Strength For Life: The History of the Village Movement Standards | Ep. 40

The Village Movement Standards didn't appear overnight. They were built, tested, argued over, and continually optimized across a decade of real-world coaching.  In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Erik Gullen, the man who designed the Standards from the ground up with a very specific goal in mind: to create a training system so therapeutically complete that you'd never need to see him as a physical therapist. Every movement was chosen with intention, so that all the typical tests you'd receive during a PT evaluation would come back negative.  We walk through the full origin story, starting from the days when we changed the programming every month with no real north star, through the influence of the Knees Over Toes movement, all the way to the 2 a.m. email that gave us the original 12 movements.  We also get into why these 12 movements are arguably the best movements for anyone over 55, covering everything your body needs to stay strong, mobile, and pain free well into the later years of life, and honestly why that applies to people of any age.  If you want to understand what makes these standards different and why that matters for your long-term health, start here.