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Assessment Is Part of Training
At what point did assessing somebody’s movement become more complicated than actually training them? Somewhere along the way, we’ve found ourselves between a rock and a hard place with movement assessments.
Box Jumps and Building Plyometric Skill
"Athletic" training is having a moment. Everybody wants to jump, sprint, throw med balls, and make their training look a little more like sport. The problem is that a lot of people start in the wrong place.
Outfunction Bad Posture
There's a tendency in the fitness industry to look at someone's posture and immediately start trying to fix it. Or even more so, try to sell it. Side-by-side posture photos sold as proof of a miraculous cure to a problem we may have manufactured in the first place.
The Seatbelt
I watched a guy pull an actual seatbelt out of his gym bag last week and strap himself into the seated hamstring curl.
Load Has a Glass Ceiling
Load has a glass ceiling.
Perhaps it's a more common quote, but I heard this from James Macintosh in a lecture this week for the Pre-Script Programming Course.
Scalar vs. Vector
Have you ever taken a physics class?
I'll be honest, physics was never my cup of tea. Bear with me here, because this analogy is incredibly important in terms of how we shape our training worldview.
Proximal Stability for Distal Mobility?
I had the opportunity to hop across the pond this weekend and join Jordan for a Pre-Script intensive in London. I had a few thoughts on paper going into the weekend for what I'd send out this week, but I also knew there'd be more than a handful of ideas and concepts I'd flag over the weekend to share here across the next few weeks.
The Assessment Starts Before They Walk In
A coach asked me this week what questions should he actually be asking on an intake form for clients he never gets a full movement assessment on?
This is what I told him.
The Best Rep Range for Hypertrophy
What's the best rep range for hypertrophy? I got this question again this week, and it's one I get constantly enough that I want to actually answer it here instead of pretending there's some gatekept secret to hypertrophy that only the terminally online know about.