Odyssey Southwest, Dunsborough, WA Videos

OVERLOADING or UNDERLOADING Too often we hear, see or have experienced issues regarding doing too much work or “overtraining”, meaning surpassing our capacity to adapt from stressors, resulting in injury or burnout & therefore stalling progression. But there is just as much of an issue when it comes to “under-loading” our clients. Not driving enough of a stress stimulus to create a response in adaption & again limiting progression. One cause I’ve seen for this is changing exercises too frequently! How long should you keep and exercise in your programming? In my opinion until you are no longer able to drive any more meaningful stimulus & therefore adaptation from it. Chasing novelty in exercise selection leads to more time developing neurological adaptions than physiological ones as your clients are in a constant state of learning. Every time you change a movement you have to invest time in a skill acquisition phase before we are able to drive meaningful output from this. Check out Jane (66yrs young) repping out sets of 5’s at 12.5kg’s on the incline dumbbell bench! Working through our progression over the last 8-10 Weeks on this exercise, managing loads through rep scheme prescriptions (higher volume) working on dialling in the learning phase, we’ve kept this movement in her pushing sessions allowing Jane to now drive a much greater output & therefore intensity from a skill she has spent time developing! In short be like Jane.. get f**king strong! Coach 🤘 🎥 @somerjonespt

EXTERNAL vs INTERNAL STABILITY “External stability is the ability to resist forces that is afforded to us by structures outside of our body.. Benches, machines, cables & even the ground we train on. Internal stability is the ability to resist force that is afforded to us by functions & structures inside our body. Categorised on a spectrum between function & structure External Environment Dictates Internal Demand” - DC Jordan Shallow | Pre-Script Level 1

INTEGRATION vs ISOLATION Exercise Selection 💪 & Nutrition 🍎 We understand the concept of foods having tiers of primary, secondary & tertiary functions/benefits. Primary - Calorie Density & Quality Secondary - Macro Nutrients Tertiary - Micro Nutrients When prescribing exercises we should look at our selections through the same framework. Looking for the meta impact not just muscle action in isolation. Primary - Triceps Secondary - Scapular Stability Tertiary - Glenohumeral Stability Dosing FUNCTION into ACTION based movements, allows us the ability to remove the need for “correct exercises” as we move towards understanding how to just “exercise correctly” Let’s spend more time loading our clients and less time laying on the floor flapping our arms around. Shoutout to @thayer2513 | @coachjamesmac for sharing this one! Coach 🤘

DETAILS MATTER Attention to detail in execution of movement plays a pivotal role in the goal of driving the most OUTPUT from each of our exercise selections. Maximising MECHANICAL TENSION of these whilst minimising REDUNDANCIES in our programming is the name of the game when it comes to driving adaption through hypertrophy training. Intent + Execution = RESULTS! Happy International Chest Day - Part ✌️ Coach 🤘

READY FOR TAKE OFF! Training is a lot like flying ✈️ Prior to departing your pilot will always run a SYSTEMS CHECK. If we get the green light, we’re good to go and clear for take off… 38,000 feet with 600 people travelling at 500+ km/h. There’s a lot of responsibility on the pilots behalf to make sure all systems have been checked & rechecked if needed. Our preparation in our warm ups for training should follow the same process. Selecting protocols that act also as your assessments comes down to understanding what you are looking for. The more EFFICIENT the system check, the more EFFECTIVE our warm ups can become at gathering information. The GREATER the awareness we can have on any given day in regard to the OUTPUT we can give in our training. Green Light = SEND IT! Coach 🤘