Authentic Strength

Perpetual Progress!

I tread these waters happily! I am a personal trainer.  My body gets me paid.  My knowledge grows daily, and it grows exponentially.

I work with a hot new team, and we come from a broad spectrum.  My closest associates right now are a world record holding grip athlete [he picks up heavy stuff and puts it down], a Zumba instructor and personal trainer, a Brazilian Ju-Jitsu coach who dresses like a gay country singer [he's straight], and a PhD candidate in biomechanics that listens to more heavy metal than i do.  Along with my business partner Gary, who is some kind of antisocial savant/personal trainer, we form the ‘Tip of the Spear” with regard to the movement.  We are alternative fitness, the same way that Seattle’s Sub-Pop record label signed multiple rock and metal artists in the eighties who formed the “grunge” genre.

We get it done based on your feedback.

Our system is ‘no-system’, as the system is your system.

The Movement offers the first exercise/sports training/pain resolution map fully guided by your own biofeedback.  I am happy that you have joined me for this post.

The Movement is our team name.

Training people to train themselves is what we do.

Biofeedback simply means listening to your body and making a course correction.  Or, as Stanford Professor of Neurobiology writes “. . .biofeedback, for example, consists of learning to alter this automatic function consciously”*.

Or, as Philadelphia-area Physique Transformation Conductor Will Williams [that's me!] writes:

“Losing fat and gaining lean mass to stimulate the metabolism involves resistance training and dietary training that best serve the individual when scaled to their true starting point and applied from the minimal effective amount of information”.

Or,to gain muscle and lose fat, you would benefit from finding the safest, most direct route with regard to qualification, experimentation, and application.

Or, Philly style:

“Yo! You gotta train wit’ me i got the goods.  My trainin’ is so good and my body is so diesel that if you ain’t trainin’ wit’ me youse just anutha wannabe, ya’ know?”

Whichever personality appeals to you the most, speak to yourself in that voice for the rest of this post.

A snapshot of Gym Movement

The protocol i use is called the Gym Movement.  When someone comes in to train with me, we establish health history, movement screen, build rapport while training, and then discuss the loosely plotted course.

-Fat loss and lean mass enhancement

-Nutrition [Metabolic Flexibility]

-How many times a week can you train?

Your biofeedback is valuable to me, as i use it to show you the green-yellow-red light system when eating and training.  What means ‘Go’, ‘slow down’, and ‘stop’.

As we establish your biomarkers for training and nutrition, you may learn that the two factors highest atop the factor tree with regard to measurable progress are

Progressive Overload

Caloric Compliance

or,

Are you doing more measurable work in the weight room?

Has your caloric intake been ‘waved’ appropriately based upon the numbers we established as starting points for you?

or. . . .

Are you recording your workouts and food intake?

Examples of these factors:

Progressive overload means that when you train [running, lifting], over any period of time, there should be a measurable increase in work.  If you lift weights, you should be doing more work in some capacity.  If you run, you should be doing more work in some capacity.  Quite simple.  However, not everyone can make continued progress in any given exercise or pathway of training without first qualifying it.

Once you are training a quality movement* you are in a position to make continued gains until that movement ceases to test well for quality. 

Measures of progressive overload include:

Volume: Total work performed.  Pounds or kilos lifted, miles or kilometers run, pull-up reps completed or laps completed in the pool.

Intensity: Relative difficulty as it compares to your ability as represented by 100%.  In weight training, it is your 1 Rep max.  In running, swimming, cycling, hiking, it is your best given time for ANY stretch of distance covered.

Density: The measure of time you performed the work in. I ran 3 miles in 21:00, or, i did 15 pull ups in [5 sets of 3] in 2:00.

Yes, there are other ways to determine if something is working for you [e.g. you are happy, your spouse is happy, you feel better], but you are giving me money, which is a number that makes me happy.  In return, i aim to give numbers that make you happy.

If you can measure it, it happened.

-Fitting effortlessly into some jeans is measurable: your ass got smaller.

-Being able to better last year’s company 5K race is quantifiable: you ran faster.

Our results driven, biofeedback guided protocol meets you exactly where you are, and takes you to ‘better’.  Every darn day, if that is what you desire!

Call, text, or email today for your appointment!

Will Williams

Authentic Strength Training

17 South Valley Rd.

Paoli, PA 19301

*Taken from Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Holt 1994

[In the book he writes on biofeedback in the context of exemplifying the autonomic nervous system]