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Foundations of Biomechanics

You don't need more answers. You need a way to create them.

A four-week live learning experience for coaches and lifters who want to understand movement deeply enough to solve unfamiliar problems without depending on somebody else's rules.

Four-week live cohortWeekly teaching and experimentsLive coaching and application
The problem

You know a lot. But the moment reality gets messy, you still feel stuck.

Most biomechanics education teaches conclusions: the best exercise, the correct technique, the muscle an exercise targets, the cue that is supposed to fix the problem.

That works until the person in front of you does not match the example. Then the rules begin to compete, certainty disappears, and you reach for another expert to tell you what to think.

1You can repeat explanations, but struggle to describe what is actually happening.
2You know many exercises, but still think of them as fixed categories rather than changing relationships.
3You feel pressure to choose the correct answer before you have gathered enough information.
4Your confidence rises and falls with how familiar the problem looks.
What changes

Build the kind of confidence that does not depend on already knowing.

The course is designed to change how you perceive, reason, experiment, and coach—not simply how much information you can recall.

01 · PERCEPTION

Notice what other people miss

Learn to observe the person, implement, contact points, force directions, motion, and changing relationships before rushing into explanation.

02 · ORIENTATION

Know what matters right now

Use the person's goal to decide which anatomical, mechanical, technical, and experiential details are relevant—and which are noise.

03 · EXPERIMENTATION

Turn uncertainty into useful information

Change one meaningful variable, observe the response, and let the result guide the next decision rather than forcing a predetermined answer.

04 · COACHING

Create answers in real time

Develop a repeatable process for working through unfamiliar exercises, pain concerns, technique questions, and client problems from first principles.

The goal is not to make you certain. It is to make you capable inside uncertainty.

How transformation happens

You will not learn this by passively collecting information.

Each week works across three connected layers. The teaching changes what you understand. The experiments change what you notice. The live coaching changes how you respond when the answer is not obvious.

Layer one

Experience the idea

Long-form, podcast-style teaching that explores the philosophy and reasoning behind the week's central skill.

Layer two

Test it in reality

Observation assignments, personal lifting experiments, movement analysis, and client work that turn ideas into lived understanding.

Layer three

Refine it together

Live coaching where questions, failed experiments, surprises, and participant videos become material for deeper learning.

The four-week arc

One skill builds the foundation for the next.

You first learn to see clearly, then orient around a goal, then experiment intelligently, and finally integrate the entire process into spontaneous coaching.

01
Learn to see

Description Before Prescription

Separate observation from interpretation. Learn to describe the person, implement, motion, and changing relationships without immediately judging or correcting them.

The shift

You stop mistaking your first explanation for reality. Clear description becomes the stable ground beneath every later decision.

02
Learn to orient

Goals Before Judgments

Replace “Is this good?” with “Good for what, for whom, and right now?” Learn how anatomy, force, comfort, performance, and technique only become meaningful relative to a goal.

The shift

You stop turning preferences into universal rules. The goal tells you what deserves attention.

03
Learn to investigate

Experimentation Before Obligation

Preserve options. Change one meaningful variable. Observe the response. Allow the next experiment to emerge from what actually happened.

The shift

Not knowing stops feeling like failure. It becomes a productive space for play, learning, and increasingly precise decisions.

04
Learn to solve

Integration

Bring description, goals, physics, anatomy, experimentation, and human connection into one repeatable process for unfamiliar coaching problems.

The shift

You no longer need every answer in advance. You trust your ability to reconstruct one from first principles.

The weekly rhythm

A course built around application, not content consumption.

LearnReceive the week's core teaching.
ObserveApply it to movement and coaching.
ExperimentTest one meaningful variable.
IntegrateBring the result into live coaching.
1

Asynchronous teaching

A focused long-form lesson or conversation that gives you a new lens without pretending the subject can be reduced to rules.

2

Weekly application

Structured prompts for observation, movement analysis, personal experiments, and work with clients.

3

Live group coaching

A place to work through real problems, examine participant videos, and refine your reasoning in conversation.

Who this is for

For people who want independence, not another authority to depend on.

Coaches and trainers

You want to work confidently with different bodies, goals, histories, and responses without forcing everyone through the same model.

Serious lifters

You want to understand your own training deeply enough to make intelligent decisions when technique, comfort, or progress changes.

Biomechanics learners

You have consumed a great deal of information but still feel a gap between knowing concepts and using them in the gym.

Curious problem-solvers

You are willing to observe, question your assumptions, run experiments, and let reality change your mind.

Ben Yanes training and applying biomechanics principles
Your teacher

I built this course from the thing I wish I had learned first.

For years, I looked outside myself for the correct answer. I learned anatomy, biomechanics, exercise classifications, and coaching rules—but the real transformation happened when I stopped treating those ideas as conclusions and began using them as tools for inquiry.

Learning to see movement through physics turned the gym back into a place of curiosity and play. It taught me that the person is the fulcrum, the exercise is not fixed, and confidence does not have to come from certainty. This course is the process I now use to help people develop that same independence.

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Learn to solve the problem in front of you.

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is this an anatomy course?

Anatomy and physics appear throughout, but the purpose is to teach you how to use them to solve real coaching problems rather than memorize isolated facts.

Is this only for advanced coaches?

No. Curiosity, observation, and willingness to experiment matter more than already knowing advanced terminology.

Will you teach the correct way to perform every exercise?

No universal script accounts for every person, goal, and context. You will learn how to understand different options and test them intelligently.

What should I be able to do after four weeks?

Approach an unfamiliar problem, describe it clearly, identify the relevant goal, reason from fundamentals, design an experiment, and decide what to investigate next.

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