Our methods provide you more than just a program, we create an environment that inspires effort.  By engaging your entire body and mind, we guide your effort to progress towards greater levels of performance.  You will build strength, endurance, precision, and power.  You will do more than you ever thought possible.

 

Our goal is to break through the boundaries that hold you back by teaching and practicing motor skill based fitness of squatting to jumping, lunging to running, pushing and pulling, and bending and twisting.  Our principle based approach helps you assimilate fitness into your lifestyle.

Start at the End

Knowing where your fitness level is, is just as important as knowing where you are going.  Following this principle will reduce your risk of injury in both the short and long term.  As well you will be able to enjoy effort of an optimal level of intensity. Strength, Stamina, Suppleness, Speed or Skill though clear to fitness professionals in definition, may have a different meaning to you. Know what you want to create in your fitness, as one element lends itself to another.  Be clear on the outcome you want to establish for yourself. 

Over reach

Creating tension, heat and deeper breathing at each training session will stimulate your body and mind. Remain consistent on a weekly basis. To make physical change it requires 3 endorphin induced and sweat producing sessions per week to start with, progressing to 5 times per week.  The bout of exercise needs to be at least 45 minutes with a warm up and cool down.  Exercise should induce better sleep, nutrition and beverage.

Fun

Enjoy your progression with periodic appreciation. Laugh and have fun with yourself and your training. If you do not like it, change your outlook. Work hard and you will gain confidence and improve your esteem knowing you found new boundaries in your abilities.

 

“2 men stood behind prison walls, 1 saw mud the other saw stars.”

“You can’t control the wind but you can control the sail.”

Progress

The sophistication of practicing progressions instead of repeatedly straining one muscle group at a time will lead one towards continued activity and discovery. Multi planar movements that require higher motor-skills are more effective than supported or assisted exercise.

Adaptation

The body adapts quickly to exercise but is somewhat slow to show change. Safely the body can lose about 1 kilogram of fat a week once the metabolism is operating at a high level. The body can adapt to exercise every 2-3 weeks, and therefore should be changed frequently. Fitness enthusiasts tend to get into a routine of the same activity and wonder why they do not change.  As you age it is more difficult to recover from exercise. Results take about 3 months to “see” and about 1 year to "own." This has to do with our blood and cells, as we produce new incrementally every 3 months and 1 year respectively.

 

Manage             

Make one change at a time and manage it over a 3 week period.  People, when they start to practice fitness (notice I said practice), often make too many changes all at once and then find themselves back where they began. Old habits and information you learned previously regarding fitness, nutrition and so on, may not apply to you at this time in your life.  The simple fact is if these did still apply, then most people would not be in their unsatisfactory condition they find themselves in.  What is needed is to manage a way out where you develop a new set of rules or principles that apply to you.

Quality

The quality of your recovery is based on sleep, hydration and nutrition. You are what you eat; exercise is worth about 30% in weight loss, and eating is the other 70%. Eat foods and drink fluids that come as direct from the source as you can.  Fruit and vegetable based food ensures minerals, vitamins and fibre.

Focus

The connection between the mind and body should be limited to that. Using mirrors to view your body as it works, limits your ability to feel your body in your mind’s eye. Focus should be external to see what you are encountering and momentarily internal to re-adjust as appropriate. Enjoyment will be enhanced by the rhythm of movements.