Hey, this is Mary Lee Johnson once again at the 2014 21 Convention,
I�m here with Bill DeSimone and you were talking about exercise, we had so many questions
for you, I had for you, and I�m sure everybody else has for you, too.
Is there one most preventable injury?
One most preventable injury.
Well the obvious should be the injury that happens actually in a gym. Drop a barbell
on your throat, trip while you have a barbell on your back, that should be really obvious.
For most people though that doesn�t happen to, there�s also the long-term chronic problem
that exercise might inadvertently bring on. So just because you are clear of the obvious
injury or accident, doesn�t mean you are invulnerable for the rest of your life.
So, for instance for my own ruptured biceps and triceps that got me started on this: for
triceps I fell skating. Very obvious, ok. What do you for that, don�t fall.
The biceps though, it was a slow curl, there was nothing extreme about what I was doing,
I was warmed up, I was using good form, very slow movement I wasn�t excessive in the
weight, and it just went. Except it didn�t just go then it was probably years of excessive
range of motion, years of a little bit of a heave and a drop, years of getting a good
stretch with the weights that wore that particular joint out. And so it looked like it went then
but that wasn�t the obvious injury it was a sneaky thing that caught up to me 20 years
later.
So somebody injures themselves and they think �oh, I just did it yesterday but really
they�ve been doing it for 10 years.�
Well or like some of the guys here would say, which I�m kind of surprised that 25 year
old guys would say: �my elbows are hurting my shoulders are hurting.�
I mean the things I did when I was 20 they were hard to do when I was 40, they didn�t
hurt me at 25. Of course the things I do wrong now haunt me later, so.
When you said, �somebody might say nothing hurts why should I change what I do?� So
why should they change what they do if they�re like �no I�m happy with my form I don�t
want to correct tit all, I think I�m doing fine, I�ve never hurt myself, that means
I�m perfect.�
That�s right. Well, I really try to speak to receptive audiences, so if someone is doing
everything wrong and claims nothing hurts, more power to you, good luck.
If things hurt, you have more idea of where the problem is. But I actually find that there
are enough people out there, especially my age, where they have had a dull ache in their
shoulder or they thought this exercise wasn�t agreeing with them, and when they either cut
it out or modified it, the pain goes away. Magic.
So, it�s like now you�ve got a CrossFit person, a P90X person, and they�re like
�oh I love this workout, nothing hurts.� Well, more power to you. When things start
to hurt�
Come see you.
Come see me. Of course nowadays, they�ve completely undermined it and they kind of
celebrate the injuries, which I find astonishing.
It�s almost like a war wound.
A badge of honor, right.
I read your book and the question that I had, not about the form because everything seemed
really good, is you talk about a moment arm, how is that different than a lever?
They�re the same thing.
Ok.
It was catchier.
Lever exercise, moment arm exercise, moment arm sounded cooler.
I thought that if I had that, then somebody else might have that too and I thought that
maybe I�m just thinking it wrong.
It�s the same thing.
When people want to read your books, because they will, because they�re really good.
Read his books. Where would they go and get them?
Both are on Amazon. Congruent Exercise is in print and Kindle. And Moment Arm Exercise
is sold spiral bound version.
And do have a blog that you want people to go see?
I do. If you go to optimalexercisenj.com that has a page with all the links to the blog,
various interviews I�ve done with Anthony and others through the years, various videos
I�ve done, so its all on that one webpage.
You mentioned Anthony, how are you finding the 21 Convention this year, with the speakers
and the content?
Eric Daniels I didn�t know and I thought his stuff was great, McGuff I do know and
his stuff was different. And I know everything is new to somebody once, so you would want
to repeat the basics. But I�ve seen the basics so when McGuff goes a completely different
direction or Eric comes in with something I haven�t considered before, it�s fascinating
That�s fantastic, I�ve been so happy to have you and it�s been so great to have
you here with us.
This is Mary Lee Johnson with the 2014 21 Convention, see you guys later.