In today’s episode, guest Nick Muduliar joins us to discuss holistic training protocol and his experience with The Real MVMNT Project. I have known Nick for a number of year and have always been impressed by his willingness to continue learning and to be open to new ideas and strategies. We have presented a workshop together and spent a good amount of time training in the same gym. He is someone who walks the walk as well as talks the talk. He trains hard and is constantly looking for ways to improve himself and set standards for his clients. It was great to sit down with Nick and have an in depth conversation about his training strategies and the tools and systems he uses and is a part of that have helped his and his client’s development.
In today’s episode we discuss Nick’s coaching history, The Real MVMNT Project and how the community elements has helped his own personal development and how their systems have influenced his holistic coaching approach, range of strength and the benefits of training through full and sometimes more extreme ranges of motion, finding purpose, the use of gymnastics and other skills such as juggling for developing mental attributes needed to be successful athlete and progress in other elements of life, foundational elements in training, mobility training and how his strategies have developed, the role of movement capacity in the ability to execute skills and mitigate injury risk, how to progress into loading more full ranges of motion, how to incorporate different ranges of motion within an athletic population, program structure to include multiple elements, the role of passive modalities in recovery and their effect on the nervous system, various mental training strategies and how they relate to physical training methods, getting to know your athletes, accountability, self determination theory, the role of journaling and gratitude practices for training populations, body awareness, non-negotiables and global standards, the progression of prep work, how to turbo charge your warm ups, the role of community within a training environment and the role of mentors
