One Key to Overall Health

Movement before muscles.

What does this mean?

Regardless of whether you are an athlete or an adult training, proper movement is key to athleticism and overall health.

Most traditional weight room exercises are in one plane of motion, the saggital plane. Flexion and extension. For example: the hip goes back and then it goes forward.

Outside of the weight room, life does not seem to comply with only the saggital plane. You have to move and twist (transverse plane) or run, or swing a golf club (frontal plane). Athletes, especially, have to cover so much ground with constant change of movement in different directions.

For most young athletes and adults, life happens outside of the weight room facility. We should be training to improve performance outside of the facility and exercises are a tool to achieve that outcome… not training for the sole purpose of improving a certain exercise. Because of this fact, we train “movement before muscles” and muscle growth naturally follows.

If you focus on proper movement, train with full range of motion, and have a great training plan, you will:

• keep your joints healthy

• be strong across multiple planes of motion

• and be able to repeat with consistency