Adaptive Training

Chapter1: Your Amazing, Adaptable Body

Thiswill be a motivational section that discusses the amazing human body butspecifically its ability to adapt and change.

Chapter2: How The Things You Do Everyday Shape Your Health and Fitness

Thiswill demonstrate that your job/hobbies/lifestyle are more instrumental inshaping your physique than an hour spent in the gym. It will thus discuss

Chapter3: Train Outdoors! This postwill explain the HUGE and immediate benefits of moving your training outside.Simple example: every pull up from a tree branch is different from the last,engaging the grip differently, altering the heights of the hands, etc. etc.

Thischapter will also discuss the practicalities of such training (how to manageprogressive overload, where to do it, what to do if it rains), plus the risk oftraining ONLY in chaotic environments and how to marry the benefits of bothtypes of training.

Chapter4: The Missing Fundamentals of Human Movement Ourmodern lifestyles introduce a number of issues and rob us of some basicabilities: pelvis control, spine mobility, shoulder mobility, core strength, scapulacontrol, straight-arm strength. This post will explore the precise missing attributes in the context of theATSP hierarchy discussed in the previous book.

Chapter5: ?SuperExercises?

Thischapter will introduce exercises specifically intended to remedy the aboveproblem. The term ?SuperExercise? is inspired by ?SuperFood.? The idea is thatthese exercises either provide multiple benefits in one go, or they address amissing fundamental.

Chapter6: Don't Let the Environment Change You: Change the Environment

Thischapter starts with a more in-depth exploration of the idea of the ?AdaptationFacilitation Machine.? This is a building designed to challenge the body as wemove through it. It's only theoretical, but a fun thought experiment.

Itwill then discuss ways you can make an existing environment more stimulatingand challenging (standing desks as a very obvious example).

Itthen concludes that ?intent? and ?habits? are more important ? yourrelationship with the environment. It will thus suggest a number of ways totrain incidentally.

Chapter7: Splitting Your Workouts

Thischapter discusses the benefits of splitting workouts up throughout the day:this can increase energy and mood, encourage muscle growth, and massivelyimprove performance. It's also more convenient for a lot of people.

Chapter8: An Active Brain

Thischapter applies many of the previously discussed concepts to brain training.

Chapter9: A Program

Thischapter offers a program based on the SuperExercises and splitting workoutsinto lots of smaller parts. One of the biggest criticisms of the previous bookwas the lack of an actual program ? this should address that!

Chapter10: You Are Information A littleindulgence! An alternative way to look at the body and its relationship withthe environment.