Welcome to Section 2 of the Beginners’ Guide to Writing Workouts That Don’t Suck! This section will be filled with a whole lot of information and tools for you to use in any and all workouts you write from this point forward. 

There are two big parts to this section and a few very important supporting segments as well. The two main parts of this section are essentially “what does your body do” and “how does your body do these things.”

The “what does your body do” segment will cover three ways of organizing at your body’s physical movements:

• The Seven Basic Human Movement Patterns
• The Three Functional Modalities
• The Sustainability Continuum

We’ll then move into “how your body does these things” with a look at the Energy Systems your body uses to fuel movement and how each of those Energy Systems are applied to our physical experience as well our physical movements.

The supporting lectures of this section are some of the most important lectures in the entire course, specifically covering the idea of complementary and contrasting movement groupings and the transference between and among movement patterns and energy systems.

To wrap up, we’ll dive into two special considerations: time under tension and intervals. 

By the end of the section, you’ll have the mental models from Section 1 and the knowledge of the fundamentals of your body’s movements in your toolkit. Let’s get to it!

-Armen, [email protected]