Progress With Individual Strategy Over Anything.

Ever met with a trainer and they have you do some of the most complicated things you’ve ever seen. Then they tell you “this is something we’ll need to work on”. You nod your head because you were challenged in a way that you may have been challenged in the past or not at all. All you know is that you were unsuccessful at your initial attempt at it which signals the need to work on it. 

This is most people’s experience. They then go on to learn the complicated exercise... Then what? Add weight? Balance on one foot? Do the hokey pokey? 

These are all...progressions, but not where I generally start with people. 

What I have experienced working with mostly injured clientele is you have to start at the basics. Meaning, what can this body do and what can’t it do from muscle-to-muscle, joint-to-joint. 

This is building a true foundation to progress from.

How this generally looks:

  • Muscle-to-muscle analysis.

  • Challenge of potentially weak muscles in a stable environment. 

  • Attempt to challenge a particular motion these muscles create. 

  • Add weight if stable (contracting) through entire ranges of motion.

  • Add joints/muscles. 

etc….

What this process does is it allows a continual and strategic look as to what is truly going on in this person's neuromuscular system. Not just a hope and dream that they will get stronger repeating the same exercise over and over again. 

The above outline is ever changing and ever evolving WITH the client. If it doesn’t change and evolve as you do, it’s not progress. It’s a false attempt at making you think you’ve progressed and “gained strength” at the detriment of breaking you down more and more everyday. 

Think about it. How and why you’ve been exercising the way you have been? Has it been getting you somewhere where your aches and pains are minimal or are close to non-existent? Or has the way you've been exercising exacerbated the issues you have had or added more to what you already have? 

If you answered the second question as a “yes” I urge you to reconsider your “progress” in fitness and take a step back and gain a better understanding of where you’re currently at. 

If you don’t know where to start I am always here to help steer you in the right direction.

Either comment below or message me in the “connect” tab.

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