what's up everybody this is morey croson from the performance lab today we actually have
crossfit and see no owner Eric Anza log on so I always go to breakfast with Eric and it has
a very very successful CrossFit business and and run the reasons why is because it's very
big focus on corrective exercises and making sure athletes stay healthy which is obviously
a big thing that what we're trying to do as well and we were talking to Dan we had a camera with
a great conversation it all kind of started with he came to the he was asking me because
we do all this science stuff and have all the biomechanics how can we get more force or get
better information out of the FMS is athletes are starting to get very very good at the FMS and he
wants to understand how to get kind of that next level knowledge which then kind of went into a
conversation about corrective exercise and a lot of the habits that we're seeing with corrective
exercise and I guess the the big thing that what I was talking about is that you know if I gave
somebody 3 corrective exercises let's say they would want to start much more with a shoulder
type of a corrective exercise or a hip kind of corrective exercise rather than something like
a core which it could be much more important I think Eric saw some of the same stuff and I know
honey I mean you okay yeah was that I was going to say the same thing what we notice is like we
will run clients through an assessment for the purpose of assignment on correctives and let's
say we identify three areas that they need work on and we tell them verbally like the priority
should be on this one area typically it's like diaphragm or the intrinsic or what will notice
is people will gravitate towards the extremity exercises and then actually progress or modify
in a more challenging way their core exercises what an actuality they're not actually prepared to
modify that to a more aggressive exercise there's a reason we prescribed maybe a regress exercise
either they're not actually prepared to modify that to a more aggressive exercise there's a
reason we prescribed maybe a redress exercise and that was the challenge yeah we were talking about
like how can we why is that happening and then how can we help reprioritize re-educate the importance
the vital importance of doing regressed exercise for the trunk or the poor and so that's kind of
where we arrived at this morning yeah and that's what we wanted to share with you guys and one I
think they're the big fundamental problem with this is that if I'm an athlete and you know I'm
getting these exercises to do understandably so we're both in athletic positions we want certain
goals to be achieved so if you're going to give me something for my hips and I'm trying to get
it better squat but you give you something for my diaphragm my hips and you know maybe my thoracic
spine well as an athlete we inherently see that our our goal is going to be achieved much faster
getting a higher squat by doing this it exercise so we prioritize that over something like the
cooler which is actually really a a much much more important important but more challenging
to find I think of what we were talking about is like it's more challenging to find a tangible
viewable visible benefit out of it right leg in the squat you can do hip mobility or hips like
a muscle activation on the hip drill and you'll improve your squat by a certain amount of weight
but if we tell you to go do breathing drills or dead bug your a diaphragm related thing how do
you quantify the improvement right like google drive on qualified or improvement and that's I
think the challenge that we're running into truth is inescapable that the the intrinsic
or the diagram the TVA are by far the Hmong the most important things to train and have carryover
to a huge range of movements we're doing just tape activation drills or older activation girls
will only I'll carry over to a very specific and finite range of movements and so we want
to encourage people that by doing poor things by practicing their core collectives the carryover
will be much larger than they can feel or see and that's yeah yeah that's very important then
another thing to to go off of that and especially a very very big thing for all you know I think
CrossFit coaches or trainers or even people that are in the community there is I think everybody is
kind of motivated away from pain and I think a lot of the things that cause pain start with issues of
having on the floor or in the core and also you know injury so there's a lot of problems in you
know whether it's a ACL tater as a soccer player or chronic back pain as a as a crossfitter or
even chronic shoulder pain as a throwing athlete or as a CrossFit athlete a lot of those problems
are starting from the spine and are going outwards and so we can again that the big priority is going
to be on fixing that core yeah there probably is some issues as a quarterback you could do for your
shoulder or as a crossfitter that you could do at your shoulder because you're feeling all that
into your tightness of the shoulder but that is just a you know you'll symptom of the underlying
problem and what we're trying to identify as where is the root problem is systemic part of
a problem so I think we will do is go probably come out with some videos or talk more in the
next few days or weeks and and maybe come up with some drills and movements and ways to quantify