Achieving fitness goals requires consistent and efficient movement performance to avoid injuries. Understanding the three P's (Positions, Patterns, and Performance) and three I's (Isolation, Integration, and Innovation) is crucial. Mastering movements involves isolating positions, integrating them into patterns, and performing them effortlessly.
Control of breath is key to assessing nervous system efficiency and readiness for progression. Whether it’s sports or exercises, improving breath control and body alignment is essential. The ultimate goal is to perform movements with ease, innovate freely, and achieve fitness mastery. Prioritize understanding the bigger picture for sustainable progress.
Serious talk. Everybody in the world is just striving to look better and feel better. What that means is you need to be able to perform the moves that you are doing consistently.
Well enough and efficiently enough to the point where you don’t get injured. Because if you get injured, you can no longer be consistent. If you can’t be consistent, you can no longer gain aesthetic, well being right so if we want to look better and feel better, we have to be able to perform the movements that we’re doing are trying to do efficiently. Okay. Now, why do we need to be able to understand the three P’s and the three eyes because it allows us to take our goals and just break them down very logically and strategically.
If I want to do a pull up? Well, I know that I have to start in one position, pull myself up to the top and then go back down nice and slow and controlled to the starting position again, when which I’m hanging so if you can’t have you definitely can’t pull yourself up. If you can’t stay at the top, then you’re probably not able to do that either. So what we need to do is just isolate the positions that you find in any movement and then you need to get better at those positions and eventually integrate some sort of transition in there some sort of pattern that is getting you from one point in the exercise to another position in the exercise of one position to another and then all of a sudden you get so good at performing those things.
That you’re able to just take those and add them all together. Okay. And this is huge, especially in bodyweight mastery, doing these bear crawl movements, right, and these crab positions and these tripod reaches, and he’s loaded beast in these front kick through this. And all of a sudden being able to do a scorpion kick, good and back into bear crawl. So it’s possible to understand your body so well that you can just integrate and integrate all of these positions and patterns together. And ultimately, to know if you should move on to the next step. In any of these concepts. If you’re doing a position like holding yourself up at the top of the the pull up bar, you need to be able to do that for an adequate amount of time while maintaining good breathing because your breathing capability basically dictates your efficiency at which you’re using oxygen and your muscles. Right? How efficiently and how calm Can you keep your nervous system while you’re doing all of these things? That should tell you whether or not you can move on to the next step.
So as someone who’s out of breath right now, I’m trying to talk while doing all of these movements.
It takes a lot. Now think of someone on the court right? If they’re driving to the hoop in basketball, and someone steps in front of them. They have to be able to move nuanced ly into a different position with a different pattern and find themselves not getting hurt.
And in order to do so, logically, they have to be under control of their breath because that dictates the state of their nervous system and whether or not they’re going to make a good decision or a bad decision.
This is ultimately how your body compensates with everything. You want to get better at any exercise. You have to get better at isolating the positions you start and transition through. And you have to get better at the patterns in which you do so. And the way to know if you can continuously do that and perform it for a long period of time is whether or not you have good control of your breath during that.
If you want to get better at the bike, right? Well, lo and behold, you’re able to do it for a longer without breathing as hard you just one. You’re getting better. That’s it. The same thing applies for exercises and isolating movements and muscle groups and whatever it is. You have to get better at breathing you have to get better at knowing how your body should be aligned.
And then ultimately, you can perform these things under stress without getting stressed out thinking through it logically. Being able to do so without getting injured.
That’s it. You got to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
And your three eyes are almost the same. You got to isolate these positions, integrate them together to get patterns and then you got to get better at performing them over and over and over and over again. To the point where it’s you could do it in your sleep right without breathing heavy with your eyes closed without someone telling you you’re doing it wrong or you got to move this hip out to the left a centimeter or push into the ground a little bit more tuck your hips, whatever it is, and all of a sudden you get to innovate and you get to just move your body freely and do whatever you want. That’s the ultimate goal.
