Originally Posted by
Peter Hirt
I've had 40 lucky years of surgery free living, 30+ years of those training. I think the secret is movement. Constant movement. The trouble is that by the time we're 16 and get a car -we stop moving. We stop playing "hide and seek" with the kids next door and trade recess for desk jobs. By the time the next 16 years have come and gone a sedentary lifestyle has set in. Even if you train 6 to 7 hours a week -that's a fraction of how you used to move as a developing kid. Injuries are excuses to "rest" and no doctor in their right mind would suggest running on a sprained ankle to get it better again. -But I would! Watch a wounded animal and see how they constantly fight for more range of motion on any busted limb. I get tossed around nightly by a 63 year old Korean who's laughing and trash talking the whole time; he treats me like I was a 10 year old! -His technique is sublime and his conditioning is unreal -and his whole life he just kept moving and training.