The philosophy and science behind Nine Four Coaching is deeply rooted in the concept of Practical Fitness as defined and delivered by world-class doctors and coaches at Active Life
If you haven’t read Cornerstones: Practical Fitness, Part I and Part II, I encourage you do click INSERT LINKS and catch up
Construct 3: Body and Mind are synergistic parts of a system, not isolated parts of a machine.
The medical and fitness industries have come to serve the patient and client as if we had broken pieces that when fixed improve everything else, but that’s not how people work.
We believe that it is this construct that can best explain the explosion of pharmaceutical use, surgeries, and injections.
Each of these interventions considered the symptoms, and the “broken parts”, but seldom do they address the root cause or come without unwanted effects.
Principle 1: Education before exercise.
In order to take consistent action, two things must be true.
The reward of the action must be worth it, and the action must be likely to lead to the reward.
We need to know who, what, where, when, why, AND how, before we will take consistent action towards anything.
In order to help us regain physical freedom, we need to understand how we lost it, how to get it back, and how to spot the signs that it’s slipping away again.
The alternative would be like telling a child they can eat certain things, and not others, without explaining why, and the consequences of each.
Principle 2: The internal pain point is the starting point.
Even when we understand the benefit of an action, or inaction, in order to do anything with it, the pain of the problem that could be alleviated must be the greatest pain point of the moment.
We do not move towards pleasure as a species; we move away from pain.
We will push through physical pain if it will help alleviate mental pain, and we will push through mental pain if it resolves the physical, this is more rare and more difficult, but it happens, and a great example is spending an uncomfortable amount of money to have a medical procedure done that will improve our quality of life.
Principle 3: The plan needs to adjust to the problem.
We need to be nimble enough to adapt to changes that reveal themselves as we work through our plan.
When we begin anything we are doing so with our best guess and intention.
As we progress through our process, we must do so planning to make changes along the way, because as we go it becomes obvious what is working and what is not. We need to address those changes so we can continue to make meaningful progress to our goal.
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