“If you follow anything other than your body, you will break your body”
- Frankie Faires, creator of the Gym Movement Protocol
I think I need to help some of you focus on what is being said here.
If you follow a written program, you will get hurt.
If you purchase a book, and do the exercises, reps, and sets as prescribed by the author, you will be broken.
If you order a DVD, and do exactly as you are told do to the days of the week you lift, the way to stand when you lift, and the percentage of weight to move, you will pay for it.
No matter how qualified your favorite strength trainer/personal trainer/or guru is in your mind, they can’t predict exactly what you need. If it is a book or dvd or something you found on the internet- shit man they have never even met you. Never had you tell them your movement history. Never told them you injury history. They have not seen how you move. Why do you think they can tell you exactly how to train?
To be very clear- using a program to the letter will break you. Having someone spell out sets, reps, weights, exercises, rest times, it is a sure fire plan for injury and stagnation.
Don’t buy it?
Ok, if 20 rep squats are so good, how come no one does it? I know people who tried it, but no one does it. No one I have ever met, heard of, or read about can say their program is 20 rep squats and has been for the last 10 years.
Because that will fuck you up.
5X5, 3X3, 5/3/1, 4X7, 10X10 – Any program that tried to fit you, a unique person with a unique body full of its own compensations and restrictions, in to a perfectly square hole will break you.
The pattern. Maybe for 6-12 weeks you make some minor gains. Then you slow down. Then you stagnate. Then you get pissed or frustrated and you decide more tension, more effort, and more trying is needed to force things to change.
Yeah you force some change.
You go from healthy to hurt. That is a change alright.
There is another option.
YOU lead yourself.
You follow your bodies feedback.
You listen to no one else other the test results from the experiments you run.
Did you know you are getting feedback all the time from your body?
You know when you sleep. When to eat. When to use the bathroom. When it’s too cold, or too hot. When to stop moving. When to start moving.
What if we could use this feedback to plan our exercise?
This is what we teach with the Gym Movement Protocol.
How to program for any goal. Any movement. The most accurate training system in the world. Most accurate for YOU, because it is being centered on YOUR BODY. Your CNS, your muscles, your joints. Not the ideas of how your body should move according to the written rules of the guru.
My job as a trainer is very simple. I have only three jobs. Of these three jobs, picking your exercise, weights, sets, reps, and rest times is not included.
I do not do it with my studio clients, I do not do it with my distance clients.
I educate, I assess, I provide feedback.
What happens with my people?
The break personal records every single day.
They move more weight in one day then they used to move in a week. How much weight? My average female client moves 80,000 lbs a week, in 3- 45 minute workouts. A few of them do over 100,000 lbs a week.
Question gentlemen, do you get that kind of volume week to week?
And how do they feel?
They are rarely sore.
They do not get hurt.
Old injures stop hurting.
The gain muscle fast.
They feel good.
So, if every single one of my people PRs every day, never gets hurt, always feels better, loses fat and gains muscle: I suppose I am to believe that is what proper exercise is.
Since this is true, I have to ask you.
Do you PR everyday? Do you get hurt with your program? Do you always feel better after your workouts? Are you currently right now losing fat and gaining muscle?
If not, you are doing it wrong. You should be getting the same results if you are currently using an exercise program. If what you do does not deliver these same things, I say again: you are doing it wrong.
Would you like to know more?
Here are three options.
#1 Check out Grip and Rip 2.1, a double disk DVD with 3 1/2 hours of content. In it you will learn how to program for the rest of your life using your bodies feedback. You will learn how to get any goal. You will learn many things, Click HERE for more details. This weekend I am offering Grip and Rip 2.1 at a 50% reduction in price. Your time to get better is here. Your move.
#2 Contact me to learn about my distance education program. No matter what your schedule is like, what equipment you have, or where you are starting from I will teach you the fastest methods to get your goals. Imagine that, being coached to get goals from a coach who attains his own goals. In the fitness world this is sadly a rare thing. The Movement will change this, all things are predictable and the outcome is clear.
#3 Come train with me at The Movement Minneapolis, our facility is west of downtown Minneapolis by 10 minutes in Plymouth. 3 hours a week will be the best investment you have made this year.
My challenge to you, dear reader. Examine your progress from the last 6 months. Plain and simple: You should be leaner, more muscular, stronger, faster, smarter, more agile, more mobile, more stable, and have better endurance right now compared to then.
If that is not the case, You are doing it wrong.
How will this change your actions?
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Adam, when I get a job that allots me some goddamn travel time, I am going to head up there and lift for a day.
Everything Adam said is true. Are you dissatisfied with the results you’re currently getting? Do you hurt after your workouts? Did you stop exercising because of pain? You owe it to yourself to try this. Get better with every workout.
If you’re in Minneapolis why don’t you take Adam up on his offer for a free week of training? You’ve got nothing to lose. I’m setting multiple PRs every workout and my pain is down 80-90% in less than two weeks. I’m moving over 30k lbs in under 40 minutes and getting better every day. You really can work hard without hurting yourself. It’s awesome.
Get off the couch and become your own hero. I did.
F’in awesome. Look forward to meeting you Tyler.
Hello Adam.
Ilike your post and Ibelieve the gym movement! I have try it and it works for sure.
But I have some difficulties to used that in my sport. I train and compete in girevoy sport= kettlebell sport. How to used that in my sport,because we lift mainly 3 lifts(jerk,snath,longcycle). And we used some assistant movement. In assistant movement it works well and is easily tested. But get good results in my sport,I have lift my mainly lifts(jerk,snatch) many time in week. Do you have any helping tips ??
Jake
First you test Snatch and Jerk. If either of them/both of them test well then start with that.
If neither of them is good, you next test assistance work, I will go on a limb and guess Swings, Squat jumps, Pressing, push pressing, and deadlifting?
In any event test, the primary assistance drills. If any are good do those.
From there test contra specific work to your primary movements and add some novel movements.
Let me know if this gives you new ideas to work with.
adam
good article makes so much sense to me , i will never be able to train any other way, not possible i could not imagine go through rep scheme and other shit for such minimal gains worring about getting hurt, gym movement is the best if you do not already know this you will
Thanks Adam ! Iam osteopath and I have studied kinesiology little bitt. I know that it works, so when I heard that you used that in training, I think that was smart idea !
And toe touch works much accurate that my hand . I think many “gurus” resist thats idea,because this thing make them unemploied !
thanks mate