Health & Fitness Hierarchy

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A Theoretical Hierarchy of Development

A theoretical hierarchy exists for the development of an athlete. It starts with nutrition and moves to metabolic conditioning, gymnastics, weightlifting, and finally sport. This hierarchy largely reflects foundational dependence, skill, and to some degree, time ordering of development. The logical flow is from molecular foundations, cardiovascular sufficiency, body control, external object control, and ultimately mastery and application. This model has greatest utility in analyzing athletes’ shortcomings or difficulties.

We don’t deliberately order these components but nature will. If you have a deficiency at any level of “the pyramid” the components above will suffer.

--courtesy of www.crossfit.com

Please notice that NUTRITION is the base for any fitness program. No matter how hard you workout or how many extra hours a day you workout, if your nutrition sucks, you will never see the gains that you were hoping f0r. Work to get your nutrition right and the rest of it will follow.