One Part Moves

Strength, Standing Practice and Ageing: What Your Tissues Actually Respond To

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Muscle, tendon, bone and vessel each read a different signal. Train for one and you will not get the others for free.

A companion volume to Move. Dance. Fight., built around a single uncomfortable fact: the tissues of the body do not share a training stimulus. Muscle responds to effort. Tendon responds to load magnitude and duration. Bone responds to rate and novelty of strain. Blood vessels respond to flow. Standing practice satisfies some of these superbly and others not at all.

The book works through what standing practice genuinely delivers, where it quietly fails, and how to fill the gaps without abandoning the practice — with particular attention to the decades when tissue quality stops being automatic.

Protocols are given plainly, along with the contraindications and the blood-pressure caveats that most sources leave out.