Auxoma

No, we don't have a film crew.

Three years.
Zero upgrades.
Still filming ourselves exactly like this.

We decided to get good at fixing bodies instead of editing videos.

Which brings us to the discovery visit.

It's not a sales pitch.
It's not a commitment.
It's information gathering.

We look at what's actually going on.
We tell you what we see.
And you decide where to go from there.

That's it.

No pressure to book anything.
No push to sign up for anything.
Just a real conversation with people who know bodies.

Stick around, it doesn't get more polished than this.

Four hours in a seat.
Then a rotation at a hundred miles an hour.

Nobody asked the mid-back if it was ready.

Golf, tennis, softball, throwing a kid in the air — rotation is a mid-back job.
And the mid-back spends most of a workday not doing it.

When the swing asks for range that isn't available, the low back and the lead shoulder volunteer.
Those weren't built for the job.
That's the pull, the tweak, the soreness by Monday.

Two rounds of five open-book rotations before the round or after the flight.
That's the whole homework.

Ask for it before you need it.

More mobility work is free in the Auxoma community.

I drive a stick.
Which makes this next part easy.

Your nervous system has gears too.
Most people are stuck in one.

Gear one: prepare and fight.
Gear two: repair and digest.

Both useful.
The problem is being stuck.

What shifts it isn't willpower.
It's the exhale.

Longer out than in.
Ribs expanding sideways, not shoulders lifting.

If you train hard, this matters more than you think — adaptation is bought in recovery, not in the session.

The pacer and BOLT self-test are at guide.auxoma.com/breathing.

HYROX athletes: shoulders cooked by station 4?

It's not your shoulders.

It's your T-spine.

When your mid-back stops extending, your shoulders do the job.
That's the arm-throw everyone's warning you about.

Wall balls don't care.
Sled push doesn't care.
Neither does the clock.

The fix isn't more shoulder pre-hab.
It's teaching the spine to extend so the arm doesn't have to.

Racing this fall? Follow along.
We're building for the finish line, not the fatigue.

"What are you actually training for?"

A heavy carry will tell you.
And it won't be kind about it.

A carry isn't a muscle test.
It's a bandwidth test.

Hold the position.
Keep breathing.
Keep walking.

Three things at once.
30 seconds.
Nowhere to hide.

When the tank runs out, position drops first — ribs flare, shoulders lean, hips hike.
Same thing that happens carrying groceries, luggage, or a toddler on a bad day.

Position failing before grip is information. Not a verdict.

Add one heavy carry to the end of your next session.
Notice what gives out first.

Lifters: the deadlift didn't hurt your back.
Your hinge did.

The bar just told on you.

You hinge a hundred times a day — reaching in the fridge, picking up a kid, tying your shoes.
Nobody watches.
Nobody corrects it.

Then you load 315 on the bar and expect the pattern to hold up.

The cue that changes everything: push the floor away.
Not lift the weight.
Push the floor.

Ground yourself before you pull anything off it.

"Six days a week of training. Zero minutes spent asking your joints what range they still own."

Sounds harsh.
But it's true.

Every rep of every workout runs through joints you never actually check.

Not stretch.
Not warm up.
Check.

A joint that never gets asked for its full range quietly gives it up.
And that give-up shows up somewhere else — usually where it hurts.

CARs are the floor, not the workout.
5 minutes. Every joint. Every day.
It costs less than the warm-up you're already doing.

Follow along free at guide.auxoma.com/cars.

Back pain shouldn’t leave you guessing every time you train.

Is it the hip? Your movement? How you’re bracing? Something else entirely?

That’s exactly what we’re digging into at our Root Cause Back Pain Workshop at MADabolic.

📅 Saturday, September 12
⏰ 10:30 AM
📍 MADabolic Wichita
🙌 1 hour. Mostly hands-on.

The goal: leave understanding WHY your back keeps flaring up and exactly what to do next — so you can keep training, traveling, playing, and doing the things you actually care about.

Spots are limited.

👉 Hit the link in our bio to grab yours.

Hot take: "I'm just getting older" might be the most expensive sentence you'll say all year.

Not because getting older isn't real.

But because that story ends the investigation.

We start expecting to be stiffer.

Slower.

More tired.

Less capable.

Age can change your body, but it doesn't automatically explain every ache, limitation, or setback.

We've seen people in their 60s and 70s moving better than people half their age.

The difference usually isn't the number on the birthday cake.

It's whether they've accepted their limitations... or stayed curious about what's actually causing them.

Don't let age become the reason you stop asking better questions.

"Getting back to normal" sounds like a great goal...

Until you realize your old normal is what got you here.

Recovery isn't about rewinding the clock.

It's about building a body that's more capable than it was before.

Moves better.

Recovers better.

Handles more.

Because going back to the same movement patterns usually leads back to the same results.

Don't settle for your old baseline.

Build a better one.