3 Keys For Building Longevity & Functional Strength

If you look at the fitness industry right now, everyone is talking about longevity, functional strength, and moving well for life. This makes a lot of sense as the biggest population we have right now (across the world btw) is that of an aging population. While this has become a hot talking point (which I totally get being on the verge of 50), very little accurate and useful information is being given. B

Most programs still focus on aesthetics, isolated muscle work, or extreme workouts that try to prove we are still young. We don’t need to prove anything to anyone, we need to focus on what we know to age healthier and live better.

In a movement-based system the real key is principles like: how we create stability, harness the body’s natural chains, change loading patterns, and layer progressions. These elements make DVRT one of the most efficient, effective, and sustainable ways to train for real-world strength and long-term health.

Here’s how we can more intelligently and efficiently improve functional strength and longevity  and how it solves the problems that most training creates.

Train The Body As it Is Designed To Function

These may sound obvious, but most people still fight the idea of actually simply focusing on how our body is designed to move as a means of creating our workouts. Traditional training teaches muscles to work in isolation and others show “circus tricks” as to validate an exercise to be more “functional”. As renowned strength coach, Robert Dos Remedios says, “it isn’t rocket science, but it is still science.”

We want our workouts built around those natural movement patterns, the seven commonly acknowledged human movement patterns.

• Squat

• Hinge

• Lunge

• Push

• Pull

• Rotate

• Gait

By training these patterns instead of isolated muscles, we teach people to move as an integrated unit. This is the foundation of longevity: the better your patterns, the lower your injury risk and the higher your ability to stay active for decades.

Having better progressions like these hip hinge movements allow us to keep making greater strides in our training without beating up our bodies. 

This solves the “I feel strong in the gym but not in life” problem by making strength transferable  to running, hiking, playing with kids, carrying groceries, or just moving without pain.

Physical therapist, Jessica Bento shows how to combine Ultimate Sandbags and kettlebells in our system of training to help build squat exercises that not only create strong legs, but mobile hips too!

Using The RIGHT Type Of Stability 

Most people think stability means balancing on wobbly surfaces, never moving, or doing circus-style exercises. But longevity is built on a completely different idea: the ability to resist and control unwanted movement.

DVRT uses purposeful loading and holding positions to create stability from the inside out. We use different drills to help connect the body to learn HOW to create proper stability and progressing to advanced stability progressions where muscles are forced muscles to react, integrate, and stabilize together especially through the core and hips.

Instead of training “abs,” DVRT improves:

• core bracing

• anti-rotation

• anti-flexion

• diagonal sling integration

• pelvic control

• shoulder stability

These qualities are the real foundation of injury-free movement.

 

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DVRT solves the “my core is weak even though I do planks” problem by teaching the body to stabilize dynamically in the ways real life and sport require.

Use The 3 Planes Of Motion (Not Just Sets & Reps)

Most programs only move in the sagittal plane   up/down, forward/back. But human movement happens in three planes:

Sagittal – forward/back
Frontal – side to side
Transverse – rotation

Aging gracefully is about maintaining the ability to move well in all three. Loss of lateral and rotational capacity is one of the biggest predictors of falls, joint injuries, and declining performance.

In our training we integrate all planes of motion safely and progressively not just randomly throwing “hard” exercises at people hope they will survive, we want people to thrive!

DVRT solves the “I only train up and down but life moves sideways” problem by gradually exposing people to the movements they need to stay resilient.

Making Functional Strength & Longevity Achievable for Everyone

If you want to move well at 40, 50, 60, and beyond, you need training that respects how the body actually works. These concepts are so important because they make functional strength more efficient because it:

• trains real movement patterns

• builds dynamic stability

• uses all planes of motion

• progresses logically

• fixes problems at the source

• integrates the body’s natural chains

Whether someone wants to feel stronger, move without pain, prevent injury, or stay active for decades, DVRT gives them the tools to do it safely, intelligently, and efficiently.

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