Let me tell you something that’s gonna sound completely crazy – some of the best fitness breakthroughs I’ve witnessed in my thirty-plus years of training folks have happened when people kicked off their shoes. https://www.rushwalter.com/natural-movement-strength-training-for-complete-beginners/ I’m talking about clients in their fifties, sixties, and beyond who thought their balance was shot, their feet were done…
A few years ago, I had what I now call my “quadrupedal humbling” while watching videos of natural movement exercises. The presenter, a movement specialist who looked like he could be my younger brother, casually dropped into a bear crawl and started flowing through movements that made my jaw hit the floor. https://www.rushwalter.com/natural-movement-strength-training-for-complete-beginners/ Forward crawls,…
I still remember the moment I realized I’d been thinking about upper body training all wrong. https://www.rushwalter.com/natural-movement-strength-training-for-complete-beginners/ It was about seven years ago, and I was watching my friend’s three-year-old son playing on the playground. This kid was bear crawling up slides, hanging from monkey bars, and moving around on all fours with this incredible…
Look, I’ll be honest with you – for the longest time, I thought taking a full day off was for people who didn’t have their priorities straight. I mean, here I was running a fitness business, training clients six and often seven days a week, constantly researching new exercise techniques and equipment innovations. The idea…
I remember the day I realized I’d been teaching squats somewhat incorrectly for the first ten years of my career. It was about fifteen years ago, and I was working with a 62-year-old grandmother who’d never set foot in a gym before. I was going through my usual spiel about keeping your knees behind your…
About twenty one years ago, I made one of several mistakes of my training career, and it taught me much about what I needed to know about the real pros and cons of squatting. I was working with this enthusiastic client named Ed who’d heard that squats were the “king of all exercises” and wanted…
For the first fifteen years of my career, I completely underestimated the power of squatting. I was so caught up in all the fancy equipment and complex training programs that I overlooked one of the most fundamental human movements. Then I met Elena, a 78-year-old woman from Greece who visited my gym while staying with…
About ten years ago, I made one of the biggest mistakes of my training career, and it taught me much about what I needed to know about recovery. I was working with this enthusiastic client named Marcus who’d just discovered natural movement training, and honestly, his progress was incredible. https://www.rushwalter.com/natural-movement-strength-training-for-complete-beginners/ Guy went from barely being…
I’ll remember the first time I witnessed what I now call the “natural movement recovery miracle.” https://www.rushwalter.com/how-to-create-your-own-natural-movement-training-program/ It was several years ago, and I was working with two clients who couldn’t have been more different in their approach to fitness. Both were marathon runners dealing with similar overuse injuries – tight IT bands, cranky knees,…
When I first heard about “earthing” a few years ago, I thought it was just another wellness fad that would come and go like so many others. The idea of walking barefoot to connect with the earth’s energy sounded a bit too “woo-woo” for this practical fitness guy who’d spent decades focusing on measurable results…
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