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Range of Motion’s Fitness and Conditioning Exercise Philosophy:
Our fitness and conditioning program elicits drastic and immediate changes in proficiency across the ten components of fitness.
GENERAL PHYSICAL PREPAREDNESS:
We take an actively generalist, ‘anti-specialist’ approach to physical fitness, as it exists through cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. The underlying aim of the sessions we prescribe is GPP, or General Physical Preparedness. Should a series of physical tasks be drawn at random from a hat, you should not expect to win just one or a few, but to place near the top of your cohort in them all.
VARIATION:
The achievement of GPP is born from variation. To be good at anything, you must train for everything. To this end, the programming has origins in gymnastics, sport, athletics, strongman, powerlifting and Olympic lifting. Were you to compete against a specialist in any of these fields you would lose. You would however beat them in all other events. You would beat your general cohort in everything.
REAL MOVEMENTS:
To ensure mastery across as many physical domains as possible, the movements we train must emulate the movements we may be required to complete in life—whatever the arena may be. Functionality here is the key. There is no room for isolated, contrived movements. Every movement we complete has its origins in the trees, savannahs or caves of our ancestors. To pick things up from the ground we train the deadlift, to stand up we squat, to escape we run, to climb we do pull-ups, to get on top of things we jump, to move things we throw, to get up we do burpees, to drag we row. And so the program takes shape.
INTENSITY:
We apply controlled and carefully balanced randomisation to these real movements and perform them hard and fast. Intensity is the variable most closely associated with results.
EXERCISE AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
Exercise Science, like any true science, must conform to the scientific method. The program is objectively scrutinised by this method. We test baseline proficiency across the ten components of fitness. We hypothesise that you will get better at them and construct a program with the aim of making this so. We measure and score each session—either by overall work capacity or through the individual components of number, time, distance and force. We replicate past sessions, collect the data, plot it over time relative to previous measures and thus gauge the success of the program. We modify, then repeat the process. The result is a direct measure, in percentage terms—a constantly updated measure of improvement in GPP. Not only should you place near the top of your cohort in random physical skills, but you should constantly exceed the performance of your past self.
