Culture and Practice: Effective Programming Design + Individualization
The culture of fitness has evolved.
Everyday people are redefining their notions of health & fitness in ways that create space, value, and priority around functional physical capacity along with aesthetics and body image.
People are making connections with others who share an ethos centered around progress — not simply in terms of quantitative performance, but the kind of qualitative growth that can only come from consistently embracing new challenges, intelligent goal setting, focused persistence, & interpersonal accountability.
Within this paradigm of practical, functional fitness, training must be intentionally crafted to improve athletes longitudinally with specific targets, methods, and evaluation, using approaches that are mindful of exercise volume, training density, intensity, and frequency of exposure.
The answer to growth is not always more reps, more workouts, or more weight.
Our programming is exactingly rigorous, but carefully constructed. Adaptation cannot occur without a sufficiently challenging stimulus — nor will it transpire if the training demands lead to burnout and injury. To make this work, our coaching team must:
know the specific intended outcomes of our workout designs, and how the designs produce those outcomes
understand how it fits into the broader context of the training macrostructure
how it should be tailored according to individual athlete needs
effectively communicate these concepts for our athletes
be able to answer our athlete’s questions about workout intentions & individualized execution
keep tabs on our athletes both individually and in aggregate
