Daily Maestroism

DM #505

Tuesday, October 10th, 2017

DM #505: If you don’t expose yourself to it, you’ll never become resilient against it.
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Had an interesting discussion with a social media homie this morning after I posted a video of me doing behind the neck presses, and I thought it warranted a DM. We get injured where we don’t train. Those tissues don’t get exposed to load and thus don’t build resiliency. Those movement don’t get trained and thus we have no neural connection to them. We can’t control them. We don’t own those positions.
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The more movements and positions that we avoid (especially basic fundamental movement patterns like touching your toes), the more vulnerable to injury we become. Why? Because just like DM #482 says, “Just because you avoid a position in training doesn't mean gravity won't take you there during competition.” Substitute the words ‘daily life’ for competition, and you start to see what I mean. So, you avoid touching your toes because it’s hard or it hurts…but you still have to pick up things off the ground, bend down to play with your kids, bend forward to load the dishwasher or unload the dryer…I think you get where I’m going here.
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I think that all too often we avoid certain movements simply because we read somewhere, at some point in time, that they might be bad for us. We never questioned why they were bad, just accepted it as one less thing to work on and moved on with our lives. Time to reconsider.
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