We Are All Out Effort

We support Black Lives Matter. We are anti-racist. We are inclusive. We do not condone body shaming or shaming of any kind nor do we believe in upholding any standards. Shaming is so normal in fitness and also in our daily lives. Understanding its harmful effects is not a conclusion we understood right away but only after listening to our marginalized participants. Sometimes we need to stop talking and listen.

Video Sessions

The COVID-19 global pandemic has put us all on lockdown. To continue to help people pursue their fitness goals, we now offer video training. Contact us for more info.

Useful Links and Products

1. Before anything else, learn how to SMR, and stretch. Do it daily if possible and start right away: http://www.allouteffort.com/2013/10/all-out-effort-mobility-training.html

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On Traveling and Staying Healthy

I was recently interviewed by the business magazine Quartz, an imprint of The Atlantic. They asked how to stay healthy when you are on travel. I said you have to plan ahead, "The more legwork you can do beforehand, the less you leave it to chance. Otherwise it’s like Lord of the Flies with your health."

On the mindset you should keep while traveling for business or vacation, I said, "You can’t escape the healthy lifestyle goals that you've set for yourself." Wherever you go, they go with you.

Read the rest of the article here.

UAP (Universal Athletic Position)

Life is experiential, and exercise should improve our capacity for experience and readiness for living.

The difference between exercises that are mechanical and exercises that are functional may be as simple as whether they are using some variant of the universal athletic position. Sometimes referred simply as an athletic stance or ready position, it is a position used in nearly all physical activity. Like most children, I was not initially taught this position. It was self-taught through trial and error, in attempts to balance, walk, generate speed, and power. Participation in youth sporting activities only reinforced its importance. This primitive posture is universal in that, we have all done it — and this includes all other primates. It is the first upright position.

I as an able-bodied human being have four limbs connected to my torso. It is the seamless interplay and coordination of these drivers in relation to one another against gravity, where all my movement lie. From the universal athletic position is where sprinters generate their speed, football players make their power, where dancers draw their grace, and where fighters express their technique. It is the stance I adopt when leaping for my life or fleeing from danger.

What Makes Muscles Grow?

We have over 600 muscles in our bodies that help bind us together, hold us up, and help us move. Your muscles also need your constant attention, because the way you treat them on a daily basis determines whether they will wither or grow. Jeffrey Siegel illustrates how a good mix of sleep, nutrition and exercise keep your muscles as big and strong as possible.

Breathe: Belisa Vranich

Did you know that if you don't breathe you die? That's half joke but 100% reality. Then what is shallow breathing? What is obstructed and compromised breathing? It surely isn't maximized living.

You Might Be Confusing Encouragement With Something Else

"Encouragement," like many overused words, loses its classical meaning over time. Its meaning shifts based on how we want it to mean, rather than how it is meant to mean. Rather than having a thought transform us, we conveniently transform the thought to confirm what we already believe.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.”
— George Bernard Shaw

Ideas become cheapened and in the process, they lose their worth. It is like stating nothing since nothing changes from it. Without change, there is nothing. Change is how we exist.