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exuberant animal
change your body, change the world
national applied functional physical education conference
october 24, 2009
an integrative, multi-disciplinary approach to health and performance
exuberant animal
the ancestral environment
okavango delta, botswana, southern africa
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sedentary living, fake food (efls), noise, temporal poverty, sleep deprivation, tribal ambiguity, asc
alien environment
practical
what is functional training?
Vern Gambetta: “Work movements, not muscles.”
• multi-joint, multi-plane
• emphasis on movement, not appearance
• emphasis on locomotion
• emphasis on the nervous system
• emphasis on real-world challenges
• relevant to the individual’s life!
functional movement skills?
locomotionsquattingdigginglifting carryingthrowing
functional movement skills
terrain, momentum, bodies, rocks and sticks
March 1998
function v. structure
“asymptomatic abnormalities”
yin and yang of animal movement
spinal cord
isolation v. integration
whips and chains
“Lift the weight with your whole body.”
“Hit the ball with your whole body.”
“Coordination is the quality which enables the individual to integrate all the powers and capabilities of his whole organism into an effective doing of an act.”
Bruce Lee
athletics, dance and martial art
“Is your workout wasting your time?
Best Life December 2007by Paul Scott
illustration by Matt Mahurin
functional movement
v. isolated machine training
“it’s all one muscle.”
core: what do we want?
strength?skill?speed? a skinny waist?
core body control
130-300 vertebrae
lateral undulation, waves of muscular contraction
spine as the locomotor engine
on your feet!in the position of function!
specific to real-world challenges!
a world of free weights
balance and proprioception
proprioceptive data:390 feet per second
motor commands
from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own"
the “sixth sense” or the “secret sense”
sagittal: marching
frontal: side-hill
transverse: dance
multi-plane performance
it’s psychophysical
a better biped
1984 Air Jordan 1
6 million years of barefootingv.
25 years on marshmallows
today
earliest bipedalism:6 mya lucy
AMHS
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"pleasure is power."Kay Redfield Jamison
Exuberance
how old is play?
• all mammals play
• all primates play
“Jurassic beaver”120 mya
February 2006
Play is vital to learning and growth.
It is also vital for social, organizational and cultural function.
(also language, music, dance and aesthetics)
play is a human universal
Donald Brown 1991
play deprivation has consequences
photos courtesy Stuart Brown MD, National Institute for Play
the power of play
Play contributes to increased resilience, creativity, curiosity, learning and adaptation.
Play helps us transcend false endpoints. (ideas and methods believed to be complete) see Dick Fosbury
BDNF and neurogenesis
“Play exists, in significant measure, to promote plasticity and to teach an animal to take advantage of opportunity.”
Kay Redfield JamisonExuberance
long term athletic development
10 years or 10,000 hours
make it sustainable!
creating a culture
the martial art model
respectdisciplinecommunityapprenticeshipfocus on learning
more discipline = more fun
everyone’s a coach
roles
frequent role reversals
(but only one sensei)
clinical play
find a weakness, then create a game to challenge it
or, assume a weakness
toys, tools, technology
low-tech, high touch
• look for appropriate technology
• simple toys and tools
• any floor, indoors or out
invest in people and training!
in search of the perfect pump:
intro to partner resistance training
a cooperative contest
how to:
Choose a functional movement.
Find the opposing movement.
Develop rapport.
Keep adjusting as desired for the perfect pump.
“slow the other guy down” “smooth resistance”
athlete or coach?don’t worry about it!
high speed
low resistance
high speed
high resistance
low speed
low resistance
low speed
high resistance
speed
resistance
progression