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Published: 2016-03-29
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOJLx4Du3vU
thank you so the other day I was giving a talk to a bunch of young models on having a career in the fashion industry and I really wanted to tell him about about my upcoming tad Szulc saga Hey guys is anyone here heard of Ted I'm a typical model fashion this is the reply I guess yeah I have seen them both and the teddy bear is
hilarious like what the youth of today it made me laugh so much I mean I calmly say much when I was fifteen I wanted to be a bodybuilder not just any body building the number one Arnold Schwarzenegger I see remember day one a my tend to get a body like this guy does this local old school gym in east London and a lot like something that
you might see in a rocky movie it was this converted garage space we've rigs blank benches rusting barbells and these posters of exporting booting champions on the war including Schwarzenegger himself as a goal to aspire to now the Dale Moulton now amid the owner it's part because the guy who dive I describe to him my health and fitness goes in great length fifties hell you know
just like an adolescent kid does or what we did massive but he nodded you know he really understood what I wanted points of the squat rack and he says the evidence on Jacob beatniks and now I've gotta the bands for J. here big chests and he's done those her the big arms blessed by no fee godson so if I did go died I mean it was
a pretty simple concept really if you can get from a debate and I repetitions you just got more weight now this time in my life I hadn't yet studies for science so little did I know but this aid to be methodology using we refer to as overload now the overload very much like this if I push my body to failure meaning I no longer have the
capability to do any more repetitions and when I'm resting my body simply produces more muscle that allows me to live for next time I can them work around the body using this method on each muscle group Hey presto one that you have but the like on it well I oversee do not have a body like on it invites I have a body like a fashion model
and that's because I was scouted in the street I'm was forced to give up on my body building dreams sorry this is one of my first shows this is me strutting down the catwalk for Calvin Klein the constant our rights ethnic you because the narrator is backstage before this day teaching us how to walk in a strong pasta feet straight many Runnin shoulders back and down
but why in my early twenties was I being taught how to walk more importantly why did walk in this way from so alien beyond the outside to the origins it was quite powerful I mean all of them are asking me to do was walk like I was supposed to work so I decided to go to a place way just being in strong posture was common practice
and I was about to meet the person face to face that would destroy my aspiration if Schwarzenegger forever so always attempting an exercise called a bridge and I know gymnastics class and I just couldn't get my arm straight let alone my body off the ground so the coach because so many of our who demonstrates this movement after Leslie she was a six year old go this
is actually her her name is grace amazing grace soon how sweet but what I really began to see is the principal is being used in gymnastics class why identical to the prosecutors are being given backstage during fashion week is the language of gymnastics that's not based on individual muscles but based on it movements of the joints and the skeleton for example they use shoulder a set
of biceps triceps hips instead of quads hamstrings completely the opposite to what the fitness industry prioritizes fitness talks muscles before spine you see gymnasts focus on how they are moving their body and I also just how often to have or some posture and a really strong core it's really no coincidence this is a by product of working with the body in fact some prioritize ation of
the spine is a much smarter approach if you happen to damage or spinal cord you cannot see lose the ability to move any part your body and this is something we've been reminded of our whole lives stop slouching sit up straight engraved Ole Cole did you know about it off the table you mean the same thing oil parents the same laws pirates are usual spine you
see the thing is that humans we were just born with full range of motion by chemists Esther got clay spend time traveling the world I'm research places web back pain hardly exists was she notice was people's spines with a flatter lumbar curvature didn't suffer from back pain she referred to this as a J. shaped spine and you can see the difference in the images here between
the SO shape spine so in the western world and the day save spine in people web button pain doesn't exist go play space the chasing spine is what you see in Greek statues and in young children university what she's saying is we're all born with a taste a spine now you might have noticed when young children pick things up from the ground they drop down into
this perfect squats this kid unlike myself did not need a cost indirect so nor a six year old Amazing Grace to teach him this move in fact nobody told him I know guys he's not exercising this is in fact a preacher resting human position but unfortunately as a consequence of our current human conditioning or a culture this not chill resting position is about to be taken
away from this child he's about to be told I resting position is in fact a check and when he soon start school seven hours of his day every day he will be asked to sit in this quite frankly wit on on human position now I didn't even take into account the amount of hours this kid spends watching pepper pate according to the British chiropractic association the
total number of people off sick from work with back pain increased lost year by twenty nine percent from the survey the reason for back pain was sitting too long in one position so I tried to find a survey totaling the number of four year olds off sick from school with back pain but would you believe it I just couldn't find one the city we are more
than one of where we are a generation of sitting on a backside human beings but the specific point I would like to bring to your attention today is the fitness industries ignorance of the spine to have us hurts on task completion time whites and distance this is for most people measures of improvement I'm progress how long can you run full how fast can you run how
much can you lift how many repetitions can you do how many calories can you burn this list is endless but left Florida none of these take into account how go moving or more importantly how you once could you see nothing could ever compare or will measure up against the exquisite movement you how does a three year old a study in two thousand twelve found that musculoskeletal
conditions with the second greatest cause of disability in the world affecting over one point seven billion people worldwide professor wolf a world leader in healthcare describe suffering from musculoskeletal disorders as being like a Ferrari without wheels if you don't have mobility and dexterity it doesn't matter how healthy the rest of your body it's so surely the access to a healthy physicality is working back towards full
range of motion to understand how your body moves and to be able to function like a human said simply V. abilities to move like you once could when you were a freer out we can and should start relearning how to move from the examples of children ditching these current measures of time whites and distance and spend time unraveling restrictions getting back to the movement we actually
once hot all that's left is an aspiration of ourselves in the school playground as a child able to play I move without fear of injury and using our bodies full potential and those are the results we're aiming for such tasks slim physique toned muscles do come but as a byproduct of moving the body as it is designed to function best there's a famous Chinese proverb you
are as old as your spine in all honesty I have more charms teaching penguins how to fly than humans a better way to sit on a chair with just not designed to do it today I'm gonna leave you have a powerful standing posture in cultures where the J. sake spine exists people's but most of the gate every time they take a step it's one reason they
have the strong back muscles that support that lover back to demonstrate how the standing posture works I will need a bit wouldn't participation Sony jewel to be standing so I so please stand with your feet together and facing forwards now push the heroes of the feet against each other not let's hose but the heels keep pushing keep pushing now hold hold this tension screws I want
you to just notice just notice what happens if the glue muscles as a consequence pushing the hills together we didn't focus on these muscles we focused on a movement this is movement first philosophy which I spoke of earlier focus on a movement muscles follow suit we move efficiently the body recruits the right muscles for the job standing here with you here was put together is now
your new songs I see if I can just get you guys the whole this when I finished my last paragraph you might just have to give me a standing ovation by taking a lesson for my kid self it took me two years of the age of thirty I finally got back my resting position no no my resting position maybe we should all take a lesson from
