Rayhzel
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Pressing Reset: Original Strength RELOADED by Tim Anderson & Geoff Neupert
I stumbled upon this book because I was looking for something to work on my mobility. I was already familiar with Geoff Neupert’s excellent kettlebell work, so reading the premise on Original Strength it was easy to jump into this book.
ABOUT THE CONTENT
It should be noted that even though I was looking for something about mobility, Original Strength isn’t selling itself as a mobility program of any kind though. Its principle is more about regaining the reflexive strength and reflexive control that your body once had. As this is the basis of all human movement. Mobility and stability are a logical by-product of that though. In the process of regaining your reflexive strength you should even end up stronger than you did before. Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert present five principles that are the foundation of human movement. They explain well how to perform these principles and why they work. The theory behind might raise an eyebrow or two though. Moving around like a baby might just seem weird when you are an adult. However the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might just not be all that crazy. As this whole thing about reflexive strength and control is about the fundamentals of movement and we all started from nothing. If you are rationalist looking for hard science to back this all up, you might have a hard time with this book though. There really isn’t a whole lot of science going on. Instead Original Strength is very pragmatic in its approach. If it works, it works and science be damned. If you are someone who likes things to be very structured you just might a hard time with Original Strength as well. The book gives a lot of options and invites the reader to just play around with the principles as there is no way to do this wrong. Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert were kind of enough to give some options as how to incorporate Original Strength into your routine though.
PUT INTO PRACTICE
I’ve been doing the Original Strength Resets for about three weeks now and I have to say I love doing them. When others see you busy they might give you funny looks at first, but I don’t care. Whatever the rationale behind it is, Original Strength seems to just work. I’ve always been strong and well conditioned but this seems to have taken things up a notch and I have to admit I feel better than I have ever done. Doing the Resets is just a lot of fun and crawling is something special in its own right.
Even though this book doesn’t really feel like it would be a good fit for the rationalist, I do consider myself to be a rationalist and I ate this up. Perhaps because the idea of Original Strength is just too logical not to work. I am glad I picked this one up and I will definitely be picking up Original Strength Performance and Restoration in the future.
Pressing Reset: Original Strength RELOADED by Tim Anderson & Geoff Neupert
I stumbled upon this book because I was looking for something to work on my mobility. I was already familiar with Geoff Neupert’s excellent kettlebell work, so reading the premise on Original Strength it was easy to jump into this book.
ABOUT THE CONTENT
It should be noted that even though I was looking for something about mobility, Original Strength isn’t selling itself as a mobility program of any kind though. Its principle is more about regaining the reflexive strength and reflexive control that your body once had. As this is the basis of all human movement. Mobility and stability are a logical by-product of that though. In the process of regaining your reflexive strength you should even end up stronger than you did before. Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert present five principles that are the foundation of human movement. They explain well how to perform these principles and why they work. The theory behind might raise an eyebrow or two though. Moving around like a baby might just seem weird when you are an adult. However the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might just not be all that crazy. As this whole thing about reflexive strength and control is about the fundamentals of movement and we all started from nothing. If you are rationalist looking for hard science to back this all up, you might have a hard time with this book though. There really isn’t a whole lot of science going on. Instead Original Strength is very pragmatic in its approach. If it works, it works and science be damned. If you are someone who likes things to be very structured you just might a hard time with Original Strength as well. The book gives a lot of options and invites the reader to just play around with the principles as there is no way to do this wrong. Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert were kind of enough to give some options as how to incorporate Original Strength into your routine though.
PUT INTO PRACTICE
I’ve been doing the Original Strength Resets for about three weeks now and I have to say I love doing them. When others see you busy they might give you funny looks at first, but I don’t care. Whatever the rationale behind it is, Original Strength seems to just work. I’ve always been strong and well conditioned but this seems to have taken things up a notch and I have to admit I feel better than I have ever done. Doing the Resets is just a lot of fun and crawling is something special in its own right.
Even though this book doesn’t really feel like it would be a good fit for the rationalist, I do consider myself to be a rationalist and I ate this up. Perhaps because the idea of Original Strength is just too logical not to work. I am glad I picked this one up and I will definitely be picking up Original Strength Performance and Restoration in the future.