Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy.

And in part one of this two-part special series, you're going to discover how to stop joint pain.

Now, in America, to get a joint replacement of your hip has a hospital list price of $13,000,

but hospital and surgical charges run about another $65,000 or more.

That's why medical tourism is getting so popular.

Now, I'd be lying if I profess to know the exact additional amount of money we spend each year on joint physical therapy, medications, supplements, and other treatments for joint issues, but with as many folks in the general population who I know, including active, healthy people and exercise enthusiasts and weekend warriors with joint pain.

I'd wager we spend a lot of money on this stuff, but we don't need to.

And today you're going to find out why these joint injuries occur in the first place.

And you're also going to discover in this two-part series three simple things that you can do about it.

Now, often us fit folks and exercise enthusiasts, we tend to prioritize conditioning and we ignore activities that don't make us breathe hard or feel the burn.

And mobility is probably one of the most neglected basic abilities that we find in training programs, even for

high volume athletes and really fit people. And time and time again, I've taught camps and clinics

and seminars during which athletes or exercise enthusiasts who can hammer like animals on a bike

all day long or run for hours on end or spend every single morning in the gym,

they can't do something as simple as a, say, a full squat with both arms held overhead

or even a basic proper push-up with the shoulders and the core aligned.

And as a result, these seemingly fit folks are predisposed to all of the disadvantages

that accompany this lack of basic

mobility. And that would include things like muscle tightness that creates ugly postural imbalances

like your shoulders rolling forward in a hunchback pattern to create that nice skinny fat

beer belly look and one side of the body being higher or lower than the other side, like your

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