Talhan Training & Fitness

Tipful Tuesday 💡

•Movement is the foundation for everything.

— Growing brains
— Strong, capable bodies
— Healthy, resilient minds

✔️ Builds attention, focus & coordination
✔️ Supports confidence & mental health
✔️ Creates the foundation for lifelong athleticism

•This isn’t just about sports.
•This is about LIFE.

•Get them out of their seats.
•Get them outside.
•Let them create, explore, problem solve, and MOVE.

When kids move, they don’t just grow physically… they thrive emotionally, socially, and mentally too.

Movement is one of the greatest gifts we can give the next generation.

If you agree, drop a 👍 in the comments below. Thank you!

These boys been with us for a long time. Long term athletic development is what we are after. Stop chasing.

Strength isn't optional. It's foundational.

You know how many kids today can't do a basic chin-up or push-up, yet consider themselves elite athletes?

Being elite isn't about fancy drills, expensive training, or posting highlights online.

It's about mastering the fundamentals.

✔️ Can you control your own body weight?
✔️ Can you pull yourself up?
✔️ Can you push yourself off the ground?
✔️ Can you move with strength, stability, and confidence?

Before chasing advanced skills, athletes need a foundation of strength.

Push-ups, chin-ups, squats, carries, crawling, climbing—these are the building blocks that support speed, power, injury resilience, and long-term athletic development.

If an athlete struggles with basic bodyweight movements, there's a gap in the foundation that needs attention.

Stop skipping steps.

Build strength. Build capacity. Build better athletes.

What's more important for young athletes: mastering fundamentals or chasing sport-specific skills? Drop your thoughts below. ⬇️

Thursday Thoughts – Part 2

If you haven't seen Part 1, go watch it first.

It's time to fight back.

What do you think happens when a system requires children to sit for most of the day, for 13 years of their lives, while movement, physical education, and recess continue to decrease?

We've created an environment where children are expected to sit, stay quiet, and move less than ever before.

Then we wonder why we're seeing increases in anxiety, obesity, poor motor skills, lack of focus, and disengagement.

Our children were designed to move.

The question isn't whether movement matters.

The question is why we've built a system that treats it as optional.

It's time for parents, educators, coaches, and communities to advocate for more movement, more play, more recess, and more physical education.

Because healthier kids don't happen by accident.

They happen by design.

If you believe kids need more movement, recess, and physical education, share this video and join the conversation.

👇 What changes would you like to see in schools to support children's health and development?

Increasing quality of life through movement.

TTF

Wrestling Wednesday.

Flow, rythm, and timing.

Drilling is a skill. Get better at it.

Keep moving.

TTF

🚨 MOVEMENT MONDAY 🚨

Today we worked on shoulder rolls, forward rolls, cartwheels, and round-offs.

Simple skills? Maybe.

Important skills? Absolutely.

You'd be surprised how many kids today struggle with basic movement patterns that were once considered normal parts of childhood.

Why does this matter?

Because movement is more than exercise.

✔️ It helps develop the vestibular system (our sense of balance and body awareness).
✔️ It improves coordination and confidence.
✔️ It teaches children how to control their bodies in space.
✔️ It helps with fall prevention and injury reduction.

If a child trips and falls, do they know how to protect themselves? Can they absorb force and react appropriately, or are they going face-first into the ground?

These are fundamental life skills.

Unfortunately, many children today are struggling to meet the basic physical standards that previous generations developed naturally through play, movement, and physical education.

As movement opportunities disappear at home and in schools, we're seeing the consequences: lower confidence, poorer coordination, less resilience, and a greater fear of taking risks.

Movement teaches children how to navigate challenges, adapt, and overcome obstacles.

If we want healthier, stronger, and more capable kids, we need better physical education programs, more opportunities for movement, and a culture that treats health as a priority—not an afterthought.

Movement is not extra.

Movement is essential.

Increasing quality of life through movement.

TTF

•Thoughtful Thursday

•Schools have slowly removed one of the most important parts of childhood: movement.

•Less PE.
•Less recess.
•Less outdoor play.
•More sitting.
•More screens.
•More stress.

•And we wonder why so many kids struggle with:

✔️ Attention & focus
✔️ Confidence
✔️ Coordination
✔️ Emotional regulation
✔️ Resilience
✔️ Physical & mental health

•Movement isn’t extra.
•Movement is the foundation.

•Kids were designed to run, climb, jump, wrestle, dance, explore, and play. Through movement they learn problem solving, social skills, risk assessment, discipline, and confidence.

•When we remove movement, we don’t just affect the body.
•We affect brain development, emotional development, and overall growth.

•This generation doesn’t need less movement.
•They need more opportunities to move with purpose.

•As parents, coaches, teachers, and mentors, we need to bring movement back into children’s lives.

•Healthy kids learn better.
•Strong kids become resilient adults.

Please like, tag, and share to fight forbour kids right to move so we can raisevkids that will thrive in adulthood. Drop your thoughts below 👇

TTF

Tipful Tuesday 💡

Teaching Dance & Physical Literacy at North Popular Elementary school.

•Movement is the foundation for everything.

— Growing brains
— Strong, capable bodies
— Healthy, resilient minds

✔️ Builds attention, focus & coordination
✔️ Supports confidence & mental health
✔️ Creates the foundation for lifelong athleticism

•This isn’t just about sports.
•This is about LIFE.

•Get them out of their seats.
•Get them outside.
•Let them create, explore, problem solve, and MOVE.

When kids move, they don’t just grow physically… they thrive emotionally, socially, and mentally too.

Movement is one of the greatest gifts we can give the next generation.

If you agree, drop a 👍 in the comments below. Thank you!

🚨 Wrestling Wednesday 🚨

Wrestling isn’t just about drills and repetition.
It’s about learning how to solve problems in real time.

That’s why gamifying training matters.

In this game, the goal is simple:
➡️ Read your opponent
➡️ React to movement
➡️ Find the ankle
➡️ Score the point

Looks fun, right? It is.
But underneath the game, athletes are developing:
• Timing
• Awareness
• Decision-making
• Reaction speed
• Confidence under pressure

Games create engagement.
Engagement creates learning.

When athletes are having fun, they move more, think more, and compete more naturally. That’s where real development happens.

The best wrestlers aren’t robots.
They’re adaptable athletes who can perceive, react, and solve problems.

Keep training competitive.
Keep training creative.
Keep training fun.

What’s your favorite wrestling game or reaction drill? 👇

•Tipful Tuesday.

•This is my 1-year-old exploring nature, learning through movement, touch, and curiosity.

•When we restrict movement, we restrict growth.

•A lot of us don’t truly understand the importance of movement and development.

•Many of the issues we see in today’s generation stem from a lack of movement and play.

•When we say kids these days don’t take risks, can’t organize a game, struggle to problem solve, or critically think , a lot of that comes from the lost art of play.

•We failed this generation of kids.

•Phones hijacked their attention.

•Early specialization robbed them of creativity and exploration.

•Schools became heavily focused on academics while the value of health and physical development was pushed aside.

•The more kids move, the better prepared they are to handle life.

•Movement builds confidence.
•Movement builds resilience.
•Movement builds connection.

•More movement = a better life.

•If you agree drop me 💪 in the comments below.

•Increasing quality of life through movement.

TTF