Free+style: Maximize Sport and Life Performance with Four Basic Movements

Everyone cares about physical performance and the fitness industry offers an infinite number of solutions to improve it. The conflict is which do we choose and how do we know if and why it is working for us. This book teaches Carl Paoli s philosophy on training and gives you a simple framework for understanding any human movement.

Free+style is an interactive way to learn how the body is designed to move through space and how to interact with our constantly changing surroundings. Using this framework and four basic movements, Paoli will help you maximize your efforts in sport and life, regardless of specialty. Despite Carl s experience as an elite gymnast and a renowned CrossFit coach, this is not a book about gymnastics, CrossFit, or any specific fitness program. Rather, it is a unique take on how Carl studies and teaches human movement and how you can better understand how to move yourself.

Carl is not going to teach you the specifics of a movement or sport; instead, he gives you a platform that you can use to develop any specific movement. For example, instead of teaching you how to throw a baseball, this book teaches you a universal foundation that will help you further develop your pitching skills. Human movement is intuitive, but not always perfect. This book shows you how to:

• Turn on and trust your intuition about movement
• Use tools that help optimize imperfect movement
• Tap into the universal movement patterns and progressions underlying all disciplines
• Use Carl Paoli s movement framework to create roadmaps for your physical success
• Learn what being strong really means
  

Free+Style: Maximize Your Sport and Life Performance with Four Basic Movements is a practical manual to develop human movement regardless of your discipline. It is equally applicable to veteran athletes, weekend warriors, fitness enthusiasts, people trying to pick up a new sport, and people who are simply curious about improving their health. By developing your awareness and learning to see across other disciplines, you can tailor any training regimen to meet your unique goals.