Training Methodology

By focusing on principles such as fast before slow, difficult before easy, heavy before light, big muscles before small muscles, bilateral before unilateral and prescribing movement patterns as opposed to specific exercises, we see a much more straightforward approach to training that encourages movement literacy first.

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The body moves in about 7 different main movement patterns: Squat, Hinge, Lunge, Push, Pull, Twist, and Gait. In all of my programming, I keep these movements at the front of my mind. This not only allows for adequate training of the major patterns that we use to move but makes exercise prescription much more digestible. Teaching a client hundreds of different exercises expands their exercise vocabulary but simultaneously floods it out of the gate. Teach a client the 7 major movement patterns and exercises that fit them, now you have a foundation. Build on that foundation by working to divide those major movements into smaller subcategories and build a vocabulary this way.

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An example of thinking in this methodology would be implementing a total body workout. 

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For example: a bench press, shoulder press, some pull ups, close grip cable row, goblet squats, romanian deadlifts, and a reverse lunge.

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Now think of the workout as a horizontal push, a vertical push, a vertical pull, a horizontal pull, a squat, a hinge, and a lunge movement. The workout has not changed but now appears much simpler.