The Ten Commandments
Of Fitness

Fitness Commandment #1

Thou shall exercise the body with natural human movements of walking, running, pushing, pulling, rotating, squatting and performing level changes. Exercise is not completed while sitting down on a machine.

Fitness Commandment #2

Thou shall always emphasize functional movement before aesthetics. Training for function will always eventually improve performance, health AND appearance while neglecting function will always result in diminished returns.

Fitness Commandment #3

Thou shall always think pre-habilitation instead of re-habilitation. It’s much easier to prevent an injury than it is to recover from one.

Fitness Commandment #4

Thou shall always look to master bodyweight movements before adding weighted resistance to those movements.

Fitness Commandment #5

Thou shall always focus on the integration and not the isolation of muscles. Performance and injury prevention depend primarily on the quality of biomechanics and human movement.

Fitness Commandment #6

Thou shall make every exercise an abdominal exercise working for core strength in all movements.

Fitness Commandment #7

Thou shall seek a balanced set of capabilities and not specialize too narrowly in any one physical skill set. Thou shall seek to have no weak links.

Fitness Commandment #8

Thou shall expect some physical discomfort while exercising. Nobody ever achieved exceptional results without pushing themselves through the mind-muscle connection. The harder one trains the better their results period.

Fitness Commandment #9

Thou shall focus solely on their exercises during a workout. Think of nothing else and keep talking to a minimum. Clearing one’s mind is essential for performance and optimal results.

Fitness Commandment #10

Thou shall continually change up their workout routines to avoid plateaus and diminished results.The human body will adapt to any given workload over time. You must provide a new overload stimulus on a regular basis.

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