QUICKER findings
Hard to accept we’re almost 12% through 2025 already.
If you missed the past two videos, we’re discussing the reasons why you should slow down this year if you want quicker results from your training.
And we’re discussing how to slow yourself down instead of BEING SLOWED DOWN by injury.
And the way to do that?
Identify the factors you’ll get injured / people get injured in the first place and conquer them.
Today, Part 3… Which I said in our last video is a very valid reason why, no matter how much you “practice” your technique, you can’t seem to “get it to work” -
[3] Pre-Existing Yet [Maybe] Undetected Issues and Injuries
In our last video I mentioned “ugly” lifts using bad technique -
“ Military” Military Presses, “Tail Tucking” Swings, and “Knee-knocking” Squats.
Sure , sometimes those are simply not knowing the proper technique.
Many times they’re not.
They’re a result of your body doing the best it can to do what you ask it.
But…
After a few decades of office work and riding a desk, your body has “changed its shape,” and therefore its ability to function the way it’s designed and the way you want it to.
These are called movement compensations .
And when you load them enough (weight / kettlebell training), you end up “breaking” things.
Sometimes momentarily.
Sometimes long-term.
Neither are fun .
Slowing down, identifying technique your “issues,” then fixing them, goes a great way in both your current training and your future training.
Get yourself on a solid restoration program.
Do it daily. 10 to 30 minutes.
Every day.
You’d be stunned what you can do in “just” 30 days.
Me?
Don’t worry - I practice what I preach.
I did precisely what I’m recommending you do, only I did it for 18 months - from September 2010 to April 2012.
It was arguably one of the most effective training blocks of my life.
I got 90% of my 25-year old chronic bilateral knee pain to ultimately disappear.
I could walk up and down stairs without pain.
I could run, jump, hike… All of it.
I’m certain if I hadn’t dealt with that in my late 30s, my early 50s would be very different. Certainly extremely painful.
How long will it take you to get your issues to go away ?
Well, it is determined by what they are and how long you’ve had them.
One thing’s for sure, time doesn’t stop and entropy occurs .
Your issues aren’t going to fix themselves by just like that.
In fact, they’re only going to get worse as you get older.
May as well make 2025 the time to fix them.
Not sure if you’ve heard this saying that was born in US Military Special Operations:
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.”
Deliberately easing up your training and identifying your “gaps” - your recovery, your technique errors, and your “issues”…
And then addressing them…
Improves your training efficiency and therefore your results in both the near and far term .
Assuming of course you’re using a effective training program and not just guessing and seeing if it works .
Keep pushing ,
Geoff Neupert.