The GFY Podcast
The GFY Podcast
S4 Ep2: Position Over Strength: Why How You Move Matters
In this episode, we break down a common misconception in rehab and training: you’re not always weak just because something hurts. 💥
We discuss why strength alone isn’t the whole picture and explore the importance of proper positioning, neuromuscular control, and individual movement patterns.
We also talk about the limitations of generic exercises and poor assessments that miss how people move in real life. From pain relief to dynamic control, we cover how training should progress—and when to focus on power, speed, and tendon health.
Plus, we dive into alternative methods like Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) training and how to tell the difference between a movement issue and a true strength deficit.
This episode is all about moving smarter, not just harder.
#MovementMatters #NotJustStrength #RehabToPerformance #BFRTraining #WellnessJourney #AthleticTraining #GoFixYourself
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Michael Stant: Welcome to the GFY podcast and we're good. Let's rock right into it. Bruno.
Michael Bruno: This guy's getting techy. I love it.
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: I love it. What's going on in your world, Mike? Give me something good today.
Michael Stant: My world good
Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: today is I ran before this. So, you're going to see even a little bit more energy than you're used to. And then I got a little cold brew next to me that I make myself. Folders if you're wondering.
Michael Bruno: Oh
Michael Stant: So, I'm pretty
Michael Bruno: man.
Michael Stant: pumped about that.
Michael Bruno: You are the definition of energy, right?
Michael Stant: Yeah. I don't know anyone else who has more energy than me.
Michael Bruno: Oh man, we just got to hear it in your voice and see it in your face and then we'll be good.
Michael Stant: Yeah, exactly.
Michael Bruno: You are a you you are a workhorse. You are a workhorse. That's for sure.
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Michael Stant: Yeah.
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Michael Bruno: reminds me of a quick story to all get you to know Mikey a little bit better. So, for those who don't know, we were roommates in college and our house senior year was on the opposite side of campus of all of the bars and restaurants. So, when we'd be walking home, it's easily a 20 30 minute leisurely walk. And Mikey loved the Irish goodbye and would just disappear on you. So on I remember so clearly like the rest of us were walking home and you just hear these really quick footsteps and we thought someone was running up on us to like jump us or mug us or something and I turn around and it's Mikey sprinting down the street because he was running home because he thought the walk was going to take too long and it was just a hi guys, bye guys. And he got home in like five minutes. And that will always be one of those like defining moments for me of you.
00:01:39
Michael Stant: Hey, sometimes I just wanted to get to bed. And well, what's funny part about that story is how I was behind you because if I was if I was typically Irish goodbyeing all of you, I would really be like
Michael Bruno: Yeah,
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Michael Stant: I must I must have uh sidetracked myself. Who knows?
Michael Bruno: Yeah,
Michael Stant: We'll we'll we'll never know.
Michael Bruno: Mikey is a the king of 7-Eleven taquitos, so he loves to talk about health and everything,
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Michael Stant: might Yeah, I might have to revisit that UD alumni weekend a couple weekends from now just just for old times sake.
Michael Bruno: Mikey will be there signing autographs if anyone's interested.
Michael Stant: Yeah, I might be the most famous alumni. I don't know anyone more famous from UD than me.
Michael Bruno: Oh
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Michael Bruno: Or Joe Flacco. Those are our two claims
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Michael Stant: I mean did Joe Flacco actually graduate? I think that's something else we have to look into.
Michael Bruno: I don't know. I don't know.
Michael Stant: It's common athlete thing not to do.
Michael Bruno: Yeah. All right. What are we talking about today?
Michael Stant: We're talking about is strength the problem? And I'm going to give you a story for background on this one.
Michael Bruno: H
Michael Stant: And so I go back when I was a graduate assistant working football. And I remember I go to a doctor's appointment with a football player. He's a junior senior. So, you know, been in a lifting program with the school for a long time, having some knee pain. Been a couple weeks, have him see the doctor.
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Michael Stant: And the solution was all right, like this is what it is. you know, start with first we'll start with some uh ibuprofen, whatever NSAIDs as we call them, non-steroidal anti-inflamm anti-inflammatory
Michael Bruno: Paint pain
Michael Stant: drugs,
Michael Bruno: pills.
Michael Stant: painkillers,
Michael Bruno: Paint pills.
Michael Stant: pain pills, but I don't like always saying pain pills because then some people think, you know, the heavy narcotic stuff. Um, but then he was like, "All right, so yeah, what we need to do is just strengthen the quads and hamstring more." And I remember in that moment, I was like, "All this guy does is lift. Like, why? Why? How? And you don't think that we hit his quads and hamstrings during a lift. That doesn't really make sense. You know, I think that was probably my first year as an athletic trainer when I when I first started maybe when I first started questioning like, oh wait, does every doctor actually know what happens like behind the scenes or around everything? Because you always just kind of assume like, oh well, they're a doctor with 30 years of experience.
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Michael Stant: They've seen so many things. They probably know what works. But you got to remember a lot of times they're not the ones actually rehabbing or seeing what actually works on
Michael Bruno: Mhm.
Michael Stant: the rehab side of things.
Michael Bruno: Mhm.
Michael Stant: So, you know, ultimately for that instance, strengthening quads and hamstrings wasn't really the solution for that knee pain. You know, it ended up being some more proximal solutions in that case where it was something more, you know, maybe it's like this is what it is and this where I get into semantics. Are we actually strengthening a hip? Like are we doing hip abduction strengthening or glute glute me strengthening or are we just retaching someone how to actually activate that muscle and they are much better at moving in a certain way now that takes less stress off the knee
Michael Bruno: All right. I don't I have so many thoughts at one time. I don't even know where to start. The In my entire time of doing this, I haven't ran into a pure weakness problem, true weakness problem.
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Michael Stant: And so for you too, let let's also differentiate this, right? We're not talking about postsurgical people and
Michael Bruno: Right.
Michael Stant: because that that that is a much different game like
Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: you do need to have very specific strengthening and we'll probably go into like mechanisms of what is strengthening and maybe it and
Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: like and that's probably part of it too is like what is the definition of strength? What is
Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: definition of strengthening? But go ahead.
Michael Bruno: So, yeah. In in my world, I rarely come in contact with postsurgical cases or true neurological deficit cases like people who would go to uh like to a hospital setting or true like neuro the like PT. Those are people that I don't work with. They're not a good fit for what I do. Those are the people with true strength deficits and their, you know, process back to where they want to go looks very different than what we do. But what I will tell you is there is an overwhelming majority of people who come in with like the the mind garbage because they've seen someone else before and they're like, "I was told my core was weak or I was told my hip was weak."
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Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: And that's a conversation a lot of them have that like mindblowing experience where it's we're talking through it and it's your hip's not weak. it might not be in a position to be able to produce the strength that it has. And that's where we can make improvements, right? So, if you're going to do the uh a bicep curl, right, the typical bicep curl, arms by your side and curling, that's where you're probably strongest to lift the most amount of weight. If you put your arm behind you and up overhead and tried to do a bicep curl back there, wouldn't do be able to do as much weight as effectively. Did your bicep get any weaker just moving your arm? No. All you did was change the position. So, when we're having those types of conversations, that's something I say a lot of the times is root cause, like you have to know the problem you're solving. Because for them, if they think, oh, I just have to strengthen my bicep, it's a very different conversation than, oh, I need to learn the strategies and the positions that are going to make my bicep stronger for me or feel stronger, express the strength.
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Michael Bruno: It's a very different conversation.
Michael Stant: So I I want to not vary too far off here, but so when someone has an issue, they go to PT, Cairo, something, they go, "Hey, you got to go to six weeks because you have to strengthen XYZ." And let's say they go they do your typical tabletop exercises or whatnot and it works. Why does it work?
Michael Bruno: Oo, good question. Devil's
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: advocate.
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: So, a lot of the times in the and I'll I'll blanket statement this with the the typical they call them like mill PT places. So, shotgun approach where if there's 10 people with back pain, those 10 people, no matter old, young, active, not active, they'll get the same four or five exercises. So they call that the shotgun approach, meaning that some people will get better, some people will get no results, and a few people might even get worse. So that those are the when you don't when you're constrained by time and I have friends in the industry who are trying to see four people an hour and
00:08:27
Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: they're juggling back and forth between all of them. You don't really have a ton of time to think through it clinically outside of oh your back hurts so do these back exercises like bang bang bang then you go walk to the next person bang bang bang walk to the next person because you're like it's not a bad doctor they're just very crunched on time and they don't have the time to get as granular with specifics
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: and and usually in that scenario like most people who see me have tried that and it didn't work for them. So there's, you know, there's a fit out there for everyone. So my recommendation is if you haven't
Michael Stant: What?
Michael Bruno: tried anything, they start with the easiest stuff and if that doesn't work, then we have to have a conversation because if it was a back problem, the back solution, right? Like the re they gave you those three exercises for a reason. They're not trying to intentionally give you crappy stuff. It's they've seen across millions of people that's come through those doors.
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Michael Bruno: That's if three if I can give you three exercises without knowing nothing about you besides, hey, it's back pain. These are going to be the most likely ones to work. Those work for 30% of the people that walk in the door. Great. Those 30 people are good because it was actually a back problem. The other 60 whatever percent need more help.
Michael Stant: Gotcha. So would you say so let's I I want to reel it back for myself. So like right go back to like what is a strengthening program or may maybe we it's for me and because I think what you see sometimes too like maybe people are struggling and you give them a weightlifting program like the true idea of strengthening. Okay, how about we just start go a weightlifting program and they just start doing what they see as strengthening and things get better for
Michael Bruno: Mhm.
Michael Stant: them. Like let's say you have low back pain, but you go, "All right, how about we start?" Not that this always happens, but like how about we start squatting, deadlifting, lunging, like does that do you ever see that lead to people getting out of pain?
00:10:34
Michael Bruno: Absolutely.
Michael Stant: And yeah, and and and the reason why I I bring that up because I one of my brothers actually like he kind of talked about he was going to a physical therapist. He was having a bunch of glute pain. Probably we probably call it paraphformis syndrome and like it wasn't getting better and so then he was like I just decided to start lifting again and I started lifting heavy and it just cleared up and that was it. And I think that's important too is like if you're truly like what it it is I don't I don't know if I would call that like a strength problem, right? He just wasn't figuring out a way to actually get proper glute activation, but having a resistance to it forced them to get proper glute activation. So like once again, you kind of go back to like it it really does become like an individualized thing where certain things work for certain people. What is their actual issue? Do they already have a high tolerance to all these exercises that you're doing and kind of been through and been through it?
00:11:28
Michael Bruno: Oh man, you really want to grind my gears Like going back to the the cookie cutter approach,
Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: if you have, you know, grandma who hasn't worked out in 40 years, the glute bridges and the hamstring stretch might help her. But if you have a a CrossFit, I have one guy in mind in particular, a high level CrossFit athlete who does or a college athlete who does, you know, like two, three workouts a day and you give him those same three exercises. In what world
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: is that stimulus going to have any effect? Right? You can do you can do a lot with a little, right? But the goal is not strengthening in those situations. So in the cookie cutter approach, they're like, "Oh, you just got to strengthen your glutes. Here's a green rubber band." Someone who squats 500 lb is not going to strengthen their glutes with a clamshell. Let's be clear about that. they're already way past that point. So, if the answer is strength, you have to look at something that's actually going to provide that stimulus versus that same person who can squat 500 pounds and they have back pain.
00:12:38
Michael Bruno: It's, oh, we can see you're limited in hip rotation here. We have to do this exercise that isn't a strength exercise. It's a position changing exercise.
Michael Stant: There
Michael Bruno: It's
Michael Stant: he
Michael Bruno: a shape changing exercise.
Michael Stant: uh neuromuscular is kind of essentially what you're saying
Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: if you want to get into it. Yeah.
Michael Bruno: Right. So we being able to change like how the muscles that are already strong, how they pull, push, and work, right? Teaching your body how to do that, unlearning all the junky habits that you had before. A lot of the times that results in pain relief. They didn't get any stronger or weaker with that exercise. It's it was just the changing of position that alleviated pain and improved range of motion.
Michael Stant: Yeah. And you know that you always want that transfer over, right? If they're having pain specifically with squatting or specifically with something they do every day, specifically in their sport, it's you do the exercise that you use to show them how to get that range of motion.
00:13:33
Michael Stant: And then if you truly know you have someone good, right, and I know you do this, you go and follow them in the gym and go, "Let me see how you move. Let's see if there's something that it doesn't transfer over
Michael Bruno: Oh, you're
Michael Stant: from
Michael Bruno: really
Michael Stant: there.
Michael Bruno: you're really pushing my buttons here.
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: The amount of times that I've talked to people where it's, "Hey, my back hurts during a deadlift specifically." And it's like, "Okay, what have you tried before?" It's like, "Oh, I went to PT." And, "Okay, what did you do?" And they're like, "I did the blah blah blah. I can predict it what the three things are going to say is." And I'm like, "Okay, did anyone look at your deadlift form?" No.
Michael Stant: No.
Michael Bruno: Like,
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: what? I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it.
Michael Stant: It's funny because there's so many apps and things that we that are out there now that like you could even just like, hey, take a video, send it to us, and I
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Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: could point it out like I could point it out to to you what's going on initially, and then I could even say like give you feedback in two seconds. And the issue is that that's not how that's not how those places make money. They don't make money off that eval
Michael Bruno: Yeah,
Michael Stant: uh that that at home eval essentially. But
Michael Bruno: dude. Hot take is that hot hot hot take is that it's borderline malpractice if you go in with a clear like deadlifting hurts my back and they do not assess your deadlifts.
Michael Stant: yeah,
Michael Bruno: That's crazy.
Michael Stant: I mean it's like right same same thing with like anything that you do like running just because running's my big thing. It's like I I've gotten more into you know it I I would say probably early on in my career and maybe you thought the same thing. It was like, well, if I see the deficit in here and I correct it, that automatically means it transfers over,
Michael Bruno: Dude,
Michael Stant: right?
00:15:09
Michael Bruno: it's like
Michael Stant: And
Michael Bruno: drive It's like driving
Michael Stant: does it?
Michael Bruno: your car to the mechanic and saying like, "Oh, I have a flat tire." They're like, "Ah, but your windows are not cracked, so
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: like whatever." It's It makes no sense. Makes no
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: sense. And you know, getting out of pain usually is the first step, right? I don't want to discredit that. getting out of pain. Improving the range of motion is usually how we go about doing that. Then once you have that range of motion and we don't have pain, then we have to work on being able to control those ranges of motion. And that's where people call that strength and
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: working through those new positions. And then from there, after you have that foundation set, then it's activity specific. Whether it's golf, deadlifting, tennis, whatever your thing is, you have to be able to use that dynamically, explosively, athletically.
00:15:58
Michael Bruno: Because again, if you're a highle tennis athlete, a lot of cutting, jumping, changing direction, max barbell back squatting is probably not going to be super effective for you to be good at tennis.
Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: You might get your legs stronger. You would probably actually know this study because I know you love to just read in your free time.
Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: There's a I want to say it was Mississippi State was the they hired this new strength coach and he came in for the football team and he was like oh like squat day like squat squat squat squat. All of the football players squat numbers went up. He did his job in that regard. They had a terrible season and everyone's uh like speed testing
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: all of them got slower. So it's like the trade-off is like okay cool. You can say like all your players squat the most in any like NCAA like rival school, but your record is poo and you have no speed metrics that were like you got slower and your record was worse.
00:17:04
Michael Bruno: So really
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: was the trade-off worth it.
Michael Stant: Yeah. It's where, you know, and I' I've talked about this before, right? You lose power and speed within like five days of not training it. So, it's like it's really important to focus on that stuff throughout any program. Um,
Michael Bruno: Yeah. Everyone go outside and sprint today.
Michael Stant: yeah, I did um that was that was part of my run this morning. So, but yeah, I I think we it so there are like certain things within the strengthening world, right? So if you go like you go to the guidelines, right? If you want to cause hypertrophy, which hypertrophy and strength aren't the same. Hypertrophy make muscles bigger does not equal strength. Okay? Like if you're truly trying to strengthen, you have to get out of that like three by 10 sets of whatever you can do at a moderate weight.
Michael Bruno: Amen.
Michael Stant: You have to get to that four to five sets of four to five reps essentially.
00:17:57
Michael Stant: Um, but there are things within the strength world that I think are actually very good at modulating pain. So, like kind of altering how pain occurs. And I think that's where eccentrics come in, especially if you have someone with tendon pain. Um, I don't know if you ever utilize that, but right, for whatever reason, no one can really tell you why, but eccentrics, eccentric strengthening. So, right, let's say you do a pull up and you go really slow on the way down, right? you're up, go all the way up to the top, nice and slow on the way down. That's eccentric. So going slow on while a muscle is lengthening is is the technical term. But that seems to do a really good job when it comes to tendon pain. And so that that is where I would say, okay, that that is maybe a strengthening aspect that's important depending on what you're dealing with. Now, could you also eliminate some stress on the tendon by shifting how you move somewhere else throughout your body depending on what it is?
00:18:55
Michael Stant: Like if it's rotator cuff, are you getting better rib cage movement? If it's patellar teninitis or tenonopathy is what we should call it. Is it more hip range of motion that takes load off? Maybe
Michael Bruno: Yeah,
Michael Stant: that might work too. I'm sure it's a little bit combination of both.
Michael Bruno: if it's a true tendon injury, I like the progression of isometrics,
Michael Stant: Yep.
Michael Bruno: meaning like you're putting force through it, but you're physically not moving. So, like holding a position, then eccentrics, like you said, and then, you know, the dynamic or explosive versions of it. Um, one of my buddies did, so I'll get nerdy for a second. The visco elastic visco elastic properties of
Michael Stant: There
Michael Bruno: a
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Michael Bruno: tendon.
Michael Stant: go.
Michael Bruno: Um, meaning like how the tendon reacts to the the rapid change in force. So if you really slowly move something or move a tendon or a muscle, it has give. But if you quickly go like and pull it really fast, it's going to be very uh resistive to that.
00:19:54
Michael Bruno: and could create a lot more force. I used to have a toy that did this. It was like the Mr. Was it Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic 4? Like the stretch
Michael Stant: Okay.
Michael Bruno: the stretchy
Michael Stant: Yeah. Stretch.
Michael Bruno: dude?
Michael Stant: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Michael Bruno: Yeah. If you like held his leg and you pulled on it, it would get like 10 times longer. But if you silly putty essentially.
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: So think of silly putty. So if you have silly putty at home, take it out, pull it really slow, you can get a lot of stretch out of it. But if you take that silly putty and you try to like pull it really fast, it's like it either stops you and puts the brakes on or it snaps. So, one of the two things are going to happen there. And your tendons and ligaments have very similar properties. So, when people run into injury, they have to be able to be prepared for those types of situations.
00:20:38
Michael Bruno: And that's where a good rehab plan comes into play. And strengthening is not always the answer to that sol to that problem.
Michael Stant: Yeah. And like one one thing I want to point out too, it's so this it's like all right, you have ankle pain. All right, you have to do ankle strengthening. Well, it hurts for me to do those movements. So, so what? And then like people still do it. So like, right, people can't get over it or they have to wait that much longer to do anything to rehab because that's people get narrow-minded in that sense. Same thing with
Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: like the knee and like right that's why we go with isometrics and eccentrics because usually they can tolerate it. Um
Michael Bruno: Mhm.
Michael Stant: but that's always like something that you have to keep in mind. Um what's quiz going to quiz you right now?
Michael Bruno: Uh
Michael Stant: What's
Michael Bruno: oh.
Michael Stant: what's a novel approach to get hypertrophy strength without having to load a muscle completely?
00:21:26
Michael Bruno: It's like BFR stuff.
Michael Stant: Yeah. BFR.
Michael Bruno: Nice.
Michael Stant: Yeah. I guess I feel it's not novel anymore. I feel like everyone kind of knows it or like that what's novel about it is that not everyone has it because it's still like an expensive thing to put into a clinic slash there's some risks and things like that but like I can tell you in my time in the college setting like huge use for it to like if you want to get someone out of pain very quickly it did a very good job of getting someone out of tendon pain so then you could do the rest of your rehab.
Michael Bruno: Mhm. So explain what BFR is then, bro. You're
Michael Stant: Oh, I'm
Michael Bruno: you're
Michael Stant: sorry.
Michael Bruno: you're honey
Michael Stant: I'm
Michael Bruno: you're
Michael Stant: sorry.
Michael Bruno: honeypotting everybody.
Michael Stant: Yeah. Yeah. Blood flow restriction training. Okay. So, to break it down, right, so essentially they're glorify blood pressure cuffs, but they can uh you can kind of uh figure out how much blood flow is going to a limb with it and they'll give you feedback on it.
00:22:15
Michael Stant: So, let's say
Michael Bruno: There
Michael Stant: you
Michael Bruno: is a science to it. Don't just be those. Don't just be tourniquating your arms and legs, everybody.
Michael Stant: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a sign. Yeah. Don't Yeah. So, like don't just take a blood pressure cuff get rid of blood flow and then work out with it. That's not That's not safe. for using a strap. Don't do that. There there are better commercial products out there where you can do this safely. Um and probably go through a rehab professional before doing it. But what I would say is all right, let's say you could squat 500 lb. All right. um with if you put these cuffs on and you squat at 30% of that with the cuffs on at 80% occlusion. So what's 30? I can't think of the math right now. There's a reason why I picked 500 25%. No f***. So right you you could essentially squat with the cuffs on at 125 to 150 pounds and get the same results from a strength and hypertrophy standpoint
00:23:16
Michael Bruno: in the muscle.
Michael Stant: in the muscle within the muscle. Okay.
Michael Bruno: Yeah.
Michael Stant: Um, so that's where it's it's hugely benefit in the rehabbing from pain and exercise world because right a lot of times you can't tolerate loading that much, but you put the cuff on, you could get the strength without having to load as much. So always something I like when I talk to people, you know, athletes that are trying to figure out where to go, that is like one of the modalities where I'll be like see if they have blood flow restriction training, they're certified in it, especially if it's like a chronic pain, tendon pain that they just haven't been able to get out of for a few weeks.
Michael Bruno: Mhm. Yeah. That's it's all tools in the toolbox, right? Um, my my biggest takeaways from everything we talked about to to wrap to to put a bow on it from a strength perspective, strength is not always the answer. And usually when people do strengthening exercises in quotes and it is helpful, it's usually because they're either deconditioned or the thing that they thought was strength was actually changing up the position that they were using and that's why it was effective.
00:24:28
Michael Stant: Yeah. I mean, I think me and you even still like we still say or maybe you don't as much, but sometimes I'll say, "Oh, we have to strengthen this." Just because it might just be easier for them to understand it
Michael Bruno: Oh,
Michael Stant: sometimes.
Michael Bruno: absolutely.
Michael Stant: Yeah. Like I do it by accident. Like I'm
Michael Bruno: I
Michael Stant: just like
Michael Bruno: I preface it. I preface it because a lot of people say it to me first. They're like, "Is my glute just weak?" And I say, "Nope,
Michael Stant: It's just
Michael Bruno: you
Michael Stant: not
Michael Bruno: are
Michael Stant: turned
Michael Bruno: not."
Michael Stant: on.
Michael Bruno: I was like, "You are not. You are not weak. The the position that you're trying to use it in, you're not being able to express the strength that you have. So, we just have to change the position. And this is cool because in the it's like, "Oh, my deadlift every time I go over 100 pounds, it hurts, right?"
00:25:11
Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: It's like, "Okay, let me see your deadlift." And they're doing something weird with their neck or their knees are whatever. Like performance
Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: cues, tweaks like that. I'll look at them and they'll be like, "Hey, it hurts to pull 100 pounds. It hurts my back." It's like, "Okay, stare at this spot on the ground and don't let your knees do this." then a their pain goes away and b they have a 100 pound jump in their deadlift like in that session. So we didn't get any stronger. We just changed the position. We worked on some some ways to be more safe and effective in that deadlift and it improved their strength
Michael Stant: Mhm.
Michael Bruno: but because we were able to make manipulate the position to express the strength they already had.
Michael Stant: And you're pretty much saying this, and I've said this to people before, if your problem gets fixed in under six weeks, it's not a strength issue. Like, like, right, that's how long it
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Michael Bruno: You
Michael Stant: actually
Michael Bruno: can't get Yeah, you
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: can't get strength like true actual
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: strength in that amount of time.
Michael Stant: Yeah. So, like that's something you gota like Right. It's not an actual strength issue. It's you aren't moving the way that you should. You're not putting your muscles in a specific position to work
Michael Bruno: It's a
Michael Stant: effectively.
Michael Bruno: Yeah, it's a movement problem. It's not a muscle problem.
Michael Stant: Yeah.
Michael Bruno: the Oh man, without going too without doing too many tangents there. The You know what? We'll make it next time. We'll we'll
Michael Stant: Oh,
Michael Bruno: cut it
Michael Stant: there
Michael Bruno: there.
Michael Stant: you go.
Michael Bruno: We'll leave a cliffhanger. I was going to go somewhere, but I will save it for the next episode.
Michael Stant: Good. You You
Michael Bruno: Love
Michael Stant: have to tell me off air.
Michael Bruno: Yes. Love you all.
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Michael Bruno: Love you all. I hope you are eagerly eagerly anticipating our next episode because I was, you know, breadcrumbming you to this next realization. Love you all. Go fix yourself.
