The Truth About How To Improve Your Mobility, Posture & Flexibility
Mark Bell's Power Project
Power Project Studios
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
Is everything you believe about mobility, posture, and flexibility wrong? Soft tissue expert Lenny Parracino is here to challenge what you think you know about your body.
On this episode of Mark Bell's Power Project Podcast, hosts Mark Bell and Nsima Inyang talk with Lenny about the real science behind movement. Discover what fascia is, why your muscles get stiff, and the truth about pain. This discussion gives you the tools to understand your body better.
Learn why some of the most common exercises might be holding you back and how to properly care for your body to move better and feel stronger. Find out how to address your body’s unique needs to improve your training and daily life.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Why Barbell Curls Can Be Dangerous
1:09 - How Aging Affects Your Body’s Tissue
3:14 - How Your Brain Learns to Move
4:51 - The Man Who Lost the Feeling in His Body
8:50 - Why Better Movement Alone Isn't the Answer
12:27 - Structure vs. Function Explained
14:40 - Why Elite Athletes Have Hidden Weaknesses
22:56 - Understanding Joints & Your Movement Potential
26:45 - The Real Reason Your Back Spasms After Sitting
32:20 - When to Use Dumbbells Instead of a Barbell
35:50 - Essential Books for Understanding the Body
44:22 - What is Fascia & Why is it Important?
52:48 - The Truth About "Recoil" and "Fascia Training"
58:41 - Can Lifting Weights Hurt Your Athleticism?
1:08:20 - What a Pro Athlete's Tissue Feels Like
1:15:38 - The Real Cause of Muscle Soreness (DOMS)
1:24:23 - Proving Soft Tissue Work is Not a Placebo
1:33:34 - The Complex Science of Where Pain Comes From
1:42:26 - How to Do Your Own Soft Tissue Work at Home
2:04:54 - Top Experts to Learn From
2:17:23 - The Ultimate Framework for Creating Any Workout
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If someone's standing there and they supinate and they can't supinate all the way, they have no business. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm just being real. I don't want them to get hurt. No business with a barbell curl. |
| 0:08.9 | Structure without function is a corpse. And function without structure is a ghost. I can make you more |
| 0:16.7 | robust and everything's got good capacity relative to what you want to do. I got a better shot at it. |
| 0:21.7 | Now the question is, can your brain control it? Because if your brain can't feel it, if your |
| 0:25.9 | brain can't control it, you can't put the load into it to any significant level to get that |
| 0:30.9 | biology to adapt. Lenny, you know what, man? I'm not sure where we should start with you. |
| 0:36.3 | Well, first of all, you did it right. |
| 0:38.4 | Got the one for you to gettled bill. |
| 0:41.2 | That was gifted to us by our buddy, Bill Maeda. |
| 0:45.8 | He's a beast. |
| 0:46.7 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | But yeah, your knowledge on, like, soft tissue and just health in general, I think, is pretty awesome. So that's why you're here today. |
| 0:55.3 | I met you down in Los Angeles, went down, and you worked on me. You helped me with my foot, |
| 0:59.5 | and you've been helping me along with my foot on a couple different occasions now. |
| 1:05.2 | But I think maybe a good place to start would be if you could talk to us a little bit about |
| 1:10.8 | like kind of what |
| 1:11.4 | happens to us in general terms as we as we get older what's what's kind of happening at what's |
| 1:18.6 | going on with aging well as most people know it's a well hopefully a slow degenerative process |
| 1:26.5 | you know one of the things we talk about is following unifying principles, which are |
| 1:32.0 | principles that unify all of us as humans and therefore can't be deduced any further. |
| 1:38.4 | So it's not the principles of physical therapy or the principles of orthopedic medicine |
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