20/08/2024
SWIPE >>>>
Feedback like this is why we do this. A huge thank you and shoutout to all my clients that stick with it and reap the rewards of their persistent efforts 👏👏👏
Every one of these people had come to the end of the road of traditional therapies, rehab and training only to find their problems still there, and often times worse.
At Functional Patterns we follow The SAID Principle (specific adaptation to imposed demands). This means that the demands we place on people’s bodies through our training specifically leads to adaptation in ways that improve our most basic functions; Standing, Walking, Running and throwing (The FP First 4)
The importance of the SAID principle really can’t be overlooked. Just as we may adapt to a stimulus in a beneficial way we can also Maladapt to stimuli.
An example would be cycling - so often we see clients that have come from a heavy cycling training regime only to find their glutes have almost no capacity to perform hip extension whilst their quads dominate their lower body. On top of that their gait cycle will show complete instability in their lumbar spine. We could say cycling is maladaptive as it is bio-mechanically far removed from the FP First 4 mentioned above.
The same for deadlifts, the teach the posterior chain of our body to adapt to vertical and compressive forces whilst being stuck in a 50-50 weight distribution. Walking and running rely on horizontal and parabolic forces that shift us from one foot to the other, over and over.
Traditional methods lack the specificity to teach our muscles to work together in a cohesive manner that propels us through space efficiently.
Orienting your training around improving our most basic functions is the key to long term joint health and longevity.
This is our primary objective at FP, to help people out of the maladaptive states their bodies have been accustomed, and to reestablish the functionality that millions of years of evolution had carved out for us.
