Gray Cook: General Mindset For Any Fitness Seeker

This should be tought in high schools. Information in this video is 100% crucial for any fitness and health seeker.

Gray Cook explains how to prevent problems before they show up, what is a culprit of pain and movement disorders, how to be healthy and more. He speaks about whole bunch of things from knee pain, herniated discs to paleo diet.

Understanding this information would have prevented most injuries and traumas.

Timing:

8:48 health and exercise, creating health issue trying to be fit

17:11 First move well, then move often. Qualitaty VS Quantity.

18:27 Most runners are focused on FitBit staff but can’t move with integrity.

22:50 Software VS Hardware in human body

24:39 Stress fracture

25:14 Paleodiet

26:55 Protect before correct, correct before develop

37:12 ACL injury that could be prevented

42:16 Should we look a pattern or parts?

43:36 Lunge pattern

45:30 Flexibility importance

47:28 Muscle imbalances

48:20 “Weak core”

54:03 Development milestones and Functional Movement Screening

59:54 Touch toes test. Quick reprogramming example. Explanation.

1:04:.. Importance of breathing

1:06:.. Importance of balance

1:08:.. Questions and Answers

1:08:.. Herniated disc

1:10:.. Am I moving poorly because I am in pain? Or am I in pain because I am moving poorly?

1:12:.. The biggest contributors to our problems. Push-through, work-through fitness mentality. Barefoot running.

1:14:.. Fitness industry competition and the consequences.

1:16:.. How to self apply this approach.

Two books of Gray Cook which definately deserve paying attention to:

Athletic Body in Balance

Movement Functional Movement Systems: Screening, Assessment, Corrective Strategies

gray cook book