A Word on the Importance of Practice and Repetition

So inside of our bodies are muscles. Inside of muscles are muscle spindles. Inside of those are cells. Our cells are constantly moving, it's what helps us heal, function, and basically live. With enhanced microscopes you can even see cells moving like glow in the dark worms.

When muscles contract, the cells move even more, in a frenzy. Uncoordinated and wild. Now the more that muscle contracts in the same manner, the better the cells move. It moves smoother, carries better signals, creates patterns. This is the scientific act of muscle memory. Something trainers and martial artists always throw out but have no idea what it really boils down to. The more you practice something, the more your cells remember, the more they remember the better they perform. Scientists have been trying to figure out ways to make cells move, especially to help with healing. All they have determined thus far though, is the best way to make cells move is through constant repetition.

If I teach you a punch, will you be knocking someone out in a day? No. But maybe after years of practice you will be knocking people out professionally. If I show you how to bench, you won't go from 130 to 250 bench over night. That will take years. You don't grow more muscle fibers, your cells just move better. This is true for all physical and athletic endeavors. I apply this especially in my martial arts training. The repetition of gross movements and common movement pattern.

There is one other thing that practice and repetition does. It creates more myelin around your synapses. That means faster signals from your brain to your body. That means no matter how fast someone is, or how many fast twitch muscles they have or explosive training they do, they will never be able to compensate with someone who can send a signal from their brain faster. Not only that it also remembers efficient movement and takes the slack out of your moves, makes you perform better, faster, with less effort. Be it a golf swing to a judo throw.

Muscle memory combined with nervous system memory creates perfection in human performance. This is another secret that separates the elite from the regular Joe.




About the Author:

Sam Y. is a Personal Trainer, Coach, Performane Enhancement Specialist, Corrective Enhancement Specialist, and holds multiple certifications. He is also an avid Martial Artist, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxing, Boxing, and MMA. He is also the author of the popular fitness blog All Out Effort as well as the popular martial arts blog Inner BJJ. You can find him in the Los Angeles area personal training his clients, or at home annoying his wife, or on Facebook at his personal fitness page.

The Probability of Weight Loss

There is a show I sometimes watch as a guilty pleasure. It is called The Biggest Loser. Yeah that's right, The Biggest Loser. I don't watch it to get inspired or learn anything, I watch it because I find it a very funny and entertaining show. Mainly in how they dramatize weight loss.

The reason I bring this up now is because of a situation that arose on this new season. It was about if a girl was throwing the weigh ins because she didn't lose any weight for 2 weeks. The trainers Bob and Jillian were convinced that she was throwing it. She was emphatic that she was not and it just was not happening. The trainers said that was scientifically impossible...

This is why I'm writing this post. There is an inherent flaw in logic here and if the contestant knew a little bit more she could have stated her case better.

Bob and Jillian made the claim that if you work out hard and eat right there is no way you cannot lose weight based on weight loss science. They said they were 99% sure and how dare she question their knowledge of this science. Oh brother.

Here is what they did not account for in there absolutism and is the reason why you can't have a drug test or book terrorists on a 99% positive ratio. Because lets say in sports, for every 10,000 athletes tested, there will be 100 false positives. For every 100,000 citizens investigated, there will be 1,000 false arrests.

So even though Bob and Jillian were so sure, for every 100 contestants, there will be at least 1 contestant who will sometimes not lose weight. Was this contestant the one? I don't know, but was there a major failure in scientific rationale and logic? Yes.

So let me swing this back to you, the average gym goer. Sometimes you will do everything right and still not lose weight. It's unlikely but it happens. Maybe for every 1,000,000 people working out, it will happen to 10,000 people. That's 99%.

Here is the important part to learn. It happens. THAT'S SCIENCE! But for every time you work out and do it right with all out effort, you exponentially increase your chances of success. For every time you don't go work out, you decrease your chance of success to 0. That is the only guarantee and absolute. Try and eventually you will succeed. Don't try and you will fail. That's 100%.



About the Author:

Sam Y. is a Personal Trainer, Coach, Performane Enhancement Specialist, Corrective Enhancement Specialist, and holds multiple certifications. He is also an avid Martial Artist, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxing, Boxing, and MMA. He is also the author of the popular fitness blog All Out Effort as well as the popular martial arts blog Inner BJJ. You can find him in the Los Angeles area personal training his clients, or at home annoying his wife, or on Facebook at his personal fitness page.

Beyond Circuit Training

I always talk about the glass ceiling that separates the out of shape people in the country to our elite athletes. The difference is in their training techniques. Here is another example, beyond gym circuits, there is something called the complex. It's quicker, more intense, more efficient, and more effective. It's hard for beginners and may take some getting used to but the eventual results gained will be huge!

How Long Before I See Results?

This is a question I get asked all the time. How long to reach my goal, how long to see results? It's all very subjective and has a lot of factors involved. A lot of it is determined by you. How you choose to eat, how determined you are in your work outs, your lifestyle, sleep pattern, and activity level. Proper training will get you there, how fast is really up to you. Remember it's a collaboration.

One thing I will tell you though is, it's much quicker to look fit than to be fit. Do you just want to look like you are in shape, or do you want to be in shape? This is one of the first questions you should ask yourself before you start a work out regiment. The clearer your goals are, the easier you will get there. You want the quick journey with superficial results that will go away easily or do you want to change for good?

Athletes look fit and ARE fit. Choose wisely.

Welcome to Euro Training

As funny and incorrect as this video is, admit it, some of you DO work out like this!

A Word on Prehabilitation

Here is a word on training safety and how to properly warm up and stretch. Some ideas on joint range of motion and muscle stretching. Far too often people try to stretch out their joints, whether it's their hips or knees or back, and they try to work their muscles in their range of motion. This leads to serious injury!

Enjoy.





About the Author:

Sam Y. is a Personal Trainer, Coach, Performane Enhancement Specialist, Corrective Enhancement Specialist, and holds multiple certifications. He is also an avid Martial Artist, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxing, Boxing, and MMA. He is also the author of the popular fitness blog All Out Effort as well as the popular martial arts blog Inner BJJ. You can find him in the Los Angeles area personal training his clients, or at home annoying his wife, or on Facebook at his personal fitness page.

Fitness Level Rankings

If you were to organize personal fitness into belt rankings like you do for the martial arts, this is what it would look like. As you will see, there are a lot of parallels between fitness and martial arts.

White Belt - Like 99% of most gym goers, a white belt is a white canvas. Unsure of what exercises to do, how to reach their goals, how to perform exercises properly, how to eat, how to stay motivated, how to maximized their time and effort, how to see results. Just like in the martial arts, the white belt also has a little ego, thinks they came in with knowledge...

Blue Belt - Knows a lot of exercises and how to do them well. Learning discipline and how to stay focused on their goals. This is where most people will plateau. This is where it's dangerous, where they have the most ego, know just enough to think they know it all.

Purple Belt - Knows most exercises and how to do them properly. Also knows the concepts of working out so when shown a new exercise, they can immediately do them with good form. Knows the fundamentals of diet and how to reach their goals. This is the hardest level to reach...

Brown Belt - Has an iron will. Knows most exercises, and can teach a beginner how to do them. Understands the concepts of breath control and form. Understands how to use diet to shape the body or increase performance. Does not quit or give up. Does not need a lot of equipment or time to have a total body work out, and always pushes it hard each time.

BLACK BELT - The end goal that every person wanting to be healthy should ultimately achieve. The combination of mind, body, and spirit to achieve: health, vitality, and longevity. Has no ego, will learn from anyone. The true athlete. Only trains with all out effort.

Now leave your egos at the door. Tie your belt right and let's get started!

CNN on Personal Training

I really enjoyed this article. Some of the memorable lines:

"I don't want to battle you. I'd hope someone thinks of it as a collaboration." - We all want the same thing right?

"Machines can end up doing the work for you." - Athletes don't use half as many machines as we do. Their body is the only thing that ends up becoming a machine.

Check it out:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/05/trainers.new.year/index.html

Why Do We Plateau In Our Work Outs

This is a brief explanation of why after a while, we stop seeing results in our work out routines.

Our bodies will always try to maintain an constant state of balance, and in doing so it has a exceptional ability to adapt to any changes or environments it's exposed to, such as exercise. Once the body has adapted to the exercise that's being performed, it has no reason to continue to change (muscle development and fat loss). It is in this time of adaptation and halting of any physical and physiological change that is called an exercise plateau. These plateaus are very common among frustrated gym members who appear to be exercising for long periods of time, yet see no body composition change or worse, sometimes they gain weight (fat gain). This leads to loss of motivation, the kiss of death basically.

For an individual to decrease body fat, they must maintain a negative energy balance forcing a loss of fat to occur. Basically using more calories than they are taking in. As one begins a work out program, a caloric loss has begun via the initial calories being expended through exercise and all the physiological changes that occur to adapt to this new change.

These adaptations include:

• Increased motor unit recruitment (coordination)
• Decrease in resting heart rate
• Increase in mitochondrial density (muscle tissue)
• Body fat reduction
• Weight loss

As an individual continues the same work out program for a series of weeks, the above adaptations have occurred and the calories used to produce these changes are no longer being used (your body is more efficient at these exercises and needs less calories to do them). The work out themselves become easier to perform due to these adaptations, so another decrease in the number of calories burned during exercise. This is the body's way of closing the caloric gap created by the initial work out and maintain a state of balance, plateauing is the end result. The body does not want to lose calories! It's a way to preserve itself.

As mentioned earlier, for you to lose body fat you must maintain a caloric loss, either by increasing calories burned (exercise), decrease caloric intake (food) or a combination of both. For the calories burned component, it is important that you use a variety of training methods in manipulating your exercise program in a systematic fashion to provide a new stimulus to adapt to. If you have no training methods, then that is a bigger issue. Change can come in the form of changing variables, exercises, planes of motion, sensory change in a resistance training program or in duration, frequency, intensity, and mode of manipulation (treadmill, rowing machine, stair climber, track, etc) in a cardiorespiratory program.

These are the reasons why most health club and gym rats fail on their own and people with trainers statistically succeed more often. Not only to have someone to teach you, help you, support you, push you harder than you would yourself, but a coach knowledgeable enough to constantly update and refine your work out program so plateaus do not occur. Dieting is great but even with the risk of plateau, nothing creates better change than change that is exercise based.

If you are ready to break though the plateau through an evidence based program, I am here to show you how.

Even Marilyn Monroe Weight Trains!

How Long Should You Work Out For?

I always get perplexed when someone tells me how many days a week they worked out and then how many hours a day they work out... What difference does it make how many hours? And in a bigger sense, how many days? No true athlete trains in a static schedule, its as organic as them!

When I train my clients, sessions can be anywhere from 30 mins to an hour. Why? It's based on effort, not on time (it will never be less than 30 mins because there always needs to be time set aside for prehabilitation - injury prevention and stretching). I will keep stressing that. Some people might say, they want their money's worth and to train for a full hour, that's fine but you won't get the gains you want.

If someone gave me all their effort and was completely spent within 30 mins, if we continue to train more, we will just get a negative return on their energy output level. We will just deteriorate your body. Not only that but in the long run pushing them past than point will just make them hate training. Also different intensities and times adds spice to your work outs, and it won't seem robotic. It should feel like someone is monitoring you and how hard you work out does affect outcome. Feeling like, no matter how hard you try or how you feel does not affect outcome is a terrible feeling and means there might as well be no one supervising you. YOU CAN INEFFICIENTLY TRAIN ALL BY YOURSELF!

So what if you worked out 6 days a week, 2 hours a day. It could mean you are in really great shape, or you are really lazy and take a lot of breaks and don't push yourself very hard (and probably like to talk about or can't decide what machine to use, or worst yet there's a line!).

Some weeks I train 7 days a week. Some weeks I train 3 days a week, it's all based on my level of intensity and what I am trying to accomplish that week or month.

You have to set small goals, get constant feed back, and worry about technique and method as much as result. This is the secret to quick gains.

The Class Lines In Fitness

They say there are class lines drawn between the rich and the poor. The rich know how to get richer and keep the wealth within a certain group, whereas the poor have to work hard to get this valuable knowledge. What about class lines drawn between the fit and the feeble?

One of my good friends who lives in a far away city finally heeded my advice and hired a personal trainer. First thing he asked me was, "Why are these great exercises he showed me not in work out books and online routines?? Are they holding out on us?"

When you see different work out shows or buy different DVDs or go to your local gym and take a class, how come the stuff they show is way different from the exercises they show on documentaries and HBO specials following professional athletes? How come those athletes aren't doing the stuff you are doing? Why aren't they doing the crunches and the thigh adductor machine and doing jumping jacks and plain looking stupid sweating and crawling on the floor?

If the work outs you do or were taught to you were so good, why aren't people who have to make a living off of their bodies doing it? Better yet, why aren't you doing what THEY are doing? They can take any ridiculous work out routine and sell it to you as great by simply calling it a fat burning work out...

Athletes will never do any work out called a "fat burning work out." A work out is a work out, there are either good ones or bad ones. They won't walk into the local health club and gym to see how the common person is working out just as much as a billionaire won't walk into infomercial based real estate seminar to learn how to get rich. BUT MAYBE it's time you learned how an athlete trains and work out at a gym designed for athletes. This is the difference in my training. I want to show the common person how the world's best train.



About the Author:

Sam Y. is a Personal Trainer, Coach, Performane Enhancement Specialist, Corrective Enhancement Specialist, and holds multiple certifications. He is also an avid Martial Artist, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxing, Boxing, and MMA. He is also the author of the popular fitness blog All Out Effort as well as the popular martial arts blog Inner BJJ. You can find him in the Los Angeles area personal training his clients, or at home annoying his wife, or on Facebook at his personal fitness page.

Add Spice To Your Work Outs

Have you tried adding some martial arts into your work outs? To keep it fresh and progressive, nothing is better functional training than the martial arts. I prefer movements from boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, MMA, and of course my favorite, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! I hold a purple belt in BJJ as well as a rank in Sambo, and years of experience in MMA and kickboxing and wrestling under my belt. I have noticed a trend.

Whatever the sport, be it basketball, football, or MMA, when they get into their athletic stance, it all looks the same!

They have some variation of a staggered lunge or squat with their hands in front of their chest. It looks like the thruster which I demonstrated in my previous post at the bottom of its movement. The reason is all power is generated through upward thrust or torque. So whether someone is shooting a wrestling shot, getting ready to tackle, or jump for a ball, it all looks about the same. Or someone throws a punch, throws a ball, or twists to pass a ball, it also looks the same.

These movements create for more athletic bodies than crunches or isolated body building exercises ever will! You want a strong core? Try generating some power from your core! So next time, add some punches and kicks to your work outs!

A Truly Quick Work Out

This is a great work out you can try at home or at the gym that really exemplifies that a work out should be based on the amount of effort, not on the amount of time.

It's using the Tabada format which is basically 20 secs of all out effort, and 10 secs of rest done typically for 8 rounds. You can tweak the amount of rounds, and the length of the rest and effort time. You want to use compound movements so it hits all your muscles at once. Not only will it increase your cardio, it will increase your speed, your strength, engage all your muscles, improve form, and best of all it's a scientific interval that has been proven to keep you metabolism super charged for the rest of the day. Check it out.

Being an Athlete

• An athlete trains hard but always leaves enough to train the next day.
• An athlete eats a lot but always fuels his body with good nutrients.
• An athlete gets proper rest and recovery time.
• An athlete will not abuse his body.
• An athlete treats his body like an expensive high performance investment.
• An athlete always stays positive and sets goals.
• An athlete knows when to put themselves first.
• An athlete will keep themselves hydrated.
• An athlete cannot do it alone and relies on his coaches, team, and support group.

You don't have to kill yourself working out, you don't have to starve yourself, you don't have to put yourself last, you don't have to do it alone with no support or coaching, you DO have to set clear goals, and YOU CAN SUCCEED.

American athletes eat a lot and stay lean when that's so hard for the rest of us. A lot of us try the opposite, by starving and still don't see great results. It is because our athletes have the most scientific training methods. TRAIN AND EAT LIKE AN ATHLETE.

Doing machines and dieting is great but with the scientific approach to personal training, you can see the results our athletes see.

We're all athletes. But I can make you better.






About the Author:

Sam Y. is a Personal Trainer, Coach, Performane Enhancement Specialist, Corrective Enhancement Specialist, and holds multiple certifications. He is also an avid Martial Artist, training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxing, Boxing, and MMA. He is also the author of the popular fitness blog All Out Effort as well as the popular martial arts blog Inner BJJ. You can find him in the Los Angeles area personal training his clients, or at home annoying his wife, or on Facebook at his personal fitness page.

Why The Gym Keeps You Fat and The Lack of Personal Training

“Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.”

If you want to see a large number of feeble people at one place, the best place to go isn't some buffet or a retirement home. Believe it or not it's your local health club. You'll never see so many out of shape, overweight, and out of breath people all in one place. They go for the same reason we all go, to try to make a difference. Yet somehow our health clubs aren't some sort of factory that converts out of shape people into people who are in great shape. You'll see the same tired faces typically and every time you see them they look about the same, and over the years they probably get a bit worse. They tell you every time they lose weight, but they don't mention to you all the times they put the weight back on and them some. By my calculation with some people I know, they somehow managed to lose more weight than they ever weighed at their heaviest. If you don't believe me, next time you go to the gym, really look around. The myth is that health clubs get you healthy and that it's full of healthy people, that is simply a lie. The US has more gyms per capita than any other country yet we are the most obese country in the world!

It comes down to not seeing any results. Not only that but lying to yourself about it. There are convenient lies, and inconvenient truths. Our brains are wired to believe convenient lies that go along with our belief system. We are also wired to ignore truths that challenge the way we think or cause us to worry. If through a friend of a friend, we hear walking in the pool will give us a nice body and we already like the pool, we will choose to believe this lie. When you hear that it doesn't work, or walking in the pool burns less calories than regular walking, people will ignore this inconvenient truth. I can do it on my own – convenient lie. I need the help of a personal trainer – inconvenient truth. Left to your own devices you let your health get away from you. If you were going to get healthy, you would have done it by now. What excuses will you come up with not to try? If not now then when? And ultimately how will you do it? By yourself, doing what you've always done? Einstein said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Like I said, inconvenient truth.

Optimistic denial is the belief that inaction will somehow make things better. You have a crummy job and you tell yourself, I am sure it will get better over time. I don't need a personal trainer, it'll somehow all work out and good health will just come to me. This is just pessimism disguised as optimism. Real optimism is based on action, you make a change for the belief something better will happen.

People by design have poor judgment. Just go to Vegas and you will see. You made poor choices everyday and got to your current weight and health state. Choosing not to do something about it may be the final cherry on top of poor decisions you've made.

What's the price of not reaching your goals in the most physically capable years of your life? You can never gain that time back and nothing is worth that sacrifice. Defer your retirement not your health. Conditions will never be perfect and “somedays” is a disease that will eat all your dreams away. If you want to do something eventually, just do it now and correct your course along the way.

Most Americans, wait no, most human beings are out of shape. How often do you see a feeble animal in the wild? Very rarely, because wild animals survive because they are the fittest. The feeble animals don't exist in the wild because...they die.

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

The rest of your life is in your hands. How you choose to live it is up to you. Will you choose to stay feeble or choose to get fit? If you're serious about buying a house, you won't just think about it will you? You will get a loan officer to help you. If you're serious about getting fit, you will come see a personal trainer like myself and get some professional help. You did a great job losing your shape by yourself, now you need a trainer to bring you back into shape. It may sound harsh but this is reality. Just look at the statistics. Oh but of course you will be the one who beats the odds, beats the house in Vegas right? Remember what I said about poor judgment...Even with a personal trainer it's not easy, but on your own for many of you it's a pure "wouldn't that be nice" thought.

Theodore Roosevelt said, "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly..."

Enter the arena...

The Perfect Training

Let me start with this very important question that most people do not think about but is worth taking into serious consideration.

Why does the US have more obese people than any other country in the world yet, we also produce the greatest and fittest athletes?

If you think about it, it should be the same across the board right? Fattest people, worst athletes. Or countries with the healthiest people should produce the best athletes. So why this division of extremes in our country? It is like most things in our country, things get divided. This time, not between the rich and the poor but between our best athletes and the common person.

The US even with all the temptations of modern living, sedentary lifestyle, can somehow manage to produce superior athletes. The regular gym goer may think, it's probably because athletes have more time to train. That's partly it, they make it their full time job. But that doesn't answer how our athletes are superior to other countries, even when a lot of times our athletes train for less time than other countries. We are the most advanced country in the world and it is no surprise we also have the best methods of training our athletes. Something that is not commonly shared with the regular person, not even our celebrities. Most people mistake entertainment or trainers/training with personality as training/trainers with substance. You need an architect of the perfect body not a cheerleader. Would you go to a cheerleader and ask them something a scientist would know?

Perfect training creates perfect athletes. 

Before I explain what perfect training is, let me go into what most of us do.

For most the answer is simple. We eat bad, sit too long, and don't exercise. Well there are gyms on every street corner here full of sweaty people. What about them? As I mentioned before even though people are working out and sweating, a lot of times gyms are still full of people most would consider out of shape if we saw them in street clothes. So the answer there isn't as obvious.

One of the main things is, we run too much. Americans love to run. That is a good thing but Americans also tend to do everything in excess. We are a complex machine with many systems and pieces and if all you do is run, you are only training one system in one way. Not only that you are repeating the same movement patterns, that causes pattern overload. Also our bodies adapt to new stresses very quickly. This all means doing it too much will overtime show little to no results while risking injury to yourself. One adaptation is, instead of burning calories, you enlarge your heart because of the amount of blood and oxygen your asking your body to move. This may cause even more serious problems later. It is a cardio obessed world for some of us.

We don't stretch enough. And when we do, we overstretch which leads to more injuries. You see people prior to engaging in exercise or warm up just stretch in every imaginable position. Talk on the phone, stretch. Run, stretch. Hence the popularity of yoga and pilates and ballet type fitness. You are supposed to stretch muscles and move joints within a range of motion. What most people do is stretch joints and move muscles within its range. People try to almost rip themselves apart and thinking its somehow beneficial and therapeutic. It's not. For some it is a stretch based world.

We also focus too much on the wrong muscles and try to lift too much weight. Which also causes not only injuries, but also warped muscle shapes and inefficiencies in the body. For some it's a heavy lifting based world.

We overstretch to prevent injuries, but instead we tend to hurt ourselves more. We run to make our bodies smaller but in the end we overgrow our hearts. We lift weights to try to become better athletes but in the end it hurts our results. We get too caught up in one thing. If I were to ask you, what's most important, money, happiness, or meaning? And you picked one of the answers. You would be wrong. It's a trick question. To have a good life you need all three. If you were a fighter, would you only learn to punch? That's half fighting. You need to learn to do it all, punch, kick, wrestle, etc.

So to be fit, you can't focus on any one thing. You have to balance them all together and do them correctly. Especially for those starting out, they just do cardio. Let me ask you this. Without muscle, how will you burn calories? Are you expecting your fat to burn your other fat? You are trying to fat burn, but you don't have that much muscle so what will your body use while running to burn calories?

Without muscle, you can't burn fat. You can't build muscle without endurance. You can't build endurance without stability. There is a science and a method to fitness and physical training. Without science or method, you are basically going to the gym and hoping to accidentally get in shape. NO ONE ACCIDENTALLY GETS IN SHAPE!

Our athletes train in a specific order. They also make sure to prehab (type of conditioning to prevent injury). They treat their bodies like a very expensive piece of machinery. They don't focus on any one thing and also don't train everything at the same time.

We are machines engineered from the inside out. Like how a baby is made in the womb, there is a reason it had to happen in that order. If you want your work outs to recreate for you, a new better you, you better also work out in that order.

When we were made, it was our nervous system first, blood and oxygen systems, and then muscles. You must also train your nervous system first. All athletes and even martial artists first control their nerves, control their breathing, then get their muscles ready before their events right? Same thing in how you train. This is how you will peak, this is how you will maximize your results. Putting effort into the correct areas at the right time.

Someone who comes to me and tells me they are in great shape because they run a lot, I would challenge them with this. If you were going to explore outer space and you needed a spaceship, would you pick one that could go only straight forward in a moderate speed? Or would you pick a spaceship that could not only go forward and back, up and down, and move in all directions and axises, but do it while changing speeds or directions at will? Which would you feel safer to explore the universe with? Which is a more fit vessel? Which would break down less? Now instead of a ship its your body, and now its no longer outer space but life. And which would you feel safer in moving through life?

This is why most people think they are healthy yet statistics tell us otherwise. This is what most of our athletes already know. Imagine how liberating your life is, when you were no longer trapped in your body but now free to move about and be safe in whatever life threw at you. The perfect training WILL create the perfect athlete. Whether you know it or not, all of us are athletes. Just some of us train better than others.