The accurate and precise answer

um

doesn't uh

doesn't carry much uh gratification

to to to the recipient, but if the

answer is constantly varied

high-intensity functional movement.

Constantly varied high-intensity

functional movement.

And then I can go on at length about

each of those concepts, the variance,

the intensity, and the functionality.

But uh one of the things that we've done

that that I think is is uh critical to

our success and

and uh

perhaps unique to our effort even is

that we've been very very clear about

from the outset defining terms.

So, when I talk about a functional

movement, I mean something uh

very precise about that.

You get into a room full of people that

celebrate functional movement, you'll

find that no two of them have the same

concept in mind. It's become a buzzword

in fitness like core strength um that

people just chant and everyone nods,

"Yeah, I like functional movement." To

give you a for instance here on this

notion of defining terms, for us

functional movements are those movements

that are categorically unique in their

ability to express power.

And that has a very precise, very

accurate, specific meaning um to a

scientist.

The expression of power. And if you were

to explain it to someone on the street,

how would you describe functional

movement?

>> Well, yes, the

You know, I can I can give you a whole

lot of characteristics of functional

movements. I can tell you that they're

uh tied into tied to your very being

in a fact they're it to some extent to

uh

imprinted in your DNA. They're they're

tied to what you are as a as a as a as

an animal as as Homo sapiens.

Um I can tell you that they have some

characteristics like they they work from

a core to extremity and a

a wonderful

relay of contraction from large high

force producing slow moving body parts

yielding to

higher and higher velocity lower force

producing body parts.

I can tell you these things are uh

uh I guess I could say

>> I mean there's a lot there's a lot of

characteristics I could give Greg but at

the end of the day we have to come back

to something that can that can be

measured ideally for a definition that

is that these things are unique in their

ability to express power. So what I can

do is look at

all movements and tell you what kind of

look at what kind of wattage you

develops. What kind of horsepower is

capable of being developed for you.

Sure. And what you're going to find is

that whatever how whatever you can do in

terms of force distance and time

curling, lateral raising, leg extending,

all those things we don't do Yeah. that

you will be able to exert dramatically

more power squatting, deadlifting,

cleaning, doing pull-ups. Mhm. And so

these movements are mathematically

distinct, categorically unique in that

they are the movements tied to high

power, high wattage production. Well

when I say I guess I'm

say I'm trying to convince my mother to

go into CrossFit. Yeah. Now that at that

street level you go like you know what

you just you know I I I I don't explain

and I demonstrate.

Okay.

>> So if someone says what is CrossFit? I'm

like jeez I don't know man. What are you

doing next Tuesday at 3:00 p.m.?

I'm busy. Okay, how about Wednesday? And

I say but I I say to my mother you know

what's really important is that you're

doing functional movements. She says

Greg

why?

Yeah. The cuz they will determine in no

small measure the quality of your life

moving forward mom.

And that the thing that's likely to put

you in a nursing home um won't be

cancer, won't be heart disease, won't be

all those things that we're insured

against and worry about so much but

it'll be it'll be medical frailty. It'll

be feebleness. So at the point that

we're like calling you to Thanksgiving

dinner and we got to do one of these and

to walk you to the table, the discussion

needs to be had with the brothers and

sisters as to whether mom should really

be living out on her own still.

I'd make the point we're like, "Man, if

what happens if she gets on the ground?"

We might even Hey mom, let's let me show

you something. Let's put her butt on the

ground and see if she can get to her

feet. So, is it is it fair to say and

this certainly isn't the the thrust of

the conversation, but is it fair to say

that functional movements

uh help you in real life? Yeah, they're

they're designed to help you outside of

the gym. They are uh

They are uh uh universal motor

recruitment patterns. They're found

everywhere on the job site, uh in

construction, homemakers. There's

There's a one environment where they're

in conspicuous short supply and that's

in the commercial gym.

You know, we

guy'll come in and put his gym bag down

and and and work out for an hour and a

half and do nothing functional.

Nothing that has a natural analog in in

basic movements. I mean, there's there's

nothing that happens on a job site ever

that's going to look like this.

There's no such thing. There's nothing

we do that like what is this? You got

guys doing [ __ ] curls, you know? I

mean, it's it's these are these these

are gym movements and have no

analog proximately or exactly in real

life.

And these functional movements do. And

the things that mom needs to be able to

do look like pick something off the

ground, get her own ass out of the

chair, navigate stairs, and the

competency for these things translates

at once instantly into not falling and

breaking a hip.

Which is the beginning of the end in

every case. It's always it's

You just don't see full recoveries from

that in in in people my dad's age.

Recovery, sure. Full, not going to

happen.