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What's up, everybody? Justin Hays here from SuperhumanPursuits.com. And lately I've had
a couple of videos about movement, so continuing on with that. Today, this video is just about
one simple statement: Moving poorly reinforces poor movement.
And I want to kind of frame it up like this: Every movement you make with your body, you're
either reinforcing a good pattern or a bad pattern. So let's take walking as an example.
If I were to walk and I have, you know, my hips tilted either anterior or posteriorly,
my knees caved in making my ankles slide out, all these things are telltale signs that there's
an imbalance, an inefficiency, something wrong with the movement of walking.
But each step you take, every mile you walk each and every day, you're reinforcing those
limiting balances, those inefficiencies. Right?
So if you have muscles that are stronger than others you're making those muscles stronger
while those that are weak and inactive are continuing to stay shut off and actually weakening.
And so what you do is, if you're moving poorly and you don't address it by doing mobility
work, stability work, or one of the things that I discussed the other day, but if you
don't address these things, then all you're going to do is put yourself in a place where
it becomes increasingly more difficult to bettering your movement.
So if you walk poorly or inefficiently for years and years and years and keep reinforcing
that bad behavior, those bad patterns, right? Then backtracking, taking that back and getting
back to the place where you move properly and cleanly becomes more and more difficult.
So the big takeaway here is this, is that all these things are time sensitive. If you
don't begin to address your movement as soon as possible, and build a good foundation,
a good, you know, baseline, for you to do any activity for your body, then all you're
going to be doing is reinforcing poor movement. And that's it.
The inverse though is also true. Is that when you begin moving properly, when everything
moves efficiently and stacks up and works well together, no matter whether you're walking,
running, throwing, lifting, anything, then when you start going through proper ranges
of motion and using good movement, you're reinforcing good moves. So the inverse is
true.
And those are the takeaways from this video. Love to hear your feedback. If not, talk to
you next time.