How much would you pay for a car that got better gas mileage every time you drove it? That may seem more like science fiction that technological innovation but this sort of thing happens all the time….at least biologically. What happens if you have never practiced guitar and then practice 1 hr daily for three months…or if you’ve never ran but then run (more…)
Competition scares the hell out of me. It always has. My approach to competition used to be: I’ll do it…but only if I have to. In my sport: no gi BJJ (yes, it’s only a sport), if I want to see how my game is going to compare, competing in a tournament is a great measure of that. As I’m waiting for hours on (more…)
We have this idea that in order to change the body, we need to force the body to adapt. Inherent in this concept is a fallacy: Adaptation must be forced. Adaptation doesn’t have to be forced. In fact,it cannot be stopped! Adaptation happens whether we want it to or not…and it doesn’t have an off switch. If you start working out and gain muscle and/or lose fat…this (more…)
In the first semester of my senior high school “honors” english class, our teacher sat in the back of the room grading papers and had us read out loud the stories from our text. This was a good practice considering I hadn’t had to do so since third grade. 3A schools in small East Texas towns are very progressive. After we would finish reading to each other, we would then proceed to (more…)
Author’s note: “Pain makes you stupid.” That’s one of my associates favorite quotes of mine. Not only is it quotable, it’s scientifically verifiable. My academic journey has been paralleled by my journey out of pain. As I’ve had more pain relief, I’ve done less stupid things. This post is how my practice of joint mobility is less stupid than it used to be.
I have spent a lot of money and a lot of time trying to get out of pain. When it was evident that there was no amount of money that could get me out of pain, I shifted my attention to figuring out pain (non-neuropathic). Since then, I’ve made significant inroads into understanding the nature of pain…I won’t detail the entire discovery here but my (more…)
It's time for another Reformation Movement
Hi, My name is Frankie. I am the movement.
The question is, “Are you the movement?” Well, you’re probably wondering, “What is the movement?”
The Movement is a collection of people who study and practice the science of better. We do all kinds of things. We lift kettlebells, clubs, barbells, dumbbells, cables and bands. We do bodyweight exercises. We do gymnastics. We do feats of strength. We grip & rip. We do combatives. We do Martial Arts. We do all things fitness.
We do nutrition. We do emotions. We do thinking. We do beliefs. We do life. We do better.
The Movement was something that was conceived when Marty Lotspeich and I were composing the first version of this treatise called THE MOVEMENT MANIFESTO. “We need a movement, a new movement, about movement.”
Craig Keaton made this a local reality by opening up the first of THE MOVEMENT studios in Dallas, TX.
Many other tribes build their tribes around a particular tool, particular exercises or a particular sport. Not so in The Movement. What connects us is not what we do. What connects us is how we do it.
The reason why we don’t follow a particular tool, sets of exercises or a set of movements is that: we are all different. Different people need different things. Some people need to lift heavy things, some don’t. Some people need to be vegan, some don’t. Some people need to be religious, some don’t. Every person needs something different. Everyone needs to find their own path.
We find out what we need through following our body’s information – our biofeedback. Utilizing biofeedback we PR, or establish a new best, daily. We move forward…in whatever direction we can.
