm paying attention to them

[00:17:08] so if I lift my legs up and my right leg doesn't go as far I'm thinking about that side

[00:17:13] and maybe there's some other work that needs to be done

[00:17:17] that's most of what we're trying to help people understand from a basic standpoint

[00:17:28] of what fashion tissue is and I lost the picture

[00:17:33] but I think you guys do you mean I guess Jake do you hit get the if you understand it maybe they understand

[00:17:41] what we're trying to say is like if here's what I was saying is like when you're doing abs

[00:17:44] you're working all this stuff so for example most people have really bad pinkie toes as you know

[00:17:50] people have funky pinky toes well and it turns out whoops

[00:17:54] the pinky toe is connected to that IT band heavily

[00:17:58] so what are the odds that people are sitting a lot their IT band is getting extraordinarily tight

[00:18:02] and then your pinky toe looks funky

[00:18:05] yeah and that's that's one of the cause I know in a lot of aspects of in different kinds of yoga

[00:18:11] there's a lot of emphasis on making sure you stretch the toes because they're often neglected

[00:18:15] yes and here's the thing the hand the hands and the feet right represent the strength of the rest of the line

[00:18:22] right so what I try to tell people because even though it's more complicated that I try to say look

[00:18:26] from your belly button and around your back that's one chunk of your leg given it's not

[00:18:31] but this is an easier way to think of it this is one chunk this is one chunk

[00:18:35] your pec and your upper back this is one chunk of arm

[00:18:38] and they are I was just saw that they

[00:18:41] this is on the local news they were talking about how hand grip right

[00:18:46] it gives us an idea of how susceptible you are to all timers and dementia

[00:18:51] and that's interesting because again if the hand is hyper connected to the skull

[00:18:56] and up into the tightness of this so they're they're we're getting there with the science

[00:19:02] because a lot of people don't understand that up until 1998-99

[00:19:06] they took all this fascia tissue and they just threw it out in anatomy

[00:19:10] in anatomy books there was nothing about fascia tissues so you can imagine all the stuff

[00:19:13] we learned about the human body up until 1998-99

[00:19:17] they're just throwing this tissue away they didn't think there was a point to it

[00:19:21] which that's sort of the next question I think that begs to be answered is

[00:19:26] for those who may not know can you just explain what you mean when you're talking about fascia tissue

[00:19:32] so let's see this one do it right

[00:19:35] so one way to explain it would be so you can see some images here

[00:19:40] you know when you eat steak and there's that film on it

[00:19:44] that's fascia that little thin film

[00:19:46] but what you have to understand about fascia is it is everywhere

[00:19:50] so it's like soup stock is a good way to explain it you know when you make soup

[00:19:54] right the soup stock is all around the beef the vegetables

[00:19:58] but then as you cook it it's inside the vegetables

[00:20:02] right so the fascia is around the organs it's through the organs it's around the muscles

[00:20:07] it's around every filament of muscle it's around I mean your body is mostly fascia tissue

[00:20:13] so you know and you can see some pictures here of how it's interconnecting

[00:20:19] and it looks web like we said

[00:20:24] you know and here's some examples of them showing kind of how it has big sheets

[00:20:29] and interconnects but it's in all these filaments all this white stuff is fascia

[00:20:33] that they're showing here

[00:20:36] so it's around the muscle belly so you have bigger pieces you have much smaller

[00:20:40] pieces it's in the organs you know here's a live image of it and how much of it

[00:20:45] it's very sticky but we don't want it to be sticky because when it's sticky

[00:20:49] that's a knot that's paying possibly that's an area you can't feel

[00:20:53] we want this stuff to be pliable you know we want it to be moving

[00:20:57] kinetic energy blood water allowing blood water like trusty and oxygen

[00:21:01] to move through because when you have a you know when you have a pinch nerve

[00:21:04] well what is it it's a bunch of fascia that's tightened up around that area

[00:21:07] and now the nerve is closed off you know when you have a knotted muscle

[00:21:12] same thing if there's a noteness muscle it's because the fascia within it

[00:21:15] has binded up because it's trying to protect the body in some fashion

[00:21:20] or it's you know reacting to a heavy stimulus of being hit or say

[00:21:25] so maybe this you know so here superficial fascia

[00:21:30] it's just lies beneath the dermis consists of loose connected tissue adipose

[00:21:35] yeah it's it's in everything so and it's locked around

[00:21:41] yeah but what is the function of it?

[00:21:44] well the function of it is to keep you to glued together because without

[00:21:48] your organs would just be fumbling around in your body your muscles wouldn't have

[00:21:53] so here's what we know about fascia as well as fascia has five to six times

[00:21:57] more neurons than muscle tissue and fascia is a third brain or I would just say

[00:22:04] it's an extension of the brain so you're a giant brain because it's coming right

[00:22:08] out of the brain and they're saying it's a third brain so it's a third hemisphere

[00:22:11] but it's not a hemisphere right and so its function is to control your

[00:22:15] mechanics it's been to control the nodding of the body like I said

[00:22:18] so it'll not up the tendon muscle ligament structure because again it's trying

[00:22:22] to protect the bones or maybe it incurs a heavy hit from being punched or

[00:22:26] something it's trying to keep your organs in place because they have a place

[00:22:31] they're supposed to be it's controlling blood water-electricity and oxygen

[00:22:35] to every tissue throughout the body because as it tightens up it's not only

[00:22:39] that you lose kinetic energy into that area which is electricity but as it binds

[00:22:44] up if it binds up a muscle like a trigger point now we're not getting blood

[00:22:48] water-electricity or oxygen into that muscle and then pain sometimes incurs

[00:22:53] or you know eventually the pain goes away why does pain go away if you have a

[00:22:57] knot because it's gotten so tight that the nerves are dead because it

[00:23:01] chokes it so hard so it's trying to it's organizing with your brain or again

[00:23:06] I would say an extension of your brain it's organizing you know the

[00:23:11] mechanics and again I think mechanics I say that because you think of like a

[00:23:15] car mechanic how he's keeping track of everything in your car what's running

[00:23:19] where things should be it's doing the same thing except you're just

[00:23:23] organic tissue and there's a lot to keep track of so every in another thing is

[00:23:29] this fascia so the brain the brain takes the picture of the fascia every 1.6

[00:23:34] seconds so whatever shape you're in it's always taking pictures and then it

[00:23:39] collects them at night and that's why it decides what to knot up and do so

[00:23:43] depending on what shapes you made during the day we're kind of stressed you

[00:23:46] put on the body exercise wise that's where it's controlling how it's knotting

[00:23:51] up and stuff so this is why you slowly get tighter over time right because

[00:23:55] let's say you're not working out you're sitting for 10 years and every night

[00:23:59] your body's collecting all these pictures of what shape you are and ultimately

[00:24:03] it's slowly knotting you up and slowly closing you in on your spine in a

[00:24:09] sense does that answer that or yeah yeah I want to believe so again if

[00:24:14] anybody has any questions feel free to ask but so might be a dumb

[00:24:19] question but does this fascia have any relation with muscle performance or

[00:24:26] if that pretty negligible oh really okay yeah so because again since

[00:24:31] it's controlling the knotting of the muscle right so if I want my muscle to be

[00:24:35] nice and healthy right I want because again take up the four structures

[00:24:39] that you need in every tissue every tissue needs blood water I'm going to say

[00:24:44] it probably 100 times electricity and oxygen so that it can move kinetic energy

[00:24:49] through it properly right so from a sports performance part if my quads are

[00:24:56] tightening up so the fascia is you know I've been sitting so the brains trying to

[00:25:00] again protect my body and it's like hey we need to shorten those muscles we need

[00:25:05] to tighten the quads because you know he's sitting all day and some of it

[00:25:10] just can't fight like it can't fight sitting it is what it is you know so

[00:25:15] it's tightening those muscles up and now let's say you've been sitting for five

[00:25:19] years and you get up and you've probably seen friends and family do it where they

[00:25:24] were athletes in high school and they've been sitting on the job for five years

[00:25:27] and then you're at a bar you know at a barbecue or something and they go to do

[00:25:31] something athletic and they fall on their face or they're like I just my legs

[00:25:34] aren't working the way they want it's because they've been knotting up through the

[00:25:38] fascial system mechanics do those lines that we were showing you know so

[00:25:43] fascia lines so these lines are knotting up and as they're knotting up from

[00:25:50] your sitting and stuff they're closing the muscle because you think of a

[00:25:53] muscle as like a hydraulic system that opens and closes in a sense so it's

[00:25:58] it does a lot of weird stuff because it closes it it creates trigger points

[00:26:02] it'll pull on it in all sorts of weird ways it's kind of like bridges you

[00:26:06] know I always tell people that your bone is like a bridge

[00:26:11] one second so like your bone is like a bridge right and so a bridge you

[00:26:17] think about cars only going over one aspect of it right but with this bone it

[00:26:23] needs to be able to have cars go on every angle meaning it needs to be

[00:26:26] able to put attention in every angle not just here but it needs to go here you

[00:26:31] know there's tension in every possible angle so the fascia is intertwined

[00:26:35] with all this it's like the cables of a bridge but if you had if you had a

[00:26:39] bridge that had cars driving in 360 degrees around it and it's trying to

[00:26:44] manage all these cables depending on what pressures being put on what

[00:26:48] what damage has been done where so that's where it controls the body

[00:26:53] mechanics and it's in that sense okay yeah that's that I'm

[00:26:59] again I'm a little bit I'm trying to ask questions that somebody who's

[00:27:02] never heard because I haven't benefit I raise your book and obviously we

[00:27:06] had a prior interview for those who don't know you can check that on the

[00:27:09] average intelligence podcast show but I guess the next thing I would like

[00:27:15] to kind of go over before we get into okay now we know what fascia is we

[00:27:20] know it's from for a lot of people we want to let people know how to fix

[00:27:24] it but before that what like kind of just take me through how you discover

[00:27:31] this what's the journey that you took because I know you were a body

[00:27:35] builder in the past I mean I think you still are but I mean you

[00:27:39] were obviously different kind of body builder yeah well mostly what

[00:27:44] happened is as I was arrogant because I wasn't athlete and I had never

[00:27:49] dealt with pain and I competed did a lot of other athletics and stuff

[00:27:55] but I guess an adjist I stop bodybuilding so at my heaviest is a body

[00:28:02] builder has 220 pounds and in good shape you know not overweight so I had

[00:28:09] a lot of muscle and then I just quit so imagine fascially speaking now I can

[00:28:15] talk on I can see it in retrospect but you know I came out of my mother's

[00:28:20] inauguration and I had a lot of my own bodybuilding and I was

[00:28:24] being trained to be an athlete I had taught my fascia to be hyperathletics

[00:28:30] and then I built a bunch of tissue on top of it which really my

[00:28:35] body you know was too much at the end of the day probably for sure so you

[00:28:38] know I'm walking around all big and everything and then I just stopped working

[00:28:42] out and so I'm sitting at work I'm not doing those patterns anymore and

[00:28:46] up heavily. So it got to the point that the pain was so bad, there was it was about

[00:28:56] the pain started and I remember going into bench press because I hadn't worked out in a while

[00:29:01] and I felt very uncomfortable and I never felt uncomfortable and I always laugh at myself

[00:29:06] because I tell people when I was younger people would ask me if I stretched and I would laugh

[00:29:12] and say I don't need to do that. That's a waste of my time, you know I don't do flexibility

[00:29:16] I don't need that but I did need it because my knees were killing me then

[00:29:20] but imagine I worked with an IFBB pro coach he knew my knee was killing me

[00:29:24] I worked I hired all sorts of high-end coaches not one of them ever told me I should do flexibility

[00:29:30] not one of them are explained fashion because we still didn't know that much back then in 2008

[00:29:35] 2010 that definitely anatomy trains wasn't out like it is now like it wasn't known

[00:29:41] but even then with all my pain like I remember because I was managing gyms so I had the

[00:29:47] I got access to things you know like I remember one time doing an assessment on a chiropractor

[00:29:53] telling them about my problem and for free the guys in the gym trying to work on me

[00:29:57] and these knots that I'm having and this is before the pain got bad you know so I was already

[00:30:01] having a couple issues and stuff but my knees were killing me my knees were all I got diagnosed

[00:30:06] with rheumatoid arthritis at 14 with my knees because they were just the size of balloons and

[00:30:11] I had to work through that um so you know I was arrogant and it basically crippled me because

[00:30:19] I took I took a period how do I only took probably let me thank here probably about a year

[00:30:25] and a half off and I just but I didn't do anything but work and sit all day you know at the gym

[00:30:30] sitting in front of the computer you know I'm training clients a little bit but I'm not really doing

[00:30:35] anything but a lot of it is because I had so much muscle tissue you know if I hadn't

[00:30:39] I had so much there wouldn't have been so much to knot up and again like when I quit bodybuilding

[00:30:45] I was bench pressing 405 for sets of 10 so you can imagine how strong that tissue was now I wasn't

[00:30:52] squatting as much because my knees hurt but with bodybuilding it was as long as my legs were getting

[00:30:57] bigger it didn't matter but bench I was very strong and other exercises and then I just stopped

[00:31:01] working out so now I see how I stopped doing those pattern movements and my fascia started

[00:31:07] nodding up into this new position but because I had so much tissue also it nodded up very heavily

[00:31:14] and so it started with a little bit of pain but I couldn't get it out in my shoulder

[00:31:19] and it just it just got it really got progressively worse very quickly within a year

[00:31:26] and then I couldn't train at all and so I spent like two or three years trying to train but couldn't

[00:31:33] not sure you know what's going on here um and doing what everybody's saying to do I'm foam rolling

[00:31:39] I'm doing the foam rolling with the ball I'm going to chiropractor's

[00:31:43] you know and I still hadn't done much stretching then I didn't appreciate flexibility work that was

[00:31:48] boring to me but I would do some and I would see some extent to it but I still hadn't

[00:31:54] wrapped my head around because I hadn't seen the fascia lines so it still was like if I did the

[00:31:59] wall like the wall stretches I show you when I first learned those that was before I learned fascia

[00:32:02] right but I wasn't thinking about how it was manipulating my back and I see now how knowing that

[00:32:08] it manipulates my back how I can use it to manipulate my back even heavier because when you're

[00:32:12] thinking it's just in the legs you're really just seeing it in the legs and maybe you get lucky

[00:32:18] and you notice your backs feeling better um so and then there was about a two year period of time

[00:32:23] where I struggled to get out of bed most days and I would have these burst and I think about my

[00:32:28] family and stuff where I would go outside and I would go and jump around and act crazy but man

[00:32:33] would I pay for it you know so it was a fight so I'd have some weeks where I felt a little bit better

[00:32:37] and when I did I'd be like oh let me go try a bunch of stuff but it was I could never get it out

[00:32:44] and I'm a very hyper person naturally my you know very hyper so I always have all this energy

[00:32:50] so it's hard to keep someone like me down even in all the pain that I was and so basically

[00:32:57] I spent a couple years very out of pain and and I was still trying to train clients and stuff

[00:33:01] and I remember honestly Jake and I know some people probably don't believe this but I remember training

[00:33:06] people and stuff and I don't think anybody took it new how serious it was and how much pain

[00:33:12] I was in but I remember sitting down and crying and thinking I'm never gonna train again like

[00:33:16] you know the one thing I loved to do with my body I'll never enjoy again one and I'm gonna have

[00:33:24] to teach other people how to work out the rest of my life knowing that I don't really get to

[00:33:29] I'll never be able to do it and I remember I settled with that for a while and then

[00:33:35] I discovered Dr. Thomas Myers book and anatomy trains with the fashion lines and I saw them

[00:33:40] and you know it was just one of those things because even the work I'm teaching like this isn't

[00:33:46] anything yet but this is where we're trying to make it something and more and more people are

[00:33:49] doing work on fashion this is why it's one of those things where it's not just me you know Dr.

[00:33:54] Thomas Myers is trying to do his work with massage therapist and get them to understand

[00:33:58] the fashion lines so when they're doing work on people they're not doing the old massage you know

[00:34:03] where we just do an area or whatever like you're seeing how the interconnected lines work so my

[00:34:07] place is with the mechanics of the body and the gym and through flexibility and stuff but I saw

[00:34:14] the fashion lines and I just looked at them and I thought this is weird because I'm into math I've

[00:34:19] always loved math I'm a good at math and you know loved magnetism and I'm just look the way I look

[00:34:24] at the world is kind of weird I guess you know I'm not a very um social person I like to do this

[00:34:30] stuff and I don't have like I don't have any friends really never have and I know that because I

[00:34:34] don't really I don't do well with that stuff I like to do numbers and do these things

[00:34:40] and I was looking at the fashion lines and the first one I did was a push up I got in the push up

[00:34:45] position I'm looking at the fashion lines of the arms and then I'm thinking about how magnetism

[00:34:50] and everything around us rotates and generates torque and I thought well what if those lines that

[00:34:57] I'm seeing when I'm doing a push up what if I'm supposed to move through the lines and not

[00:35:03] through the muscles okay so it's like I'm looking at this fashion line and I'm thinking what if I

[00:35:09] start envisioning it as one thing and I start generating torque and using my hand and the first

[00:35:16] push up I did I started doing them and all of a sudden my elbow hand and shoulder next started

[00:35:20] cracking into place like I was at the chiropractor so so you were envisioning the push up mechanic not

[00:35:28] as basically just an extension of the chest and then a little bit of armor you were looking at it

[00:35:33] more as I'm trying to understand what you mean so what was there you know how when you do stuff

[00:35:38] you just do it yeah like when you do a push up you know like you don't really have a place for your

[00:35:43] elbows you're just kind of you're just moving right so I just go down into it and I try to feel my

[00:35:48] chest I didn't do that what I did is I grabbed the the so I'm looking at the lines and I grabbed the

[00:35:54] ground and as I came in I rotated my I tried to grab this whole line here instead of just because

[00:36:00] when I'm doing push ups before it's like my arms are here but they're not really do you know I'm

[00:36:04] not way thinking about them and I'm just trying to move through the pick right right right right

[00:36:10] I wasn't doing that I came and I rotated in I tried to grab from my hand and I tried to grab

[00:36:16] this whole facial line and in the inner part and then when I pushed up I pushed outwards so I

[00:36:21] started generating torque but obviously my hands staying in one place on the ground okay hang on I

[00:36:28] got to try this once hey and I'll keep all right I guess but so I'm trying to generate torque so

[00:36:37] instead of just moving you know because trainers talk about form you know and we say well if you do

[00:36:42] shoulders up more it's gonna be upper peg but this is because of how the lines are being moved

[00:36:46] okay that was different and you may not feel it right see here's the thing too as you got to build

[00:36:53] your brain like this it was hard yeah it was it was hard to do why not difficult but it was hard to

[00:37:04] to break the old habit of doing a push up that's one thing and then it takes more kinetic energy

[00:37:09] because since I'm having you use more angular tension right so we're moving in more

[00:37:14] angles you're gonna use more kinetic energy but also you're gonna cover more angles and this

[00:37:18] is part of what we talk about at the gym if you go in the gym and you just do dumbbell presses like

[00:37:22] this all the time what are you teaching your arm to do that's just so what happens when you go to

[00:37:28] play with your kid you gotta throw something or throw a frisbee your arms been doing this

[00:37:36] so when I do like dumbbell presses we do different versions of them but like we have one version

[00:37:41] we're at the top here so when we so which one is sorry even my brain gets confused sometimes

[00:37:47] so when we come down we're rotating out and then rotating in come down with it out rotate in so

[00:37:54] I'm doing these rotations as I'm moving okay so then I'm creating all this angular tension so

[00:38:02] then like the other day when played frisbee with my kids and it's interesting because I can see

[00:38:06] how this is really affecting me in the past since I was a bodybuilder and I'm just pushing heavy

[00:38:12] weight gosh forbid you asked me to go and play basketball like it was like you know I don't know

[00:38:18] what I'm doing whereas now or if I had to throw something so I'm outside with the kids and because

[00:38:24] I've built in all this angular tension and you can see where my hands can rotate and I'm not just

[00:38:30] pushing things because it's not just in the bench press you think every movement I'm doing like

[00:38:34] if we're doing laying down tricep stuff like I'm rotating this hand I'm trying to create rotation

[00:38:41] in everything and not do this and not beat in the same pattern all the time because you know how

[00:38:46] people are and how trainers and influencers are they'll say this is the best exercise for triceps

[00:38:53] well that doesn't even make sense because your tricep needs to be able to build tension in every angle

[00:38:58] so what you should do is every single grip that they have available in every tricep exercise

[00:39:03] you kind of should do every single one of them in every angle possible so that it's used to as

[00:39:08] many angles as possible so that when I go out to play with my kids like I did and I'm just you know

[00:39:14] I know I know bodybuilder me throwing a frisbee I would have been like ugh that's so gunky of a

[00:39:19] movement because I don't do it whereas I'm like seeing how hard I can flip this thing because I have

[00:39:24] so much you know torque that I can create through every tissue at this point so it started with the push

[00:39:32] you know my hands were here and instead of just moving you know I was like rotating things in

[00:39:38] rotating out rotating out rotating in I'm trying to I'm seeing how I need to build torque

[00:39:44] because you understand Jake that everything turns you know the just tornado everything's turning right

[00:39:50] everything's creating torque and torque is the best way to create energy and then you have

[00:39:55] your torso it's in the word torque right so you're well but even yeah even even those of us

[00:40:01] that are in martial arts you know when you throw a punch when you twist yeah well but literally like a

[00:40:07] jab loads up the straight or if you're left handed whatever you know when you throw a kick

[00:40:13] trooperly without hurting yourself because you can definitely throw a kick like if you

[00:40:18] throw a round kick and not turn your hip but you're you're going to hurt yourself

[00:40:23] like if you don't injure yourself it's going to be uncomfortable and you're probably going to

[00:40:26] injure yourself but your hip turns over your your your turning yeah you're stable the leg that

[00:40:32] you're standing on turns because if you don't your knee will pop I know from experience

[00:40:39] trust me you want that knee to move if you execute it properly and not only is that where

[00:40:44] the power comes from but that's where your power comes from well your power comes from but also

[00:40:51] that's the important part for the kick right but yeah the power comes from your hip turning over

[00:40:56] not from your foot moving quickly because I can exactly because yeah I can I can do this yeah

[00:41:06] exactly exactly I can do the exact same motion but without turning my hip it's it's night and day

[00:41:14] difference in terms of the power I can generate 100 percent yeah the ability is in balance we should

[00:41:19] be able to do all things like one thing I say to people is you should have enough you could have

[00:41:23] enough flexibility to do this splits even if you can't or contort yourself into a box now will 99

[00:41:29] percent of people get that much flexibility do they need to know you know but from a balanced

[00:41:35] perspective just as much as you should be able to kick people say from a dead stance you should

[00:41:40] be able to do it with being able to generate energy because both of those may maybe you might have

[00:41:46] to do both of those in real real life you know and so so a lot of it is as I just started I started

[00:41:53] with the push up and then you get you know and then like I said I went into looking at you know

[00:41:58] as I do because I'm a bodybuilder but I'm also a trainer and doing all sorts of stuff you know

[00:42:02] when I was an athlete and track and stuff so it started with the push up but then before I knew

[00:42:09] it I'm just doing it and everything I can possible and I've you know that's where the second book will

[00:42:15] expand on all the different angles you should try to do so for example you know we've been taught

[00:42:20] we'll just stay with the bench press like if you're on the bar technically right you should be

[00:42:26] able to bend you can but you should bench with your hands all the way together like that range of

[00:42:31] motion you can see how much range of motion I have in my wrist now to do that I didn't before

[00:42:36] but you should have this range of motion all the way out so every angle you should be able to move

[00:42:42] but what do people do they go to the bench and they say this is my grip for all time

[00:42:48] but and then even in bench press and powerlifting they'll teach you when you're powerlifting to grab

[00:42:53] the bar even though you can't break the bar right they teach you to generate torque and

[00:42:58] bend your thumb into the bar so a lot of the sports and stuff are already doing this stuff

[00:43:04] but some point somebody's gonna come along and collaborate it all together and say look at how

[00:43:09] everybody's telling everybody to generate torque there's a reason why and it's because of the

[00:43:14] fashion lines because they're determining your kinetic energy because again this arm is one

[00:43:20] whole line this is not this never works dependently by itself this pick it is all one piece so the

[00:43:28] weaker my bicep is it's going to affect the peck and so on and so forth so I want these to all be

[00:43:33] balanced so for example like the elbow in the knees you've heard of people hyper extending their

[00:43:39] knee and elbow well what if you were told that you were supposed to be able to build tension into

[00:43:44] hyper extension and the reason that you can't is why when you step into a hole and hyper extend

[00:43:50] your knee it gets hurt but who are the people that are hyper extending their elbows and knees

[00:43:57] gymnast so wait a second the most fit people on the planet gymnast most flexible strongest

[00:44:03] people by body weight are hyper extending their elbows and hyper extending their knees

[00:44:09] okay and then you also see powerlifters and ellipics doing it when they get that bar above their head

[00:44:13] they have that elbow and that arm straight out and hyper extended they don't hold the bar like this

[00:44:18] because that's not the most efficient place it's in hyper extension so the reason I say this is

[00:44:23] this when we're working out and people are doing arms what are they always telling you with the

[00:44:27] tricep don't go all the way down and stuff like that but this elbow wants to lock out it needs to lock

[00:44:33] that has a place and so if I never lock it out then the elbow never heals and never builds any

[00:44:39] strength you know and then somebody's coming at you or you fall a lot of it's you fall right and

[00:44:44] you put your arm out to grab yourself and you hyper extend your elbow because you haven't trained

[00:44:49] it into hyper extension yeah I can once again I can speak to that personally all of my injuries have

[00:44:54] either been it's been one of two things been being stupid or it's been doing something that's

[00:44:59] completely mundane like even if I'm doing something sport like the last time I the last time

[00:45:06] I tweaked my knee and actually I got super lucky I didn't permanently damage it but I definitely

[00:45:11] like I heard a pop yeah I was I was doing some training but what I actually did was I just turned

[00:45:18] and didn't earn my foot as quickly as I should have right so you had any good because you're not

[00:45:26] training it's not your fault right but your body can't build tension into every angle yet

[00:45:32] so when you go into weird angles what's it gonna do exactly but then you see these you see these

[00:45:37] guys that are I call them like the calisthenics guys who that's exactly what they do is they train

[00:45:43] at weird all angles and these guys are just freaks like what they can do and they're strong

[00:45:50] like they're freakishly strong for the frame that they have. Imagine they're just doing bodyweight

[00:45:56] calisthenics imagine once they understand facial lines and they add because people have asked me

[00:46:01] what it where's this work going and it's like well this work is applicable to everyone every sport

[00:46:06] is gonna benefit from this you know um calisthenics because I watch other videos they're not talking

[00:46:13] about facial lines and I know the difference because I can do calisthenics and when I do them

[00:46:17] integrating the facial lines you're even stronger because you're moving kinetic energy the way

[00:46:21] it's supposed to be do the lines not through individual muscle groups and then you're building

[00:46:26] torque correctly into the joints so you know you think about even fighters eventually like you were

[00:46:32] saying imagine grappling with somebody that has trained their body inflexibility in a way where

[00:46:38] they can build tension into all the angles that's a little bit different beast than hey I'm just

[00:46:43] flexible and I can definitely put you in some funky positions but hey I've trained my body to be

[00:46:48] in funky positions and really build major amounts of tension and balance the body so you know it's

[00:46:55] just a matter of getting the work done we're looking at um you know the first step is you know I don't

[00:47:01] have anybody to go through for this work so I had to do it to myself first and I completely rebuilt

[00:47:06] my body so like I said I went from not being able to train at all sitting at home I mean I can't

[00:47:12] day out of breast I was Jake I can yeah I can actually relate though because never I would like

[00:47:21] I was never bodybuilder but again I'm a martial artist and the first while the first time

[00:47:26] I dislocated my knee it's doctors tell you it's like oh you may never I grant you even said

[00:47:33] you're young so you'll probably be okay but there's possibility and like they flat out told me

[00:47:36] you might get arthritis before you're 18 and I I was never diagnosed but even to this day you know

[00:47:44] I feel it now I've done a lot of work I've done a lot of work on my knees and they're better than

[00:47:49] they were even when I was in my 20s but I it hurt it hurt a lot but yeah I get that

[00:47:59] and I encourage you to continue to really push towards the book because it's just the very first piece

[00:48:05] when I get the second one done it's gonna be a lot I wanted to have it done sooner but you know

[00:48:11] I really want to have one book that this just completes everything so I'm trying to get everything

[00:48:15] in it because there's things that we've you know we've not talked about so as far as like

[00:48:21] say what I call pocket work for example so you know everybody's phone rolling so one thing

[00:48:26] in studies with phone rolling if you look it up they're fighting that phone rolling and stuff

[00:48:29] isn't really helping everybody people are just mashing on things and it's not really you know some

[00:48:34] people are getting some benefit but overall you know if you're cracking your back you're

[00:48:38] getting the same cracks and you know maybe you get deeper once in a while but here's what's

[00:48:44] interesting so what we're realizing is that the pockets control the pain and I'll make this

[00:48:49] simple for you so this is considered a pocket like an armpit pocket right where do you get the

[00:48:55] pain at though do you ever have pain in your armpit now you get pain on the top shoulder

[00:49:00] okay so your elbow we have a soft pocket here where do you get pain though

[00:49:05] pains here and you have smaller pockets within the hands your belly is it a soft pocket when I say

[00:49:11] soft it's like think about how you're back if you touch your lower back it's kind of hard

[00:49:16] but if you touch your belly it's soft so do you get pain in your belly outside of foods problems

[00:49:22] no not really you don't really think of mean like that right but when you get the pain

[00:49:26] lower back same thing with the knee you have pockets on the inside of your thighs where

[00:49:30] your thighs are softer and some of them aren't really pockets but I just have called them that

[00:49:35] we're like you have the back of the knee pocket do you ever get pain in the back of your knee

[00:49:38] hardly ever but where do you get pain top of the knee side of the knee so do you understand what I'm

[00:49:43] saying is so what we started doing is we started doing pocket work and found so again for my body

[00:49:48] I did all this stuff myself first because nobody's talking about this stuff um there are

[00:49:52] facials specialists that are talking about armpit work and stuff and how to open up the body

[00:49:57] but it's again it's like whoever gets their first kind of thing to prove this work and do it

[00:50:01] and so you know again I started doing pocket work whether it be doing the tissue work you know

[00:50:07] taking the ball and putting it in the armpit or I prefer to do things that make more sense

[00:50:11] mechanically on how I'm designed like hanging from trees or like if I had like I'll take two bars

[00:50:17] and put them on the squat rack and then I'll hang in between them from my armpits

[00:50:22] and then I'll move all those tendons and tissue out and then my shoulder releases

[00:50:26] we're all hanging from the bicep we're all hanging into the elbow and get this tissue out here

[00:50:30] and I can just feel all this reorganize itself wow so that's a mind vendor yeah so but I try to make

[00:50:39] every you know because you know I go live feed every day so I talk about this stuff and I have

[00:50:42] clients and we're doing it and I'm doing it to myself and you know I'm keeping up with Dr. Thomas

[00:50:47] Myers and Kelly started all the people that know this kind of stuff and you know I see where they're

[00:50:51] but they're saying the same things but they're not saying it the way that I'm saying it

[00:50:56] and more importantly they don't have the goals I have because I manage gyms for seven years

[00:51:00] and I want to help the general population I'm not here to make a million dollars

[00:51:05] met right a few books and teach a small group of people I want to figure out how we can make

[00:51:10] this standard for the average person so that it's easy because we've already can you know really

[00:51:15] mess people's brains up with chest and biceps and everything so all we got to do is put these pictures

[00:51:21] up on the gym wall and start retraining people and saying this is what you're doing and just think

[00:51:24] if your body is one whole unit the only people that need to know the individual units are trainers

[00:51:29] like me so that I can organize you as needed or the massage therapist and stuff but a good example

[00:51:36] I'll give you where mechanics if you train mechanics you get aesthetics so you can't see it my

[00:51:41] shirt but if you guys you know go to my tech talk or whatever you I have a very big full round

[00:51:46] chest okay now with bodybuilders you know what they do they do incline bench they do you know regular

[00:51:53] bench they do decline what if I told you I don't do any specific work all I do and all I do is flat

[00:52:01] bench at this point or push ups you know flat bench dumbbells but I just do flat I never do the

[00:52:06] incline and it's wild to think I have a ton of inside chest now more than I had as a bodybuilder

[00:52:12] I have a nice shelf of upper peck but I don't do any incline work but that's not the normal right

[00:52:19] the normal is if I want a big upper chest what do I do you know you do incline dumbbells incline

[00:52:24] I don't do that I lay on the flat bench and like if I'm doing a fly my arm is rotating

[00:52:31] and I have different rotations that I do but I create I do these flies both locked out

[00:52:37] because again when I lock my arm out I even the tension between the wrist the elbow and the shoulder

[00:52:43] so now I know this is one whole line right and I'm not thinking about a human I'm thinking almost

[00:52:48] like a robot or of a bridge right so this is locked out and then I'm just opening and closing this

[00:52:54] peck you know but I'm not really you know when I'm building tension into the elbow and the more

[00:52:57] tension I can build in the elbow I can build in the bicep and then I can build in the peck

[00:53:01] and then I do it for anybody if anybody needs evidence look at that tricep

[00:53:06] yeah so again people people ask me about traps and stuff like I don't even train traps I just open

[00:53:10] up my neck but again like when I'm benching I told you I was doing these rotations right and you

[00:53:15] can see look at this see my arm if I hold it here see how when I rotate it how it's really pushing

[00:53:22] and flexing all that upper part but if I rotate my arm here you see see how it's moving downwards

[00:53:29] so again I've made it a lot easier so now instead of going to the gym and you say I want a big chest

[00:53:34] and I'm doing all these different angles and how many how many sets I do I don't know

[00:53:38] we don't have to make it that difficult let's build in rotations get lockouts going you know

[00:53:43] let's take a step back lose your ego for a second because it's going to be you're going to have

[00:53:46] to do lighter weight to get good at lockouts and I'll tell you about lockouts

[00:53:50] they're in the Arnold's book of encyclopedia bodybuilding and that's interesting so they used

[00:53:55] to do lockout work and then for some reason what we just acted like we stopped never did it again

[00:54:01] that's funny yeah yeah that's funny that's that's funny you mentioned that because the way

[00:54:06] the way or at least the way I understood it was yeah they used to do lockouts but that was

[00:54:11] quote when they didn't know what they were doing it's way safer to not lockout or that's the

[00:54:15] conventional wisdom that's what that's what we were taught is is not to lock out because you're

[00:54:19] going to hyper extend but again that doesn't even make any sense if we have these gymnast I mean

[00:54:25] they're hyper extending their elbows and putting themselves in their knees and putting themselves

[00:54:30] in wild positions and then you have the strongest you know I'd say weightlifters in the world the

[00:54:35] powerlifters right they're taking a bar above their head and locking it out and squatting it

[00:54:41] and stuff now if it wasn't safe would they do it they wouldn't do it and if it wasn't the strongest

[00:54:48] position what would they do they throw it above their head they'd be like but they don't because

[00:54:53] that's they can't that's too hard so they lockout and they even the kinetic energy throughout the

[00:55:00] bone and the line which they don't really understand the line but you know so we see evidence of it

[00:55:07] and you know how the world has been with science and America and we figured things out and we're all

[00:55:12] just trying to figure this out together and so it saved me and it got me back to where you know I'm

[00:55:16] just I'm able to just train being the best shape in my life I can go play with my kids and we play

[00:55:22] monster at the park so we're playing monster at the park where I'm chasing my kids I don't chase

[00:55:27] other people's kids or touch them because you know how that goes and it was funny because this time

[00:55:31] I'm chasing my kids around and the other kids wanted to play so they became like the kids blockers

[00:55:36] because they knew I wasn't going to touch them so they're trying to block me from getting my kids

[00:55:40] I kid you not I'm 36 years old and as many injuries as I've had not only does my cardio not even

[00:55:46] hardly affected like I don't even do cardio but I wasn't getting out of breath because I'm getting so

[00:55:51] I've created so much kinetic energy through all the things I'm doing that it's easy for me to move

[00:55:56] through life easily now and then also I was jumping off the top of the playground I mean 10 12

[00:56:02] feet landing like it was nothing I mean I just because I get hyper myself anyways like I told you

[00:56:07] but I'm just chasing them around being the monster and I'm just jumping all over stuff and

[00:56:12] it's it's nice to be 36 and feel like you're seven you know feel more athletic than you did when

[00:56:17] you were a kid and you're just running around and I just wasn't scared like I remember just jumping

[00:56:23] off the things that were 10 feet high easy 10 feet high on some stuff 8 feet you know which

[00:56:29] isn't super high but when you're as you get older it's like Ash should I do this oh yeah I so yeah

[00:56:34] I said the first time I felt old was the first time I looked over something it was probably about

[00:56:38] probably not even probably more like six feet and being like I mean I did it but I thought about

[00:56:43] it but I thought about it by the way I deleted GLV says hi Kyler presents

[00:56:50] what's that and nice nice for me to thank you yeah if you guys have any questions for sure

[00:56:57] let us know I know it's again until I get the books out like at least we have the first flexibility

[00:57:02] book out that takes you through some stuff then it'll take you through wall stretches um I try to

[00:57:07] make everything so that you don't need to buy things I see a lot of my competitors I would say

[00:57:13] where they promote flexibility and one I'm charging you guys eight dollars for a book they're

[00:57:18] charging you 99 150 and you better make sure you can buy a band have something to attach it to

[00:57:23] that you're smart enough to figure out what they're saying to do with the band like it's just too much

[00:57:27] I think I think that you need to master your body so I try to give you as little stuff

[00:57:33] and I think in this book you just need something to hang from would be the only thing you might

[00:57:37] have to figure out but wall stretches everybody has access to a wall everybody has a floor they can touch

[00:57:43] a yard um and the standing stretches we're all standing here on earth so those three for sure

[00:57:49] can change your life because on the standing stretches for example those are all locked out knees

[00:57:54] and that's how you're gonna save your knees is getting good at those so the more you can get those

[00:57:58] neat those legs to lock out and stretch through them and do the rotations Jake that you see in

[00:58:03] there because that book is only 16 total shapes but it has 144 pictures so I'm showing you how you

[00:58:09] can take 16 shapes so say one pose like a yoga pose or something and do it eight different ways

[00:58:16] or 10 different each one has its variations yeah which there's way more than that book that was

[00:58:22] just like let's get a starter out so you guys could get a taste of it I guess yeah you you made me

[00:58:28] feel a lot better about it because I asked you I was reading the when I was reading the book

[00:58:32] I saw I'm like when am I gonna have time to do this and then thankfully you gave me the best

[00:58:36] advice which is try them all but then focus on the ones that are the most difficult for you

[00:58:43] yeah so every day on my life it's when people talk to me about what we're doing and stuff

[00:58:46] we say so here's the thing this is what's great because I'm not here for the money right so let's say

[00:58:51] you're going to a yoga class you got a yoga class you go to every day and you know all the shapes

[00:58:55] you're going through and you're trying to figure out how you can get more out of that class

[00:58:59] pay attention to your body so let's say you go to yoga class and let's say you guys did a hundred

[00:59:03] moves that day just hypothetically right a hundred different positions pay attention to the ones

[00:59:08] that are the hardest and then practice those shapes mastered those shapes because those shapes

[00:59:13] will open up other shapes you don't even know because everybody's got things they say oh I can never

[00:59:18] get that I can never do the splits but you start with shapes she can do you build you know you find

[00:59:24] the tensions that you struggle with and work on those and before you know it all kind of starts

[00:59:29] coming together like I'm going to be able to do the splits here soon and as tight as I've been

[00:59:34] my whole life because I was always tight like my brother I remember when I was younger he could touch

[00:59:38] the palms on the floor and you know and he was overweight and not athletic and I couldn't even

[00:59:44] hardly touch my knees you know and then when I started this process really getting into it

[00:59:49] and life feeding I could touch about half my calf like about halfway down my calf line

[00:59:54] and now I can palm the ground in about a year you know really happy to hear you say that

[00:59:58] because I'll be honest like because again my I do I still do martial arts my background was in

[01:00:03] type 1.0 and I used to be I used to be pretty flexible in fact I used to be able to do the

[01:00:10] I think they used to call the American split the one leg front one leg back I used to be able

[01:00:15] to do that and I'm now I'm at a point where again I mentioned in the beginning my my extremely

[01:00:20] tight hamstrings I cannot lock out my knees and I really I can barely get to my like lower calf

[01:00:30] without extreme pain and I certainly couldn't do and the weirdest thing too is it's not just the pain

[01:00:36] it is literally like a mechanical thing I cannot touch the floor without at least a slight bend in

[01:00:42] my knees like my legs just will not do it yeah so I'm very very encouraged but I selfishly have

[01:00:49] another question for you because I train at the gym too and I've I've already sort of amended

[01:00:54] my workouts but I don't want to do a blind so I have I have a route I have routines that I do

[01:01:01] but I guess very selfishly do you have like a weightlifting routine or do you just have like

[01:01:10] certain things that you would recommend that I change IE like if I'm doing

[01:01:15] um isolateral rows for example instead of keeping everything bent I lock out and then

[01:01:23] take it as far as I can possibly extend or what would you recommend for that so this is where

[01:01:27] I need to get the second book done right so we can go through all these shapes okay so part of

[01:01:33] it is I would say focused on the flexibility right now because that's gonna open up all those

[01:01:37] things that you're doing but the other thing would be so like you're saying on a row

[01:01:42] as you're pulling one use different textures because remember like we said your your body is

[01:01:49] designed we got to stop thinking of our body in this world this reality because this is an

[01:01:54] our reality in the sense of what we are mechanically designed to do I say that because like you're

[01:02:00] mechanically designed the reason why they built the squatty potty and why when you go to other

[01:02:04] countries they have a hole in the ground even in a nice hotel it's because you're designed to as

[01:02:08] I say take a poo in the woods right you were designed to squat and then take a poo and if you go

[01:02:14] to the squatty potty website they'll show you mechanically why that's important so what are we

[01:02:20] doing but we sit in a 90 degree fashion and we do it mechanically incorrect and every time you do

[01:02:27] that you know it's like sin you know it's it's a bad thing for your body and it builds over time

[01:02:35] so one I need to get the book done's been go through all these shapes but I want you to think

[01:02:39] of your body mechanically so remember how you're talking about punching right so your body is

[01:02:43] designed to do things like what climb right so you're designed to climb okay but you can't

[01:02:49] really climb maybe don't have access to that stuff but you're designed to climb you're designed to

[01:02:53] sprint you're designed to poo in the woods you're designed to swim okay you're designed to do a

[01:02:58] centric concentric and isometric exercise meaning you're designed to lock out and hold a joint

[01:03:04] you know concentric pulling it to me each centric it's on the way down you're designed to have

[01:03:08] all these functions right and so we want to maximize this so one way you could think of it with

[01:03:13] your training that I could give you a tip on and everybody watching or who does watch this to

[01:03:18] immediately start making a huge effect in your mechanical structures understanding how it's

[01:03:24] actually designed so the biceps and the glute hamstring structure are designed to hold think about

[01:03:31] your arms what do you do with the biceps most of the time are you not carrying things around

[01:03:36] holding them okay so like I said when I carried this chair in here so I carried it like 50 yards

[01:03:43] in here so I had my biceps carried here I've moved about 50 times in my life since I moved around

[01:03:49] the country and just moved a lot my biceps didn't burn up because I've been training them to hold

[01:03:54] so here's what I would say is your biceps are mainly designed to hold think about your climbing right

[01:04:00] and so let's say I'm climbing because I used to rock climb a lot so I'm in this position

[01:04:04] and I'm looking for the next branch so see how my biceps it's holding me in this position

[01:04:11] and then my head is designed to be able to move when I'm doing exercise what did we use to teach

[01:04:17] keep your head straight all the time right so it wants to be able because you never know in real life

[01:04:22] you pick up a box and your head's got to move to the side and I get a walk but what do we do we always

[01:04:27] keep it stiff so we need that neck to move but more importantly to finish what I'm trying to

[01:04:32] help you guys understand is the bicep and just like when you're sitting squatting in the woods right

[01:04:37] so if I went to go the bathroom I'm gonna squat and I'm gonna hold that position or I'm holding things

[01:04:42] so the bicep I don't really have a number on it it's like 80 20 but your bicep it's like 80% designed

[01:04:48] to hold things and carry things and then 20% is to be able to kind of you know like if I was

[01:04:56] climbing faster you know but you get tired and you're holding it okay and I'm looking for the next

[01:05:01] grab grab hole grab hold and then the tricep as you know is it what's it designed to punch it's

[01:05:08] designed to fling design to throw which is interesting because it's the same as your quads

[01:05:14] your quads are designed to spring you off the ground when you jump so part of what would help

[01:05:18] you to start reorganizing your fascia is like when you're doing your poles so now you understand

[01:05:24] you need to get full range of motion you need to let that like if I'm doing a row

[01:05:29] see if I'm going to the side here oh so if I'm doing a row so I want my arm to lock out see how

[01:05:36] my elbow looks like that now because it's used to hyper extending so I want to be able to

[01:05:42] lock out because even when I'm locking out so let's say you're holding onto something with your

[01:05:46] row if I'm locked out what is it doing with this joint it's pulling it away right so it's giving

[01:05:51] it the ability to pull away or if I was in a plank position I was on my arm I'd be compressing

[01:05:57] the joint together so balance teaches us that I need to be able to compress the joint together but

[01:06:01] also allow it to be pulled away those are two functions you could think so you want to do full

[01:06:07] range of motion but when you're doing your reps think okay if I'm using biceps and back here

[01:06:12] my biceps and back are designed to hold so maybe you do 10 reps and then you hold the last one

[01:06:18] and you hold it yeah so it's on breathing through your nose

[01:06:24] because then we can open up that ribcage and reorganize it and maybe the first set you just

[01:06:28] hold it for 10 breaths now you say well how long should I hold it just long enough that you start

[01:06:34] feeling like everything because you'll notice this jake as you get good at it let's say you pull

[01:06:38] back and you start to hold all of a sudden you'll notice your shoulders are dropped back and down

[01:06:45] because your body starts to hold it it goes well if I'm gonna be the strongest at this I

[01:06:50] need this shoulder to go back and now but you didn't give me that chance because you never stayed in it

[01:06:56] and that's yeah and that's particularly tricky with rows because the the mechanical temptation always

[01:07:02] is there to raise you know hunch because you yeah so I get we've always done things as reps jake

[01:07:10] that's the problem too is you know triceps of rep because again the triceps designed to fire so

[01:07:15] since it's designed to fire it wants to do less holds because this thing is firing or if you're

[01:07:20] punching okay or you know so it's designed to fire so you know like when I do a tricep say a dumbbell

[01:07:27] I'm coming down slowly I'm loading the gun fire oh okay fire same thing when I'm squatting

[01:07:35] I squat slowly I'm loading my glutes I'm loading my hamstrings and then I fire up because what does

[01:07:41] my quads want to do they want to fire me and jump okay okay mechanics that will be in the book but I

[01:07:46] can encourage you now do the flexibility book okay you know what I mean and then also thank biceps

[01:07:53] and you know again butts and glutes like when I do squats we might do some holds at the bottom

[01:07:58] right so let's set put 200 pounds on my back I squat all the way down now I don't relax in the squat

[01:08:03] at the bottom you know the bar's not on me I'm like but you know it's a correct as low as you

[01:08:09] physically can get and then I just hold that load very low and then I breathe through my nose

[01:08:15] and then the next week I might do where I go down and I do like pulses in the recoil so kind of move

[01:08:19] up and down you know and then maybe I'll do five firing reps you know so I'm slow down fire up

[01:08:25] slow down fire up might do 10 reps I might do 20 how many reps you want to do is depending on

[01:08:31] I mean again maybe what you enjoy doing and what you feel like you're getting I'm

[01:08:36] a fashionally speaking I don't know your fiber type so this is where people got to play with it

[01:08:40] and say well I want to get big muscles so let me try five reps for a while let me try 10 let me

[01:08:44] try the 20s you know let me see what my body likes and what grows okay so now yeah now I'm

[01:08:50] literally going through this all in my head on my okay I know what exercises I do is this again

[01:08:54] is this a push or spring motion or is this a hold motion so just kind of a clarification question

[01:09:00] just so that I make sure that I understand if if I'm doing a bicep curl for example

[01:09:06] your recommendation would be to instead of focusing so much on just doing x number of reps is to

[01:09:11] when you're when I got it lifted up to about here my bicep is engaged I should hold it more

[01:09:18] instead of just focusing on the sorts of things you should do it on a preacher curl and hold it

[01:09:22] because that's one angle right you could take a rope like I like to do because I like to incorporate

[01:09:27] the whole body right so I take a rope on the high angle I'll pull it to me and I'll get in a squat

[01:09:31] position so now I'm holding a squat getting my hips nice and healthy and I'm holding it

[01:09:36] and I'll hold it for 10 breaths and then I start to get tired so then I'll do 10 reps

[01:09:42] some days I just do a hold you know I mean there's it's most 99.9% of people aren't trying to be

[01:09:50] high end athletes right and so what I'm trying to encourage people to do is I'm trying to give them

[01:09:54] the opportunity to take care of themselves and not be dependent on trainers anymore trainers need

[01:09:58] to be in a place where we help you and then you move on you understand what we're trying to get

[01:10:01] you to do and you got to figure out how much you know hold to not hold to reps you need to do

[01:10:09] so if you've been doing reps and your arms aren't growing where your shoulders aren't feeling better

[01:10:13] your next not feeling better when you start holding things your fascia responds to it differently

[01:10:18] than when you're doing a rep okay because it's isometrics when you hold it and it really starts

[01:10:24] to restructure we also know with fascia that when you do eccentric exercises so let's say I pull

[01:10:31] the rope towards me for the curl so I pull it fast or whatever but when I when I fight it on the

[01:10:36] way back it really releases and reconfigures that muscle so and again if for the last 50 years

[01:10:45] they were teaching you to lock out everything I'd be teaching you to bend things I'm trying to

[01:10:49] help people understand balance okay so you need to train your legs you know your leg shouldn't be

[01:10:54] giant compared to your upper body your arms shouldn't be giant compared to your chest everything

[01:10:58] needs to be as balanced as possible I would say that your biceps are more designed to hold things

[01:11:03] and again I have these experiences in my clients doom and I mostly work with people that are

[01:11:08] senior citizens who are in pain and they want their bodies back and they appreciate this more than

[01:11:14] a younger person does but like I said every time I'm holding stuff and carrying stuff in like

[01:11:19] even at the store today I was carrying my jug and this thing's pretty heavy at a gallon like it

[01:11:24] starts to weigh on you but I've done so much holding now that it just my fingers just kind of clap

[01:11:30] and I just forget it's there whereas before you know it's like I'm switching hands every 30 seconds

[01:11:36] you know if I'm carrying groceries in I gotta you know you feel that burn I get I'm to the point

[01:11:41] now where I don't really feel my body just moves you know not that I'm not that I'm impenetrable

[01:11:46] where I'm some Superman but I you know think of it this way if I'm going to the gym and I'm doing

[01:11:51] a preacher curl with a 50 pound dumbbell and I hold it here and then I pick up a chair that weighs 10

[01:11:56] pounds and I'm holding it like the 10 pounds is nothing now and since I've trained my bicep to

[01:12:03] hold and do things that I would do in real life because like I keep telling everybody in the life

[01:12:07] feats stop or even in person like stop going to the gym and using it as a place to just oh I

[01:12:13] want to look good in the gym or I want to feel better in the gym I need you to feel better outside

[01:12:17] the gym so you'll keep going to the gym because whether you're young or not like at some point

[01:12:21] you're gonna wish you'd take care of your body and you're gonna wish that you know like my client

[01:12:26] I was telling you have to be getting Paula you know she was able to work out it was like a month

[01:12:30] into our training and bodywork that you know she said she worked outside for three hours 68 year old

[01:12:37] person who's fit but still she was having pain like everybody you know you go and pick up sticks

[01:12:41] in your art with painful gets old bending over and she had no pain couldn't believe it.

[01:12:46] That's you know I had another client Oscar who's technically I guess my business partner at this

[01:12:51] point he was gonna get hip surgery the day before we met because his doctor said he need hip surgery

[01:12:58] he went back after three weeks with me and his doctor said I don't know what you're doing

[01:13:02] but you don't need hip surgery. What you doing? What you doing? What you doing? Yeah so that's

[01:13:07] valuable to me as a trainer to take to give people their lives back because Oscar wasn't even

[01:13:13] training legs he wasn't comfortable with it his legs his feet he stood like this real close

[01:13:18] together and now he's standing kind of like this and he still can't get all the way down

[01:13:24] you know he's still struggling but he's out of pain day to day you know he doesn't have to have

[01:13:28] hip surgery his bones are on top of each other because I told him I said I'm going to train your

[01:13:33] fascia and your fascia is controlling whether your bones touch and it's trying to keep them from

[01:13:36] touching so you're gonna start training your fascia and it's gonna reorganize your bone structure

[01:13:40] and release your knots and hopefully your bones don't want to smash together anymore and they

[01:13:45] didn't and only took a few weeks. Well hopefully one more selfish question and then I don't wonder

[01:13:51] we want to give him a little preview because first of all by the book like it's 100% worth it

[01:13:58] and then we'll get into your socials here at the end but so any tips for pull-ups because my

[01:14:04] pull-up game is pathetic. Well I learned a lot from Dr Charles Palakwin who passed away a few

[01:14:11] years ago he guys can look up Charles Palakwin he's considered one of the world's greatest

[01:14:16] or the greatest strength coach in the sense that he had like 22 Olympic athletes that won medals

[01:14:24] I remember one of the stories if you watch his stuff he's very high-end and he was

[01:14:28] getting to where he was starting to understand this so like with pull-ups one thing he talks about

[01:14:33] is when you're pulling up and set a pulling from the back you're kind of pulling from the back

[01:14:37] of the elbow but again to expand on that let's create torque and so we talked about bench how you're

[01:14:46] pressing and like if you've got a bar so when I press up with the bar I'm kind of breaking the

[01:14:51] bar this way to press up and then when I come down I'm kind of breaking it this way

[01:14:56] and they teach this in powerlifting actually so if you look up powerlifting when that bar is coming

[01:15:01] down they teach to try to break the bar as you come down and that gives you the most potential

[01:15:08] and then you're breaking it away okay so with pull-ups what you're going to start working on is one

[01:15:13] do your flexibility work obviously use a dip machine if you have to to help you

[01:15:20] but now we're pulling from the top so maybe I need to pull from the side here

[01:15:24] so remember how I was trying to break that bar with the bench do the same thing this is where

[01:15:32] it carries over and it gets easy because you start realizing we're saying the same thing and

[01:15:36] you're just applying its different movements so when you're pulling up so imagine I'm pulling

[01:15:40] upwards right so I'm going to have my hand here if I'm on a bar I'm going to you know again

[01:15:46] I can't bend the bar right but I can turn my hand and generate torque okay so once you grab a

[01:15:55] bar here's what's going to happen see my thumb and you grab that bar see how my thumb presses into

[01:16:01] the bar okay and that's going to activate and then the whole hand is going to get active

[01:16:05] and it's going to create torque through the whole line so when you're doing your pull-up do just

[01:16:10] like you did with the bench but when you pull up so when you pull up try to rotate through your

[01:16:16] thumbs and as you get better at it all of a sudden you won't be doing just like oh you know trying

[01:16:24] to get up and down what you'll do is you'll start to turn and your body will automatically start

[01:16:28] to move a little bit and then it'll just be up to you to finish it hmm it's a weird experience

[01:16:35] as you get good at it that's why I get this second book done it's just I've added a lot to it

[01:16:39] and I'm glad that I took my time with it because I added a lot to it and I think I got everything

[01:16:42] that people will need to know about facial mechanics and how to do this stuff with flex because

[01:16:46] I'm so the second book will include flexibility we'll include all these mechanics with not just

[01:16:51] the body weight exercises like how do I do pushups and stuff but how do I do you know like you're

[01:16:56] saying a row of bench dumbbells well how can we balance all these things but you once you start

[01:17:01] generating torque it's like the pushup what will happen is you'll notice that when you start to

[01:17:05] rotate in your body will automatically start to fall to the ground what almost like it's mechanical

[01:17:13] and yeah and then then you'll rotate out and it's like it's pushing away without you even now

[01:17:19] now it won't do it all the way but it'll start to do it and you'll go oh so I just have to finish this

[01:17:25] same thing with the squat rotating your knees out and in generating torque into the

[01:17:28] the fascial lines or the IT band you know so when you're squatting you're grabbing your feet to

[01:17:35] the ground as best you can but you're rotating into the outside of the knee to that IT band because

[01:17:39] you got it this is what we're saying we want to get people thinking about the lines so that you

[01:17:44] think about like the line that goes down your leg right E band and then when you squat you're like

[01:17:48] okay I'm trying to activate that line and feel that whole thing and then as you do that you'll notice

[01:17:54] as you come down it's just it feels like it's screwdrivering you down to the ground

[01:17:59] and then when you squat up and you rotate in and you move the kinetic energy from the outside line

[01:18:04] to the inside line you'll feel it push you away from the ground so you get good at this stuff

[01:18:10] and you're basically optimizing the leverage of the joints through the fascial lighting system

[01:18:14] so this is why once we get this all out like as much as these guys were squatting now and stuff

[01:18:18] I bet people are gonna get much stronger watching UFC fights is gonna get wicked

[01:18:24] eventually because these guys do this sort of stuff and they really understand how to really

[01:18:29] optimize their kinetic energy beyond what they're doing it's gonna change how all this works

[01:18:35] okay so yeah yeah I have one more I have another question for you because that just made me think

[01:18:40] that's something to think so I recently like within the last couple of days

[01:18:45] I tweaked my deadlift because actually it's not gonna go into the story but basically my

[01:18:49] nephew's really into lifting and he's he's trying to come boy not trying he's succeeding

[01:18:54] in competing with me I'm still a little bit stronger than him but it's all right it's it's not

[01:19:00] gonna be long but he's an athlete I'm an old man me wrestles in place football so like he's

[01:19:06] in he's only 15 so he's like he's gonna eclipse me very very quickly but a little friendly

[01:19:12] competition he just told me like yeah I just did my PR for deadlift and I just happened to be at

[01:19:17] the gym so I said well I they can't let him win so and I don't I don't train one rep max so I

[01:19:23] honestly don't I don't know what my one rep max is for deadlift but I just went a little bit more

[01:19:28] than him and I did it but he made a comment cut me up because like yeah but you're you're gonna

[01:19:34] he's like yeah but that was like all in your lower back and I'm like it wasn't all in my lower

[01:19:37] back but I will say I probably wouldn't have done any more than that without a weight though

[01:19:42] because I did feel it it wasn't all there but that got me thinking so the last literally only a

[01:19:48] few days ago I was doing my deadlift lower weight but I was like okay now I'm gonna really focus on

[01:19:53] on the negative wrap moving my hip out instead of just bending at the back

[01:20:00] and then coming up bringing the hip in and I felt the world of difference but is that

[01:20:05] is that correct or am I thinking about that wrong what you here's a thing this is where my my

[01:20:13] answers are very different okay and I know this so we now know that your head and spine

[01:20:19] are the sperm that you once were okay now a sperm is a snake in a sense and it's creating angles

[01:20:26] and I say this because imagine this is who you were as you started and then you built this body

[01:20:32] in the neck okay now here's what's interesting because I had to change on this because I've taught

[01:20:38] mechanics my whole career and I had to change but I was taught and then what we teach like I was

[01:20:44] telling you before we kept the head in the same spot but it turns out this thing needs to be able

[01:20:48] to build tension because it's a snake right it builds tension in everything right so one thing with

[01:20:54] the deadlift is I agree that doing cat-backed deadlifts portable right but there is a place for him

[01:21:02] because you should be able to build tension in a curved back who does it well do not the world

[01:21:08] strongest men squat and then curve their back and pick up a giant stone and place it on something

[01:21:14] nobody seems to have a problem with that curved back huh so that's interesting so the deal is

[01:21:21] you need to be able to do both you need to be able to what you can do is if you have a bar

[01:21:28] so you take a bar not a heavy bar like the bar I've got up there a PVC pipe right and so you know

[01:21:34] when you do like a plank or again in a deadlift that bar should touch your middle back then there

[01:21:39] should be a small spot in your lower back and then a small spot in your neck and then everything

[01:21:44] should be aligned so you should be able to deadlift with your back hooked like I say like you're at

[01:21:50] the club you're sticking your butt out but you don't want to have it overly hooked either right so

[01:21:55] you should be able to do it straight back right but there's also a place for as you get tired

[01:22:00] and lifting heavy weight that you can still curl the back but it's only okay if you have the flex

[01:22:06] stability for it so if you want to sleepy deadlift I do that lifts very perfectly healthy

[01:22:12] but as I get in heavier weight my back starts to curve but it doesn't feel like it used to it doesn't

[01:22:17] feel scary it's just building tension in different angles as I say you've got to be able to build tension

[01:22:23] into all angles or angular tension or whatever and so they both have a place like for example you

[01:22:29] know when you're in that deadlift position right so your back's kind of here right and you know

[01:22:34] when you do like reverse delt flies you know it's weird when you have your back straight like that

[01:22:42] your back's flexed right so I do the fly and I feel it my delt when I lock my knees out

[01:22:49] and let my back curve and I do them my rear delts are on fire they love it

[01:22:55] hit some way harder why because I'm not activating my lower back in all this other kinetic energy

[01:23:00] I'm really isolating so one tip I'll give you is this is what nobody does but eventually everybody will do

[01:23:06] so you know how in deadlifters that are tearing their biceps have you noticed that they hold it like

[01:23:11] this and they always tear that bicep why because they've turned this hand over and decided that

[01:23:18] this is optimal and so this thing is weak because it shouldn't be so see how my shoulders turned in

[01:23:25] so if I want to pick a bar up and backwards technically in a sense right because I don't want

[01:23:30] it to pull me forward right but when my arm is rotated forward everything's moving forward

[01:23:35] if I open it up it's moving back so the reason why these guys are tearing this bicep or this

[01:23:40] bicep it's because this hands turn so when I deadlift I deadlift with both hands

[01:23:45] supinated and you start doing that and you'll notice because when when my chair back here

[01:23:53] so you'll notice so again see my structure with my arm my palms forward see how my structure

[01:24:00] wants to be back but then as I rotate my arms forward see how everything's moving forward

[01:24:05] it's going to make me want to go this way technically right so this is why they're all tearing their

[01:24:10] bicep because they're turning one in and then it gets too heavy right on the deadlift and this

[01:24:16] kinetic energy can't transfer correctly because we have an imbalance in hand grip so the bicep

[01:24:20] tears so what I would suggest is one turn your hands under because when you do that you'll find

[01:24:26] that it actually mechanically makes you want to do the deadlift more correctly with the way you're

[01:24:30] trying to do it okay because you won't be falling forward or have one arm falling forward and one

[01:24:35] arm not because now as you start looking at these lines shouldn't I use the same lines to do the

[01:24:40] simple movement instead of opposing lines where one line is trying to send me one way and one line

[01:24:45] send to me another because you want to stand straight up you don't want to stand curving

[01:24:50] I'm not driving here okay then also push your feet through the ground yeah that will help you

[01:24:56] immensely is get in that bar and then drop your hips as low as you can because I'm telling you

[01:25:02] once you do this with your hands and widen them if you have to figure out how wide you have to go but pull

[01:25:07] on that bar with them and pull those hips down and it'll generate it because again what's

[01:25:12] interesting about the fashion lines is thinking about this way the brain in the fashion lines

[01:25:16] no already without man discovering it it's like math right did man discover math or did math already

[01:25:22] exist right now you're getting philosophical but math already existed right yeah we just we just

[01:25:29] decided there's already something there right it's the same thing with the fashion lines the brain

[01:25:34] already knows how these fashion lines should move and how brain in the body already know how to

[01:25:39] optimize kinetic energy and torque and leverage of the joints but we've decided all these other weird

[01:25:44] things and now we have pain higher than ever nobody can get their obesity down we have athletes

[01:25:50] getting injured way more than they used to so you mean to tell me all these athletes like we used

[01:25:55] to say it's the sitting argument but I would say it's the trainer argument too we have all these

[01:25:59] basketball players and football players getting hurt more than ever because their training they're

[01:26:02] doing isn't maximizing the mechanics of their body it's just doing different versions of science

[01:26:10] that we've decided there has nothing to do with the fashion of mechanics most of it because we're

[01:26:15] compartmentalizing it so much and when you have a compartmentalized body you're thinking

[01:26:19] compartmentalized and everything starts breaking down because it's individually moving I need you

[01:26:23] to move as one whole giant brain cohesive unit so with your deadlift I do both supinated palms

[01:26:30] you could do both here you could do here but as you get heavier you see where these guys are

[01:26:34] tearing that bicep but I do both palms supinating because when I supinate my palms see what it does

[01:26:39] how it rotates automatically well it automatically pulls your shoulders down and it strains out

[01:26:46] your back just by just mechanically doing that motion yeah I totally understand that.

[01:26:51] I'm just gonna see you go and try this and then I'm I'm going to I technically I'm not supposed

[01:26:57] to do deadlift tomorrow but I think I'm going to just to try this out yeah try it out and then push through

[01:27:04] and then so what I would do is do palms open right go as wide as you need to so I'm here

[01:27:12] here so I'm here holding it well let's say I'm about to hold it right so so you've been

[01:27:19] over you're going to grab the bar but then kind of pull yourself your hips down into it and

[01:27:24] you'll find that with your palms there it'll kind of automatically like I'm grabbing the bar

[01:27:30] and then I just kind of like I kind of pull like you're not pulling off the ground but you kind

[01:27:33] of give it tension and then as you give it tension and then move your feet around don't get stuck

[01:27:38] like we've always said well your feet need to be this distance your mechanics might be different

[01:27:42] right now you might need your feet so so like I say you need to be able to squat with your feet

[01:27:46] all the way together and then you need to be able to squat with your feet in every angle until

[01:27:51] you do a split that's your mechanical design we don't teach that we teach wide squat skinny squat

[01:27:57] nobody's talking about splits nobody's talking about being able to squat you see what I'm saying

[01:28:02] we're because I'm trying to help you envision the body mathematically you're just a shape making shapes

[01:28:07] you don't like the shape you are so we need to have you do different shapes we need to have you

[01:28:11] get different shapes and when I say you don't like the shape you are that's a visody and stuff right

[01:28:17] or how you look but we can also say that your shape is in pain so the shapes you're making are hurting

[01:28:23] your shape so we got to get you doing these different shapes and shapes are made of what angles

[01:28:28] simple stuff so when you're doing your deadlift know that you can do any foot grip figured out

[01:28:35] so that you can do it healthfully and then over time as you get more flexibility you can start

[01:28:39] doing all the different grips and then you know it's like now we don't have to argue whether sumo

[01:28:44] deadlift is better than regular deadlift technically you should be able to deadlift with your hands

[01:28:49] all the way out and feet together and then every angle in between doing variations of it so I could

[01:28:56] lift the ball with my hands together say and my feet wide that's appropriate because that's an

[01:29:02] angle right that's a good angle that I should learn how to do because there might come a time in

[01:29:05] life where I'm walking and playing with my kids or something and I slip on something and I want my

[01:29:10] legs to be able to open up real wide catch me they're working time yeah well I'm walking on a curve

[01:29:16] and I'm jerking around and I mean my legs to go close so it's like with lunges right with lunges

[01:29:24] you should be able to do lunges with your feet right in front of each other but both close together

[01:29:29] so you should be able to do lunges with your feet on top of each other and then all the way out

[01:29:33] in every angle in between and then you should also be able to do a lunge where you step in different angles

[01:29:39] and to the point you do a side lunge so all we've done is in the past as we've said there's a front

[01:29:46] lunge there's back lunge there's a side lunge but really all these angles are appropriate

[01:29:50] same thing with the squat we've said there's a there's a skinny squat or you know a close grip

[01:29:55] there's close grip there's medium grip and there's wide grip there's every angle

[01:30:00] what are you talking about and the more I can get to where I can do all these angles it makes all

[01:30:04] the other angles healthier and it makes me healthy outside the gym so palms up pull that when you do

[01:30:11] that give a little tension let that butt drop real hard you'll probably have to go pretty wide

[01:30:16] at first mind a good foot position and then push that thing through the ground and stand up

[01:30:21] but I'm telling you as you get good at your palms being forward you're gonna go woo this is weird

[01:30:25] yeah probably well I like weird I like weird in the gym um this is easier you know it's

[01:30:29] gonna be a little weird it's gonna be like oh that's it's like my body just wanted me to stand up

[01:30:33] I was a fighting kinetic energy anymore yep yep um so that being said I'm sure anyone who's

[01:30:38] watching this is wondering now okay you keep talking about these shapes and these positions

[01:30:43] do you have like maybe a sample of one of one or a few of the positions that you can show people

[01:30:47] so they can kind of understand but definitely like I said I the book but do you have like a photo

[01:30:57] of some of those positions or I don't think here this is where I need to get better at my work

[01:31:04] I can probably just show you I was gonna say or show show us yeah

[01:31:08] yeah let me see how I can show you like um

[01:31:22] well if you guys can see my feet here so let me show you the squat so you can kind of

[01:31:25] understand what we're talking about here so see how my feet are together now remember how we

[01:31:32] talked about this being an IT band line right so with all squatting you need to be able to do

[01:31:39] two things you need to be able to rotate out so I'm rotating out into the IT band and squatting

[01:31:45] right but you also see dancers there are good example do they not squat like this a little bit

[01:31:50] so should you do a bunch of heavy weight like that mechanically no but again your body's

[01:31:54] designed to do these things and this is what you're trying to understand so with your squat

[01:31:59] like you should be able to start with your feet together and see how I'm creating torque see

[01:32:04] I've gotten good at it see how much my knees move so here's my knee straight but see how much I

[01:32:08] can move them out and then I can squat with my feet together okay so that has a value to it

[01:32:17] just as much as being able to squat wide you should have saying all these angles are appropriate

[01:32:25] okay does that make sense and it's the same thing so I mean I'll be able to get down there

[01:32:32] with doing the push up as you should be able to do a push up with your hands here just as much as

[01:32:39] you can do a push up and all these angles and the more that you get you build into these angles

[01:32:45] the more you'll notice in day-to-day life it'll carry over because in day-to-day life you're moving

[01:32:50] in weird angles at doing stuff and different you know you're not doing the same patterns

[01:32:56] you know every time you're doing whatever you're doing with groceries kids right you know that sort of

[01:33:03] thing things like you said earlier I meant to talk about it is most of the time when people get hurt

[01:33:09] it's because they do something weird I slipped and fell it's never I was doing exactly what I normally

[01:33:16] do when I started her and it's very rarely that it's I lost balance I had to pick something up

[01:33:22] funky so I went into an angle that I'm not used to and I had no strength there well done because

[01:33:31] you haven't trained all those angles and the thing is with the book I made it easy for you don't

[01:33:35] even have to train every angle because the body's good like that if you just train close like I say

[01:33:40] usually pick three angles so you have a you know you could go here here and here like you really

[01:33:46] but you want to start playing in angles and we want to get away from I always squat in the same

[01:33:50] position this is this is my strongest position well that position will be stronger if you practice

[01:33:57] the other angles you don't have to get as strong but you know what I mean because the wider you squat

[01:34:04] for example the more it opens up your outer hip the closer your feet are together the more it's

[01:34:08] going to be closer like inside the hip and spinal that's a way of thinking about it thinking of it

[01:34:14] that's why guys will do pushups with their hands together right for their inner chest

[01:34:18] closer the hands are the closer it is the chest the more I can move my hand out the more it starts

[01:34:23] to cover towards the shoulder if that makes sense does that mean yeah absolutely helpful

[01:34:32] but yeah I said at the beginning I'm gonna say it again like I could not believe how

[01:34:37] I didn't realize how I was until I did because today I did the wall positions where you're on

[01:34:47] your back with your legs on the wall and then doing those various positions like I did the first

[01:34:53] one was like holy shit did not realize how tight I was like to the point where when I first did

[01:34:59] it I'll be honest like my butt wasn't even on the ground oh for sure like I literally not have

[01:35:06] been straight probably not now that might have been slightly an issue of the fact like I couldn't

[01:35:11] believe it seems so simple just put your legs on the wall but actually getting into that position

[01:35:17] required but thoughts and adjustment and like I could do it but it wasn't as simple as it should

[01:35:27] have been right like I it was a complete mind-bender um and I'll tell you this the wall stretches before

[01:35:35] I knew about fashion lines when I started doing the wall stretches I could only uh front squat 95

[01:35:39] pounds at the time because of my pain after six weeks of the wall stretches I was doing 225

[01:35:47] wow that's that sounds good for me because I'll be out at my squat it's it's a little bit of

[01:35:51] paranoia but it's a lot uh well I mean it's a lot of paranoia but some of it's justified because

[01:35:57] I don't squat super heavy I'm conscious of my knees I've got two surgically repaired knees

[01:36:02] I've been through that I don't want to go through that again well part of the reason why I switch gyms

[01:36:06] is because if you go to like plant fitness most everyone I've been to I'm sure there's some

[01:36:12] that have free squat racks but most of them are smitten machines and okay yeah so but what I found was

[01:36:19] it was it wasn't causing pain but it was putting some pressure on my knees because I couldn't

[01:36:24] I didn't have as much freedom to move with the bar for sure yeah and I know some people prefer that

[01:36:32] but so this is wild this is what I'm sure like obviously you know this because you have a background

[01:36:37] in gyms but what I also noticed was when I started benching on a free bench and not a smith machine

[01:36:43] I had to lower my weight drastically because I had the force to push it up but I didn't have

[01:36:49] the other stabilizer muscles to keep the bar steady well here's another way to look at it too

[01:36:56] this is a great step right so is it that you don't have the stabilizer muscles or when you're moving

[01:37:02] on the smith machine it's one angle right yeah okay so when you're doing a free bench what is it

[01:37:10] it's moving its angles because you have to keep it in the same angle it's a different

[01:37:16] so you're right yes it's stabilizer muscles but see how we're talking about angles if I'm doing

[01:37:21] something on a machine it's just the same same angle over and over again so of course I can generate

[01:37:28] more power because my body doesn't have to thank as much and it can just build into one angle

[01:37:32] but now I have a free bar okay so now I have to stabilize whether it's gonna go

[01:37:38] and as it moves where it's going so these are more angles and angles are small right

[01:37:43] I mean you think from here to here we have 90 so it doesn't take much of a okay 90 89 but when

[01:37:48] you're on that smith machine you're at 90 90 90 90 90 so when you're on that with that bar free

[01:37:53] or dumbbells you've got to manage that so you're getting five to ten degrees this is what I'm

[01:37:58] saying is imagine if there was a line coming out of this dumbbell right and I rotate it

[01:38:03] and I can rotate it this far so technically I take this line going this way when I come down

[01:38:10] I take it all the way I take it so that's 180 degrees angle oh buddy yeah I know

[01:38:18] it's alive and I'm playing my kids and we're doing stuff I have angles I have I've strengthened

[01:38:23] all these angles not the same and I'll tell you this with your planet fitness and stuff remember

[01:38:27] this the machines and stuff you should do you should not finish your mechanical workouts with

[01:38:33] machines and stuff like that okay those are designed for people that have injuries an older

[01:38:39] people but we got away from that who did that bodybuilders because they're trying to teach aesthetics

[01:38:44] and they're blowing their joints up and everything but use the machines to warm up right because

[01:38:49] you're tired or you're more tight you're cold right so you want one angle right so let's say you go

[01:38:54] in there and you do the chest machine first to warm up the peck fly machine that's more controlled

[01:38:59] to warm up and then we're going to move to more free will stuff and if you can always finish with

[01:39:06] a bodyweight exercise for that muscle group so for chest you'd finish with pushups and dips

[01:39:14] you know for legs you would definitely want to finish with squats especially with the dumbbell in

[01:39:18] front of you because that's where you carry things and you squat and pick stuff up or lunges

[01:39:22] because lunges argue mechanically getting off the ground everyone needs to be able to do a

[01:39:26] lunge because if you can't do a lunge as you get older you can't get off the ground and then

[01:39:29] you got to press the button and then the ambulance has to come and you fall in and you can't get up

[01:39:34] and you know I'm going to have to completely restructure my entire routine

[01:39:40] but it's because I'm doing it wrong I'm doing it wrong I'm flat out doing it wrong

[01:39:44] right right and that's why we all did it yeah that's why I was that's why I was totally stoked for

[01:39:49] this conversation because I knew it was going to be illuminating in like with a back you know

[01:39:56] finish with pull-ups or which is really hard to do you know if you lay on your back and you

[01:40:00] fold your hands back and then you press your back up until like a sunset yeah you should be able to

[01:40:04] do that that's a whole backline exercise so I like to finish with that one for my back as I can do it

[01:40:10] before I could do that what would I do I'd make sure I'm finished with pull-ups you know

[01:40:15] we're finished with like something just it doesn't have to be just a bodyweight exercise but just

[01:40:20] don't be finishing with machines finish with something that requires that as close as to what

[01:40:26] you are mechanically designed to do you are mechanically designed to be able to push the body off

[01:40:31] off the ground you're mechanically designed to do a free weight squat to poo in the woods do a lunge

[01:40:37] to pull up on something and climb so think of those things as let me finish with that because what

[01:40:43] I'm saying is as you want to leave the gym the most mechanically integrated because your fascia

[01:40:50] it's going to leave the gym with whatever you did last and it's really good on this so if you

[01:40:55] left the gym and you did a bench press on a machine that really allowed you to do a bunch of power

[01:41:00] but into a certain specific movement it's gonna remember that pattern last now it's built in all

[01:41:05] the other angles if you did all that stuff but you kind of leave with whatever you finished with

[01:41:11] so yeah I don't want to do this on air because it probably will take some time but I wonder if

[01:41:16] you would be so kind if I were to send you because I do I do three rotating different workouts

[01:41:22] at the gym I do other stuff but as far as the gym lifting goes I do three rotating

[01:41:28] third-tating plans but I send you those and basically just ask your advice on how to tweak those

[01:41:34] because let's reorganize them and change the reps and give you some different ideas yeah yeah because

[01:41:40] I can tell you how fast since we're having this conversation and you're doing the book we want

[01:41:43] to see how fast so you can understand because as we get moving you know get the second book done

[01:41:49] but my business partner and I were starting to look at space so we can get a gym so that we can

[01:41:54] do this on a larger scale and get the money so that we can go to colleges and we can put all the

[01:42:00] stickies on people do the movements and show the Connecticut you know and really really prove

[01:42:05] this work man if even when if when you guys get a gym let me know I would love to come down and

[01:42:11] do a workout for sure man like I'll take it I'll take a weekend and travel down that sounds

[01:42:17] like a that sounds like a lot of fun but yeah the facial lines you know like we're gonna have the

[01:42:21] pictures of the facial lines in the gym you know so we can teach it and we get our trainers what

[01:42:27] we want is have massage therapist chiropractors and trainers all because the younger chiropractors

[01:42:33] and depending massage therapist they understand fashion they're being taught it it's just

[01:42:38] it's just again like I said I mean you think about when they started doing all this stuff in the

[01:42:42] books you've got a solid gosh 40 50 60 years before they decide fashion is even a deal and even when

[01:42:49] they did it still took time of studying it you know and I would just say within the last 10 years

[01:42:55] it's become kind of become kind of a hit word so for example you have the fashion blaster with

[01:43:01] Ashley whatever name is but that's not what we're talking about and you know that's just to get

[01:43:06] cellulite out and it does work a little bit you know and there's other techniques you should use

[01:43:11] but again that's not what we're trying to say here or if you don't honey honey ram-bod that's the

[01:43:17] number one bodybuilding coach right now that has the most gold medals and most guys he teaches FST

[01:43:23] training which is facial stabilization training or or fascia something it's fascia training basically

[01:43:30] but again he's he's not doing it to save the general population like we're trying to we want to get

[01:43:35] obesity down we want to get pain down we think that pain if we can get pain under control I think

[01:43:41] we can start moving on moving the numbers on obesity but he's not trying to do that what is he

[01:43:46] trying to do he's making big guys big bodybuilders whoop to do I don't care about that I don't have time

[01:43:50] for it okay and not to say I went and trained a bodybuilder it's fun but long term we got to open

[01:43:57] up gyms we got to get hundreds of gyms out there that are really trying to build classes build trainers

[01:44:01] build massage therapists build chiropractic work you know because you need to be cracked but

[01:44:05] you know a lot of times people aren't you know and you know you you probably know most people

[01:44:11] aren't happy with chiropractors I just know that but it's because they're not looking at how to

[01:44:16] crack people from a facial perspective the older ones are now the younger ones are starting to

[01:44:20] understand because I know some of them and they do a lot better work because they understand what

[01:44:24] they're trying to interconnect you know if this is tight this is tight they're looking at the

[01:44:28] body differently and it matters how you look at the body you know that matters how you talk to

[01:44:32] the body you know it's like those silly things in a Asia where they put the rice in a bowl you

[01:44:38] know with the water they say I love you to it and it doesn't grow mold and they say I hate you

[01:44:42] to the bowl and it grows mold you know they do the water thing like how you think and how you

[01:44:48] visualize the body has a major effect on it and then on the world around you so yeah and for

[01:44:54] for anyone who may be listening to this and are starting to think that this sounds like a little

[01:44:58] two out there just remember because again history nerd here so prior to the discovery of penicillin

[01:45:07] and really germ theory in general infections were treated completely differently and it was

[01:45:14] a real toss up whether or not you would want it but then all of a sudden somebody accidentally

[01:45:19] discovers a fungus that pretty much kills all bacteria and you got to think and this is documented

[01:45:28] even the even the people they discovered it thought it was a mistake so they did it again

[01:45:32] and they did it again but then they realized it worked and it completely changed medicine

[01:45:37] you know same way too uh you know the practice of uh

[01:45:42] treating a wound during the civil war was usually washing your hands

[01:45:46] it was crazy up until the late 1800s and they were firing the doctors that wanted to clean

[01:45:51] their hands I mean it's crazy oh I was even I was even going to go into a civil war wound thing

[01:45:55] but that a better example is using uh you know cleaning water

[01:46:01] you know they took a chemical that was toxic because at chlorine is toxic

[01:46:07] um at certain levels but somebody figured out that at this kind of goldilocks zone it does a

[01:46:15] really good job of killing all the bad stuff in the water with having little to no adverse effect

[01:46:19] now I know there's a lot of debate on no chlorine but I think we can all agree that chlorine is

[01:46:24] better than cholera yeah and your point is what you know that things change we don't know everything

[01:46:31] and especially my industry this isn't social sciences where we know what i people do what we do

[01:46:35] and we're not going to change our thoughts on that for the most part that feel you know this is a

[01:46:39] field where the human body they are continuing to figure stuff out and that's you know I like what

[01:46:46] you're saying because that's the last 200 years have been crazy and we're still going and

[01:46:51] figuring stuff out and trying to do this and you never know who's going to figure something out

[01:46:56] and you know this has changed my life my clients and you know a lot of people on my TikTok I get

[01:47:01] messages from them that I bought the book and I've done the work and stuff and they they love it

[01:47:06] so you know given people their lives back it's weird being a trainer because before I did

[01:47:10] did all this stuff I wasn't really giving people their lives back you know it was just like ah

[01:47:14] I hope Mr. Jones loses weight I don't really I'm putting these programs together we'll

[01:47:20] we'll see how hard she works but now it's like I have a feeling we can change your life here

[01:47:27] I think I can get you got a pain and if you're not pain I think I can make you feel buttery

[01:47:31] smooth in regular life to where you'll get oh so here's what I what what happens to I want to say

[01:47:36] this is in the old adage Jake is you join the gym and you say I hope I lose weight I hope I get rid

[01:47:44] of my deep pain imagine joining a gym and you get to the point where you go I wonder how athletic I

[01:47:50] can get so no longer do you have a question you have a statement in your mind I you know you just

[01:47:56] I wonder how athletic I can get and it's kind of a question but it's more of an infinite

[01:48:01] like you start to realize holy crap I can take this as far as I put my effort into it

[01:48:07] it's a different process that sounds like you did all done that sounds wonderful to me

[01:48:13] another thing I gotta go out here because you said something earlier maybe think about it did you

[01:48:17] I think I watched you do it on your TikTok live did you recently it was either a squat or a bench PR

[01:48:24] oh I've been slowly hitting more and more which they're not as good as some of them used to be

[01:48:29] before the injuries but they're they're just it's slowly going up and you know it's it's more about

[01:48:37] just me feeling healthy because my my shoulders are still pretty gunked up as much as I can do

[01:48:41] which is wild you know but I still don't feel you know there's still parts my body that are old

[01:48:47] but for as old as I feel in some ways it's weird how day-to-day life is so much better

[01:48:52] because I don't want to re-endram myself and it's you know but it's weird how protected I feel

[01:48:58] but yeah I've been hitting it's it's been just a regular kind of journey up on squat deadlift

[01:49:05] and bench because I was I was going to do a powerlifting competition earlier this year but

[01:49:10] I realized I need to do one at the end of the year when I'm not so busy like the beginning

[01:49:14] of your year with work obviously in all the new years people and stuff it's a lot

[01:49:18] but I definitely want to do some powerlifting not just not for anybody other than myself

[01:49:23] because I like it's again it depends on your body every client's difference some people could never

[01:49:27] care to lift heavyweight me being an athlete who's always loved a lift heavyweight and out run

[01:49:31] everybody you know and out jump everybody um I don't want a body build again because I don't really

[01:49:37] care to get on stage like that um but never say never but I would like to powerlift and just see

[01:49:45] because for my body weight I'm extremely strong and you know I might be able to do some

[01:49:50] things with that and just you know I'm an athlete at heart and I can't help but I have to do

[01:49:56] these things so that I'll push towards something because it's hard for me to just go to the gym

[01:49:59] and even do this work as exciting as it is it doesn't you know I need things to focus on

[01:50:04] for myself sometimes and then also because with this fashion work I want to see how it

[01:50:08] responds the body differently so I spend time powerlifting I spend time doing the mechanics

[01:50:14] with bodybuilding I spend time doing them with like an average person's workout like you know we'll

[01:50:19] go through months where I'll do full body three times a week and do the mechanics and I just

[01:50:24] want to see the different responses see what heals me what doesn't so I can help you guys you know

[01:50:29] help clients and that's one of the thing all right we've got a question for you what's that

[01:50:35] I read what some new exercise I like to try

[01:50:40] well with the glutes a lot of it's going to be holding so like we said it's not the exercises

[01:50:44] you guys are doing so much it's how we're going about them so if you're doing leg curls again

[01:50:49] the leg curl make sure you're holding it at the top then fighting it on the way down slow reps

[01:50:55] but even like I said with the curls you know so if this is my leg let's say I'm on a leg curl

[01:51:00] machine warming up so when I warm up I don't just do reps now you know I'll do like one

[01:51:06] do I don't have a set variation because again it depends on how I feel you know but I'll do

[01:51:10] some reps so say for you guys 10 reps and on the 10th rep I just sit there and hold it

[01:51:16] and then I just focus on breathing through my nose

[01:51:21] because you can see how much more oxygen you get if you look at the studies how much more

[01:51:24] oxygen you get breathing through your nose and I'm trying to open up and close my rib cage so

[01:51:28] I'll do holds so you could say on the hamstrings with that I do like the dumbbell

[01:51:34] for stretching the hamstring so if you lay on a bench you have some I put a dumbbell but that

[01:51:39] you need a partner for that usually unfortunately so that one's kind of hit or miss but you know

[01:51:44] you put a dumbbell between your feet and then you stretch your legs real good and bring them up

[01:51:50] but again think of the hamstring and the glute action is the same as the bicep they want to really

[01:51:54] hold things so you're going to get better you know one you need to lock your legs out when you're

[01:51:59] doing the stretches like in my book that'll help really stretch them out um you need to hold

[01:52:06] things so squats hold at the bottom do pulses at the bottom to stimulate them um stiff like it

[01:52:13] deadlifts do them locked out as well and curve your back but again make sure that you have a healthy

[01:52:19] enough bag this might go to the flexibility but first or do your flexibility so that you can do

[01:52:24] these things would you would you recommend to fill up to that uh right this is why you know the in

[01:52:32] the book how it shows you the the stretches with the legs locked out where I'm standing

[01:52:37] basically do those first get get to where you can lock them out because if you can't lock them out

[01:52:41] and then you go try to lock them out with weight you're gonna have problems because when you lock those

[01:52:45] legs out too it releases the lower back and it teaches that back how to move in a curvature

[01:52:50] and build tension and curvature instead of always having to be straight because it needs to be able

[01:52:55] to do both because most of the time when you guys are hurting yourselves uh is your back straight

[01:53:00] no you're doing some weird movement where your body's in some weird angle and you couldn't build

[01:53:05] tension in that angle it's all about balance you know like we talked about in the first thing there's

[01:53:08] balance and it moves in you know free will is balance and then it moves into you know you've

[01:53:13] order and free will and it moves into chaos and obsession and that's more philosophical like we've

[01:53:18] said but you want balance in everything and some things are going to be different balance when it

[01:53:22] comes to our personalities and stuff you know you might be more clean than somebody in those balances

[01:53:28] but when it comes to the body the body is very structural so just as much as you should be able to

[01:53:32] you know do a fly with your elbow bent every angle's appropriate all the way to lock out

[01:53:39] so really it's lockout is balanced and then you have your angles in between and you can do them all

[01:53:45] and figure out which ones are the hardest yeah are you a fan of doing it? I think it's called a back lift

[01:53:52] it's uh basically like a reverse crotch mature leaning forward and there's there's a it's not a

[01:53:57] machine but there's like this uh saying no crotch has them where it it's similar to like the the bench

[01:54:04] where you do crunches but it's sort of a reverse where you lean over it and then basically lift up

[01:54:09] your lower back and up up loose well again it's a machine so it's something you can warm up on

[01:54:18] but all of the member like we've said before with the body I think they said this in the last

[01:54:22] podcast is doesn't it make sense that you master your body weight before you ever touch a weight

[01:54:32] yeah so so it's uh you can do machines you can warm up with them but you shouldn't finish with

[01:54:37] them you should finish with mastery of the body and do some type of body weight stuff

[01:54:44] you know so you can look up calisthenics as I get my books done we'll have that stuff I was

[01:54:49] get the gyms open yeah yeah yeah if you share a future it says you think something you really think

[01:54:57] that I'm referring to the back height of the central machine I believe but it's not weighted though it's just uh

[01:55:02] the one I used to find out they have a weighted version of that but yeah same same concept

[01:55:09] you know we're talking about the bot the hyper extension back machine yeah I mean it's it's still

[01:55:14] a machine but you think I mean most of it too as you guys got to start thinking your

[01:55:22] bash line so now that you've seen them and you see the anatomy trains lines so when you're doing

[01:55:27] that your hook and your feet and your legs are straight right and then you're curving over the

[01:55:30] thing now you can see you're not just using your back you're working your feet your calves your ham

[01:55:36] strings your back yeah so but we still want to finish like the most dominant thing you could probably

[01:55:47] do for your back is like I said I forget what it's called but when you're laying on your back

[01:55:51] and you roll your hands backwards and you make your back body into like a sunset like you push

[01:55:56] your hips up oh yeah it's just a bridge I think or at least I got a back bridge so instead of a

[01:56:01] plank because I think plank is the front fascia line you know and then you're doing that that thing if

[01:56:07] you can do that mechanically that backs can be pretty healthy because it requires a full body back

[01:56:12] strength um hand stands are good to learn because you should be able to walk just as much on

[01:56:16] your hands as you do your feet I know it sounds silly but balance dictates that yeah so and

[01:56:24] again you don't have to I'm not saying you got to be able to walk I'm just saying that you it

[01:56:28] would be you'd be encouraged to learn long term how to do a handstand and lock it out and be

[01:56:33] able to walk a little bit just as long as you're not in pain like I do a lot of handstand work

[01:56:39] because it heals my shoulders a lot but again you know why I have to do a lot of handstands

[01:56:43] fascially Jake because as a kid I used to walk on my hands up and down the basketball court

[01:56:49] and so unfortunately for me I taught my body that movement at a young age and now to this day my

[01:56:54] body still needs that movement so this is what you want to be careful with with your kids and stuff

[01:56:58] or what you're doing or what you're just if you're not working out and you're thinking I'm going

[01:57:02] to be a big strong powerlifter well you better plan on doing that stuff because once you train

[01:57:07] your body to do something it really it imprints that into the fascia so it's hard for a body

[01:57:13] builder to go to yoga and get healed it's not saying the yoga doesn't help too much but for me like

[01:57:19] I always use this example so I had a big knot in my chest one day and we were bench pressing

[01:57:24] I couldn't get this knot out stretching I couldn't get it out yoga I just I could feel it I just

[01:57:28] knew it was there it wasn't until because again don't think of it as weight right think of everything

[01:57:32] is tension I got up to three 20 on bench and I did a rep with torque and it popped now it

[01:57:38] wouldn't pop at 140 pounds it went pop at 200 it wouldn't pop at 250 but because I used to bench

[01:57:44] 405 for sets of 10 and my body so used to he lift in heavy blade it needed 320 in the structure of

[01:57:53] the mechanic to move that knot out it's annoying oh that's fine so you being an ex-fighter just

[01:58:01] remember that's if you change your body athletically if you were at your most athletic places a fighter

[01:58:07] Jake you're gonna have to find a way back I'm still training but there was a period there where

[01:58:15] I lost a lot of my flexibility and I'm slowly but surely I am getting back but I think utilizing

[01:58:22] the faster training is gonna really expedite that process and you could train a bodybuilder

[01:58:28] into a yoga person just know it takes it'll take a lot of time for the body to reorganize

[01:58:32] the nervous system how the structure it just takes a long time so if you love to bodybuilding

[01:58:38] and you're vendured yourself well when I get the book done we'll show you how to mechanically

[01:58:42] be a healthy bodybuilder and you just relearn how to be one and stop lifting with your ego in that

[01:58:46] case with them you know and if you don't want to be a fight you know if you don't want to do always

[01:58:51] at taekwondo anymore that's fine you know because you've had some time off of it with injuries

[01:58:56] and stuff but you might find that some of those movements you have to you know you kind of have

[01:59:00] to you'll have to see how your body responds oh to this yeah to to this day there's something to

[01:59:06] that because to this day because I think probably got the knowledge is totally different but even

[01:59:12] to this day when we scarred I'm still very late it gets angry I'm just my body naturally goes to

[01:59:19] these positions yeah because part of its genetics your posture and stuff and who you are

[01:59:24] oh well it's it's mine yeah I can attest this because it's exactly what we're talking about is when I start a time off

[01:59:31] I was not as Americans we're not really most of us we're not very late centered to side

[01:59:40] we don't and but I know like 70 to 80 percent ways so you you learn especially when you start

[01:59:48] up you learn very quickly you advance the way you move your body because you're using your legs

[01:59:56] so much more often right so that's why it's yeah so much you know it's just killing us

[02:00:06] but even so because of the time I'm not reading even though I lost my flexibility I did the same

[02:00:10] and like let me go play on one leg and I'm comfortable or almost sit down definitely like it will eventually get tired

[02:00:17] but I don't really lose my balance so to throw

[02:00:21] yeah but because of the time I go to throw a series of kicks is not complicated for me whereas somebody

[02:00:30] who started to hold my best trouble depending upon what their background was exactly depending on

[02:00:36] what their background is and this is why we see people be you know they do sports in high school

[02:00:40] then they go to college and maybe they do some sports maybe not but then they go sit at a computer

[02:00:45] and after four or five years and I've dealt with these people over the years it's like they were

[02:00:50] a big athlete and they're in a lot of pain because they were very athletic and then just got a

[02:00:55] sitting job and or you know got a job is very stressful with the sitting and they're not doing much

[02:01:01] because most people are sitting I think the average American still sits about 13 hours a day so we

[02:01:05] know people are sitting a lot you know and the people the more that you did as a kid the more you're

[02:01:09] gonna have to keep up with and it's not your fault me you didn't know when you were a kid playing

[02:01:13] basketball and doing all these things was going to be a contributor to how athletic you would need to

[02:01:18] continue to perform the rest of your life but my point is is the kid that didn't do any athletics

[02:01:23] as a kid and sat on a computer and built in that posture he's not in his near as much pain

[02:01:29] yeah and that's what I see what the kids I work with because I have very poor structural people

[02:01:35] that are in no pain but they've never really worked out and it's not until they start working out

[02:01:39] sometimes that they're like oh now I have pain you're making it worse and I'm like no your nerves

[02:01:43] were dead and I'm opening up your nerves and organizing your structure now you can feel

[02:01:49] how you know how imbalanced you were and just give it time so

[02:01:58] that was fantastic I will send you those plans and I'm sorry somebody just told me

[02:02:03] I've had two people tell me I haven't got coached just uh because I don't hear it at my end but

[02:02:07] two people tell me I do like I know they're right um so I apologize for that I don't know why this

[02:02:15] happens it's happened once before um I don't know I got into computer for the set of the set of the

[02:02:21] the exact same way but to this day sometimes I will start zoom and even my camera will be like

[02:02:28] different frame rate it's weird I can't I'm figuring it out so I apologize for that thanks for letting me know

[02:02:33] but good segue you mentioned your TikTok and I apologize everyone if you watched the live stream I

[02:02:40] didn't put the link in there but I will put the link to his TikTok but his website is the first link

[02:02:45] in the description is TikTok if you're watching this after the live it'll be the second link in the

[02:02:50] description uh definitely check out pilots TikTok because like I said you do you do you do my daily

[02:02:56] order or something like that every day either in the morning and afternoon um as best I can you

[02:03:02] it was more but we're you know I'm still on four five times a week and people are more

[02:03:06] nasty help you know welcome to ask questions see how I'm moving through things um that's usually

[02:03:12] the best way to help people for free we're just in general right now you know yeah most most

[02:03:17] definitely and like I said if you're watching this after the fact you've come to my

[02:03:21] lecture Tyler Tyler because I don't think TikTok that's why you can hit him up on TikTok or if

[02:03:28] you want to leave a comment below you can get past along the Tyler he can answer but definitely hit

[02:03:34] him up on TikTok and follow it's great content appreciate it man I'm trying my best we'll get there

[02:03:42] and buy the book yeah for sure yeah definitely buy the book I can attest to it's it's totally worth it

[02:03:50] it's a secret book it's just flexibility so don't think it's everything I know some people got

[02:03:53] confused and thought it was everything it's just flexibility so but again get good at that and then

[02:03:59] when the second book comes out it's gonna be a whole lot of stuff it's gonna be pretty much everything

[02:04:03] I teach as a trainer so it's including nutrition what water I would tell you to drink how to put

[02:04:08] your wall I mean it's everything I can think of so then I can just have one book and then you guys

[02:04:12] can just eat it up yeah I'm stoked for that I'm very stoked for the second book um that

[02:04:18] makes sense there's anything else you want to add right around as we've been going on for two hours

[02:04:22] and I think they've talked a lot so and we can do it again here as I you know we get chance and maybe

[02:04:27] next time maybe we do something in a better place where I can we can physically go through it

[02:04:35] yeah like I said I'm down to if you've got any time for it I'm down to come down and you work out

[02:04:41] to maybe we could work something or I'm still don't like that thank you I think you should do at

[02:04:47] least a month of the podcast man I'm gonna peer pressure you and then I know you're missing out things

[02:04:52] I know I know I know you guys feel your pain but um so yeah I want this stuff I need to do more

[02:04:58] though but what I was thinking is we could even lie feeding I could set up the camera so that

[02:05:02] we could go through it even with us not being in person yeah yeah well first of all I guess

[02:05:08] the green is you're not good at this because you you you you you can't go with that we

[02:05:17] can't go with that yeah yeah I totally totally get it it's I find my biggest struggle with anything

[02:05:24] as far as physically like training goes is time that's my biggest problem is having the time if

[02:05:31] I have more time I do a lot more stuff and I know that sounds like a god but I'm sure you can understand

[02:05:38] time is a very valuable and scarce asset when you are when you're missing first

[02:05:44] yeah everybody's taking up my time it seems in all different aspects so

[02:05:49] right well yeah definitely definitely but yeah I have almost seen those work out shortly

[02:05:54] and take take your time but I would be curious to see how you would tweak them for sure

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