The Secret to Getting Your Clients Incredible Results

Posted on December 29, 2022

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If you’re like Joy, who has a gymnastics coach wasn’t seeing the results and improvements she knew that she could get from athletes and an hour looking for a better way to improve your athletes performance, then definitely stay with me as I dive into some of the reasons why you may not be seeing the results that you want. And I’m going to give you some strategies that you can take to apply to your training sessions to find success. But before I get into that, if you haven’t subscribed yet, please hit that subscribe button and the bell. So you get notified every time we post new videos on how to improve performance trend optimally for movement patterns, address movement related pains, and anything that’s under the sun in terms of Related Fitness topics. So as I mentioned to you just a few seconds ago, who was basically rockin and rollin as a gymnastics coach, but basically took everything to the next level after she was introduced, the strategies and methodologies that I’m gonna talk about in this video, she essentially had her athletes improve their skill sets, in three months for their particular competitions that they’ve been working on for the previous three years. Essentially, she exponentially accelerated her ability to get her athletes performing at a high level by incorporating the following knowledge and strategies into her training. So we’re going to be talking about improving sports and movement performance. But I want to always define things before we start into like, what does that mean? Well, to me, it means essentially three things. We want to avoid injury at all possible. Now, can we prevent injury? No, there’s no way injury is simply about when it happens, not if it happens. Now, when it does happen, we certainly want to recover from injury faster. So we want to avoid as much as we can. But if it does happen, want to also recover as fast as possible. So we have misses few practices, misses a few moments in life, it doesn’t have to be all the athletes, right could be normal human beings, just living life out and enjoying them themselves. We want to miss as little out as possible. So that’s what we’re talking about in terms in terms of moving and improving sports and movement performance. But the last thing it really, really means is maximizing the bodies and movement literacy. We want optimal movement patterns. Well, how many movement patterns are there? There’s what I’m gonna say the word Unlimited, right? There’s so many ways that the human body can move, but we just don’t have the vocabulary to move those ways. Because we’ve been training, so limited. Think about those sports announcers who say, Man, that guy, that guy’s an athlete over there, he just crushes it, I just move so gracefully, it just, you don’t even know what he’s gonna throw at you. Yeah, what sport was he playing, it doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t really matter, it could, because the athletic performance that that athlete showed was like, just like, it’s beautiful. It was it was like it was juke in this way going, that was a cat that person do that. They had a vocabulary of movement that they subconsciously accessed in the moment in real time to make the play. Now, that doesn’t have to be in sport, it can also be in real, real life. So that’s what we’re gonna dive into days. How do we express our movement literacy, optimally? Well, there are some reasons why we aren’t achieving optimal performance training. And the biggest kind of red flag that we see is that we’re only training in one D, meaning our movement patterns are very forward and backwards and very up and down in the training rooms. That simple. I mean, it hasn’t changed much. I’ve been in high school a long time. And they’re, we’re still doing the same stuff. It’s benchpress. It’s squat, it’s power clean. That’s like what you get measured by, that’s how you get stronger for the game of football. Well, I was a flyback. The first move I did in every single play was a lateral shuffle to a, a to a basically a pivot run, never trained that only trained it at practice, but never trained in the training room. Why, when that’s like the first thing that I do every single time. We’re gonna talk about football players much more later in this video. But there’s another thing that’s going on that really set me up to always be doing the same drills that I was doing, you know, 20 years ago, that people are still doing today is that the lack of knowledge that coaches and trainers have about biomechanics, I’m not gonna pick on him, it’s not like, not like, I’m like blaming them. But we’re just not taught those things in our formal education. We’re taught biomechanics in a way, what let’s, let’s look, let’s let’s define biomechanics. So what is biomechanics? Let me unpack that before we go any further. So we have a kind of good understanding of what it really is. It’s essentially this it’s the ingredients to movement. Simple, simply put, it’s the info that trainers need but have stayed away from for a long time because it’s, it’s very theoretical, it’s very, it’s very heavy. It’s very book knowledge fulcrums and lever arms and pulley systems and look at this example of, you know, this setup into the radial deviation of this. It’s like wait a minute, can we talk about it simply? And yes, trainers need to talk about it simply because it really is. relatively simple, it’s it’s layers upon layers, but those layers have simplicity to them. In fact, if you want to dive into a huge understanding of human biomechanics, check out the link in the description for our multi dimensional movement coaching mentorship, where we do an amazing job for trainers out there for athletes out there looking to unpack how the body actually moves. So you can reverse engineer and apply it into training and conditioning. Give us a call, if you want to check it out. It’s pretty sweet. Alright, why is it important to know biomechanics? When involved in sports performance and training? Well, it’s the same thing that we need to know, to hire a great mechanic to fix our car. The same thing we need to know to hire a good plumber to fix what’s going on underneath our house. If that mechanic doesn’t know how the pistons move and rotate the camshaft to make sure that that goes all the way to the transmission, what happens the transmission goes to the drive shaft and to the axle from the axle to the wheels, vape, I wouldn’t really trust them that they’re gonna fix that cranky sound that’s on my wheel, or that plumber, who doesn’t, and they just start ripping stuff out. Like, I don’t think we need this thing. Throw that out there like, Oh, yes, no, I want to know how the intricacies of my underneath piping system works, that there’s a route going over here in some part of the subframe of my house there like I can, I’m pretty sure that’s what’s going on making all those blocks happen. Right, we need to understand that truth to as movement trainers, if this is if this is what we’re trying to work make make better. The more we understand it, the better it is because guessing isn’t the way it’s just not. And there’s no shortcuts. In this game, the more we understand this hip, that knee, that ankle, the better we are in our drills and our application of our programs. So how can we understand the biomechanics to improve an athlete’s sports performance? Well, here’s the simple way of doing it. We know that there’s concentric and eccentric muscle movement, right? There’s more than that. But those are the kinds of the two basics. In our community, we call it load and explode. Load is the eccentric, and then concentric is the explode. And we know that there are certain movement patterns, we call them transformational zones, that all movements can get broken down into, there’s essentially two if not a few more in every single movement pattern. If I take a baseball, swing tz one to tz two, if I can unpack the biomechanical positioning of my body in this position, that I’m going to know the the baseball backswing very, very well. And if I know what joints are doing, what when they’re doing it, and what muscles and connective tissue attachments go to those joints and those three dimensional positions, I’m going to be able to break down some free sweet movement mechanics, not just because I want to be a baseball swing coach has nothing to do with that. Because I didn’t know if that glute is going to be firing up in the transverse plane from a plane or sagittal plane more so than any other. Because I want that guy to make sure that he can hit a home run or that grill to hit a solid rope right into the fence line. Anytime that they really see that ball just coming down beautifully. I want them to have that movement, ability to match their skill set that they’ve been practicing on the field. So understanding Biomechanics is huge, because it’s going to influence my training dramatically. It’s just like a painter who only can paint with two or three colors, versus a painter who has literally every color possible to them. What are the pain is going to look like? molesting one’s gonna be good or bad, right, but one’s gonna certainly have a lot more dynamic expression to it. That’s what I want my athletes to have dynamic expression, subconsciously when they want it. Now, before we get to some actual examples, I’m curious to know what sports you either play or help people train for. So actually, we can try to provide some more specific examples for you in future videos. So leave some answers in the comments below on what you would like us to break down and dive into. Now, we’re going to actually go into some three major examples of what applying biomechanics and 3d training to these different sports. And the first thing we’re going to go after is football. Football has limitations in its training and conditioning. And I’ve already kind of described the two in the beginning part of this video. That is that we’re really focused on I mean, the power lifts basically, to keep it simple. deadlift, clean and press bench press back squat, front squat, and all these things get busy, get some serious meat on our body. That’s important, no questions asked. However, if that is our primary movement pattern in the training facility, and we only think practices going to be the way that we’re going to get multi movement patterns expressed. We’re missing out on potential.

So how should we we be training well

We should be be training the way that that position needs to move. Sounds good. Pretty basic to me right now, should we do exactly what that position does? No, not exactly. Because we want to let the skill set on the field, fill those gaps in. So our training and conditioning needs to be a representation of the limits that they don’t have to have on the field. So that when they train here, they’re better outside of there. So I’m going to grab on to a tool, and let’s just say, you know, let’s pick any person who’s on the line, defense or offense, right? What’s the first thing that they’re going to be doing? So let’s grab on to a viper. And why I like about a viper is because it is gives me the versatility of movement that well, a barbell doesn’t give me. So the first thing I’m going to be and I’m just gonna do this very, very simply, then what we’ll break it out some more Firstly, I’m going to be is I’m going to be a potentially in this type of position. Now it’s a three point stance, I’m not in a technical three point stance. But I can come from this, this spot here. And I can automatically say, Well, let me do a deadlift, but then to an opposite foot, lunge, to same side, rotation, punch. Just like that, do that again, boom, come up, boom, push, come back through. Well, I mean, if I was an offensive lineman, I would essentially do that move. Because in the training conditioning world, that’s a representation of what they do in the real life is exactly what they do. No, I’m not having someone charging me. That’s a good thing, right? I don’t, I don’t want people hitting me every single day. But it is a good biomechanical representation of whatever someone on the line in the in the game of football does. Think about this, you cannot physically in the game of football run through somebody, you can run over them, I get that, but you can’t run through them. So if you can’t run through them, then what is the path you have to take? You have to go around them or over them, right? And other than at times spinless? Or you have to go around them? What is a round mean? It means essentially rotation, it means an oblique shape pattern. So if we’re not training in oblique shape patterns, or rotational patterns are really making that athlete as good as they can be for what’s important out on that field. I will say the answer is no, we’re limiting their movement potential. So when you have a tool like this, you have the availability to start getting high with it, you can get low with it, you can add a lot of weight, a lot of mass to a body, that makes their training conditioning much more authentic to the patterns that they’re going to be in not saying we shouldn’t do a deadlift to make sure we have fundamental strength, not shaming, saying we shouldn’t do a bench press to make sure we have fundamental strength. But beyond that our push ups or benchpress needs to be here needs to be here, because that’s how we’re actually doing it. And I would say that’s going to optimally fill a lot more gaps in our training and conditioning that otherwise would be missed. Just saying. We’ve had a lot of success, then. What about the next sport? What about something else that we have? Well, let’s dive into the game of sort of limitations in golf. Well, we’re talking about a sport that is significantly rotational base. I mean, that athlete is winding up to the same side every time in a EE centric pattern, and concentric li firing away down the line every time. So there’s a limitation is that we’re so one sided in way, the way we do things, we start to wear and tear joints pretty quickly. And beyond just the wear and tear, when you tend to strengthen something over and over again, those positions get actually relatively bound down. Strength equals relative tightness unless you lengthen it out. So the biggest limitation is that we’re training golf to be more powerful, get stronger. When in reality, I think we need to train a little bit more on the mobility side. And the more flexibilities that especially for those trainers out there who are training athletes who played golf, which are typically more the elder, older athlete age, they need more mobility, versus just strength. Even those athletes who need more balanced I feel they need more mobility first than strength. So what should we be doing? Well, maybe feeling one of these things, you can set them up and get into a position of of a golf swing, and start to mobilize their body by driving their pelvis into rotation, to allow the pelvis to get extension. And flexion do lateral shifting as their thoracic spine is loaded to the right or loaded to the left. If you don’t own a true stretch. That’s alright, but you probably have a stick out there. You can start doing drills that allow them to get into what we call a type one spine motion, where we’re rotating to the same side and leaning to the opposite side. Now if you take a snapshot of my spine, it’s essentially in a golf backswing. My hands are now That’s fine. But I want my spine to be, because that’s going to be the cornerstone of the power production from my feet and hips into my arms. So if I can’t get my thoracic spine here, then well, I’m simply being limited in my approach to even hit the ball with a further distance. A lot of our focus on training and conditioning in the game of golf is let’s make more power. Power only comes from a few different variables, one of them and the biggest limiting one is range of motion, they need more of it, they need more of it typically, for the athletes that were training in the training conditioning world are the elder athletes, in a sense. So I want you to think about that one, gain more flexibility, type one spine motion is going to be the biggest one that you could do for the for the thoracic spine, getting more hip internal rotation on their back, hip on their back, swing hips, so right hand would be your right hip, left hander would be the left hip, huge implications on how that hip can apply much more power, as we would call because it accesses that glute, more to hit that ball down the fairway. So check that out for golfers. What about for our next one, and our final one? Runners? What are the limitations for most runners? It’s kind of like golfers, they do the same thing over and over and over again. But runners have a little bit a little bit bad, a little worse. They don’t warm up, they don’t cool down, they just go run. I’ve been a runner all my life. But I’ve been a sprinter in a sense, which is kind of a different mindset than most trainers. Trainers deal with most trainers deal with long to mid distance runners. Most trainers don’t deal with sprinters, you don’t hear very many people say, you know I went on a great run, I literally did 100 meter repeats at 90% of my maximum. That doesn’t happen. That’s hard. That’s really the challenge. Most people say when a three mile run five five mile run, I just kind of jogged it out whatever the case is. So how should trainers be focusing on on runners what we shouldn’t run forwards. Just gonna say it, we shouldn’t run forwards. Why? Because they already do that ad nauseam. And they’re only training particular muscle patterns in certain ways. We want more muscles to be involved in running so we can have greater power efficiency and opportunities when we’re essentially need to change the environment that we’re stepping on. Because running is not always on flat ground. There’s trail running, there’s street running, there’s marathon running, which changes its trajectory as we go. It’s not always on perfectly flat ground. So here’s what I would do, I would start literally start to run backwards. I want these quads to get some more strengthening them in a in a more detailed way. I want to do more locomotion drills, even little Carioca going on. I want them to do more skipping patterns laterally. I want them to do more even hopping drills in a forward and backwards but sideways progression pattern because they need to engage a calf differently than they’ve always been doing a cause that Achilles tendinitis because they just grinding it the same way over and over again. Not saying Did you hopping with somebody with an Achilles tendonitis right away, there’s progression to that long story short, their upper body strength also needs to play into and their core strength needs to be huge. Remember, when we run our legs, pelvis forward, because our pelvis rotates. But on the flip side of that our thoracic spine also powers the sport from the top side. If we’re not giving this trunk the ability to rotate left and right, we’re missing out on this huge driver called the hands as we run. Now, it’s this cross correspondence between the pelvis going one way and a thoracic spine going the opposite way. If we’re running like this super arms and legs only, and not getting the trunk and the pelvis to go through that out of sync rotation pattern.

We’re missing out a lot of limitations there. And it’s and it’s actually more complicated than that, because running is not just a spinning, it’s also a lateral flexion. In fact, we call it spine motion type two, it’s when you rotate one way, and the laterally flex the same way. There’s a term called coiling out there that is also hugely representative as to how we actually access our lats and our core to propel ourselves to run with much greater greater power and efficiency. So think about how we train our core with rotation and same side lateral flexion in an upright position in the biomechanics of running, I tell you what, you’re gonna get some runners out there like I’ve never ran with so much ease in my entire life, coiling type your spine motion flexion to one side, the same side rotation, play that out, it’s gonna be awesome. So I hope these examples have a clearer picture of the two big points I’m trying to make is one is to really, to really improve your athlete’s performance. You have to integrate multi directional and multi dimensional movements in their training and conditioning. The second thing As you have to be able to efficiently integrate three dimensional training, which takes a deeper understanding of how to apply biomechanics, and utilize transformational zones, again, what’s happening at the ankle and all three planes of motion, the knee all the planes motions, the hip and all three planes motions, and what’s happening at what we call a tz one landing, or tz to push off an example of running. It’s a deeper understanding of Deep Dive. And that’s really all I have for you today. But if you want to get a better understanding of how you can apply biomechanics, and integrate more three dimensional movement into your training, to help your athletes create more efficient movement patterns and improve their performance faster, I highly encourage you to click the link in the description below and check out the MDMC mentorship program. As I mentioned earlier, we break down the science of movement to bite sized pieces all the while my team and I are there every step of the way to get you the feedback and the answers to questions that we all need. Don’t be shy. We’d love to chat with you today and check it all out. And one more thing. If you found this video helpful, make sure to like it. And if you want to keep watching content like this, check out some of our other videos to make sure you subscribe to our channel. Thanks for hanging out with me. Appreciate it. And cheers.