Parable Bulletproofing: Armoring Up through the Lens of Delayed Gratification

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Instant gratification: the desire to experience pleasure of fulfilment without delay or deferment. It is the stuff of instant responses on social media, instant responses to texts, phone calls, and emails, and of instant delivery from Amazon. It is how we wish PR’s and goals inside and outside the gym happened. In this era of instant gratification, putting your head down to work hard, build firm foundations, and lay good groundwork is often overlooked and skipped to get to the ‘good stuff’; the goals, the dreams, the instant here and now. Delayed gratification, therefore, is countercultural; it is hard to do because it is so un-normal in our world today. In the gym, delayed gratification is what actually creates the foundations of  fitness and results (this applies outside the gym as well 😉 ) 

Delayed gratification in the gym looks like putting in work to mitigate our micro imbalances, and teaching our bodies virtuous muscle contractions. In essence, delayed gratification in the gym = bulletproofing of our bodies. Behold… Parable Bulletproofing!

The purpose of Parable Bulletproofing is, really, to take care of YOU- we want the absolute best for each of you. We want you to be the strongest version of yourself, help cut off any potential for injury, and help you lay down even more foundation for the big goals you have in mind. We have high hopes for how Parable Bulletproofing can grow in the future, but for now, we will be offering one weekly dose of healing bulletproofing every Sunday during open gym, for 6 weeks starting on January 10th!

Principles of Parable Bulletproofing:

Prehab = Journey towards optimal physical function of joints, muscles, tendons, etc. Optimal physical function includes flexibility, mobility, stability, strength, and skill. The goal of this programming is to preemptively stabilize and strengthen our bodies both unilaterally and bilaterally so as to mitigate structural and muscular imbalances we might have. If these are cut off at the root, they do not have room to develop into chronic or acute injuries.

 

Areas of Focus for this 6 Week Cycle:

Shoulder, Hip, Low Back 

Shoulder -> Scapular development to mitigate overcompensation of traps, delts, and neck.

Hip -> Glute and hamstring development to mitigate overcompensation of quads, knees, and back.

Low Back -> Stabilizing and strengthening the core to mitigate overcompensation of lumbar.

Program Skeleton for the next 6 Weeks:

Week 1,3,5: unilateral upper body prehab, bilateral lower body prehab, core strengthening

Ex. SA OH DB tempo squat, SA OH KB BU carry, SA DB frontal/lateral/crucifix hold Tabata, waiter’s plate windmills. Defecit clean DL to knee, rdl, Safety bar holds/ hold in dip, sled push

 

Week 2,4,6: bilateral upper body prehab, unilateral lower body prehab, lumbar/ mid back prehab

Ex. Chaos press, chaos press carry, OH walking lunges, SL wall sit, SL DL, box step downs/pistol variations, front loaded carries (Dball carry/hold, front rack barbell carry, GHD back ext.

 

Sprinkled into every week: scapular awareness, glute awareness, oblique/ core awareness

Ex. Side plank banded rows, SL glute bridges, KB RDL isometric, crossover symmetry work, push press dip work, scap shrugs, hollow holds, hollow GHD work, plank circles + scap shrugs, contralateral SL KB RDL

What will class look like?

Each class will follow this philosophy of healing movement: blood flow -> activation -> light flexibility -> schmobility -> flexibility. You can expect to see each of these elements during every class! Here is an example of what you might see in class:

Warm Up/Activation 100’ Komodo Crawl 15/ea SA banded pull aparts (fix other side to rig @ shoulder height)          * Brace like you mean it, pull scaps DOWN and BACK 15/ea Single Leg banded hamstring curls w/ 2 second hold at top 15/ea Dead bugs x1-2 Light Flexibility 5 forward, 5 back/ea Xiaopang 15 PVC Passthroughs 15/ea Box Pigeon 15 McKenzie Press Ups x1-2 Schmobility 10/ea SA Dumbell OH Squats (#AHAM(anageable)) 30s Bottom of Goblet Squat in TENSION (active glutes, upright torso, no elbows on knees) #52/35 15 perfect Hollow Rocks x3 Flexibility 10 Prone PVC Passthroughs (if not available, standing passthroughs with narrow-er grip) 10/ea Hanging hip circles on rings 30/ea Box Pigeon 10 Jefferson Curls 10/ea scorpion x1-3

 

I can’t wait to get armored up with each of you! 

Coach Savannah