Training

My Approach

I look at the whole person as an individual with a unique anatomical, biomechanical, physiological, and neurological profile in order to tailor personalized strategies rather than one-size-fit-all solutions. An analogy is to think of the human body as a car.

Anatomy tells me what makes your body unique [the physical structure of a car].

Biomechanics tells me how your unique anatomy interacts with the world, reacting under movement and load [how the car interacts with the road].

Physiology tells me how your internal processes are powering your bodies operation [how the battery and engine supply energy to all the systems of the car].

Neurology tells me your brain’s operating strategy, acting as the control system for it all [the software’s operating system that controls and manages all the car’s operations].

By narrowing down where problems are coming from. You can make hardware improvements, but if the software is the limiting factor then that may not fix the problem.

Venn diagram labeled "My Approach" with three overlapping circles. Sections include Body Composition, Structural Adaptations & Recovery, Metabolism & Energy Systems, Structural Influence on Movement, Joint Range of Motion & Posture, Movement Execution, Autonomic Nervous System & Stress Response, and The Control System.

Step 1: Prerequisites

For the activities in your life that you want to be able to keep doing, I examine the demands which those activities require through each lens to determine the prerequisites needed to do them effectively.

Silhouette of a sprinter with motion analysis diagrams and calculations overlaid on a black background, highlighting force vectors and angles in athletic movement.

Step 2: Capabilities

Through assessments and biomarkers, I will determine your capabilities. Some examples below:

Venn diagram illustrating health assessments with sections on muscle mass, body fat percentage, bone density, joint range of motion, gait analysis, metabolic rate, VO2 max, heart rate, blood pressure, and functional movement.

Step 3: Gaps analysis

The difference between the prerequisites of your life’s demands and your own capabilities exposes the gaps that we need to close in order for you to do the things you love without apprehension. Your Gaps Analysis will be the guide for your training roadmap, action plan and key performance indicators.

Illustration of a person standing on a cliff with a question mark above, facing a gap, and looking at a red flag on the opposite side.

Step 4: Adaptive Programming

Exercise programming is an iterative process. Exercise is an intervention employed with the intent of driving a specific physiological outcome, but often times it may drive different outcomes that we didn’t intend or drive the intended out, but with unintended secondary consequences (like side effects from medicine). Most programs are one-way in nature where you are told what to do and you do it even if it doesn’t yield the results that were intended. This is more of a conversation, where exercise programming needs to be iterative and adapt to your feedback. Similar to control system theory in engineering.

With 1-on-1 coaching, we can create safe to fail experiments to determine the best path forward to help you achieve your goals.

Block diagram of a feedback loop system with Input, summing junction, block A, block B, and Output.

Step 5: Physical Freedom

Through Adaptive Programming you will build towards your initial goals, but that isn’t the end of the road. I have clients that started training because they wanted to do [insert activity] again pain free, but along the way they found their physical capabilities expanding beyond their wildest dreams.

The best example I have is a former client in his early 60’s who came in with chronic pain across his entire right side from falling off a ladder 20 years earlier looking to lose 30 lbs. Doing almost any physical activity didn’t feel great on most of his joints whether that was golf or playing with his grandkids. Within his first year he lost the 30lbs of fat, no longer had any pain, looked like a different person completely and was doing Turkish Getups and Kettlebell Swings better than the 30 year olds in the gym. This experience opened his eyes to the possibilities he never thought possible, raised his expectations for life and empowered him to even hike Mount Everest a few years later.

Regardless of where you start, you can create your own future.

Chris Chang performing a human flag exercise on a tree, wearing a white t-shirt and jeans in a park setting.
Chris Chang performing a Turkish get-up exercise with a barbell in a gym.
Chris Chang performing a yoga pose on a large rock by the ocean.
Chris Chang performing an L-sit on parallettes in an indoor setting.
Chris Chang performing a handstand on a concrete platform with an urban background of buildings and a fence.
Chris Chang doing a kettlebell pistol squat in a gym on a yoga mat
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