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Hard to believe we’re almost 12% through 2025 already.
If you missed the past 2 videos, we’re discussing WHY you should slow down this year if you want faster results from your training.
And we’re discussing how to slow yourself down instead of BEING SLOWED DOWN by injury.
And the way to do that?
Identify the reasons you’ll get injured / people get injured in the first place and OVERCOME them.
Today, Part 3… Which I said in our last video is a very good reason why, no matter how much you “practice” your technique, you can’t seem to “get it to work” -
[3] Pre-Existing Yet [Maybe] Undetected Issues and Injuries
In our last video I mentioned “ugly” lifts using bad technique -
“Heil Hitler” Military Presses, “Tail Tucking” Swings, and “Knee-knocking” Squats.
Sure, sometimes those are simply not knowing the proper technique.
Many times they’re not.
They’re a result of your body doing the best it can to do what you ask it.
But…
After a few decades of rustling papers and riding a desk, your body has “changed its shape,” and therefore its ability to function the way it’s designed and the way you want it to.
These are called movement dysfunctions / movement compensations.
And when you load them enough (weight / kettlebell training), you end up “breaking” things.
Sometimes temporarily.
Sometimes permanently.
Neither are fun.
Slowing down, identifying your “issues,” then fixing them, goes a LONNNGGGG way in both your current training and your future training.
Get yourself on a good restoration program.
Do it daily. 10 to 30 minutes.
Every day.
You’d be shocked what you can do in “just” 30 days.
Me?
Don’t worry - I practice what I preach.
I did EXACTLY what I’m recommending you do, only I did it for 18 months - from September 2010 to April 2012.
It was arguably one of the most productive training blocks of my life.
I got 90% of my 25-year old chronic bilateral knee pain to FINALLY disappear.
I could walk up and down stairs without pain.
I could run, jump, hike… All of it.
I’m convinced if I hadn’t taken care of that in my late 30s, my early 50s would be much, much different. Certainly VERY painful.
How long will it take you to get your issues to go away?
Well, it depends on what they are and how long you’ve had them.
One thing’s for sure, time marches on and entropy occurs.
Your issues aren’t going to resolve themselves by themselves.
In fact, they’re only going to get worse as you get older.
May as well make 2025 the year to take care of them.
Not sure if you’ve heard this saying that was born in US Military Special Operations:
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.”
Deliberately slowing down your training and identifying your “gaps” - your recovery, your technique errors, and your “issues”…
And then fixing them…
Improves your training efficiency and therefore your results in both the short and long runs.
Assuming of course you’re using a quality training program and not just throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall and seeing if it sticks.
If you need a good restoration program, I recommend you use the same one I created for myself. I’ll leave the link in the description below.
https://go.chasingstrength.com/sore-joint-solution-e/
Stay Strong,
Geoff