Building the Program: Goals and Objectives

With our First Principles laid out, it’s time to define the destination. Because without a clear objective, then we’re just training to get good at sweating.

At Evergreen Performance, we’re not training for just longevity or just performance—we’re training for both.

We’re after a long, well-lived life.
That means not just more years—but better ones.
Years filled with movement, energy, and moments that matter with the people that matter.

Fortunately, the science of longevity supports training like an athlete. And training like an athlete promotes longevity. It’s a beautiful feedback loop.

So What Does That Look Like?

Better Actions, More Often, and For Longer.

For starters: We play real sports.
And we test ourselves in environments of real consequence.

These environments require:

1. Better Actions: The expressions of strength and power through full and varied ranges of motion with stability and coordination in response to unfolding and unpredictable events.

2. More Often: The recovery ability to produce these actions at 100% more often in a given unit of time.

3. For Longer: The stamina to produce these actions at 100% for as long as required of the sport or activity.

The Evergreen Athlete isn’t a one-sport specialist anymore. Each weekend and season brings something new. From chasing kids in the backyard by day to coaching them and their 12 friends on the field for 2 hours at night. Knocking out 4 rounds of golf on the yearly guys trip to carving up mountains in the winter, and catching waves in spring swells. Oh and we need to account for every mile of trail explored—by foot, bike, board, or paddle—in between.

We need bodies that can run, jump, sprint, and change direction with confidence.
We need joints that can bend without breaking, muscles that move through full ranges with control, and postures that adapt under load.
We need an engine that lets us do it all—more often, for longer, and with better execution every time.

And we need the body composition to support these efforts.

And How does this come together in a training system?

We need want to produce Better Actions, More Often, and For Longer across a wide spectrum of sports and activities.

Better Actions means we are training:

• Strength

• Power

• Movement Quality (Mobility, Stability, Coordination)

More Often means we are training:

• Anerobic Endurance

For Longer means we are training:

• Aerobic Endurance

The goal and objective should now be clear

Improve and maintain the qualities of Strength, Power, Mobility, Coordination, Stability, Anerobic Endurance, and Aerobic Endurance for life.

In Foundations III we’ll look at how we organize our training system.