Is Lagree enough on its own? My honest answer.

The one thing I want you to keep

If you take one thing from everything I teach, take this: everything that you don't use, you lose.

Your brain is built for efficiency. It will not spend energy maintaining a capacity you never ask for. So when you stop asking, the body quietly takes it away: bone density, muscle, speed, range of motion.

Bone listens to load

Bone is living tissue. It adapts to the forces placed on it (this is called Wolff's law). It breaks down, rebuilds and adapts to its environment, all the time. Remove the load and the body takes the bone away.

You can see this in real life. People who lift very heavy for years often lose height, because the constant load on the spine compresses the discs. Basketball players often grow taller. My brother started playing at seven or eight and is 2.07 metres; my father is tall, but nowhere near. You have genetics, but there is also epigenetics.

Now count your own day. Around eight hours sitting at work, six or seven hours sleeping, two or three hours sitting socially. That is fifteen or sixteen hours a day not on your feet.

Why 35 matters

Bone and muscle density peak around 35. After that, the decline begins unless it is specifically trained. Women lose more, particularly through menopause, because of hormonal change.

If you want to be 60 or 70 and not fall and break a hip, that is bone density.

What Lagree builds

Lagree works the slow-twitch muscle fibres (the endurance fibres). Every stabiliser in your body is made of slow-twitch fibre, and the way to improve it is to challenge stability, not to add weight. Slow-twitch fibres are also where most of your mitochondria live, the little energy factories that produce the energy your muscles run on. Train endurance and you increase their number.

That is the base: stability, balance, core activation, deep core muscle activation.

What Lagree does not build

Strength is the force you can create. Power is how fast you can create it. Lagree does not train power.

Fast-twitch fibres (the power and speed fibres) are lost first with age, and they need jumping, running, sprints, momentum and explosive movement. If you think you are safe doing just Lagree every day, you are not. Do both.

Try this

This week, keep your Lagree classes and add one short session that asks for speed: a few sets of jumps, a short sprint, or stairs taken quickly. In your Lagree class, choose the heavier spring when you can hold your form.