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A physical practice is problem-solving. Every day you show up to train, new puzzles and equations are being presented. These are in the form of different movements, the variety of workouts, and your physical preparedness. The body is dynamic and ever changing in response to internal and external stimuli. And if the body is changing, […]

What is fitness? Define it. What is important? What is better? No two definitions will be the same. That’s the point. Fitness is relative. It’s subject to context and environment. The broadest definition is such: “fit for purpose”. Another question: What is the purpose? Define it. Purpose in what context? In what environment? The third

Being underprepared is underrated… Especially if you are usually prepared, measured, and meticulous. There are many times during a physical practice where it is best to plan the workout: the rep schemes, progressions, and rest periods. In staying accountable to these, one is able to make sustained and consistent progress, mostly. But under-preparing has utility

I took some time away last week, meandering aimlessly down the south coast. Every morning, I would awake to a different outlook, crawl out of the tent, and commence a process… The camping stove is located in the boot of the van, as I go to work, rigging this up to the portable gas bottle,

Strength will serve you well in your physical practice. There are benefits to being flexible and mobile. Your capacity to endure, and then produce mass amounts of force in a short amount of time is useful. However, the most important component in your physical practice is none of the above. It is attention. An athlete paying

Functional Training. This term is well overused. Most of this comes from two opposing camps. The first are the purists; perhaps better known as the “anti bicep curl” crew. The belief in this camp is that if it isn’t a compound, multi-joint, free weight exercise which movement pattern shows up in your day to day, then it

Most of us associate endurance with long bouts of aerobic exercise, synonymous with repetitive conditioning work. This is the perspective of the strength and conditioning world. Endurance, however, is not limited to this. A quick google search illuminates this. The dictionary references endurance as one’s ability to endure; to “withstand adversity”, “engage with a difficult process”, or to “continue

Self-regulation is a high level skill. We are often quick to forget this as coaches. We offer generic advice in the brief: “pace yourself”, “ease into this” or “stick to your plan”. This is only effective if we assume everyone knows what this means. This is not always the case. We are also under no

Practice does not mean easy. Since transitioning into a new programming model – distinguishing between practice, mental toughness and competition days – we have experienced a few “growing pains”. One of these is an unanimous understanding of what practice means… The most appropriate definition, as it relates to our programming is: “to perform or work at repeatedly so as