What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
Another one of those up close and personal – maybe the closest I've ever got – but
we've got to talk about age.
How old are you?
More importantly, how old do you feel?
You see, I'm 40 years old now, and chronologically I'm probably over the hill, or at least half
way to the grave.
God willing, actually.
I'll take the 80 years, but it's not what that's about.
Chronologically age means nothing.
If you want to continue to be young then you'd better preserve your physicality.
You'd better start preserving it now.
I don’t care if you're 20 years old watching this right now.
I don’t care if you're 15 years old, because guess what?
I bet you there are things that you used to be able to do when you were 5, 6, and 7 years
old that you cannot do now.
Yes, it does already start to happen in your teens and it gets worse through your 20s and
gets worse through your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s; every age and day that you get older it all
gets worse.
Unless you continue to use those skills.
You see, ATHLEANX is all about pushing you to the limit in all realms of physicality.
It's not just about strength.
It's about strength, it's about coordination, it's about conditioning, it's about balance,
it's about mental ruggedness, and toughness.
A lot of us give in when we get to 40 years old – or whatever age it is.
We think "I'm too old to start."
I can't tell you how many people write to us and say "Hey, is ATHLEANX something I can
follow?
I watch your YouTube videos a lot, but man; that's for the young guys."
Who, young guys?
The guys that are doing most of the stuff here isn’t all that young.
It just fires me up when I hear people put limitations on themselves because of a number.
Again, I think the biggest issue is not just putting limits on yourself, but accepting
those limits; accepting that's that norm.
It doesn't have to be.
Look – take a look at some of the things that you should be able to do.
These are things that everybody should be able to do.
Remember, I put a whole video out before on the sit-to-stand test.
Can you simply have your feet crossed, go straight down to the ground, and come back
up without excessive rocking and just maintain or establish a standing position again.
A lot of people can't do that.
That's a problem.
Can you cross your knee over your other leg and then flatten out that top leg?
I bet you there's at least 70% of the people watching this right now that can't flatten
out that top leg.
The mobility in their hip doesn't allow it.
What about just being able to squat all the way down?
Straight down to the ground and come back up without falling forward, losing your balance?
Having good mobility through your hips or your low back without feeling pain in your
knees, or your back?
These are all things that become problems, only when they become problems.
You don’t think about it.
It's this, sort of, lack of attention until you've lost it.
But you have to use it, or you'll lose it and you know that.
You've heard that before.
There's other things, too.
How about behind your back?
What's the mobility of your shoulders look like?
Can you touch your fingers behind your back?
It requires a lot of internal rotation on one shoulder and external rotation on the
other.
You might be able to do it on one side, or get close.
Can you do it on the other side?
Probably not.
Can you do something as simple as jumping over something without crumbling, or feeling
this aching pain in your ankles, or your knees, or your hips when you land?
You should be able to jump a bench easily.
We prescribe a half jump for a box jump, but can you get all the way across the bench and
back to the ground again?
You should be able to.
I bet you when you were young you jumped all over the damned place, but you never even
thought about it.
Guys, the point of this video is not to discourage you, but encourage you as to what abilities
you still have, if you start to pay attention to them again.
They all matter.
They all need attention.
It's not just about strength.
It's not just about getting bigger.
It's not becoming a power lifter.
Those are great skills, but that's just one skill.
How strong can you get?
Get as strong as you possibly can, but you'd better still be flexible.
You'd better still be mobile.
You'd better still have your coordination.
You'd better still have all the ability to use these things and these skills together.
It all matters.
Guys, training like an athlete is how you do it and not ignoring any element of your
physicality is how you do it.
I hope, that through my videos here, I inspire you to do that.
Most of all, through this video, I don’t care what age you are.
If you're 20 start thinking and recaputring the things you did when you were a kid.
If you're 50, or 60, or 70; start thinking about the things you're going to start to
be able to do once again by paying attention to the things that you disregarded and let
fall by the wayside these last few years.
If you're looking for a way to do it, guys, I say it all the time.
Head to ATHLEANX.com and get our ATHLEANX training system.
Start training like an athlete so you not only look like an athlete, but you start functioning
like one even if you never get paid a damn day to do it for a living.
All right, guys.
I'll be back here again in just a couple days with another video.
See you.