It’s safe to say I’ve spent my life in fascination with sports and fitness. Ever since I can remember, I marveled at feats of athleticism. At first, it seemed as though certain skills and strengths were simply genetic traits. But as you get older and wiser, you might begin to realize that this isn’t true at all.
As a young person, I’d consistently fail the Presidential Physical fitness tests in school. Unless you were on the football team in my high school, you weren’t granted access to the weight room-completely stifling. Thankfully there is life after high school. In college, I practiced what I’d call typical globo gym weightlifting aka body building. But college was liberating and it was there I took off into Beach Volleyball. I had a lot of relative success considering my late start in the sport, stringing together years of AAA ratings and some AVP main draws. The physical preparation needed to compete at a high level of beach volleyball is intense. Jump training and olympic weightlifting were what I needed, but wasn’t well versed in. Right around that time CrossFit affiliates started to bubble up. The CrossFit programming seemed to have a lot of the components of sports. But no matter how proficient I got at CrossFit, someone with no experience would be able to walk in and smoke me just by being a better athlete. It was then that I decided to stop competing with anyone else, and distill movements down based on what good athletes can do. Picture a football player scoring a touchdown, and doing a celebratory back flip in the end zone. That is what we should all be aiming for, rather than a 10 second faster Fran time, it would be way more helpful to have real mobility, flexibility and explosiveness. So I set out to learn what I could about all types of movement. It seems that if you are able to do a few key things well, they will carry over to all other aspects of athleticism. And this process relies on primarily on these 3 things:
- All development is physical development
- Discipline is a myth
- Plan in years, execute in days
My method is to move, play, and continuously learn. But what I preach is more than a fitness regime. It’s that each individual should be seeking individual development. If conventional gyms and fitness culture hasn’t worked out for you long term, you’ve come to the right place. Personal trainers and coaches and programs will purposefully try to confuse you with terms such as hypertrophy, periodization, progressive overload, macros, keto, paleo, starting strength, compound movements, functional movements, low carb, cardio, metabolic conditioning, heart rate, zone and so on and so on. The gatekeepers of health and fitness have their own confusing language to convince you that you need their supplement, diet, pill, or program.
Being fit is actually fun and simple, contrary to popular opinion. It requires no discipline or difficult diet as most of the influencers would have you believe. Just a little bit of cutting to the chase of what fitness really is. I’m here to help. You can start at home with no equipment. You can learn how to move your body so as to never feel intimidated in any gym, or by any movement, EVER! You can use movement to be more capable in everyday life, and be able to enjoy all the things life has to offer.
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After Ryan’s help my kids are more confident, grades improved and made new friends! – Chris K.
I used to hate working out, but now I enjoy it and LOVE Ryan as a coach – Tamara C.
Ryan knows how to keep me excited about fitness. – Mike P.
He’s so positive. He’s always like that. He gets you to do your best and keep trying. – Ashlynn G.
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