Right

... um, I, I had to gain a lot of speed and power and all these physical attributes that I trained for.

You know, Olympic lifting, squatting, sprinting, plyometrics, all these things I've realized, wow, every athlete needs this.

If I can ...

You know, medicine ball throwing, like omnidirectional strength.

I, I've, I've made myself into a Division I All-American, right, in, in throwing a javelin.

And I said, "I can maybe help other athletes improve athleticism," because the transferability of the m- exercises and the training I was doing was highly correlated to helping athletes become faster, quicker, and more explosive, and highly correlated to field and court sports.

Okay.

Can you talk a little bit about the benefit of, or just talk a little bit, Bernstein, Blacksmith, basketball players, med ball throws, how doing these repetitive movements, but doing them slightly different, how that impacts the body potentially in a positive way?

Amazing.

A lot to unpack there.

I love it.

Let's start off with first how I kind of started to discover this.

So my oldest son, he was playing AAU basketball at the time.

He made this team called the Players, and it was a Nike-sponsored EYBL team, high-level team.

What do you feel like? What do you think is

What is it about adding in speed training and athletic training and working with maybe not necessarily with athletes, but using athleticism type training and how that can contribute to making me not just a better trainer, but how does that help me build my business?

Yeah, that's a great question.

So I'm going to go pretty deep here, and I'm only going to do that because I have such respect for NASM and the people that get this certification are dialed in.

So if there's any NASM listener that is NASM certified, reach out to us because we would look to engage with you as one of our coaches, right? You know, you guys have such great content and I got certified with MASM back in the 90s, right? I mean, you guys were on it and I was through the transformation and whatnot, but let me get into some science here and translate that to business.

The ultimate understanding of performance in life is how to manage ground reaction force.

So managing ground reaction force is really the key to health and happiness, whether it be your nine year old lady trying to, you know, stay out of pain with your knees or back or whatnot, or an athlete trying to dunk a basketball or trying to run real fast or change direction.

how we manage ground reaction force how the organism how the biotensegrity organism this is a tensegrity model you know of compression of the wooden struts with tension held together with tension these struts are not touching one another they're held together with these elastic bands so compression held together with tension this is a very energy efficient model and it's it's it's in a form that has pulling and pushing forces that allow it flexibility but it has some stability so it's stable but flexible it's kind of a paradox but if you go down to the atom where there's pushing and pulling forces with the protons neutrons electrons all the way out to the universe of planet earth the sun and the pulling and pushing forces with gravity this concept of tensegrity is with us everywhere and it's the foundation to uh life and it's a foundation to you know performance so let me bring this up a step that's tensegrity uh doctor um um medical uh orthopedic spine surgeon was in the national museum his name lost me i'll come up with a second was in the natural museum of history Steven Levin, Dr. Steven Levin, orthopedic spine surgeon.

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