3D Workouts

3D as in three dimensional....

What is a 3D workout?

3D workout will challenge you in all three planes of movement - an indication of true function specific to life.

But all three movement dimensions is not all to a 3D workout.

3D workout will touch you in a lot of other ways as well. It will not only challenge your body but it will also charge you with energy, stimulate your mind, cause you joy or lift up your spirit.

What?

That is right, how else can you elicit a true lifestyle change through movement if it does not touch you in all different levels.

Why is personal training such a huge industry?

Because it is PERSONAL, it is just as much about the relationship than it is about the exercise. People want and need relationships, some one to talk to, some one to laugh with and some one to help and care about them.

Wouldn't you?

Hey, I am passionate about science and exercise and physiology and all the other good science stuff.

But if I don't get the whole idea of 3D, I will not be able to deliver, neither the information, nor the transformation.

How do I create an atmosphere where TRUE transformation can take place?

If you want to widen your perspective, please check out what Gary Gray and David Tiberio are doing at Gray Institute.

Now talk about intelligent fellows...

Tommi

PS: First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill

Ankle Mobility (nilkan liikkuvuus)

Hip Mobility (lonkan liikkuvuus - sisakierto)

Thoracic Spine Mobility (rintaranka)

More hanging, less hanging out!

I have heard it, I have read about it, I have even understood it....but when you truly witness it with your own eyes, it just makes you feel so helpless and even frustrated..

Oh, what is this thing that wrecks me like that?

Well, I tell you in the next blog in about a week from now.....hahaha

No really, I make my youth athletes hang (from a pull up bar) and I time their result.

It is amazing how weak the upper extremities including the grip is with kids today. Last week I had a 12 year old hang for time and he made it to 6 seconds......6 SECONDS! What is that?

Do we even realize how important the grip is as a part of the kinetic chain and as a part of activating the whole chain? Do we really understand how much it is in connection to the shoulder and the function of the rotator cuff not to speak of the thousand other correlations it has?

I feel upset trying to condition a young baseball player when they have never even climbed a tree or crawled under a fence and jumped over a rock etc....

I'm not upset with the kid or even the parent...I am just not OK with the way things are going. You can't have a healthy life without having some basic movement abilities, not to speak of becoming an athlete.

I will not train a single young athlete until I have told them and their parents that athletes are not made in the sport facilities and personal training studios. They are made in the backyards, in the woods and in recreational, spontaneous game and play situations where the movement is inspired by imagination, freedom and whatever elements happen to be around at the time.

Tommi

PS: If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. Dick Cavett.

Are you training strengths or weaknesses?

If you would have to prioritize when you are training movement...What is more important, building on the strengths of the person or trying to weed out the weaknesses?

Well, it depends...right?

But what if there was a general philosophy of focusing on one or the other?

We could look at the field of corrective exercise training and pretty much make an assumption that it aims at getting rid of weaknesses.

On the other hand if we look at performance training, we often end up training the strengths. What I mean is "if you are fast, you end up training speed more than the slow person, who probably wants to work on strength or endurance more preferably".

Athletic conditioning is of course much different based on its objectives than general fitness training or physical therapy...and the ratio between training strengths and weaknesses, if you will, is probably different.

We pretty much know that Youth Training should focus on building on strengths and not focus on weaker areas too much. We know that kids need to feel successful and build their confidence through positive experiences. We also know that children go through sensitive ages in their development and it is crucial to recognize those windows of opportunity and train the areas they absorb the best.

But from the physiological point of view, if the goal is to enhance performance in a given sport and pain/injury/contraindication is not an issue, should we focus more on the strengths of an athlete or the weak links in the chain?

It is a given that if an athlete has no core strength but but he is flexible, we shouldn't just focus on improving his flexibility. That makes no sense.

But if the athlete has a lot of power but not a lot of endurance, should we not train power anymore and just focus on aerobic capacity. Well of course not but I am just trying to bring myself to ask the right questions...

We can only affect the baseline we are given through genetics that much and we should probably be careful how much we mess with those areas. Is it better to be excellent in one area of physical movement than about average in all of them?

There has to be a balance in everything I think. It also depends on the goals you are using your skills for. A basketball player might need more versatile qualitites than a shot put athlete...or not...?

What if we would only try the improve the weaknesses that limit the growth of out strengths and only focus on them to the point where the limitation in the strength is removed?

What if the ultimate goal was always the strength? What if we had a movement analysis tool that would tell us exactly how much the weakness should be improved in order to "release the strengths and use them more optimally?"

Even so, even as training to weed out weaknesses we need to make the client feel successful in that area. I think it is very important to train a weakness in such way that the client sees his/her progression and feels constant improvement and success in that area. More important than bringing their focus on the weakness is to focus on the improvement. You obviously need to bring all the findings up with your client at the evaluation, but post-evaluation we should focus on moving forward physically and mentally in that area.

In that sense, it is like training children. You need to train success in order to become "good at success." Concentrate on putting your clients in situations where they feel successful.

This week I will try to map out 3 specific strengths that my clients have and see if I can find weaknesses that still limit the strengths. After that I need a plan...a big plan.

Yes, it is just like a basic evaluation but just from another point of view I guess.

Always expect success!

Tommi

PS: A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. Willam Arthur Ward

Smart dude!

Watch the video. Great information to ponder for the day.

http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/002915.html

Click the video link on this page.

Tommi

PS: None of us is as smart as all of us. Phil Condit