How Do You Feel?
The state that your body is in on a regular basis should be an indicator of how fit you are. Your body should feel good after taking on the demands placed on it. If you’re hurting, limping, stiff, and sore in the wrong places then your body is warning you that something is off. It’s […]
Functional Alternative to “Traditional” Glute Bridge
Why is this exercise superior to the traditional variation of the “bridge?” This exercise is teaching muscles to contract the same way they do to support these joint positions in reality. Not necessarily this exact position, but the overall position of the joints relative to other joints. For example, the problem with the traditional glute […]
Force
Your body encounters and responds to multiple forces to propel through space. Your body rotates, shifts, adducts, abducts, flexes, extends, undulates, spirals, pronates, supinates, and more- all at the same time. These functions are necessary to move yourself efficiently through multiple planes of motion without pain and dysfunction. As a human, your natural movement revolves […]
Muscle Building Tip
In order to maximize the amount of muscle you gain, your body must move correctly to ensure muscle is being developed in areas that it’s underdeveloped. When you exercise with the correct form and optimize your biomechanics, your muscles get put to work in ways that they normally don’t. Dormant muscles get woken up and […]
What To Expect In Our Gym
In our gym, you won’t see an exercise demonstrated and then be expected to execute it while our trainers stand around and count reps. Instead, what you’ll find is trainers who show you how the exercise should look, coach you through the technique, and then ask you where you’re feeling it to make sure you’re […]
Move Correctly
Nothing happens independently with movement, everything works synergistically to move correctly. If you’re misaligned in one part of your body while you’re moving, another part of your body will compensate and contract the wrong muscle, or the right muscle the wrong way- causing imbalance, leading to pain and injury down the line. This is why […]
Functional Fitness Part 2
We know by now that our body is one integrated unit, so repetitive movements that isolate it into sections cause disconnections throughout your kinetic chain. In our previous post Functional Fitness Part 1 we highlighted some exercise techniques that get a lot of hype, but don’t necessarily deliver the most bang for your buck. In this post […]
Functional Fitness Part 1
Functional training can mean different things to different people. In our gym, it means exercising to coincide and enhance your body’s natural movements- like walking, running, lifting objects, standing, and navigating daily demands without pains or injuries limiting your function. Humans innate biology designed us to stand, walk, run, and throw. These functions shaped our […]
Evolutionary Muscles
Throwing is an integral function that shaped human’s innate musculature. The same way we developed muscles from running to survive, we developed muscles from throwing spears to kill prey and feed ourselves. For example, the chest muscles developed from throwing and not pushups or bench presses, the same way the glutes developed from running and […]
Vanity Training
The problem with exercising exclusively for how you look without addressing how you function, is it’s not sustainable. Just like a car that isn’t working, a new coat of paint won’t fix the problem under the hood. The new paint job will make it look good, but eventually it will break down and you’ll have […]
