01/12/2025
POSITION > MUSCLE
A key principle to addressing movement issues is understanding that muscles are, by and large, slaves to position.
The skeleton acts, and the muscles react.
I rarely think in terms of which muscle is going to work when I'm addressing your deficit in movement, because that's going to first be dictated by the position you can create.
My goal is to use exercise variation to create a constraint that forces you to adopt a position where you have no choice but to use the appropriate muscles to achieve the desired outcome.
In each of these three squat variations:
1) Cannonball Squat
2) Hatfield Squat
3) Zombie Squat
The quads are the prime mover and take the bulk of the load - why then use any variation at all?
Because each of these places differing demands to the centre of mass, foot pressure, balance, and rib position relative to the pelvis.
My findings post-assessment will determine which variation of a movement I use with you to address your limitations.
If you're heavily extended and externally rotated, I won't select the same variation for you than if you were flexed and internally rotated - in either scenario I will address your squat pattern, but the positional demand will need to be relevant to you.
The bench press and deadlift are no different, nor is running, jumping, sprinting or landing - every issue is a positional issue first.
Your program will teach you how to move your body in space so that you can stop thinking about ephemeral and poorly explained concepts like mind-muscle connection, and simply get straight to working and innately feeling them.
Read this far and want help understanding and applying this in real time? I'm a DM away and am open for online & face to face coaching. Let's get to work 🙏
