06/09/2019
This is a good example of what training/therapy looks like in our facility.
When you are doing hard work, we are right there coaching you through it.
Here you can see how I am using my body (not just my hands) to constantly monitor his body and to cue him or tweak things as needed as we go through shoulder ER PAILS/RAILS. My nervous system is constantly monitoring what his nervous system is doing.
The goal of therapy and training is to drive specific adaptation.
If we want specific adaption – we damn well better be specific with what were doing. I need to make sure you are using the exact tissues that we want, with the exact amount of force that we want, peaking force production where and when we want it for whatever length of time is appropriate for that person, and the list continues.
I’m monitoring breathing, what tissues are being used, how much force is being produced, when fatigue is setting in, if they are fully relaxed during recovery, when they are ready for another rep etc. Then we use this information to make decisions and adjustments on the fly to maximally drive whatever specific adaptation we are going after.
It might look excessive and unnecessary – but this is what good quality coaching looks like.
He said he’d done heavy cleans, snaches and back squats prior and THIS was much harder -which speaks to the importance of being able to coach someone through it.
🗣 The annoying chipmunk noise is me talking the whole time.
Luckily, we have a small tight knit community at our gym. So our client’s don’t mind when we are literally all over them and talking in their ear 👂🏻
