Evolve Performance

The fitness world is just awash with trainers and coaches pushing ridiculous exercises that will do as much to injure you and decrease performance as ever enhance it!

I know I was one of those trainers! I did all the functional stuff in fact I was one of the pioneers of it in the U.K. working at my facility in London.

I’ve worked with thousands of athletes and gym goers for over a decade. I spent thousands and thousands on courses and educational programs by some of the worlds very best trainers and therapist. I even worked in elite athletics at Lee Valley in the U.K. on the run up to the 2012 Olympics where I was the only certified FULL BODY A.R.T therapist in the stadium and warm up track!

None of these bullsh*t exercises can ever PROVE to be effective in anything an athlete does!

It’s just gym bros pushing their ego driven agendas fuelled with their insufficient understanding of the very basics of physical development.

This is not personal and it’s deffinately not just my opinion, so if you want to argue with it then you’re just arguing with the proven muscle size and strength physiology along with basic MOTOR LEARNING principles.

I’m just trying to bring sense to the world of over blown SOCIAL MEDIA that’s got millions of you looking in the wrong direction whilst absolute sh*t strength coaches and trainers are taking the $$$s

Literally you just have to go back as little as 20 years, forget anything described as ‘functional’ it’s just bullsh*t
Guys please cmon wake up.

I promise you I could walk into any gym in the country and tear apart their training practices 90% of which under the “it’s not safe” banner, MALPRACTICE!!!

Look guys remember EVERYTHING works, even sh*t training does something. BUT why oh why would you need to do anymore than the MINIMUM AMOUNT for the Most payback?

Not only do most trainers and coaches NOT understand the BASIC principles of Adaption and SPECIFICITY they’re experimenting on YOU and it’s your body that’s going to fall apart whilst they’re still taking the $$$s in.

Let’s change it for real strength programs and real exercise.

Most of you WILL GET INJURED FOLLOWING sh*t Exercise Advice!

Infact it’s actually helping to make you worse but you’re just too IGNORANT to understand the reality!

Took me 45years to realise so don’t beat yourself up about my statement we’ve all been duped.

Oh and I ain’t selling anything btw you’re responsible for being a healthy fit adult and to teach your children and grand children the same. But the truth is you’re a lazy sack of sh*t that just can’t be arsed 🤷‍♂️😂😂👊

OR

Like most of us you’re so damn tired and stressed with life you fall into the same old cycle of eating crap, working your fingers to the bone, scarping to pay your mortgage and keep your kids happy so you turn to booze and crap food as a comfort. But we all know that’s the opposite of what we need.

Anyway HARD physical exercise will just add to your problems.

Unless you wake up and start to realise there’s much better ways to help yourself in far less time with much less stress.

If you believe the mainstream version of exercise then it’s going to overwork you and you will most likely in all probability be injured!

Injuries caused by over Exercising are more prevalent than most of us realise.

I worked in rehab for over ten years and the majority of issues we saw were predominantly training related.

Even the people training in the Gyms we looked after where getting injured due to the high volume nature of the exercise prescribed by the trainers. Not their fault they’re just following orders and anyway it was 90% the diet prescription that made the greatest impact to their physique.

Not forgetting the trainers are always injured at some point, they’re the worst ones 😁 same as I was over the years.

If you’re a very dedicated fitness follower you’ll likely be more injured than those who aren’t. This is just statistical.

The CAUSE?

TO MUCH VOLUME OF EXERCISE

Especially if combined with power movements.

The research actually tells us that one set done correctly has the EXACT same benefits as doing 3, 5 or 10 and that you don’t need to Split up movements into micro movements to target more specific areas (aside from perhaps elite bodybuilders but that’s a specific discipline)

Why do it? 🤷‍♂️

If you’re putting in 3 or more hard training sessions of an hour plus each week I can guarantee you there are far better ways to achieving the same and if not better results in half the time or less .

With a far greater reduced risk to injury, whether you’re an elite athlete or just want to tone up and loose the fat.

This isn’t my opinion this is evidence based information that obliterates most of the fitness world’s bullsh*te exercise recommendations.

I’m not trying to sell you anything btw or get you hooked up on some ridiculous ‘body transformation’ journey for thousands of $$$.

Neil Southwick

The overwhelming issue when faced with chronic degenerative joint problems (which is of epidemic proportions across the western world) is often attributed to a complete lack of strength and/or repetitive poor movement and/or lack of movement.

Training movement is not going to improve your situation! This does little to improve muscle strength which is a main factor in allowing joints to move.

Strengthening whatever is weak in order to function better will have a very positive effect on your issues.

Of course if you’re damaged too badly it maybe very difficult without surgical intervention. But post op it’s vitally necessary.

You only need good basic strengthening nothing fancy.

Your flexibility will also start to improve.

You may even prevent surgical intervention if you act soon enough.

Bouncing around in a Zumba class, playing tennis, swimming and jogging etc are not going to help you. Infact they will likely have a negative impact on your anatomy, despite you liking your recreational activity.

Nothing wrong with doing what you enjoy btw but they’re are better proven ways to keep you healthy.

Don’t believe me?

Go over to any hospital private or NHS and find out just how many patients go through the knee, hip replacement operations and take a look at their physical condition.

I promise you at least 90% of what you see you’ll easily understand why even if you’re not trained to do so.

Of course there are many other factors to injuries like from impacts etc but I’m not referring to these. I’m referring to chronic joint deterioration over time due to a lack of strength.

Get stronger and your life just may improve drastically instead of looking at medical intervention first.

- Not Mobility
- Not Flexibility
- Not Power/speed/explosiveness
- Not Endurance
- Not Cardio
- Not Functional Training 😂
- Not Agility

ONLY STRENGTH will make you better at everything.

ALL of the others are just a combination of SKILL & STRENGTH.

ALL of the others are SKILLS that are NOT transferable to another except for STRENGTH!

If all of these other components are SKILLS then they are not EXERCISE!

Exercise is about improving muscular strength.

Because most of the fitness industry is pretty much clueless about Exercise you likely won’t understand this.

You can’t rely on the educational syllabus either it’s so bias it’s a joke.

Like I said, everything in the list improves when you improve your strength. This also includes.
- Cardiovascular efficiency
- Bone and Connective tissue
- Metabolic efficiency

Sorry but we’ve been lied to by the fitness industry for too long.

This is NOT my opinion!

Now improving STRENGTH can be done many ways.

There’s the du***ss smash yourself to pieces way that’s going to result in short term injuries and pain and the longer term degradation of joints, tendons, ligaments etc it’s painful and it’s fking horrible and you will pay for it!!

Then there’s the smart way that’s shorter in time and virtually ZERO chance of Injury.