"Exercise has diametrically opposite but necessary goals: mobility and stability. Some joints are meant to create movement; others meant to be the stable platform upon which movement happens through the body; and they alternate that function across your chassis.
When mobile joints can't move, the body leeches movement from stable joints to achieve tasks. When stable joints can't resist movement, they lock down mobile joints tightly to create stability. Without mobility, you can't move with freedom, but without stability, you can't move with security.
Most people move mindlessly, which is why they get injured, and why they can't move powerfully. Only when you slow down and practice the simplest components of a movement, can you become aware of the stable and mobile aspects of your total movement. If you don't begin slowly, you can't develop smoothly; as a result, awareness of the alternating dance of stable and mobile components while you move becomes impossible.
Grant me strength to resist that which should not move; the discipline to move that which should; and awareness to know the difference." - Scott B. Sonnon
