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Iris

🌟Meet Iris. She was born and raised in Hawaii but is now an English teacher in South Korea.

As an athlete🏃 during her years at the university, Iris didn’t enjoy the injuries she experienced. Who would?! 

But sometimes, these injuries can affect your mental state and perspective in movement. It can deter you from moving again to a higher degree. It can stop you from pushing your body to get better, stronger, and more capable of movement.

🤜However, Iris overcame this issue because The Movement Athlete introduced her to a new way of approaching fitness. She now knows how to move in a safer manner and build a foundation of strength and mobility that will allow her to progress her fitness level without any concerns.

If you want to learn more about her story, read on!👇

🏆 Iris’ started early in gold during her formative years. This was her focus, so most of her conditioning and activities revolved around improving her sport. She continued her sport during high school and even joined her college gold team.

Unfortunately, golf still risks injuries.s. Research shows that there are risks to your shoulders, spine, hands, wrists, and especially the elbows, AKA golfer’s elbows. And even though she gained more knowledge regarding safety, she still got injured during her golfing journey.

Because Iris had most of the physical activities around golf, her movement was quite specialized, and she did not experience other movement patterns that could unlock her body’s potential. 

She had the physicalities that her gymnast friend could do and was amazed at what the human body is capable of. 🤸

Of course, right from the start, she understood that these types of movements were only possible if she took time and worked on the foundational exercises that could eventually lead to that level of strength and skill.

Now, she’s looking for a better way to prepare her body to avoid injury while also improving her physical fitness to enjoy different types of movement besides golf.

✊Iris is smart. She knew that fitness is a life-long journey, so she got frustrated with a quick search on the internet for the best bodyweight training programs. Most of the programs she found only lasted for months, but she intended to train with calisthenics in the long run.

On top of that, any fitness regimen doesn’t provide any long-lasting results if you’re only going to train with it for a couple of months or even a couple of years, Training should be consistent throughout the lifetime to achieve continuous progress in fitness and function.

🔎Another issue Iris has with her previous calisthenics programs is the direction. Sure, there were instructions to increase the rep, add more exercises, change the body angle, and repeat the program, but Iris didn’t know how to implement all of that multiple factors into her training. 

It wasn’t convenient, and she would still do all the work herself instead of just heading into training.

After searching around the 🧐 internet, high and low, she finally found out about the gaming-changing The Movement Athlete app. She knew she had found the one app that would help her, and it was something different because of TMA’s lifetime approach toward fitness.

Here’s what she experienced with the app.

The Movement Athlete app is a revolutionary bodyweight training program combining a personalized touch and an adaptive training structure.

Let’s dig into this even deeper.

🎯Progressive

The only way to keep making progress in calisthenics is through progressive calisthenics. This means making each training session more challenging than the previous one so that your body can adapt to the new stimulus without getting stuck at a certain level.

Actually, the previous programs Iris did provide the principles to stay progressive. The main difference between the TMA and the rest is that Iris no longer needs to think about how to manipulate these factors. The app does everything for her so that all she has to do is show up and do the workout.

👊Adaptive

“And I like that I can rate my ability and that it adapts to my skills and abilities, too.”

The Movement Athlete takes the personalization of the programs to the next level through an adaptive training structure.

In reality, progress is not linear, and there will be days when your energy levels are down. This means your training performance might not be as optimal as you want it to be. It’s just part of life since many other factors can drain your mental and physical energy from you. Not unless you’re a high-level competing athlete, you don’t need to push your body to the limit every training session. 

This is when the adaptive training style comes in by implementing the principle of auto-regulation. Auto-regulation is the adjustments made by the powerful AI to the training program to suit your current skill level, mood, and energy based on your current and previous training sessions. 

Auto-regulation keeps your training enjoyable and sustainable in the long run. Without this principle in the training program, you will encounter a higher risk of overtraining, overfatigue, or, even worse, injuries. 

Now, Iris gets to train with an adaptive and personalized approach to calisthenics thanks to The Movement Athlete app. 

🏋️‍♂️Tracking Your Progress

Iris’s training progress is translated in a gamified fashion so she can see how far she is from mastering an exercise. This allows her to know exactly where she is in her training and shows that she’s making progress in her efforts.

Tracking progress is crucial for success. Not only it’s motivating to see your own progress, but it also keeps you accountable if you’re actually doing any work.

The gamified progress tracker also keeps your workout fun, as you always have something to look forward to unlocking. Iris is just like training to unlock new levels in a game, but the rewards translate to amazing life-long benefits!

“I noticed I was getting stronger. I was able to do isometric exercises longer with better form.”’

First and foremost, calisthenics’ goal is to build muscle and strength. By combining the progressive and adaptive nature of the TMA programming, Iris got noticeable strength gains in her training. 

Our body is powerful. It can slowly adapt to the stimulus (such as calisthenics training) we subject it to. By staying progressive with the training, the body can adapt by developing more strength to accommodate new challenges.

Certainly, strength reflects in training as Iris can see visible changes in form and capacity to train, but it can also reflect in everyday life by making daily tasks much easier than before!

“One thing that surprised me was that I was starting to get more flexible, and that was always kind of my weakness flexibility. So when I started to see I was getting more flexible, It excited me.

Iris’ flexibility improved as a result of TMA training, a shocking result for her but expected out of the TMA app. TMA includes specialized and general flexibility training in the routine to improve mobility further.

Let’s briefly distinguish mobility and flexibility.  Flexibility refers to the passive range of motion. This means pushing your joints and muscles to the end range with the help of gravity, a wall, weights, or yourself. Mobility refers to the active range of motion. This is the manifestation of strength and control within a given range. Both are equally important if you want to improve your performance in different activities and your general health.

Regardless if your flexibility and mobility are weak, TMA puts emphasis on these attributes because we know how crucial it is for movement.