The Foundations of Strength with Mark Buckley

Mark Buckley is best known for achieving what many experts in the fitness industry thought was impossible: The amalgamation between the specialized fields of orthopedic rehabilitation, strength and conditioning and personal training.

As the head of musculoskeletal rehabilitation at the Lower Hutt Hospital in New Zealand, Senior Faculty member of the C.H.E.K Institute in San Diego, a consultant to professional athletes and sports teams around the world (including the All Blacks) and as the owner of a commercial gym in New Zealand, Mark acquired the unique skill set that allowed him to develop the FMA Strength Institute.

Today Mark and I are going to dive into more specific outcomes of putting on muscle mass, building strength and applying training to a sports specific goal for both athletes and non-athletes. We are also going to chat about men’s motivations for training and measuring whether their training program is right for them, because of course, the body never lies.

We talk about:

• Motivations for training
• Coming from fear
• Using muscle to feel masculine and powerful
• Managing Anger
• What is Strength
• What makes someone a Strength and Conditioning Coach
• Special and Specific Exercises
• Understanding Training Context
• General Physical Preparedness
• Specific Physical Preparedness
• Athletes and Non-athletes
• Women are Not Small Men and need to be trained differently
• A coaches job is to improve a target sports skill
• Performance Metrics and how we measure the effectiveness of training
• Mark’s story of training NZ swimmer, Toni Jeffs for the Commonwealth Games
• Stress Inoculation Training
• The eight layers of storing motor control
• Mark’s story of training MMA fighters
• Knowledge, Wisdom and Experience
• The Experience of the Coach
• HIIT, Bootcamp, Group Training
• Stress, Recovery, Adaptation Cycle
• How to really get training results
• The importance of Recovery
• When training stress becomes the wrong kind of stress
• Training for the right reasons
• Getting a training response
• Training plateaus
• Why people get injured - managing benefit to risk
• Qualifying people for lifts
• Choosing the right training for you which will get you the outcome you desire
• High Intensity Interval Work - true HIIT and anaerobic training
• The problem of getting smashed from training.
• Full Body workouts for strength training
• Are you or is your client Fragile, Resilient or Anti-fragile?
• Qualifying someone for training
• Taking the high road or the low road
• Extreme results require extreme measures
• Metabolic Damage
• Training as journey of growth and meeting resistance and healing our relationship with ourselves
• Going back to baby
• The glorification of self harm
• The trainer that is seduced into the time is money story
• Men and anger and using training to get energy out
• Polyvagal theory
• The problem of outward focus and punishment and reward
• Getting to know yourself
• How men can start with personal development when they’re not so spiritual
• The manly work is actually the inner work
• If a woman’s barometer of health is her cycle and hormones, what is a man’s?

References

• Paul Chek
  • https://www.paulcheksblog.com
  • https://chekinstitute.com
  
  
• Vladimir Zatsiorsky the Science and Practice of Strength Training
• Louie Simmons Westside Barbell and the Conjugate Method