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Take a moment, and listen.

“It takes ten thousand hours to perfect a skill.”  Unfortunately, not a truth.

The limitation with evolving our own success is we often make assumptions of our outcome.   Assumptions (thought answers) only offer perception to the effort, and often less, required to complete.

That said, let’s bring the common craze of Fitness Boot Camps and other fads into the equation.  These examples control the outcome by using the simplest factor to manipulate, the repetition.

Question, are you really working hard?

In fact, you are working, however, not creating change.  You are left with the ability to repeat, and successful at a repeat assumption.  Don’t forget, life changes.

Successful practice is and yields a deliberate start.

Fortunately, this does not ask for ten thousand hours, moreover, a hard look at your ability against an absolute challenge.

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Now that competition seasons are ending, most choose to continue playing their same sport.  This may seem  a proactive step to advance as an athlete.  Unfortunately that may not be the whole truth.

 

My daughters (ages 11 and 10) recently finished their second and third consecutive soccer season.  Both played incredibly well, and my wife and I fully enjoyed seeing all team players progress with three practices a week, as well as, a game or two every weekend.

Truth is with this amount of play and practice, players also pick up diminishing returns a long the way.  After a brief assessment, I found my daughters  Flexor chains over active, thus, less force (and awareness) of Posterior muscles (ie. glutes, hamstrings), as well as, a balance with their upper body and core development.

Why this plays important is when competition season returns, they are capable of improving above their current level of play, rather only improve with where they are already competent.  This can also lead to a lowering of unnecessary injury and increase in on-field play next season.

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“That’s how I learned.”  -Anonymous coach

Today’s game has changed.   Young athletes are getting faster and stronger, while at the same time, developing long term injuries.  The problem is the competition is even more competitive then ever and we are not (cumulatively) developing the next young athletes to be prepared.   Now what?

Ages: 7-9 Skills-

• Active range of motion (AROM)
• Jumping
• Landing

Ages 10-12 Skills

• Left to Right (cross body) motoring
• Acceleration (start)
• Deceleration (stop)

Ages 12-15 Skills

• Active recovery
• Speed coordination
• Power development

Your child’s ability to play the sports they love long term must be built on the foundation of practicing heathy habits.   This can start with your awareness to their (fitness) needs and end with removing that which does not support a successful outcome.

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A healthy investment should net a positive return, and with time of the essence, a strong one at that.  We have come a long way in advancing fitness, and still, we are without significant change.

If we were, our rate of obesity would steadily be declining and we would cease to be at such high risk of sedentary disease.

If your personal fitness investment can not yield a return of improving your repeatability to function tall, upright, and pain free, then you are only reaching at low hanging returns, and not being shown HOW to empower YOU.

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We often forget that we are bound to earth with both time and gravity, and our movement is a reactive equation between each.

Gravity + Ground + Force (spring action) = Free energy!

 

Modern trend asks us to track ten thousand daily steps for optimal health.

That said, HOW you walk and run directly effects how you feel.  To obtain longevity with your collective steps adjust this trend to, “Healthy steps can accumulate optimal health.”

When you step outside to tackle tomorrow’s step tally, start with a FALL forward, giving time for gravity to catch YOUR stride.  This will allow for safer movement against your joints, while also exercising mechanical elasticity, offering athletic ability to your actioning muscles.

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How we move can either help us to advance or impede our development.  We often push or pull without any given thought as to HOW we are performing, specifically for a desired carryover to both sport and life.

Our bodies can express highly advanced motor skills via movement patterns, driven by:

• Grounding
• Gravity
• Ground reaction

and respectively,

• Force couples

Force couples are coordinated positions that allow proactive muscular contractions, thus potentially promoting higher rates of force.   Why this becomes important is with improving conditioning (delaying fatigue) and strength (warding repetitive stress injuries) output.

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All exercise programs aim to improve fitness, moreover most do this through high (volume) of repetition and not with intensity.

The problem with high repetition is that because it does not progressively improve function, over time, can diminish athletic performance longevity.

We know that something new begins with a specific demand against your current threshold.  If your performance can only fall to the total number of repetitive repetitions, then your (total) work capacity will be low to moderate output, and why repetitive stress injuries begin to accumulate.

Simply stated, your tolerance to stress diminishes while you add more to do.

The definition of insanity is to do the same expecting new outcomes.  Start with something different.

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Training eccentric control has highest carryover for sport:

The Negative- muscle lengthening phase of an exercise.

Your ability to move safely and swiftly across the field lies with improving the eccentric (negative) portion of your exercises.  The concentric (shortening) phase is where to many people spend countless  hours and wonder why their body aches and their skills do not improve.

Our bodies function in a reactive sense, already coordinating repeated motion from the ground.  Your fitness training must focus on how you meet that ground, and improve your readiness to pull energy for explosive activities such as running, jumping, cutting, starting, and stopping.

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We are designed very specifically to not only move, moreover, transfer movement.  Our human frame has this potential with mechanical effort, and without a negative return against you.

We do this through force angles.  The advantage of force angles is your ability to transfer highest amount of force for life’s challenging tasks,

 

To many people finish with collecting injuries that take them ‘out of the game’ earlier then expected, moreover, your ability to tolerate such a high demand of stress creates fitness potential one can take well into athletic maturity and quality aging.

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GLUTE-HAM-STROC 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What:  Gluteus (Buttocks), Hamstrings and Gastrocnemius (calf muscle)

Why is this important?

Every locomotive step forward or a sprint into a different direction is an expression of your ability to maneuver with a specific ground reactive process.  For leverage, we call upon our back-side (or posterior) line of muscles to aid with maximizing this powerful reactive process.

Posture, movement and motion are all patterns offered by pull of gravity against the ground, and why longterm life and athletic readiness must first consider the demands required to successfully pull a reaction from the ground.

Weakness in the muscles of your posterior chain, specfically the glute-ham-stoc, disallows maximal force transfer.  Thus creating inefficient mechanics, and eventually, harmful repetitive stress injury.

If you would like more information or would like to have your current fitness measured: email – djsanidad@gmail.com