InsideOut Movement

In my recent readings I have been learning about something called self organizing systems.

The truth is for most people the concept is far too complex to digest, but I am going to simplify it for you so you take away the parts that really matter.

1. The body and nervous systems are living networks build from individual parts that organize themselves into efficient systems.

2. If you want to learn a new skill, you must create an environment with the constraints that will allow that new skill to develop.

3. Stop thinking about skills as THE THING and start thinking about them as THE EXPRESSION. You will change your life and your body.

When you can live with freedom in your body then self love, confidence, and creativity all flow without restriction. We become magnets for what we want to create.

That is what we are all chasing, and that is what I’m really here to help you achieve.

It goes so much deeper than just a workout. The sooner you begin to approach it so, the sooner your life can drastically change.

ISO Academy was built to allow everyone with an internet connection to access the education we should have been taught in physical education class: How to sit, stand, walk, MOVE, like a real human. Things we all have to know how to do before we can take on being whatever identity it is we want to be.

Just like you need air to breathe, your muscles, spine, tendons need rotational movement to sustain over time.

The body is a self organizing system built to extend, rotate, bend, and flex. We must continue to cultivate these abilities, they are the fuel for our body. Feeding it what it needs through proper movement mechanics allows that self organizing system to function.

This is why I always speak about rotational movement, that is the 🔑 to aging without the negative repercussions.

You must have heard at some point or another that horseback riding is "horrible for the back".

And yet we have been doing it for hundreds of years... something doesn't add up. The deeper truth is that if you can't stabilize yourself effectively on land, doing it on the back of a moving animal is going to be impossible.

Now let's look at this from the perspective of the horse...

Imagine having to carry someone on your back, would you pick the person who has strong control over their body and physical state or would you pick someone with poor movement mechanics, clumsy, unstable?

The answer is pretty clear to me.

So why would a horse want to carry around a person with poor mechanics? They wouldn't. Immediately increasing the risk of accident and injury.

Working with has been an absolute pleasure. She not only approaches her movement in a world class manner but she takes what she learns at ISO Academy into her horse training.

Learning to move your body is a requirement for successful pain free horse back riding, and its essential in helping to avoid unnecessary riding accidents and falls. If you are an equestrian seeking to keep participating in this sport for a long time, you want to eliminate pain & learn how to move with proper mechanics, jump on a consultation (link in my bio).

A grandma and a gymnast look at the same chair. One sees somewhere to sit. The other sees a prop.
Same object. Different nervous system. Different range of what's even possible.

That gap doesn't open overnight. No one tells you the day you stop sitting on the floor, or the day you start needing the railing on stairs, or the day "supportive shoes" becomes a real category in your brain. It happens one small avoidance at a time, until the world quietly gets smaller and you call it getting older.

The good news: Affordances are a fact about your body's relationship to the environment. Change the body, change what you see when you look at a chair, a curb, a flight of stairs.

That's what we look at in a consultation. Not flexibility for its own sake. Where your range has actually narrowed, and what it'd take to get it back. I have helped hundreds of people take back their opportunities in life, if you're looking for to make a change, hit the link in my bio.

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Gait cycle practice. Labor. Throwing.

Most people spend years chasing the perfect program. More exercises, more variety, more complexity. But the body doesn't care about complexity. It cares about patterns.

Walk. Your gait cycle is the foundation of everything. It's how your spine loads, how your hips rotate, how your whole system learns to transfer force from the ground up.

Carry and push and pull. Labor. The kind of work that builds real tissue density, joint integrity, and the kind of strength that doesn't fall apart under pressure.

Throw. Rotational, explosive, unilateral. The movement pattern most modern training completely ignores, and the one that tells you more about your body's capacity than almost anything else.

Cover those three and you've covered what it means to be human in a body.
That's what we train inside ISO Academy. Link in bio.

Crazy to think that I was crippled by IT Band Syndrome, plantar fasciitis, knee pain, and shoulder pain just a decade ago and now I can barely remember what it felt like waking up in a body that was chronically inflamed and in pain.

The human body is an incredible machine, capable of rebuilding at a rate most of us cannot truly comprehend. If you are vailed with pain but look at movements like this and think, I want to be able to do that, you can.

I have rebuilt myself and now have helped hundreds of people do the same. My DM's are always open 🫶

The idea that longevity is built in the gym was a lie sold to you to create a multi million dollar industry.
The longest living people on earth likely have never stepped foot on a gym floor let alone worried about what their mile time wad.

True longevity is built when it is woven in the the fiber of your being. How you move from task to task, how you sit, how you stand, and how you spend your days.

If longevity is truly something that matters to you, get outside, plant a garden, get messy, dig holes, move stones, collect branches, walk to your grocery store.

Enjoy the movements and abilities that make us human and use them with gratitude. The secret to longevity lies in intentional living.

If you are experiencing pain in the body and want to learn how to move with intention so you can get back to pain free living and experience life fully, my DM's are always open. It is never too late.