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My baby ball loves to fall.
When old people fall they die.
You’re somewhere in the middle.
Injuries cripple athleticism.
Children don’t get muscle & tendon injuries until pre-puberty.
Why?
The lazy answer is because they have better quality tissues.
Better collagen.
More stem cells.
Another answer is that they can’t produce as much force as adults yet.
Relatively speaking this isn’t true.
Remove the excessive fat mass of babies and children from the equation.
Now you see that they are strong.
In fact they are much stronger when it comes to eccentric power.
Children can handle more landing forces than most professional athletes!
What can we learn from the “training methods” of children?
Stefan Holm is the greatest high jumper of all-time by many measures.
He says that children today are different.
Why?
Because they don’t jump from trees like he did.
When you stop using a method it doesn’t leave your body.
The method of child-play is built into the Stefan Holm story.
It’s built into the stories of most top athletes.
Hundreds of hours on the trampoline?
That’s part of the training history also.
Just because it might be 10 or 20 years back in the training history doesn’t remove it from what built the athlete.
Children don’t get injured because they instinctively play close to their athletic edge.
They do a lot of moderate intensity chaotic games.
They sometimes push it further.
Playabilitation builds and maintains their athletic ability instinctively.
Range, Elastics & Patterns.
These are the Force Foundations in New Athlete.
Children naturally have better Range than adults.
They are stronger in the short and long ranges.
They are closer to structural balance.
It’s not uncommon for children to be able to do nordic curls with no training background.
Children naturally emphasise elastic development with their instinctive play.
Children naturally have better patterns (biomechanics) than adults trained with modern methods.
I saw the same thing in the tribes people I lived with in Mexico, Outback Australia and Vanuatu.
They are more ready and able to play.
They have better force foundations.
New Athlete Project builds the skills you need to play.
In the process it also rebuilds the structural ability to play.
The risk of injury goes down in any life situation.
Strength and Conditioning methods like CrossFit are adapted from Russian train principles.
They were always intended as supplements.
Play is the primary outcome.
Play is also the primary tool for injury prevention.
We supplement to support the play with Range, Elastics & Patterns.
These methods can enhance natural play.
They can also help athletes return to play.
But somewhere along the path we lost sight of the point of supplementing.
Modern man and the average athlete are broken because playabilitation is gone.
Bring balance, balls & beats into your training alongside range, elastics & patterns.
You’ll have less injuries and more fun.
You’ll become a much better athlete.
You’ll have much more to offer children, elderly and athletes.
There are 27 skill tools within the Balance, Balls and Beats.
I work each of them at least twice per week for at least one month out of 3.
This new paradigm has helped me get back to snatching and jumping maximally pain free.
My baby also loves the 27 skill tools.
This style of training is much more rewarding than traditional strength & conditioning like I did in the past.
When you’re becoming objectively more athletic with skills every month you have more use for your speed, stamina, strength & stretch abilities.
The basic New Athlete Template builds these abilities in 15 minutes per day.
This leaves plenty of time and energy for building specific skill training & force work.
Personally I do around 2 hours most days.
Skills training is energising rather than draining.
If I stop training a skill I still get better for weeks due to the neural momentum that skills build.
Like riding a bike many of the skills stay for life once they’re locked in.
Play more.
Enjoy less aches and pains.
Get better every month & for life
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