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Strength & Conditioning: Tim Anderson, Week 2, Day 3

The following four-week plan is designed to help you restore your original strength, increase reflexive strength, and improve athletic performance.

Written by Tim Anderson Last updated on March 28, 2014

EDITOR’S NOTE: These workouts are written by Tim Anderson, founder of Original Strength. Tim’s goal as a coach is “to set people free through movement.” Regain your original strength with this four-week cycle of workouts that focuses on one of the most fundamental human movements: crawling. To learn more about this program, read Tim’s article here.

The following four-week plan is designed to help you restore your original strength, increase reflexive strength, and improve your performance in whatever physical area you are passionate about. In the first two weeks, the goal is to ease your way into crawling three days a week. The workouts will be posted on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but you can move them around to fit your schedule. These training sessions may seem easy for some of you, but give them a shot nonetheless. I think you may be surprised at how this simple exercise can restore and refresh your body.

In weeks three and four, the plan goes down to twice per week. In these two weeks, we start to strength train while we are still pressing reset. These training sessions may seem grueling. You will be left with an even fatigue, yet still feel fresh and able to conquer the rest of your day, if not your week. Again, the workouts will be posted on Mondays and Wednesdays, but you can adjust these days around your schedule.

We are only performing ten minutes of work in each of these training sessions. If you can, perform these training sessions on lighter days within your training week. If you cannot, or do not have lighter training days, feel free to continue your regular training and fit these sessions in when you can. You could even use weeks one and two for your movement prep before your training sessions. If you do this, don’t be surprised if you perform well during your training routine.

For weeks three and four, it may be wise to perform these sessions on their own, at first. Surely you can find two days a week that you can crawl for ten minutes. Be aware, this could become one of your favorite strength training exercises.

Week 2: Increasing Reflexive Strength and Strength Training

Day 3

Backward baby crawl for 5 minutes, then backward leopard crawl for 5 minutes.

How it is done:

Baby Crawl backward on your hands and knees. Keep your head held up so you can see where you are not going. Try to push the tops of your feet across the ground. It may help to wear socks.

For the backward leopard crawl, crawl in reverse on your hands and feet. Your knees track inside of your elbows. Again, keep your head held up, so you can see the world, and keep your butt down below your head. This is not a bear crawl. Remember to breathe in and out through your nose.

About Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson is co-author of Original Strength: Regaining the Body You Were Meant To Have and Original Strength Performance: Becoming the Superhero You Were Meant to Be. He is also the co-founder of Original Strength Systems, LLC.

Tim has been a personal trainer for sixteen years.He alsoserved as a professional firefighter for twelve years in the state of North Carolina where he worked in his department's health and fitness work-team. In 2010, Tim resigned from the fire department to focus on his career in the fitness industry. Since that time, he has authored five books.

Tim has had the fortune and honor of being mentored and befriended by some of the top leaders in the fitness industry. Leaders like John Brookfield, the creator of Battling Ropes, and Dan John, author of Never Let Go, have been very influential in Tim's fitness career.

Tim is passionate about helping others learn how to move. The mission of his company Original Strength is "to set people free through movement." To learn more about Tim, or how you can regain your original strength, check out website Original Strength.

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