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What is CST Intuitive Training?

 

Intuitive Training (IT) is a tool which allows you to modulate various factors in your training in order to maximize your progress and minimize your potential for injury or setback.  IT uses 3 main indicators to guide you in your intuitive process: technique, effort and discomfort or pain.  These three interdependent factors must be constantly monitored and adjusted in order to achieve success.  The way they blend together has a very real effect on the outcome of your training efforts.

You can think of technique as a bowl.  This bowl houses or contains the effort you pour into it during your training.  If you pour in too much effort it will spill over.  But since we know any training will cause adaptation, that extra effort that has spilled out of our known technique will cause unknown and possibly undesirable adaptation.  It may even cause cracks in the bowl.  We can think of these cracks as pain or discomfort.  Pain will cause even more effort to be lost through these cracks, as we sacrifice form or technique in order to work around it. 

On the flip side, if you never fill up your bowl with effort, you will not garner a training effect.  You are not challenging your current state, so you have no incentive to build up the walls and thickness of your bowl.

However, if you constantly and carefully fill your bowl to the rim, maybe even letting a bit wash over the side, you will test your limitations and push yourself forward.

So you see, each component of IT is inextricably tied to the others.  The manipulation of one has a direct impact on the rest.  And the successful medley of the three will provide the most impressive results. 

RPT 

Rate of Perceived Technique

How well do you feel you performed an exercise or a skill, based on your personal best performance and on the essential technical cues of that exercise provided by your coach? The most reliable yardstick for technique is represented by the 7 Key Components of Structure as presented in The Big Book of Clubbell Training. A rating of 10 is the best possible technique.

We should always endeavor to have an RPT of 8 or better.

RPE 

Rate of Perceived Effort

This refers to how hard you feel you are working. For example, a rating of zero may be equivalent to sitting on the couch watching the game, while a 10 would be assigned to that feeling of being doubled over, winded and on the verge of wanting to throw up from exertion.

The necessary level of effort depends on the training goals of a given training session. Are you training for recovery, as ramp up for intense training, or are you trying to garner a training effect? The answer will help determine the appropriate level of effort.

RPD 

Rate of Perceived Discomfort

RPD refers to the perceived level of pain. It is important to distinguish this one from effort. Although effort may seem "painful" (ex. "no pain, no gain..."), it is not the same as a structural or possibly injurious pain.

RPD should always remain at 3 or less.

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About CoachSteer

Hello world. I'm Coach Steer.  My passion is using Circular Strength Training® (CST) as a means to enhanced sport performance and a tool for healthy but accelerated fat loss.  In addition to my CST Instructor Certification, I also hold the National Strength and Conditioning Association-Certified Personal Trainer and the National Coaching Certification Program Level 3 certification.  I specialize in private coaching geared towards helping recreational athletes achieve their performance goals as well as helping all manner of clients achieve their body composition goals.

I have worked 20 seasons as a full-time ski pro, teaching and coaching in Canada, the USA and New Zealand.  I currently work as a Level 4 Course Conductor for the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance in addition to coaching a small, hand-picked group of private clients.

I have also taught inline-skating as the owner and operator of the Proactive Inline Skate School in Quebec City and as a Senior Examiner for the Inline Certification Program (ICP), serving as Technical Director for the ICP International.  This has allowed me to travel and teach all over Canada as well as in the USA, Germany, Holland, Slovenia and Singapore.

I have been involved in strength training since my early teens, when I was introduced to it by my grandfather who wanted to make sure I would stay out of trouble, and figured a guy was a good place for me to be.  Since then, sports and training has been a huge part of my life.  I have played hockey, basketball, soccer and football competitively.  More recently, delved into Swing Dancing and ended up teaching it at a fairly high level.

My diverse sporting background and my long history of personal experimentation with sports performance and body composition programs affords me an excellent platform to ensure the success of my clients.  I would be honored if you would visit me at my website, www.coachsteer.com.

Sincerely,

Coach Steer 

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