Inner Circle 24 - Why Rad needs a time machine!

Children have an enormous advantage.

When you start gymnastics or calisthenics young, you're learning these movements while your body is still growing and developing.

You also have a hormonal environment that's very different from later adulthood and years for the muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones and other tissues to progressively adapt alongside the skills.

That's one reason gymnastics starts so young.

Those athletes spend years developing their body alongside their skills.

But for most people reading this email, you aren't 10 anymore.

You're 35, 45, 55, maybe even older.

And you cannot assume your adult body will adapt to aggressive skill training at the same rate a growing child's body does.

This is where adults get themselves into trouble.

Your muscles and nervous system can improve relatively quickly.

Your connective tissues adapt much slower.

So you can develop enough strength and coordination to attempt something before you've developed enough tissue capacity to repeatedly tolerate it.

That's particularly relevant in calisthenics.

With traditional strength training, we can progressively overload you very precisely.

We can add one kilogram, change the reps, change the tempo, adjust the range of motion, manipulate volume.

have enormous control over the dose calisthenics doesn't always give us that luxury sometimes the jump from one progression to the next is enormous and suddenly your wrists elbows or shoulders are being asked to tolerate forces and positions they've never experienced before That's why I believe the order matters enormously.

Build the body first, then teach the body the skill.