Athletic ability may have a sports connotation, but each of its dimensions are a measure of health in so many more situations.

Strength is what determines whether you can pick up a fallen family member and carry them to safety in an emergency.

Agility allows you to regain your balance after a slip instead of ending up with a broken bone.

Endurance is what helps you to continue running from a threat that is pursuing you.

If you do nothing to retain or improve these abilities, they will most assuredly decline. Assessing yourself periodically allows you to see where your weak links may be. From there, you can establish a path of growth and restoration.

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Work with an advanced athletic trainer to safely and accurately evaluate your fitness level, and design a workout routine tailored to your weak points and individual goals.

Once you have an awareness of your weak points and areas of growth, it’s time to plan a weekly training schedule. Regardless of your goals, planning a “weekly split” by dividing key focuses throughout the week will help your goals become reality.

Is your weekly split a Full Body day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evening? Yoga or jogging in the morning 5 days a week? Upper/lower twice a week? Take the time to design your best weekly split focusing on balanced fitness and growth, and exercise your discipline muscle to help you persevere through your plan.

We recommend you work with an advanced athletic trainer to design a weekly split that both leads you to your goals and fits your schedule, and someone who can hold you accountable in sustaining your journey.

It’s time for the climb! Fitness is a ladder, and each ability level is a rung upon it. Now that you have assessed where your ability level is and committed to a weekly split, it’s time to work your way up one step at a time.

The Lion’s Ladder focuses on 3 dimensions of athletic ability with 9 steps up the ladder—each one balanced to the others—and is a methodical approach to safely pursuing balanced fitness.

The Lion’s Ladder builds:
Strength—Benchmark workouts (FIGHT) to build power along with complementary workouts to fill your weekly splits
Agility—Benchmark yoga flows (FLOW) to increase your mobility, balance, and coordination along with complementary focus flows to pinpoint weak links
Endurance—Track times and drills (FLIGHT) to build your endurance and speed in addition to workouts to add to your weekly splits

BALANCED FITNESS

Whether you choose the Lion’s Ladder as your primary means of fitness or another workout routine, we strongly encourage you to find a program that gives measurable results, uses progressive overload, works major movement chains, allows for proper rest ratios, and focuses on weak point training.

ENERGY OUT, ENERGY IN.

Once you have found a rhythm with your new fitness routine, it’s time to assess how we refuel our bodies to serve us in the best way possible and to make those workouts sustainable in the long run.