Strength Training 3.0
What will strength training look like
10 years from now?
“Who controls the Past controls the Future.”
George Orwell
Strength 1.0 - Strength Feats
Old time strongmen performing for money for a crowd. All sorts of feats. Some tricks and gimmicks. Many incredibly strong men.
While performance was part of the picture the world was just starting to come together. Motion pictures were about to be born. It was difficult and slow to travel etc. People prepared to compete.
Many coaches of today haven’t studied the systems developed during these times.
Strength 2.0 - Strength Sports
Strength and muscle sports came alive with technology making a new era possible. The birth of powerlifting, olympic style weightlifting, strongman, bodybuilding and the olympics in general shaped cold-war era lifting to win. Supplements, steroids and capitalism started to have a big impact on sport and global culture during this time.
Many coaches are running a mixture of bodybuilding, powerlifting or weightlifting programs.
Strength 3.0 - Human Strength
Charles Poliquin and the early iterations of Poliquin Institute brought in a new era of strength. Charles coached champions in many different sports and applied a detailed holistic approach that hadn’t been published in one place previously. His system was human centric and looked at the subtle balances of the human organism in detail that no other coach has been able to deliver to the world. He published a lot but it seems many of his teachings were encrypted or left un-explained. This is part of the reason why Charles might have been disliked by almost as many coaches as those who loved him.
RealMVMT is one continuation of the Poliquin legacy. Many coaches are doing this in one form or another. Still many of the important lessons of strength training 3.0 aren’t being taught in the strength training community.
BEWARE: You won’t NEED strength training 2.0 for strength sports. They will enhance overall function and rehabilitation, but great results are possible without a deep knowledge of strength training.
Enter Ben Patrick
“Knees Over Toes Guy” Ben Patrick has done the most important work of our time in changing the way athletes train for better in adopting Strength 3.0 principles and creating a truely unique recipe for rehabilitation and athletic development.
The philosophy is different.
The results are different. Better Different!
Already hundreds of surgeries have been cancelled and people are back dunking by focussing on what they can do and working from there.
Muscle Function Theory
The trick is that the same technology in Knee Ability can be applied across the body.
Muscle Function Theory is the underpinning that gives coaches the understanding needed to improve any join in the body.
To my knowledge nobody has ever shared this philosophy and system with the world.
This goes beyond “Structural Balance” which is a massive part of Strength 3.0
RMVT & ATG