How to Get the Most of Your Flux Experience

I love my gym. And it means a great deal to me that others also get a warm, fuzzy feeling when they train at Flux.

I have made a list of things to think about to ensure you get the most out of you experience at Flux.

1. YOU ARE WEAK! ACCEPT IT! Most of you have heard my "you are weak" speech.  I borrowed it from Ido. Here's what I like about this statement. It is not about judgement, but rather about accepting where you are at physically.  Once you accept it, then you can move on and get to work.  I hear bull#%)* excuses all the time as to why someone can't do a movement. "My proportions are all wrong". "I am just not coordinated". "The weight is too light". "I am not flexible". THe list of excuses goes on....

But the bottom line, is... You are weak.  Maybe you are weak strength-wise, maybe your weakness is agility, or mobility. Whatever.

The people who progress the quickest at Flux are those that do not try and skip the progressions and jump to the most advanced. Put the time in, build a foundation, and you will experience less injury and disappointment.


2. COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR COACHES
Don't be a wallflower. Ask your coach questions. Ask fellow Flux athletes questions.  If you have an injury, let your coaches know. I guarantee they will provide you with an individualized prescription.

3. MAKE DEMANDS ON YOURSELF BUT DON'T BE TOO HARD ON YOURSELF
For many of you, the Flux program design is quite foreign. We throw a great deal of new movements your way. Accept that you won't master the movements overnight. Sometimes it takes a week, a month, or maybe even a year.


4. APPRECIATE AND PRACTICE MOVEMENT COMPLEXITY
Cozack Insertion! Lizard Walk! Rotational L Sit! Handbalancing! rotations into bridges! snatch! clean and jerk! press to handstand! Yikes! The locomotion and gymnastics are geared towards MOVEMENT COMPLEXITY. Why is this important and how is it outside of traditional fitness models? Movement complexity is all about making a movement increasingly complex.  This is why we teach static muscle ups and chest to wall handstand push-ups and planche push-ups.  It is common for an individual to do 30 kipping muscle ups for time and not have a single static muscle up.  I have witnessed people knock out 10 butterfly kipping pull-ups and not have a single proper pull - up (and if they do a pull-up, their shoulders are attached to their ears).  Our focus is not volume, it is forcing your nervous system to adapt to increasingly complex movement patterns.  50 push-ups gets you...50 push-ups. That's it. Nothing else.  A HSPU gets you... a handstand push-up against the wall.  Are you really satisfied with never ever progressing? A chest to wall handstand push-up and a proper chest to wall handstand gets you... a hspu in the middle of the floor! Now we are talking!  A pseudo planche push-up takes you in the direction of a handstand into a push-up into a planche!

5.  BECOME A BETTER MOVER AND BECOME A BETTER ATHLETE

Come to mobility/movement classes.  Accept that initially,  you will probably suck at the locomotion and floiero patterns. I certainly did.  There is nothing more beautiful than a body that moves with efficiency. Rotate the spine. Rotate the hips. Rotate the shoulders. DON'T BE LINEAR!