ATG: 70-Year-Old Female BASKETBALL Success Story?! — Key Takeaways
Every exercise in the ATG system scales to any ability level, enabling a 70-year-old mother to train from her living room and eventually make plays in pick-up basketball alongside her pro-player son.
Key takeaways
Every exercise scales — ability is not binary
Every exercise scales — ability is not binary
- ATG system exercises can be adapted for a 70-year-old beginner to a pro athlete
- Oliver Xu learned the system, then applied it to train his own mother
A 70-year-old trained in a living room during Covid, then made plays in pickup basketball
A 70-year-old trained in a living room during Covid, then made plays in pickup basketball
- Oliver Xu's mom trained at home through Covid and emerged playing at an unexpected level
- Author says in 1000s of hours of pickup basketball, he's never seen anything like it
Physical limitations block identity — training restores 'you'
Physical limitations block identity — training restores 'you'
- Author says his mom would be incredible as mother/grandmother even without running fast
- Frames bodies as barriers: 'These bodies are pesky things. They can get in the way'
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In this piece
- The Unusual Pick-Up Basketball Scene
- Oliver Xu's Training Background
- Scalability of Exercise
- Pandemic Training and Transformation
- Purpose Beyond Basketball
- Free Defense Clinic for Kids
“The key point is that EVERY EXERCISE SCALES. You don’t have absolutes of “ability” or “NO ability.””
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