By Coach Fury, Ninja Fitness
Trainer, Original Strength Instructor
DVRT Master Instructor, Senior RKC, Strengthzilla.
Hey Ninjas, Fury here. I’ve
been receiving some great questions regarding the upcoming ORIGINAL STRENGTH FOUNDATIONS PART 1 WORKSHOP we’ll be hosting at the Mark Fisher Fitness this Fall. I hope to
answer some of them here. Mind you, this is only scratching the surface of what you'll learn during the OS weekend. Personally, I have seen great results using OS with
my students, friends, my mom and myself. I drink the Kool-Aid. I drink it all
up.
Onto the questions.
What is Original Strength anyways? Original Strength is a system created by two very
strong and even smarter guys, Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert. At its heart, OS
is about reclaiming the mobility, strength and resiliency we were all born
with. The group’s motto is: YOU WERE MADE TO MOVE. Do we grow weak, immobile or fragile because we age? Or is
it because we lose touch with the same types of stimuli we were constantly
exposed to as kids. What if we tap
back into those stimuli? We were all born with a strength training program
encoded into our big baby melons. We breath, move our eyes, gain control over
our huge domes, roll, rock, crawl, walk, march, skip and run. OS reintroduces
all of us to these things. Not only do our bodies like this, our brains LOVE
this. The mind and body love OS so much that we refer to much of the movements as
RESETS.
Why do we crawl? There is a ton of awesomeness packed into something
as relatively simple as crawling. Think back to your MFF consult. Remember that
FMS screen we did? Sure you do. It was the thingy with the board and the bands
and the sticks. Now think about some of those movements we tested. There was
the one called Rotary Stability where you straddle the board on all fours, extend
one arm and the opposite leg, tap knee to elbow and then re-extend the limbs.
Pretty much a crawling pattern right? How about the push-up where you had to
lift the body off the floor as a single unit (TSPU)? Yeah, crawling will help
that too. In fact, crawling can and the other elements of Original Strength
will have a positive impact on every one of those movement patterns we screen.
Can you really get strong using OS? YES! Yes. And yes. We’ve been doing a lot of
crawling in class lately. Everyone knows it’s not easy. Imagine doing it for 10
minutes straight without putting your knees down. I think that would qualify
you as being pretty strong. Now drag a weight or a sled with you as you crawl.
It's rough stuff.
Now here’s the really cool
thing, a lot of OS is based on regaining our REFLEXIVE STRENGTH. This means
getting out smaller stabilizing muscles to not only work but fire off quickly
and efficiently. When this happens, our big gun muscles (primary movers) get to
focus on the jobs they are supposed to do as opposed to covering the slack of
the stabilizers. We simply move better and can lift more safely and effectively
when our core is firing properly.
Some of the strongest and
most mobile folks I know use Original Strength.
What you might not expect is
that you’re recovery, resiliency and stress management will also likely improve.
Can anyone go? Abso-friggin-lutely! The beauty of OS is that it is for everyone. Much
like the mission of MFF, OS is trying to make the world a better place. We get
trainers, doctors, everyday fitness enthusiasts, people who work with children,
folks that have been banged up and people fighting off the aging process
attending these workshops.
Now those are some of the
basics. Here are the details on the workshop itself.
September 27: 9am-6pm and September 28th: 9am-1pm.
Taught by: Coach Fury with Corey Beavin and Master OS Instructor, Joe Sansalone.
Price: $477
Use the early bird promo code: OSNINJAS to save $80 which brings it to only $397 for the 1.5 day workshop.
