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The GIM Project was created to raise the standard of human wellness, fitness, and performance.

Each program has been designed with a very systematic and cerebral approach to maximize your physical capacities and help you reach your goals.

02/14/2023

Dynamic correspondence.

Transfer of training.

The name of the game when working with athletes.

Yuri Verkhoshansky coined the term dynamic correspondence in an attempt to explain how certain movements/exercises will transfer to the terminal task based on certain kinetic/kinematic characteristics.

1️⃣ Amplitude and direction of movement.

2️⃣ Accentuated regions of force production.

3️⃣ Dynamics of effort.

4️⃣ Rate and time of maximum force production.

5️⃣ Regime of muscular work.

Depending on the task, certain qualities will have greater transfer to the terminal task compared to others.

What transfer of training is not is trying to emulate or mimic sport specific movements with every single exercise.

What transfer of training is using exercise to drive adaptations for physical qualities that will allow the individual to be successful.

Most coaches can probably push general physical preparedness much longer than they think and still have appropriate transfer.

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01/21/2023

Biomechanics is not the end-all be-all. But it can be an important tool in terms of exercise progression and regression in terms of strength and conditioning as well as rehab.

One variable we can manipulate that is going to translate to biomotor and neuromotor abilities in sport is impulse.

In its most basic form, impulse causes a change in momentum.

Take a 12” box drop.

The impulse is going to be the same regardless of a stiff landing or a soft landing.

But the kinematic strategy one adopts will dictate force/time requirements for the task.

Want less force?

Take longer to stop.

Encourage a softer landing.

Want to simulate demands closer to that of sport?

Stop quicker.

Stick the landing.

When we look at early to mid post op scenarios where we are still building up capacity and tissue tolerance, higher symptom irritability, or someone with a younger training age, smaller impulses and softer landings are going to be a better place to start.

When we look at mid to late stages and return to sport scenarios, we are going to start to shift toward sticking the landing and decreasing the time requirements.

In return to sport scenarios and strength and conditioning circles, it’s a common technical model to always encourage a soft landing.

But are we actually setting up athletes for failure?

Most sports don’t happen slowly.

Where time is a limiting factor, the quicker one can get out of a cut, change direction, etc., the better.

Know when and why you would want to implement small versus large impulse scenarios as well as the respective force and time variables that you can manipulate for the given task.

Impulse is king.

01/14/2023

Progressive overload.

That is the name of the game.

It can come in many fashions.

Using more weight.

Doing more reps.

Doing more sets.

Doing more volume.

Increasing the speed of the movement (braking forces/reversal strength).

Decreasing the speed of the movement (longer eccentric/isometric/concentric phases).

Using larger ranges of motion.

When we start to stack multiple days, weeks, months, and years of consistent, relentless effort, good things happen.

Choose vengeance.

07/31/2022

One of the most popular phrases in the fitness industry.

“Don’t load dysfunction.”

It continues to be perpetuated by many fitness professionals not to add load on top of “dysfunctional” movement patterns.

Or that it is not a good idea to add resistance to a position one cannot maintain actively with little to no resistance.

Can we not think of any situations where load actually improves positioning and takes away the “dysfunction”?

Using a dynamic systems lens can help to partially understand the interactions between the person, environment, and the task.

For many individuals, the FMS overhead squat or front rack position with a dowel/light barbell will look less than ideal. Hence, “dysfunctional.”

You know what helps a lot of individuals?

Load.

Could it be that the task of overhead squatting with a dowel or front squatting with a dowel is a different task compared to an 135 lb overhead squat or 225 lb front squat?

Potentially the way in which we self-organize with the addition of load may actually remove the “dysfunction” and lead to improved kinematics in the desired movement task.

Before we begin to unnecessarily regress the task, we should probably utilize various loading implements, environmental constraints, and lateralizations to attempt to achieve the desired outcome first.

06/22/2022

Don’t barbell back squat because the extension is dangerous for your spine.

Don’t barbell deadlift from the floor because the rounding is dangerous for your spine.

Don’t barbell bench press because it’s bad for your shoulders.

Rather, do these “joint friendly” exercises.

Movement professionals continue to foster the belief of “joint friendly” exercises.

Your “joint friendly” exercises are a fictional, fairy tale list of exercises.

They are like a unicorn, they don’t exist.

The danger is in the dose.

Not in the exercise.

The danger is always believing and thinking in terms optimal and not robust.

You know who doesn’t give a s**t about optimal?

Life.

Are some exercises more appropriate for certain individuals in certain contexts?

Yes.

But telling the masses that the majority of them shouldn’t barbell back squat, barbell bench press, and barbell deadlift from the floor likely does much more harm than good.

If you are someone who continues to propagate these narratives, you’re probably a b***h.

Rant over.

05/28/2022

Sneak peak of Episode 3.

Coming soon to a platform near you.

See you at the Roundtable.

🛡⚔️⚔️🛡

04/24/2022

Episode 1 drops tomorrow.

All things iliotibial band.

See you at the Roundtable. ⚔️

04/20/2022

It’s happening.

The Residents of the Roundtable Podcast.

The physical therapy and performance renaissance.

Join your hosts:dpt houser_dpt

See you at the Roundtable.

03/20/2022

We are excited to announce that we will be offering consultations for coaches who are looking to upgrade or refine their programming for the clients/athletes they serve.

You get a 1 hour zoom consultation where we will collectively create more efficient warm-ups, review exercise selection, refine set/rep schemes, systematically modify exercise parameters, and implement more robust periodizations.

This service is designed to be collaborative! That way as a coach, you can come away with a more thorough understanding of various programming strategies to set up your clients/athletes for a greater chance of success.

This is not just designed for strength and conditioning coaches. Physical therapists can also improve their strength and conditioning/programming prowess from this service to help improve exercise selection and programming for their clients in the mid to late stages of rehabilitation and return to sport progression.

Come join the movement.

Growth in movement.

02/15/2022

Thank you to everyone who participated.

We would like to congratulate
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Very appreciative of the support from everyone.

Come join the dark side.

12/25/2021

The elephant in the room.

Spinal movement under load (especially lumbar flexion).

The dogma and beliefs are strong from the camps of those who religiously follow the “research” of Stuart McGill.

The studies he conducted were performed on pig cadaver spines (i.e. dead pigs). Repeatedly flexing the spine near end-range will unequivocally result in mechanical failure of the posterior structures of the spine (stress-strain graph). This is physics.

The results of this study were then extrapolated to humans. THIS is not research, THIS is one person’s opinion. Do not get the two confused.

Living organisms (i.e. living humans) have the ability to adapt. Deliberately allocating stressors to certain structures/tissues in a progressive fashion (progressive overload) will lead to tissue adaptations (Wolff’s Law). There is plenty of research to support this. This is biomechanics and exercise physiology.

The debate is not about whether which one is right or wrong: keeping the spine rigid versus allowing the spine to bend. There are multiple factors to consider. However, a robust spine should have the capacity to be rigid and to bend under load.

Let’s stop fostering fragility and kinesiophobia. That doesn’t do anyone a favor. Plus you look like a fool on social media when you cannot abstract your argument.

Merry Christmas Ya’ll.

11/23/2021

Hitting benchmarks to progress exercises probably has more relevance with rehabilitation, and not so much with training and even more so sports performance.

Exercise progressions don’t mean anything if they never elicit any meaningful stimulus and yield training adaptations.

Don’t be a gatekeeper.

Be greeter at Walmart.

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