SPEEDIER findings
Hard to accept we’re almost 12% through 2025 already.
If you missed the past two videos, we’re discussing the causes why you should take it easy this year if you want more rapid results from your training.
And we’re discussing how to slow yourself down instead of being held back by injury.
And the way to do that?
Identify the reasons you’ll get injured / people get injured in the first place and resolve them.
Today, Part 3… Which I said in our last video is a very compelling 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.
Of course , sometimes those are simply not knowing the proper technique.
Many times they’re not.
They’re a result of your body doing the maximum it can to do what you ask it.
But…
After a few decades of shuffling papers and riding a desk, your body has “changed its shape,” and therefore its ability to function the way it’s intended 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 temporarily .
Sometimes permanently .
Neither are desirable.
Slowing down, identifying your “issues,” then fixing them, goes a LONNNGGGG way in both your current training and your future training.
Get yourself on a good restoration program.
Do it daily. 10 to 30 minutes.
Every day.
You’d be surprised 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 productive training blocks of my life.
I got 90% of my 25-year old chronic bilateral knee pain to FINALLY disappear.
I could walk up and down stairs without pain.
I could run, jump, hike… here All of it.
I’m convinced if I hadn’t taken care of 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 keeps moving and entropy occurs .
Your issues aren’t going to get better on their own by themselves .
In fact, they’re only going to get worse as you get older.
May as well make 2025 the year to address 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 slowing down your training and identifying your “gaps” - your recovery, your technique errors, and your “issues”…
And then fixing them…
Improves your training efficiency and therefore your results in both the near and far term .
Assuming of course you’re using a good training program and not just winging it and seeing if it sticks .
Stay Strong ,
Geoff Neupert.