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09/04/2026

Why would an NFL player train his eyes like this?

Because movement isn’t built from muscles alone.

Your brain is constantly using information from your visual system, balance system, joints, and the rest of your body to decide how to organize movement.

The NFL clip is using a different visual drill than the one I’m demonstrating here, but the larger idea is similar: change the information coming in and see what happens to the movement coming out.

That’s why I test these things rather than assuming everyone needs the same drill.

If an input changes strength, coordination, balance, or movement quality, that’s useful information.

Then we decide what to do with it.

Apparently the football people found one of the buttons.

We have several more.

Control first. Power follows.

08/10/2026

235 × 3
245 × 3
245 × 2 — third rep decided we live in the hole now. 😂

CrossFit Level 1 shirt circa 2007–08 — a $1,000 artifact from an earlier civilization.

Around 2017, I injured my back badly enough that surgery was on the table.

I avoided it, but squatting hasn’t been the same since. For years, my legs have been capable of producing more than my back would comfortably let me express under a bar.

So I look at days like this a little differently.

245 isn’t some enormous squat.

But being able to get under it, start from a dead stop in the hole, and produce these reps again is a pretty damn good measurement of how far I’ve rebuilt.

And today’s miss gave me more information.

My legs still didn’t feel like the limiting factor. My low back reached a point where the system couldn’t organize and transfer what the legs had available.

Good.

Now I know where the next piece of work is.

That’s why I don’t look at training as simply adding more weight.

Find what’s limiting the movement.
Build it.
Then test again.

Control first. Power follows.

08/03/2026

Most people think better movement comes from trying harder.

Sometimes it comes from giving your body better information.

Your brain can only organize movement using the information it receives.

Improve that information, and movement often becomes smoother, stronger, and more coordinated.

That’s why not every drill is designed to make you tired.

Some are designed to help your body make better movement decisions.

Control first. Power follows.

07/30/2026

Getting up isn’t the skill.

Getting into a strong, organized position is.

This combat-base transition teaches the shoulder, trunk, and opposite hip to work together before creating movement. If those pieces aren’t connected, force leaks out and every movement becomes less efficient.

That’s one of the same qualities I’m building for the contralateral push-up project.

Different movement.

Same foundation.

Build the qualities first.

The movement becomes the result.

Control first. Power follows.

07/28/2026

If this doesn’t look like push-up training, that’s the point.

The goal isn’t to practice the movement over and over.

The goal is to build the qualities the movement demands.

Every time I lift a toe, my shoulder, trunk, and hips have to reorganize without losing position. If they can’t stay connected, the whole system tells me.

That’s one of the qualities I’m building for the contralateral push-up project.

Most people repeat the test.

I’d rather improve the system that takes the test.

Control first. Power follows.

07/27/2026

Same challenge. Different weak links.

Peter and I are both working toward a single-arm, single-leg contralateral push-up.

The movement is the same.

The homework isn’t.

After watching his first attempt, I found one of the biggest things holding him back and gave him this drill. It’s one I’m using myself because we both need better control before we ask for more power.

This isn’t about balancing.

It’s about teaching the shoulder, trunk, and opposite hip to stay connected so force can move through the body instead of leaking out.

That’s how I coach.

Find the weak link.

Build the quality.

Retest the movement.

Control first. Power follows.

07/22/2026

Just a couple weeks. One extremely unnecessary push-up.

Peter and I are spending the next couple weeks building toward a single-arm, single-leg contralateral push-up.

I got one on the right.

On the left, I made it a little past halfway down before the system gave out.

That difference is exactly why we’re doing this.

The push-up isn’t really the goal.

It’s just a way to expose the qualities we’re trying to build: stability, force transfer, rotation control, coordination, and strength.

If you’ve been watching my daily Stories, you’ve already seen the work. Every day I’ll be sharing snippets of the drills I’m using to build those exact qualities, while the weekly Feed updates will show where the experiment stands.

Extraordinary movement is assembled, not accidental.

07/21/2026

Most people train muscles.

I train the system that allows muscles to work together.

Better coordination.
Better force transfer.
Better movement.

That’s how strength becomes more useful.

Different objective.

Different result.

DM “TRAIN” if you want to move, feel, and perform better.

07/20/2026

Most people chase strength.

I build the system that allows strength to show up.

The strongest bodies aren’t assembled by accident.

They’re built through better movement, better coordination, and better organization.

That’s why my training starts by improving how your body moves before asking it to produce more force.

Different objective.

Different result.

DM “TRAIN” if you’re ready to build strength that lasts.

07/17/2026

Most people assume better movement comes from doing more.

I’ve found it usually comes from doing the right thing.

Test.
Apply the input.
Retest.

If nothing changes, it wasn’t the answer.

If everything changes, it doesn’t matter how weird it looked.

Different objective.

Different result.

Your next breakthrough might not need more work. It might need better input. DM “RESET.”

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