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When has an exercise served its purpose?
Some food for thought this weekend:
OK. So you were having an issue…
You did some mobility work.
You strengthened a few things.
The issue improved.
Now what?
Do you NEED to keep doing all those exercises forever?
That’s a question most people never ask.
Even more importantly:
WHY are you doing the exercise in the first place?
Take something like the Dead Bug exercise.
Is the goal to endlessly perform 3 sets of 10 forever?
Or is the goal to develop a specific ability:
✔ Coordination
✔ Trunk control
✔ Position awareness
✔ The ability to move effectively without unnecessary compensation
Because those are VERY different things.
The truth is:
There are exercises that are useful for addressing specific limitations, deficits, or challenges…
…and then there are fundamental MOVEMENTS that should be practiced regularly because they’re part of everyday life.
Knowing the difference changes everything.
Otherwise people end up with a giant laundry list of exercises they’ve been told they “need” to do forever:
Band walks.
Clamshells.
Stretching routines.
Activation drills.
Correctives.
At some point you have to ask:
“Is this still serving a purpose?”
Think about it like math class.
Once you master:
2 + 2 = 4
…you don’t spend the rest of your life repeating that same equation hundreds of times every day.
You move on to more complex and meaningful applications of the concept.
Movement works much the same way.
There are exercises you should be ABLE to do competently.
But once the ability is there?
Doing MORE of the exact same thing often produces very little additional benefit.
The goal shouldn’t be to collect more exercises.
The goal should be:
✔ Build capability
✔ Improve movement options
✔ Develop confidence
✔ Maintain essential movement patterns
✔ Spend LESS time needing “corrective” work
Personally?
There are PLENTY of things I’d rather be doing than spending unnecessary hours in a gym or my basement doing endless exercise lists.
Master the essentials.
Train what actually matters.
Then go live your life.
Best of luck this weekend! 💪⚽️🔥
Also feel free to reach out with questions or if you’d like more information.
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When has an exercise served its purpose?
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