Misguided Feelings

Movement is Medicine · Sep 17, 2026 · 34m

This week we dig into something that comes up constantly on the floor: people calling everything pain. Soreness, tightness, a weird ache, all of it gets filed under the same scary label. And the second your brain decides something is pain, it starts pulling your limits in whether you asked it to or not.

We also talk about the stuff you're probably blaming for how you feel, and why it's almost never the thing you think. The deadlift didn't do it. The week you had before the deadlift did.

Then there's the other crowd. The ones who feel plenty and say nothing, who decide they're fine and grind…