“Over the past year, Andy O’Brian, [Torres's strength coach]…has switched Torres’s focus away from heavy, static weightlifting and geared her training toward balanced, dynamic exercises that stimulate her central nervous system. ‘The idea is not to isolate muscle groups but to get muscles contracting together in the right sequences’ O’Brien explains. Weight training, he notes, grew out of bodybuilding, and that low-rep high-weight tradition is ill-suited for a sprinter since a body comprised of big muscles that have been trained to produce force [actually] wastes considerable energy trying to move.

O’Brien says speed derives from highly coordinated movements and fluid timing” (Elizabeth Weil, New York Times Magazine, June 29, 2008).

"Getting muscles contracting together in the right sequences" is what I teach in my movement patterns course. Click here for the course description. Good patterns, the key to ‘stimulating the central nervous system’ are also learned in 3-D Workout. Every body experience is recorded in the motoric template in the brain. We can choose to put functional and useful experience into the brain or not.

Each body integration sequence you practice in 3-D Workout refreshes your brain’s store of good patterns, improved body symmetry and coordination. That’s why 3-D Workout feels good and why everything you do with your body becomes easier.