Go from a 5K run to a full-distance triathlon and beyond.
Go from a 5K run to a full-distance triathlon and beyond.
Open the book →MONS Athletics
Contents
Part I
The endurance animalPart II
The body you already haveMONS Athletics
Contents · continued
Part III
The practice- 19Why mobility is the foundation
- 20Fundamentals of the kettlebell
- 21The six movement families
- 22What swimming builds that nothing else does
- 23Breath and posture: the fire within
- 24Swimming drills are not just technique work
- 25The ankle needs a spring and a range. Neither costs the other.
- 26The daily practice
Part IV
The challengesMONS Athletics
Contents · continued
Part I · The introduction
Movement is medicine you should take daily.
For the entire lineage of your ancestors, movement was not exercise. It was survival — the food found, the water carried, the ground covered between one and the other. That is the body you are still walking around in.
Modernity made it optional. In three generations we built a life a person can get all the way through without ever being asked to do anything hard.
What arrived with the option is a list of ailments that should not be this common. Anxiety, depression, bad backs, sore knees, diabetes, obesity — all downstream of a body that stopped moving.
Train your body as one unit.
Not just any movement, and definitely not one kind of it.
Endurance is a game of efficiency. That efficiency is built on the pyramid of performance. Mobility is the foundation, strength is the middle layer, and endurance is the peak.
Neglect one layer and the whole thing collapses, sooner or later.
Endurance
The peak
Kettlebells
The middle layer
Whole-body strength. The structure that holds the engine together when it is tired.
Yoga
The foundation
Mobility and breath. The ability to move freely through all the work the body can do.
What a challenge is for.
Something to aim at.
But movement without purpose is meaningless.
That's why the MONS method gives you bigger and bolder challenges. Not to find where you break, but to inspire you to build a body that can go anywhere, anytime. To move freely in the world.
Training is continuous. Challenges are moments within it. The day matters. What your body keeps afterward matters more.
There are 60 to choose from. Run, swim, ride, or combine them. Start with a 5K.