Intervention by Dan John, (18) 9th question: Are you willing to correct your problems?, Notes

Post date: Jan 18, 2016 4:11:10 PM

Dan John - On Target Publishing

9th question: Are you willing to correct your problems? Assess so you know where you are.

• • 1. There is a yin yang between strength and technique:

       1. Improving strength should help an athlete.

          1. Improving technique should help an athlete.

             1. Improving strength and technique should really help an athlete.

    2. Go do your sport, let your training support it.

• • • 1. Time spent in training should not be 50/50 but rather:

         1. 80% of time working on sport. *If the goal is fat loss, 80% of time should be spent on food preparation

            1. 10% of time on strength

            2. 10% of time on correction

• • 3. Splice strength moves with correctives

• • • 1. Reward people with what they do well and they’re more willing to do what they don’t do well.

         1. Fill rest periods with corrective moves.

            1. Many warm up movements also serve as correctives.

               1. “Work on your weaknesses but compete with your strengths”--Mark Reifkind

      2. Grades

• • • • 1. ‘A’ - Real Strength

           1. ‘B’ - 2nd best movement, but rethink every few weeks

              1. ‘C’ - Some have poor grades, but honesty is key

                 1. ‘D’ - Usually Squat

                    1. ‘F’ - If you don’t do a move that is key to human performance, eventually you fail (in sport or physically)

• • • 3. Example - Someone strong in Push/Pull movements:

• • • • 1. for the first ½ hour of the workout do bench press and cable rows -

           1. require a full 5 minute rest between sets

              1. perform what is needed during active rest.

        2. the rest of training is focused work on weaker movements

• • • • • 1. works well for conditioning as well

          2. doing stuff you never do is exhausting