What You are doing Wrong!

Today I want to talk about the training style that is revolutionizing sports performance training.  This can be simply call the movement philosophy.  The goal of the movement philosophy is as simple as it names states, MOVE.  That is what athletes do and it is how we need to train our athletes.  Get your athletes moving in order to make them better and make sure they emphasize proper movements.  Move, move, move is what good sports performance coaches are doing with their athletes and today I will discuss the philosophy behind the movement style.

Sports are about movements and how well does an athlete move.  We want to move quicker, more explosively, more efficiently and more athletically.  Everything about sport is how well do you apply movement.  Running, jumping, stopping, throwing and turning are all movements.   These are the requirements of sport and as a sports performance coach we need our athletes to be better at these movements.  Improving these movements will improve our athleticism and our game performance.  We will be better at the thing that is the reason why we are training.  That reason being sports. We want to better at sports and we want to win.  In order to win we need to be more athletic and we become more athletic through improving our body’s abilities to move.  Movement is the key to being a better athlete.

Notice how I didn’t mention curl, extension or crunch.  These are not the movements of sports.  These are the names of isolation exercises that decrease our body’s ability to move smoothly and athletically. For athletes we never want to decrease athleticism.  That goes against everything we are trying to do as sports performance coaches.  Doing the exercises mentioned above we are moving slowly and isolating a joint so that we can control the joint and feel the “pump” within our muscles.  We are training our muscles during this type of training.  The problem for athletes with this type of training is that sports are not about muscle.  As stated above, sports are about movement.  Your muscles affect your movement but not in a slow, controlled and isolated manner.  Instead we want our full body involved in our movements and we want this to be quick, explosive and powerful.

This is the principle behind the movement training style.  Athletes need to focus on the movements of their sport and train those movements in order to maximize the results they want while playing their sport.  With movement training, we will improve our athleticism first and our muscles will improve as a result of this approach.  Gone are the days of ab crunches, bicep curls and leg extensions.  They have been replaced with standing presses, medicine ball throws and jumps.  Movement is the key and will improve us athletically with each of these movements and our muscles will also benefit.  This is the new way to train athletes and our athletes are improving at a faster rate and seeing greater gains in athleticism and performance.  As an athlete, start focusing on your movements and your game will improve as a result of your new training approach. 

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Anyone in the San Diego area be sure to drop in at our studio at 2949 Garnet Ave. 3^rd floor, Pacific Beach, CA.  We would love to put you through our workout.   Please feel free to call or email Spencer Aiken,CSCS  (858) 240 2334 email: info@truefitness.biz

Article written by Spencer Aiken, CSCS, CEO, TrueFitness