Rebel Fitness Academy

03/26/2017

03/09/2017

Here you go. This is an easy-to-diget (not too succinct) talk that basically lays out the methodology of Rebel. I hope this might connect some dots or just get you thinking about some new things related to why and how we train to get better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Xcs9ri_co&list=WL&index=9

Gray Cook is an internationally recognized physical therapist, orthopedic certified specialist and certified strength and conditioning specialist. Cook is th...

01/30/2017

Hang Daily. You should be able to dead hang for 5 minutes for healthy grip and shoulders. Let's see how much we can improve our hanging strength this year!

10/26/2016

Give these a try this afternoon to unwind and open up your hips and shoulders.

When Tim Ferriss interviewed Coach Christopher Sommer on his podcast, there was an overwhelming response that many people are stiff, tight, and aching from years spent working at a desk. Specifically, desk workers can get particularly tight in their hips and shoulders from sitting down, hunching ove...

09/19/2016

06/24/2016

Being impatient doesn't make it go faster! Read the whole post. It is well worth your time.

🌟YOUR IMPATIENCE IS HOLDING YOU BACK🌟

It takes a baby between nine and twelve months to start walking, and another few months after that to start walking well.

A baby has no old injuries. No old movement patterns. No old programming. Nothing else to do during their day besides be a baby and figure out walking.

What makes you think you’ll achieve a new movement pattern or range of motion in any less than the nine to twelve months it took you to figure out ‘walking’?

You have the same amount of learning to do as the baby…

And also you have a heaping pile of ‘stuff’ that has been programmed into your brain and body that will need changing and rewiring.

I *get it* that you want to feel better, move better, and achieve something NOW.

Here’s the real deal homie, and you need to listen because your impatience is totally effing up your ability to succeed...

When you are learning how to use your soft tissue and joints in ways that you may not have used for 20+ years - it’s not an easy or quick process for your body.

It requires the same biology that a baby uses to learn to walk, that your liver uses when it regenerates its tissues, that closes your wounds after you scrape open your skin.

A baby doesn’t negative self-talk when they are at month seven and not walking yet.

Your liver doesn’t feel disappointed as it regenerates at the predetermined biological pace.

Your skin doesn’t decide “it must not work” if your scrape doesn’t close in 24 hours.

And yet…

You think you should achieve something just as major for your body in just a few weeks or months.

And that there is a problem if you don’t.

This makes no sense.

Remember how many times you fell off your bike/tripped over your own feet/messed up tying your shoes?

Remember how many times you screwed up “left” from “right” before it was automatic to know which way “left” was?

You think because you exposed your body to a few dozen, heck, even a few hundred repeats of a stimulus, that it should now be ‘good’ at knowing and handling that stimulus.

This is silly.

How many exposures to “walking” do you think you had before you got ‘good’ at it? Thousands. Probably tens of thousands. Over a long duration of time.

So this begs the question…

Where are you going anyways that you need these results to happen SOON?

Answer: nowhere, other than to the land of “if I don’t get it now, I’ll never get it.”
[Which is a 100% imaginary land built of out of fear, FYI]

When you set unrealistic expectations on something (or someone), it’s a guaranteed trap you’re setting for yourself that you’ll be let down, disappointed.

The results are going to take the time they take. You cannot speed up biology. Hear that? You can’t.

You will get your results with patience, consistency, and appreciation for the process.

As Alan Watts said with regard to the present moment being truly all there is...

“If you make where you are going more important than where you are, there may be no point in going at all.”

05/26/2016

Proper physical training isn't just great for your physical appearance...Read up!

It's no news that exercise is good for you, but it affects your body in more ways than you may know. Darryl Edwards has nine reasons to exercise NOW!

05/21/2016

Sitting in a chair is natural part of being a modern human. The problem with any chair, is that it's intrinsic design doesn't leverage the evolutionary, phys...

03/17/2016

Just riffing....I think physical preparedness can be boiled down to three steps in order: Isolate, Integrate, and then Improvise. We can also oscillate between these steps at different times in the training process without ever diverging into territory that is beyond our current joint integrity, strength, and movement control. This approach can get you back on track if you are "stuck" in your movement practice. Also, everyone should have a movement practice of some sort that puts you slightly out of your comfort zone without risk of injury. We have enough to worry about in our day to day that I wouldn't ever want to have even the slightest inkling that my training hurts my body or makes the rest of my life uncomfortable.

03/08/2016

“This applies to any type learning and is the model I use and have learned from my teachers.”

12/27/2014

Sick!!

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