What’s up everybody, welcome to this week’s episode of Health & Fitness Friday on The Essential Strength Podcast. This is your 5 minute download of some health and fitness knowledge meant to make you a little bit smarter and a little bit stronger as you head into the weekend!

Last week, we started the conversation about corrective exercise, some of it’s limitations, and I gave you my thoughts on whether or not it’s still useful. Today, we’re going to continue that conversation with the number one, most important consideration and caveat for using corrective exercises that will enhance pt and client outcomes.

Just like last week, this conversation is framed by a recent article from Barbell Rehab which can be found on the reading list at StrongerInMotion.com. 

Long story short - Words Matter. Language Matters.

If you, as a coach or clinician, feel that you need to break a person down and show them all the areas where they are broken, so that you can then sell your services as the “fix” - you’re creating more problems then you are solving. If, however, you can prop up your clients and patients, show them all the ways in which they are strong and robust AND help them address specific dimensions of their physical capacity that are not yet optimal - then you are truly using corrective exercise in its more power and empowering form.

That’s it for this week on Health & Fitness Friday - tune in next week as we dive into an entirely new topic!

Appreciate each and every one of you! Catch ya’ll next week!