I watched a gymnast triple her pull-up max in 8 weeks. Not by grinding more reps. Not by adding weight plates. Not by following some "proven" progressive overload protocol. She did it by learning to undo what years of "proper training" had taught her body to do. Here's what happened: Sarah came to me stuck at 3 pull-ups for over a year. She'd been following every textbook approach—adding assistance bands, doing negatives, and building her lats and biceps separately. All the "right" things....
10 months ago • 1 min read
Hey, Picture this.You’re standing in an empty gym at 2 AM, staring at a stack of unpaid bills that could wallpaper a small apartment. Your phone buzzes with another client cancellation. Your girlfriend texts: “We need to talk.” (You already know that’s not going to end in a hug.) That was me three years ago. I was a coach who couldn’t coach himself out of a paper bag. A gymnastics instructor watching his best athletes quit for “better opportunities.” Running an agency is bleeding cash faster...
11 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, There was this time when I was working with an elite gymnast who couldn't understand why her handstand kept falling apart. She'd been training for over a decade, had incredible strength, could deadlift twice her bodyweight... but every time she kicked up into a handstand, something felt fundamentally wrong. Her previous coaches kept telling her to "engage her core more" and "push harder through her shoulders." Sound familiar? After watching her move for just five minutes, I...
11 months ago • 2 min read