Getting Started
”If you decide that you are willing to make a commitment to yourself and work hard, contact us. Before joining our fitness community, we want to ensure that you absolutely know what you are getting into. The only way to do that is an Introductory Session.” Coach D
Getting Started
NLP is not a gym. It is not opened to the public where you can come in and control the training. NLP trainers are driven by our vision and commitment, to deliver world class coaching, while educating and promoting elite level fitness and functional performance. In other words, our responsibility is to improve human movement which improves and increases human performance at any level.
In order to begin your journey with NLP you must first complete a 2 step process:
1. Attend a free class on Saturday mornings at 9:00 am. This class will give us a good idea of your present fitness level as well as any faulty movement patterns.
2. Schedule and complete the following Essential Workshop as described. This workshop is designed to help educate you about what the H.I.I.T program is and help you understand what the 10 General Physical Skills are and how they relate to your goals.
At NLP everyone must take the Essentials Workshop. This workshop is designed to take you through the basics of the HIIT exercises and prepare you for moving into group classes with a firm grasp of the movements and scalable modifications for the exercises. The Essentials Workshops will meet on a scheduled Saturday morning. Enrollment will be limited to 8 individuals per workshop to ensure more personal attention. The cost of the workshop will be $50 for the day. No Exceptions.
Attendance at all Essential classes is absolutely mandatory. Be sure to check your schedule before you pre-register for the day’s workshop to make sure that you will be able to attend the session. You must be able to perform all the functional movements below before your able to attend a a regular H.I.I.T class.
We train Movements not Isolated Muscles
The body was created to move as a unit. All of our real world activities, whether it’s competitive sports, running errands, playing with the kids, climbing a mountain, or putting the groceries away requires full body movements and a certain degree of mobility and flexibility. With that in mind, when we train the body we should do so such that the gains made in training will translate directly to our activities and interests. It makes sense that we should train full body movements with and without resistance to build functional strength and endurance. We should also regularly perform mobility exercises to keep our joints working in perfect order which is key to injury prevention.
Human movement can be broken down into 5 categories: Pushing, Pulling, Locomotion, Rotating, and Level Changing (for example, squatting). These movements can be further broken down into sub-categories. There is vertical and horizontal pushing and pulling, there are hip dominated and thigh dominated level changes. Locomotion can come from a wide variety of activities such as running, jumping, climbing, and crawling.
When you’re putting together a training plan for yourself you want to incorporate at least one exercise per movement to ensure that you are giving your body a complete workout. For pushing exercises, you can use different types of pushups, overhead presses, and dips. For pulling exercises there are pullups, inverted body rows, and several different pulling exercises with handheld weights such as a dumbbell or kettlebell row. Rotation can involve seated or standing russian twists, rotating medicine ball exercises, twisting Hindu pushups (integrates both a pushing and twisting exercise in 1). The level changes are either hip dominated or quad dominated. Anything that has a squat or lunge in it would be a quad dominated level change. For hip dominated level changes you could do deadlifts or any number of different kettlebell swinging type exercises such as kettlebell swings, cleans and snatches. Locomotion has a ton of different options with so many variations of running, jumping, crawling type exercises.
You put all of these together and the variations are endless which keep the workouts fun, interesting, always different, and always effective.
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