The Step Class Principle Two people go into a step class. Person A has an old ankle injury that she never fully rehabbed, leaving her ankle prone to sprains due to its lack of stability. Person B has no ankle injury. Half way through the hyper-energetic bouncing of a routine, music blaring, everyone believing they are earning their dinner by going faster, person A rolls her (or his) ankle. Down they go in a heap, ankle swelling rapidly. Obviously person B keeps on repping out those steps at blistering speed - no ankles problems here. Now because someone injured their ankle in this step class - it must make step classes bad for your ankles right? Well as I laid out, person A already had the propensity for another ankle injury. So we know that it isnt that step classes are bad for ankles, but bad for certain people who already have bad ankles. We call this the Step Class Principle. This metaphor is really obviously applied here but think about this in terms of nutrition for an example. Just because a coach gets away with eating two or three cheat meals a week, does not mean his/her client can. We have to always evaluate - is this working for me/my client? Just because a certain food or training style works for one person, does not mean it works for everyone. Just because a certain amount of carbs gets one person further away from their fat loss goals, doesnt mean it wouldnt get someone else closer. The carbs are not the bad thing - just as the step class was not the bad thing - the person having the carbs or doing the step class determines whether it is good or not.
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 04:00:00 +0000
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