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Train P3 Outdoor Group Sessions are athletic and dynamic, movement and skill based, full body strength and conditioning classes. We use primal bodyweight moves to help you increase endurance, lose body fat, become more athletic, explosive and nimble. This is NOT a bootcamp. You will focus on learning skills, practicing awareness and good form. Beginners are welcome, but please check pre-requisites below.
Primal squat is a fundamental human posture that prepares our bodies for more intense lower body moves and maintains joint integrity in all lower body joints. Recently Nerijus recorded a video for Qinetic explaining the primal squat and how to do it. See video below to learn why primal squat is an essential movement for anyone.
Warming up is not a major consideration to most recreational gym-goers. Some people believe a few jumping jacks or a quick jog is all it takes to get ready for the session. They feel that doing a warm up is a waste of time, especially when training time is limited.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
A proper warm up is one of the most important parts of a good training session; it acts as a movement preparation, injury prevention, pre-hab, rehab and as nervous system training. It mobilizes the joints, engages the muscles and activates the nervous system. A good warm up not only lowers the risk of injury during the session, it injury-proofs the body long term and significantly improves performance. The more advanced the athlete becomes, the more important a warm up becomes. This is because each training session is intense and stressful physically, mentally and even emotionally and the movements become more complex. Without a proper warm up, athletes just will not be able to achieve the level of intensity necessary or will get injured.
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It has been a while since I posted an “exercise of the week,” but this exercise is too good not to share! This is a frontal core, shoulder stability and spinal mobility exercise all packed into one – Enjoy!
Train P3 Outdoor Group Sessions are athletic and dynamic, movement based, full body strength and conditioning classes. Using primal bodyweight moves to help you increase endurance, lose body fat, become more athletic, explosive and nimble. This is NOT a bootcamp. You will have an intense workout, but learn skills and practice awareness and good form.
We don’t always have time or available facility to get a perfect training session. This does not mean that we should abandon our training till all conditions are ideal. It is beneficial to incorporate bouts of training into our daily lives even if they are brief. Your movement practice could be subtle. You could have increased awareness of the way your foot strikes the ground as you step of the curb, or mobilizing your wrists while waiting in line. If you are more bold, you can be as overt as doing a handstand, hanging on a railing, or sitting in a deep primal squat while waiting for your train. The important part is that you do something, because the little things can add up to great results.
Check out the article I wrote for Mind Body Green about training on the go and the video of training at the airport below.
Images provided by Train P3 athlete David Haws*
A 4-Minute Workout To Boost Energy When You’re On The Go
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-16585/a-4-minute-workout-to-boost-energy-when-youre-on-the-go.html
At Train P3 we use this exercise to assist or improve a vertical pull pattern. We use it with clients who require a little assistance in a pull up or clients who have limited range of motion in their shoulders. We aim to keep the trunk as vertical as possible and use light assistance from the legs. This can also work as an added challenge to people with limited shoulder mobility. The posterior tilt of the pelvis puts extra tension on throracodorsal fascia and adds a stretch to latisimus dorsi muslces. For some this variation can be slightly more difficult than a chin up or a pull up and more targeted in the lats and muscles around the scapula. READ FULL ARTICLE…
Single Leg V-up is an excellent trunk flexion, anterior core exercise. It targets deep and superficial abdominals and hip flexor muscles. Single leg V-up can also be used as a dynamic hamstring mobility exercise for people with stiff hamstrings. In those cases single leg variation helps maintain better posture and is easier to balance than a regular V-Up.