The Training Stimulus

The Training Stimulus The Training Stimulus aims to spread the benefits of advanced movement mechanics to coaches and athletes, to optimise performance and reduce pain and injury.

01/09/2026

You think you’re done the second the pain stops. You’re not even close.

Pain-free and moving well are two different finish lines. Pain relief gets you from struggling to functional. Actually owning your mechanics under real load, real intensity, real fatigue is a different level of work entirely. Sadly this is where most people stop and why they’re stuck in a loop.

Movement mechanics have to keep getting reinforced as volume and intensity build. Not fixed once and left alone. This is how they hold up under pressure instead of just looking good when everything’s easy.

None of this needs a full overhaul, but it does need the same approach as all your training: progressive overload. We constantly need to push the movement patterns to hold up closer and closer to full training, through progressions and gradual steps in challenge.

I know I’ve been guilty of dropping things as soon as they feel better in the past - anyone else?

31/08/2026

Adding Movement Mechanics into a programme can be complicated: warm up, cool down, main strength piece, accessories, standalone session, which are right or wrong?

But we can simplify it with one question: “how do we accumulate the most total quality reps?”

Any of/all of those placements can be correct, depending on the person the mechanics are for.

Because we know movement patterns are skills, practice is the mindset we need, not training to failure then recovery.

Where do you prefer to put your mechanics work? I’m a warmup and accessories man in my own training.

28/08/2026

Two numbers matter more than any exercise you’ll ever prescribe.

1. Minimum effective dose - the least you can give someone and still see improvement.
2. Maximum recoverable volume - the most their body can actually tolerate before it starts working against them.

Everything you prescribe should sit somewhere between those two.

The minimum can be surprisingly low. For a pronation drill, sometimes it’s two or three reps before the foot actually starts to unlock. That’s the floor.

Push past the ceiling, though, and you’re not training anymore, you’re damaging the body faster than it can recover. And stress, sleep, and life outside the gym all shift where that ceiling actually sits.

The goal isn’t to live near the maximum. It’s to find the smallest dose that still moves the needle, and progress from there.

*unless you’re an athlete in a highly competitive field where you need to improve faster than the competition.

27/08/2026

was an amazing addition to the room last workshop. The attendees are a big part of what makes these workshops so valuable.

At the workshop, Nush, described a moment that reframed how she’d been thinking about stability entirely: using co-contraction to train stability in someone displaying a lack of stability.

For many people, when presented with an unstable client, their instinct is to give them some support, something to lean on, which can actually limit the rate at which their balance improves.

This was an example of one of many penny drop moments that happen in these workshops, where until you experience the new tool, you might be stuck in your approach for years.

If you want to grow your toolbox and have some penny-drop moments with a few giggles thrown in, the waitlist for the next workshop is open now, link in bio.

26/08/2026

The perfect programme is useless if nobody does it.

Adherence beats perfection, every time. A plan that gets slightly worse results but actually gets followed will always outperform the perfect one sitting untouched. So for best results, the art of programming what your client will stick to is more important than the science of creating the optimal programme for their situation.

Erring on the low side to make it easy for them can actually result in more total training on plan. And they’ll feel like they’re succeeding. Both of which lead to much better long-term compliance.

How have you ever experienced an over-ambitious training plan? How long did that last? I’d love to hear in the comments below.

You’re already good at your job. You get results. You’ve got clients who trust you.But there’s a case sitting in your no...
25/08/2026

You’re already good at your job. You get results. You’ve got clients who trust you.

But there’s a case sitting in your notes right now where you did the standard stuff, it helped a bit, and you both know it’s not actually fixed. You just haven’t said that part out loud and you know you want to be better.

That’s not a “you need to work harder” problem. It’s a “you haven’t been shown the framework yet” problem.

The Movement Mechanics Mentorship is for physios, osteos, chiros, coaches, and PTs who are done treating where it hurts and want to fix the actual driver instead.

Here’s what changes:

— You stop guessing on the complex cases and start seeing the full picture
— You refer out less, because you can finish the job yourself
— Clients get results that hold, not results that fade in a month
— You become the name that gets passed around your local gyms and clinics

A couple of spaces are opening next month.

DM “NOTIFY” and we’ll send you the details.

24/08/2026

This is a mistake I’ve made a lot in the past, and I see it in many programs out there.

In an attempt to push our limits or feel like we’ve worked hard, we do a lot in a single session, but then we’re sore for days and aren’t ready to repeat a movement until maybe next week.

When it comes to developing movement qualities, like mobility, stability and motor control, skill is the primary consideration.

If you were playing darts, you wouldn’t throw so many darts that you couldn’t hold up your arm anymore and think that that was the best way to get good.

You would throw a good amount of darts, focusing on the quality and accuracy of each throw, then look to do that as many times as possible in weeks, months, and years.

Just because we are working on gym-based movements, the nervous system doesn’t suddenly work in a different way.

By focusing on quality reps and frequency, movement patterns improve much faster than taking a train-to-failure approach.

This is taken from the programming part of our recent workshop, where we run through how to prescribe movement mechanics to get the best results for our clients.

Waitlist for the next workshop is open now: link in bio.

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