by Alex Nino Gheciu
Ternion is a rare triad of elite fitness gurus. Sylvester “Sly” Walters, owner of Evolution Extreme Fitness in Mississauga, On, has joined forces with former Toronto Raptor Doug Christie and Washington State track champ and professional trainer Tim Manson to develop an innovative,movement-based training method. They’ve upped the games of top-shelf athletes from the NBA to Serie A-level soccer players. While many guys are obsessed with pump iron, looking like Arnold won’t necessarily make you the ideal male specimen.
“Bodybuilders like Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu are absolutely the worst athletes in the world,” says Ternion’s Tim Manson. “They train from the outside out for aesthetics. You want to train naturally,from the inside out. You want to learn how to move.”
Movement training is a new movement that’s taking hold in the athletic fitness world. The Ternion team-Tim Manson, Doug Christie, and Sylvester Walters- are at the forefront of it. They’ve spent years boosting the performances of pro athletes by training them to move efficiently while avoiding injuries. Based on the belief that size isn’t strength, their philosophy is a call to drop the weights and use your brain.
“We don’t have bench press machines at our training facility,” says Walters of Evolution Extreme Fitness.” I don’t believe in that. You need to learn to control your body first. How can you move in such a way that controls the force your body generates?”
The answer, according to the triumvirate, lies in proper coordination between muscles. You must find a way to get the most out of every movement without expending too much energy. Once you do, you’ll have boundless flexibility, mobility, and balance, as well as the ability to leverage your strength during different movement patterns.
“You don’t just jump with your ankles: you jump with your whole body,” Christie explains.” You have to train your whole body to take advantage of the greater strength in your quads,calves,hips,lower back, and propel yourself with your arms. Your brain doesn’t identify individual muscles- it identifies the entire kinetic chain.”
Ternion believes athletic excellence can be achieved by synchronizing “mind,body, and sport.” They say that many athletes nowadays aren’t harnessing their full potential because they don’t truly understand the fundamentals of movement. Mastering those fundamentals according to the triad, is a seven-stage journey consisting of stabilization,mobility,strength,power,energy system development,rest,restoration,and recovery, and mental training. It sounds daunting, but don’t worry: the trio will guide you through these, step-by-step,in our coming issues.
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