PeriodiseLinear Periodisation For years, athletes and dedicated performance people have periodised their training to reachtheir goals. By periodising their training, they have a clear plan to reach their personal goal,which can be anything from a World Cup win or a specific date when you want to be in thebest form of your life.Periodisation means that you have a systematic way of working to vary your training toachieve progressive results. Today we know that variation in training gives us a strong andinjury-free body, which periodisation more or less ensures that we get. The most importantparameter for achieving it, is for everyone with high goals to be injury-free.The traditional way to look at periodisation of fitness sports, cardio training and...
Let's talk about functional training! Functional training, helps prepare your body and muscles for activities of daily living, both by avoiding injuries and by improving your physical performance. Procedos platform9 is a functional training mat developed after many years of research (in collaboration with the Gray Institute). It offers to integrate Functional Training strategies into all your workouts to be more efficient on a daily basis. It is used as much for physical preparation as for rehabilitation. The Procedos Platform 9 ™ mat allows a simple and systemic approach to functional training. Easy to use & fun, it quickly brings you benefits in terms of: Improved quality of your movements Improving your body composition Prevention of injuries. With Procedos,...
Another quote by Gray Institute®
"Essentially, a Movement Professional doesn’t necessarily need his / her patient / client to be in, on, or use anything (other than an open room and the patient’s / client’s body) to be successful. The exciting aspect, though, is that different environments, different equipment, different tools have the ability to enhance one’s function."
The foundational exercises
Foundational exercises are those movements we learn at a young age by self discovery and external cuing from our parents.
They were learned to accomplish specific tasks and as such are the foundation for functional exercise.
Movement in three dimensions has existed for as long as we has been able to move. This means that we can move our bodies forward, backward, sideways and rotate. So it is nothing new but "just a label" we put on different types of movements to be able to call it 3D training. Everything in the body moves three-dimensionally all the time when we move. Everything from the legs in the foot to the muscles and tissues and more - everything can move forwards, backwards, sideways and rotate.-Mobility and stability. It moves all the time and needs to be able to do it for the body to function. Then there is always a plane that moves more dominantly, but all...