Strength & Conditioning
This type of approach to training isn’t just exclusive to professions however. Part-time and recreational athletes can also benefit from a training program designed to support their chosen sports demands.
We don’t even have to have a sport in mind when applying S&C methods! Proper exercise prescription can help in improved body composition, physical performance, heart condition and health outcomes. The goal really is to provide an elite level of coaching to every kind of client, whatever their goals / needs / demands maybe.
Function
Many of the traditionalist approaches to strength training are based on "dead person anatomy," overly focused on single-joint, machine-centred exercises influenced by origin-insertion-based anatomy. Training influences from bodybuilding and powerlifting lead many athletes astray, such that they train solely for muscle size and strength with no thought of how this may translate to their sport. Functional training, instead, is based on living, moving anatomy with a focus on using multi-planar- and unilateral-based exercises with the goal of improving function and carryover to sport.
For the general population, functional training should improve people's ability to function in their everyday life and profession. Training should serve as a means to improve overall cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurological health. Training should improve people's ability to carry out daily tasks with vigour and alertness and should enhance their ability to safely participate in recreational activities.
Functional training, by definition, is a training intervention that helps the trainee function better, whether that means in everyday life or in competition.One should not view "functional training" as a special genre of training but as intelligent, purposeful training that is meant to restore movement quality, improve performance, and reduce the likeliness of injury.
The 3 Pillars
The better you move, the more efficient your body makes use of the muscles it wants and needs to and the less likely you are to suffer from many more injuries. The Blueprint’s structure is built on these 3 component:
Stage 1 - Rebuild
Stage 2 - Move Better
For a client carrying an injury we would be aiming to now get to a stage a of being pain free, strength should have developed in the injured area so it can protect itself from getting worse and now in fact be improving. And in both client profiles see an improvement in proprioception (conscious and subconscious appreciation of joint motion and position awareness).
Stage 3 - Get Stronger
Make your nutrition as strong as your training! Unfortunately, you can’t out train a bad diet. This is all about addressing this side of a fitness journey. Instead of spending time counting calories and weighting everything out, you’ll learn about portion control and how that would look for you personally. How to keep track and develop consistency, how to make a healthy kitchen and help your body function on the inside just as well as its learning to on the outside.
- Improve nutritional knowledge and understanding your food choices
- Work together to find out what methods work best for you.
- Coach/guide when changes may be necessary.
- Check-ins - help, support, and accountability.
- Find consistency.
- Access to recipes.
- Give you the tools to succeed.
Through this you will learn ways in which to look at your eating habits differently, looking at the different types of food (Macronutrients) Proteins, Carbohydrates and Fats and what foods fall into these categories. Portion sizes and calorie control and more.
This is not about crazy dieting and faddy type approaches; it works through sound principles of quality nutrition. The reason why we'll take this approach is the answer to a common question that so many ask,"What's the best diet?" the answer: "There isn't one."
The basic premise behind this is a moderate calorie restriction. I'm going to talk you through this, as this alone is not what it's about and doesn't achieve a great physique. At the end of the day, you could drop your calories to 500 per day and just eat crisps! Do you think you would be healthy at the end of this? Not a chance, but more importantly do you really think you would look good? I would say a definite no! Your body would go into starvation mode very quickly and you would look starved and malnourished. You certainly would not be able to sustain this long term either. That's not the way forward whatsoever.
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