Gain strength that has application in your daily life.  Whether that means household chores, manual labor, or sport application.  The principle is simple,  when your base level of strength is higher, you use a smaller percentage of your maximal strength every time you complete a task, thus making it easier and more efficient.  For example, let’s imagine you’re lifting and carrying 20lbs worth of groceries from your car into your house. If the maximum weight you can lift and carry is 40lbs that means you’re using 50 percent of your maximal strength to lift the groceries, which means its HARD and takes the breath out of you.  However if the max weight you can carry is 150lbs, then the same amount of groceries equals only 13 percent. Which means if feels effortless and mitigates chance of injury, especially if you have to carry those groceries up the stairs or through a rocky driveway. The same principle can be applied to running.  If you can barely perform a bodyweight lunge, then you’re using a large percentage of your maximal strength when you run. However if you can perform 15 lunges in a row with 60 plus pounds in weight then running feels much easier, and is far more efficient because you are using only a small percentage of your maximal strength with each step you take. Utilizing principles of specificity and progressive overload to increase strength  (the mother of all fitness attributes that makes you better at EVERYTHING ELSE).

Utilizing a wide variety of mobility techniques ranging from dynamic flexibility, active joint mobility, and static stretching.  Mobility is vital to prevent injury, mitigate pain, ensure longevity, and EVEN helps promote better muscle growth. Mobility is different than flexibility in that it includes motor control and strength to MOVE through full ranges of motion. Where as flexibility has more to do with passive range of motion.  Mobility is absolutely vital to longevity and well being and training is more important now than ever due to the restrictive stress induced lifestyle most of us live.  Mobility training allows you to regain the full range of motion you were designed to have so that you aren’t compensating with your daily movements and leading to chronic wear and tear.  You feel better, eliminate pain, and develop the mobility necessary in order to train hard.

Natural movement means incorporating all 3 planes of motion which are often neglected in the traditional fitness paradigm.  Utilizing principles from movnat, original strength, martial arts, tacfit, and my own self exploration, I teach you how to move your body in primal, yet unconventional, ways to develop FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH.  The strength to wrestle a bear, strength to be explosive at a moments notice, the strength to get up and down from the ground and OWN YOUR BALANCE in your 80s and 90s. Primal movement allows you to become more in tune with your body and develop applicable strength with ZERO EQUIPMENT.  Natural movement gives you the freedom to move and express yourself with ease.  It connects the dots between strength and mobility training and allows you to move with a greater level of finesse and fluidity.