Her body is a
cathedral, the vault her core, the choir her breath. Among all world
architecture, the great cathedrals elicit a special awe.
Strong Women
Like the simple
materials of stone, timber, ingots of lead and mountains of lime are eventually
moulded into awe-inspiring power and majestic beasts of reverence, and
adoration.
We use rudimentary
movements and tools to transform our bodies into machines.
Cathedrals are both
axial and concentric in design to allow for the configuration of maximising
sacred space. We too are axial in the sense of movement. The bar must move
along a plane through zones of maximum degrees. When we press we take the bar
from our clavicle along a plane until our elbows are locked-out with the bar
centred over our mass. We return that bar to our clavicle and repeat. There is
no shortness of movement, no partial reps.
We are concentric in
the sense that our power is generated from our hips. Power originates in the
hips, and the ability to generate power diminishes concentrically from the
hips. The way we train is that our foundations lie within the centre of our
being. Moving away from our hips, our core and our trunk are worked in a
continuous process and are never separated from the rest of our body. We are
strong women.
This is why when I
train body-builders they are no stronger then the average Mum that I train,
because they have laid their foundations in separate sections leading to
unevenness, causing them to collapse under a bar heavier then 30k. On the
continuum representing power and strength, they are certainly at the bottom end
of the dream-pool. In free-weight exercises, we know and appreciate the
practicality of human movement for that which it is designed: that there is no
need to “get” what you already “have.”
Basic Human Movements
Learn 5 simple basic
human movements, and start to move!
These 5 human movements
circulates through the four zones of our physical body. The reasons why concentrating only on
perfecting 5 human movements is that because at the centre of these movements
is where your physical planes interlock.
I have reverse
engineered 5 basic human movements into their most simplest form. The genesis of the movement always starts
with something so simple, that it doesn’t seem worth doing. Then we progress that movement by superimposing
more complex patterns onto the pattern that you have adapted to. Finally, to conclude that movement it needs
to look so impossible that no one could perform it.
Does a body-weight deadlift
seem impossible to you?
Strong women perform
movement. They do not worry about
muscles
Strong Women.