Tiger Re-run (lesson #1-5 of the Tiger Transformation)
Have you giving up on running? Dont!!! It is what we are designed to do!!
Mabye you feel too tight and restricted?
Mabye it causes pain or intense soreness?
My advice to you is dont give up on forward locomotive practice. You see, we are designed to move forward, and when struggle to do it well, it tells that our physiology is dysfunctional. On the other end, if we can walk, run, and sprint well, without pain and tightness, then our physiology is functioning properly. We simply cant be the best version of ourselves without a a healthy and consistant forward locomotive practice because this is what we are designed to do!
This course will provide you with the knowledge, techniques, and programming To reestablish your ability to walk and run pain free with confidence. Attaining the ability to feel good before, during, and after engaging in forward Locotive practice is the sign of a healthy and well functioning physiological network. Moving forward is what we were designed to do and making it foundation of your fitness will bring out the healthiest version of yourself.
Humans were designed to move forward! Think of it, our eyes our in the front of our head, and almost everything we do to survive involves us traveling forward through time and space. In fact the forward locomotive gait cycle, (crawling, walking and running) is the most commonly used movement sequence in the human body. It is essential to our heath. The way we move forward tells us a lot about hour our physiology, our compensations, and how well our bodies function. This is why we utilize it as an assessment through slow motion video. The way we move forward matters, and has a massive impact on the way our bodies feel and function. If it is done poorly, it can lead to pain and dysfunction. If you feel tight or in pain before, during, or after walking long distances or running, something is off and your physiology is dysfunctional. If you go straight to the gym, those movement might feel a little more comfortable at first, but you are strengthening a dysfunctional physiological network! Our ability to do what we are designed to do, tells us how are body is functioning! It's amazing how many people struggle with this and dont event know it.
Between shoes, sedentary lifestyle, laziness, and poorly executed conventional fitness, many people have lost connection with their ability to move forward. Think of it, how many people do you know that can maintain their ability to sprint or run at all past the age of 25 or 30? Its all too common to lose it and this should not be the case. In fact, I believe that forward locomotive practice and how well we do it, whether it be walking or sprinting, should be the focus point of our training no matter what the goal is. Even if you are a rower, a ballerina, a golfer, your just trying to get in better shape, or GET OUT OF PAIN, establishing a healthy gait cycle and putting it to use should be as high on your priority list as any other practice. This is what we are designed to do. Stop not doing it : )
What is viewed as "Functional Fitness" these days is often extremely dysfunction from a bio mechanical standpoint. Most of the fitness industry is focused on stationary unnatural movements that we would never utilize to achieve daily tasks or accomplish anything outside the gym. Our bodies mold and adapt to these experiences, which alters our physiological design and often comprises our foundational human movements. You see this with "meat heads" all the time.
When you break it down, there are very few "natural movements" that we utilize to survive and accomplish tasks. (Crawling, walking, running, pushing, pulling, swinging, striking, throwing, picking shit up and carrying it). Maintaining and training these movements should be priority if you want to be healthy and functional. (Not straight to the weights for your image) .
If you are training to feel better, be healthier, enhance your performance, and be more "functional", focus on how well you move forward and base everything else around that. Far too many trainers leave forward locomotive practice out of their program and get caught up in the fitness fluff. In fact, they themselves struggle to sprint without pain or injury. Sprinting is often avoided and referred to as "dangerous" or "high risk". I think that is ass backwards. Our forward locomotion tells us everything we need to know about how our body is functioning. When it doesn't work, something within our physiology needs to change and thats what we should be training towards, not strengthening the already dysfunctional compensations patterns that provide us with no use.
Our body adapts to the highest intensities and frequencies that it experiences. There are many ways of teaching our bodies to generate power, nuetral drive, and intensty, but almost all of them do not align with the gait cycle. Instead, many of them comprimise the gate cycle. Nothing is comparable to the sprint. At max sprint, our bodies absorb and manage 4-6 times our body weight on impact. The single best exercise for everything from general health to performance is a sprint. Many people focus their fitness around a lift or certain craft, but more people should be focusing on the cultivation of our sprint system as the foundation of their fitness and performance.
So unless you are a cross fitter, powerlifter, or body builder, stop focusing on the external (developing the lift) and start focusing on the internal (developing the physiology). Yes you can utilize resistance training to enhance your body but the resistance training isn't the real goal, so don't let it compromise your physiology.
Note: Resistance training is very healthy too, but it depends how you do it. Regardless, healthy locomotion should be priority! In the second part of this course we go over how to resistance training in a way that align with and even enhances your gate cycle!
It doesnt have to be a sprint but everyone one that is capable, should be working towards their ability to move forward better, faster, and more often. This should be the primarily goal of training, and it should be intergrated at all levels for all goals! Enhancing the way you move forward will improve your overall health more than any exercise program ever. The Byproducts of a healthy and capable forward locotive system are a healthy and capable human.
It's time to reestablish your ability to walk and run with confidence, and integrate into your daily lives / fitness journeys. Sign up for the tiger transformation, and never become too tight, twisted, and implosive to run again. Far too many people struggle with this and The Tiger Re - run is the recipe to fix.
The Tiger Re - run is the first half (first 5 modules) of the tiger transformation course! What is the Tiger Transformation course?
All development of the human mind, body, and spirit starts with the elevation of conscious and character, which is why the Tiger Transformation course is referred to as interactive education and programming. This course will teach you how to enhance the the way you feel and function by aligning your mind, body, and spirit with natures design. There are 10 modules in this system (listed below). Each lesson is integrated into an evolving program that will help you optimize breathing, posture, movement, and rest within the framework of our daily lives and fitness journeys. Starting with just education and breathe work and ending with a virety of full fitness programs for you to choose. However, you don't even have to choose one of the programs provided to get the full benefits of this system because the foundation principles of this system are universal! They are internal and can be applied to any type of movement, sport, healing, fitness program, etc. Once your understand the philosophy and foundational principles, you know how to develop your body in a way that aligns with your innate physiological deisgn, which is what drastically enhancers the way we feel and function! Utlimately making you feel like a kid again, or even a tiger! what does that mean? lose, fluid, fast, flexible, explosive, strong, powerful, durable, calm, composed etc. all in one because the reality is, none of it is separate!
This system is based around natures deisgn for human physiology, yet combines many different training methods and techniques that Jim has studied over the years. It merges everything from yoga and meditation to high intensity sports performance training. Some of the primary methods include RPR, Yoga, GOATA, MMA, conventional fitness, sports performance, strength and conditiioning, and more. Although many different methods are utlized, they all honor nature's deisgn and stay within the same philosphy, approach, and physiological Map. As the course goes on, you will see how each technique that is added is exectued within the foundation principles of the system. Some of which are listed below!
This system will teach you everything you need to know to develop and maintain a happy, healthy, and fit, mind, body and spirit. Not only will you learn how to execute each and every exercise to perfection, but you will learn how to utilize each module and structure in this system specifically for your goals. You will simply never need fitness expertise again. Instead you will know that we are creature's of nature, and understand how to align with that during your workouts and daily lifestyle so you empowering you to maintain a healthy, active, and pain free life. On top of all that, you will become a "Certified Tiger".
What are the 10 Modules?
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So what are these foundational principles!?
- The 3 part approach
1.1 Calm the mind (Nervous system first)
1.2 Free the Fascia (Connective tissue / fascia second)
1.3 Activate and align the muscle and skeletal (Muscle and skeletal third)
Tiger transformation system is built on a 3 part approach. This means what ever we are trying to do with our training and development, we must begin my acknowledging and approaching the nervous system, then the connective tissue / fascia, then the muscle and skeletal system! Learn much more about why and how we do this in the week 1 overview education!
- The 3 Zone System
2.1 Zone 1 (Our center = Pelvis, Psoas, Glutes) etc.
2.2 Zone 2 (Upper = Chest, Lat, Ribcage. Lower = Quads, hanmstrings, Femur)
2.3 Zone 3 (Limbs and Extremities)
The Tiger Transformation also utlizes its own unique 3 zone method. (inspired by Relfexive Performance Reset and Be Activated). This is a cueing system for posture, firing patterns, and more that is utilized frequently in this system. Everything fires through zone 1! Your Center! Learn much more about this throughout the entire course.
Coach Jim perkins has been in the fitness industry for 15 years and has an extremely diverse and deep level of expereince. His journey started with football and convetional fitness which quickly became an obsession and turned in to a career path. In his early twenties he began studying alternative and hollistic wellness and since then has integrated those methods into his practice, creating a very wholesoime, primitive, nature based approach to human physiologcial development. Jim has coached thousands of indiviudals, groups, and teams towards their health and fitness goals. After years of studying and applying his methods, he has combined all his knowledge and techniques into a fun and effective system that he believes is the optimal approach to enhancing the way we feel and function. That system is called The Tiger Transformation!
