 Hi everyone, this is Lance with LanceGoyki.com and today I want to explain to you Why we care about the abs and the hamstrings so much I'm gonna harp about that with every client that I have and to understand this first. We're gonna start with two rubber bands Yeah, one big one one little one Now if I pull on both ends Which one is going to stretch more? That's right the little one Okay, the the thicker one is more resistant to change. That's like a really stiff muscle or Sometimes tight, but we need to redefine tight and we'll talk about that in a minute The little one takes less force to stretch out to deform What does that mean for the human body? Okay, so the best way to look at this is Starting here. I'm gonna I'm gonna go through it on me and I'm gonna show you on the board as well, so You get some guy who starts to lift a lot, okay? And his back is always tight. He's walking around like he's always bloated He's always out of breath Because he's hyper inflated here. Okay, his back is really tight His back is breathing for him in fact because because it's in a position where it can breathe really well So I give abs to bring that back down in this in this scenario My abs are losing the tug of war. My abs are the skinny band My hamstrings are the skinny band. Okay, so my Hamstrings right here. They're gonna pull me down in the back And my abs are gonna pull me up in the front and it's gonna make me turn This way so counterclockwise for the video Then you'll notice a lot of these people with these stiff backs. They've got really stiff quads too It's because nothing's pulling against the quad So the quad in the front the hip flexor in the front pulls down Okay, the back really tight the back pulls back pulls up in the back Bam Then we get this since these are winning the tug of war I Get this Rotation this way So clockwise I fall down in the front. Okay, my back comes up Okay Pulls my feet off the ground pulls my head down on top of me So now I feel heavy up here, but I can't ever find the ground. I'm always searching for the ground So for these people position is super important and these people are everyone Okay, this is this is the most common thing This is the first thing I'm going to shore up because my spine my hips Those are in the center of everything and without the center. I don't care about the periphery I don't care about what's out here. I need stability here first before I worry about this stuff So I need to make sure my hips are underneath me When I'm squatting when I'm deadlifting when I'm doing a split squat if you're into that When I'm doing my front playing my push-up anything Okay, I need to make sure my hips are underneath me because that puts my abs in a position where they can work And I get more green here and that puts my hamstrings in a position where they're not overly stretched and they're not overly long Okay Sometimes lots of people will tell me my hamstrings are so tight So I just keep stretching them and I get them on the table And they can bend over or I have them touch your toes and they can step on their palms They got tons of hamstring flexibility lay them on the table bend their leg up 110 degrees 80 is normal and they got a hundred and ten Okay, that's too much the reason those hamstrings feel tight Is because they're being pulled so long When they're pulled long my body says I better turn these on so that I don't Die so that I don't fall so they don't collapse So that I can stay strong so I can deal with the environment around me so that if someone breaks into my house I can do something about it. I'm gonna run away. I'm gonna run at them. Okay? So my hamstrings are tonically long they're on but they're long Okay, so stretching them only makes the problem worse because it brings them further out of position That's why I keep this position first and then I worry about strengthening these things by queuing the position I'm shutting off the red I'm getting rid of some of my arrows Okay, now my back shuts off a little bit My hip flexor shuts off a little bit And I get this counterclockwise rotation on my dry erase skeleton Okay, so recap Establish position then strengthen so by establishing position. I shut the right things off Then I can turn the right things on To make that position stick Thanks