HPC-UK Principles

At HPC-UK the programs are designed with a core principle ‘Nature made all of the locks and holds all of the keys’.

This seemingly simple principle sets the foundation for all of the other principles adopted; and from these principles, the methods that are used in programming both training and nutrition.

Think about your body being your home. When you enter your home every day, do you use a battering ram to open the door? Sure, it would definitely gain you entry, but now you would have a damaged door which causes all kinds of subsequent problems. Or do you pick the lock in some way? Again yes it would ‘possibly’ gain you entry, but it’s inefficient and will probably destroy the lock in a fairly short period of time. Or do you simply use the correct key to open the lock? Over time it suffers from a bit of wear and tear but if you look after both the lock and the key it will perform its job superbly lifelong.

Same thing with your body, you can force it to do things using inappropriate means, and it might get you where you want to go in the short term, but it will break down just as quickly.

Or you could use a less immediately destructive means to achieve your outcome, but it too is inefficient, not guaranteed and ultimately destructive.

Or you could just use the right tools for the job.

Whenever you adopt an exercise or nutrition program, take a deeper look. Is it just a method? Is that method based on a principle? If not, be a little cautious, it may be a battering ram or a pick in disguise. If it is based on a principle, is that principle recognised and longstanding? If not, again be a little cautious, it may just be wearing a slightly better disguise.

Remember the saying ‘Methods are many, Principles are few. Methods change, Principles never do’.