The more I work on FMS the more I realize that most of the people I deal with on a daily basis has no business lifting a weight. That includes me. We’ve spent so many years sitting at a desk that our bodies have forgotten how to move. Our stabilizer muscles haven’t been used correctly in so many years they’ve just given up. Our prime movers are having to do double duty as stabilizers. No wonder we’re just tired and in pain all the time. Fall down a lot when we try to move correctly.

Knees, hips, shoulders, lumbar, all put in positions they just weren’t supposed to be in for long periods. So as I work on my primitive movement patterns for myself and others, seeing just how bad we are at it, I have to wonder just how we get anything done at all. Sr. RKC Jeff O’Connor keeps telling me how I and others have build strength and stamina on top of a very dysfunctional body we live in compensation mode. I used sort of scoff at that. But he’s right, damn it, he’s always right.

Own your dysfunction says Jeff O’Connor Sr. RKC.

What if I don’t want to own it? I’ve already built a lot of strength on top of my dysfunction. I just want to fix it.

So now, before every training session, the very training session I probably shouldn’t even be doing until I can sort-a-maybe move at least a little bit right, I’m doing my accessory work trying to get my stabilizers working like they should be. My dear abby’s firing when they are supposed to on automatic. It’s taking longer to do my warm ups than the entire training session. Starting to wonder if I should even bother with the training session.

So today, I’m going to forgo my MAXVo2 training, same with my favorite complexes. I guess today I’m just going to roll around on the floor a lot. Now that’s progress.