Grace in Movement

We’ve talked a lot here at Bodyweightcoach.com about how you can lose fat, gain strength, build muscle, and whip yourself into gymnast-shape with bodyweight exercise.

We’ve also talked about compensatory movement, and how we use the Circular Strength Training ring of Prasara yoga to release the tension we put into the system after a heavy training session. We also use yoga in this way to take the parking brake off our performance, which allows us greater access to our skills (think about throwing a punch – if you’re pre-tensed, you’ll have no speed or accuracy - it’s the same for any other skill).

Finally, we’ve talked about the CST principle of Incremental Sophistication. Starting with a simple movement and gradually sophisticating it as our range, depth, and coordination improve. The greater your possible movement palette, the wider your possibilities when it comes to expressing your attributes in the field of life.

If you’ve read our ebooks Bodyweight Exercise Revolution and Bodyweight Blueprint for Fat Loss, we’ve mainly dealt with using Prasara to remove restrictive forces and compensate after training. This often takes the form of static holds that apply principles like reciprocal inhibition to hit your edge faster and shorten your training time.

Today I’d like to present an example of where that leads…

As you gradually recover your body’s full range of motion with static holds of Prasara, and you incrementally sophisticate your movement through the “work” phases of your CST bodyweight training sessions, you begin to blur the line between the yoga side and the “hardwork” side of your practice.

The result is the highest expression of CST Prasara yoga, what Coach Sonnon refers to as “flow without thought.”

Here’s a clip of CST Head Coach Ola Lindblom (of Sweden) warming up with a little free-flow Prasara yoga at the CST Instructor certification seminar I coached in London, England last month…

This is where we’re leading you. To this sort of natural fluidity and grace in movement. We all had it as children, and you can have it again thanks to the brilliant educational model that is CST.

It really is possible for anyone.

Those of you who have embarked on the 3-month Bodyweight Blueprint for Fat Loss program will meet up with a Prasara movement sophistication circuit in Phase Two, and you’ll have an opportunity to discover the truth of this for yourself.

Hang on. You’re in for a very exciting ride…

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