If I were to boil down exercise to the simplest possible thing, and in many ways this is an oversimplification, but in many ways, this is the most useful framing

that you guys may ever take around exercise.

There's so many things that we could potentially be thinking about in the gym, right?

There's so many potential points of concentration or points of focus.

But not all of them, as you could imagine, would be as useful as the rest, right?

There's probably some hierarchy of like, hey, these are the most important things to think about.

And there's a whole bunch of other things that fall secondary to that.

And even the things that are at the top of the hierarchy may be different person to person based on what you see as physical limitations, what you're experiencing as roadblocks in the gym, right?

There's two things that I think everyone should prioritize as far as the thought process above

everything else. I've never said this to you guys before. You guys have maybe heard me say at some point

that it's important to remember that every muscle has two ends. You guys remember you saying that?

So if you think of it like an elastic band, I had an elastic band around here somewhere,

but now I've moved it.

So I got to see this.

Say this is my elastic bands.

Not a very good color.

I had a pink one around, but it's done.

This is my elastic band.

And if one end pulls, the other end kind of wants to move closer to it, right?

And so, but if the, so let's say this end is what's called the origin, which is always closer to the midline of the body, right?

So we remember the origin is always closer to the midline of the body.

The insertion is always further away.

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