Daily Maestroism

DM #331

Wednesday, April 19th, 2017

DM #331: There’s more to training than working on your ability to stay in ‘neutral’.
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We don’t get hurt in neutral. We don’t get hurt when we have our core properly braced or our knees tracking well. When do we get hurt? When we bend and twist to pick something up, when our knees collapse inward when we land, when our ankles roll outward when we plant to cut and change direction.
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So what to do about it? Start exposing yourself to those shitty positions. Am I telling you to go and dive-bomb into those positions? NO. Don’t do that. But should you slowly ease into those end ranges and eventually start loading them? Absolutely.
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@drandreospina first put me onto this notion during his FRC course, and I’ve never looked back. Yes, we want to respect biomechanically advantageous positions and promote these during our training because that’s where we’re going to generate power, stay safe, move better, and generally knock it out of the park.
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However, if we don’t expose ourselves to end ranges and less than ideal positions, our tissues and our nervous systems won’t know what the heck to do when we encounter them, and we’re gonna get injured.
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So, take home? Get out of neutral and get started on becoming more resilient.
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