I was looking in my YouTube videos for a spinal assessment thing I swore I recorded so I could write a useful article detailing how to un-stick sticky parts of your back and turn them knowledgable and buttery from dumb and decrepit. Yes, in your body, and yes, even if you have a history of injury.
In my fruitless search I found yet another video I had forgotten existed, based around your spine moving better. I thought, ‘hey, I’ll do this 40 minute video. I know I’ll feel good after it.’
I was so bored 7 minutes in.
I hate being told what to do.
All I care about is skill development. And in the case of mobility training, pain relief, movement, or anything regarding the body, the most important skill is the skill of
I watch people all day from my Starbucks perch and it is astonishing how many people limp. Have you ever noticed this? Do you limp all the time? This is in sunny San Diego, Cali, USA, where people are generally more in shape, too. I imagine we’re similar to Colorado people here but with better tans.
I know without a shadow of a doubt that 99.99% of the people I see limping do now know how to fuck around.
They probably went through some cycles of:
3 sets of 10-type physical therapy
Chiropractic
Painkillers
Steroid injections
Surgeries or surgery consults
YouTube videos
All of which likely have a savior complex to them and don’t pretend to be interested in self-sufficiency or even go as far as to assume the people they’re treating aren’t interested in self-sufficiency. I’ve read so many books by people that exited the medical system after becoming doctors themselves because their colleagues said things like, “People won’t do the work so we don’t bother suggesting things like that.”
Well, I’m interested in talking to the people that will do the learning for their own bodies rather than have what to do dictated to them the whole time forever.
So I’m gonna teach you how to fuck around, using generalized ideas with an experiential focus to expose you to things it may not have occurred to you to try otherwise. Once you’ve tried a thing, you can use the information you practically discovered for yourself and come back to the video(s) as often as you please whenever you want some direction and reminders.
Frankly, my videos I’ve already recorded are great for this, so I’ll be including some of them where its useful. The first one up is the one I got bored with, because it’s actually really great stuff that will turn on an incredible number of light bulbs for your neck, ribs, back, and body overall lol. (When you’ve never done these things before, which I’m betting you haven’t.)
Got some pain?
Fuck around!
Got some stiffness?
Fuck around!
Body isn’t feeling right?
Fuck around! You know best!
This category also applies to mental stuff, coming up eventually, but let’s empower folks to do more self-loving fucking around and solving their own problems through the power of a few skills and biological connection to their own bodies first. When you feel physically good you tend to feel mentally better, and also when you feel physically bad it’s super easy for your mental health and relationships to suffer along with you. But if you know that you can sit down and figure out an awful lot of how to feel better in a short matter of time, any time, well then I love to see it. You can do this. Everybody can feel better than they do right now with these skills.
You could access these by becoming a paid Substack subscriber for the upcoming skill series that I’ve been describing here, checking out what I already have from over the years for free on my YouTube channel, or signing up for my existing mobility membership, which has an awesome array of things to try right now.
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