Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance
by Kelly Starrett
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You hate to cultivate the mindset that anything that is not a braced neutral spinal position is probably going to kill you.
You can’t just tune out and do the work. Sport, combat, and life don’t work like that. You have to train smart and hard, with consciousness. This is what training is for. Resolve now to change your criteria from quantity to quality and judge your movement based on form, not on how many repetitions you can complete.
The premise of the tunnel concept is this: You have to start a movement (enter the tunnel) in a good position in order to finish the movement (exit the tunnel) in a good position. The tunnel concept forces you to begin your movement assessment at your start position and make sure that you are setting up correctly.
The third and most notable problem with our current thinking is that it continues to be based on a model that prioritizes task completion above everything else. It’s a sort of one-or-zero, task-done-or-not, weight-lifted-or-not, distance-swum-or-not mentality. This is like saying, “I deadlifted 500 pounds, but I herniated a disc,” or, “I finished a marathon, but I wore a hole in my knee.” Imagine this sort of ethic spilling over into the other aspects of your life: “Hey, I made you some toast! But I burned down the house.
I recommend that you spend 10 to 15 minutes a day working on your mobility. And never take a day off.
