It’s an understood responsibility that we all must capable and strong. While many have the desire and ambition to take up some form of physical training to support their health, they are often in a position where they must take on this task alone, unguided, and unaccountable to anyone but themselves. For this reason, I launched Axios Training Club, a group-based community training service that combines expertise in program design, coaching guidance, and group accountability.
This project was created to make finding expert coaching easy and grant affordable access to professionally designed training programs. Within the training club, you also receive the irreplaceable benefit of motivated training partners and the experience of having professional guidance.
In an age of endless atomization, what is most necessary is the retention of community. Specifically, the benefits of community around something physical and tangible. Your health and growth towards greater ability are observable goals, not subjective opinion or fan-based escapism. The future we seek is found in community. Ideally, community that is built around positive ends and carries some form of social accountability that is genuinely virtuous.
The decision to start training is an individual one. You must personally make a commitment and begin sacrificing time and energy, no one else can do this for you. Once you’ve overcome the starting costs of breaking inertia, continued success now relies on the maintenance of momentum. A small few can contend with this, but most find that they drift away from the habit as there is only so much personal will power you can express without some form of external pull. Organized sports are the best domain to experience this effect, as there is a natural emergence of a sense of obligation that follows from group formation. This phenomena is deeply tied to our genetic heritage and need for purpose within a community. For many, the gym is simply another individualized and atomized journey, but that perception is easily broken once the obligation to physical development is reframed as a benefit to a group.
Axios Training Club was designed to leverage the need for community and channel it towards personal and physical growth. The training and program design is individualized, but within the training club, all success is focused on group achievement. The club leverages daily check-ins, sharing of lifting and training content, regular feedback and technical review, and a wholesome dose of competition. The training club makes consistency easy as you have more than just your own isolated experience to refer to. Your success is viewed as the group’s success, which is a powerful motivator that helps to keep your focus on getting back in the gym and getting work done.
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The training club can serve as a valuable resource for all skill levels and depths of knowledge. The club is set-up in such a way that you can FIND what works for you and your current needs. You don’t NEED specialization, but finding something that pushes your skills and competency is critical to continued success and making your training carry more purpose than simply for its own sake. A key component of consistent growth is the need for efficiency and intensity. Within the training club, you’ll make progress faster than on your own. The reason being is that you’ll have the group as an external force to pull your standards higher.
Within the club, there are a variety of different training pathways you can pursue, which include but are not limited to:
Axios training club operates on six week training cycles, consisting of two complementary three week blocks. Every seventh week is deload and recovery week. Training is typically four days per week using a variety of methods, protocols, and exercises. Two days per week are dedicated to mobility and cardio development, ensuring that you maintain proper support of your conditioning and recovery capacity.
Joining the club provides access to a private group chat where another massive benefit of this project comes to life. In the group chats, we’ll cover goals, accountability, strategies for success, and whole host of other intangible benefits form having a dedicated coach and group of compatriots in your mission.
We are living on borrowed time and without the luxury to contemplate competing options. It’s a time for action and we must begin treating it as such. Strength is not just our responsibility but also our obligation to the people around us. Reliability and capability are two variables we must begin holding accountable to ourselves and to our brothers.
The last remaining question is simple. Are you ready to commit?
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