Why Ropes? A Message From Our Education Director

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WHY ROPES? A MESSAGE FROM OUR EDUACTION DIRECTOR
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Introduction
Aaron Guyett is the Battle Ropes Fitness
Programs Manager for Living.Fit with a decade of
battle rope coaching, teaching, and programming.
Aaron systematically breaks down force, so each
participant knows exactly how to program
movements, metabolic pathways, and mindset to get
the most out of your own training and the
training of your clients, athletes, and
classes. Why Ropes? A Message From Our Education
Director My name is Aaron Guyett, founder of
Battle Ropes Education, and Master Coach and
Education Director of Living.Fit. I have been
teaching and coaching fitness since 1999. I have
had the great honor and pleasure of coaching a
wide variety of people to great results with
Battle Ropes as an exclusive tool and as a tool
combined with a myriad of other tools in the
fitness industry.
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Why Ropes? A Message From Our Education Director
Since 2015, I have been teaching trainers,
coaches, clinicians, professors, elite
professionals and enthusiasts about the benefits
of Battle Ropes, versatility of Battle Ropes, and
programming improvement in specific metabolic
pathways. I have written and taught for a number
of clubs, companies, institutions, and agencies.
I continue to add more organizations to this
growing list weekly. Humans have been using
ropes for at least 28,000 years (7), and the
earliest records of rope use was the Ancient
Egyptians in approximately 4,000 to 3,500 BC.
(8) We have used ropes to transfer our force
production or power output to objects and people
further away from us. After knowing this, it is
surprising to realize that it wasn't until 2006,
that John Brookfield invented the concept of
training with ropes, and then a couple years
later brought ropes into the fitness and sports
industry(9). I learned to use ropes as a form of
fitness from John Brookfield himself by taking
his Level 1 Battling Ropes Certification in 2010
and Level 2 Battling Ropes Certification in
2011. I was quickly humbled by his teaching, and
gathered that his system was based on work
capacity and mental toughness. He was helping
everyone realize they could produce strength and
power for longer and longer periods of time with
his rope training information. For me to justify
training my clients for specific metabolic
improvements, I needed a way to measure power
output and force productions, so I began a long
journey of research, observation,
experimentation, and implementation. In a few
years, I realized the same variables that are
found in mechanical physics are also found in
wave physics (10). Upon this discovery, I was
able to quantify waves and also program waves
specifically for metabolic adaptations in power,
strength, and endurance (scientifically known as
phosphogen, glycolytic, and oxidative metabolic
pathways or energy systems).
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• Once I discovered this and realized it was backed
  up by scientists, researchers, and smarter that
  were smarter than me, I started applying these
  concepts to all people that I trained. I used
  ropes for my training with the Marine Corps,
  average Jane's and Joe's, elite military clients,
  and high school/collegiate/pro/Olympic-level
  athletes. It worked for all of them. I was able
  to establish speed, agility, quickness, power,
  strength, endurance, mobility, and stability
  results with a Battle Rope.
• The rest is history. We also are interested in
  more researchers, scientists, coaches,
  professors, and more that want to continue to
  study and write research papers to back these
  claims. Please email aaron_at_living.fit if you are
  interested in researching and discovering the
  versatility and value of battle ropes.
• Works Cited and further reading and research
• https//aaronguyett.com/
• https//battleropes.org/about/
• https//leadersofleaders.org
• Nicholas J. Conard, Maria Malina
  Außergewöhnliche neue Funde aus den
  aurignacienzeitlichen Schichten vom Hohle Fels
  bei Schelklingen. Archäologische Ausgrabungen in
  Baden- Württemberg, S. 61-66, 22 July 2016.
• Read more at https//phys.org/news/2016-07-rope-y
  ears.htmljCp
• https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope
• https//www.bodybuilding.com/fun/battling-ropes-ma
  ...
• Henderson, Tom, http//www.physicsclassroom.com/cl
  ass/. The Physics Classroom. 1996-2018.

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