nico.mccoy

Movement coach & writer  ·  Vanuatu  ·  Health  ·  Skills  ·  Force  ·  Hi, I'm Nico

Move like you used to, & again.

Most adults move with less grace than they did at two. The body hasn't forgotten — it's just been waiting. Come work on it.

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A small thing I keep saying

"Most adults move with less grace than a two-year-old — and the good news is, you already know how."

The body does not need to be motivated; it needs to be invited. A child does not train balance — a child has balance, and is then asked to sit still for thirteen years. The movement doesn't leave. It waits. It atrophies slowly and quietly until we mistake the atrophy for who we are.

The work is not to add. Not strength, not flexibility, not an inventory of new shapes. The work is to subtract — the bracing, the holding, the sentence underneath every movement that says be careful. When that sentence quiets, the body remembers what it already knew.

The practice  ·  three rooms

Health, Skills, Force.
One body. Three rooms.

01 Health  ·  Vivacity The foundation. Without it, everything else is borrowed time. Vivacity, clean body, diet, mind. The quiet work — clearing the body so the rest of the work can land. Fertility, sleep, sun on skin, food made of food. Health is not the absence of injury. It's being fully alive inside your body. 02 Skills  ·  Polyskill Balance, balls, beats. Rebuild the range you were born with. Ecological coordination, multi-sport, a polyskill approach. Replace ten thousand steps with ten thousand skill actions. The best athletes in the world are almost always the most multi-sport. 03 Force  ·  Grace Patterns, elastics, range. Your ancestors, not the bench press. Youth is truth. Babies and children have better patterns, elastics, and range than most adult athletes. Short range before long range, dense training, ancestral movement — strength as elegance, not friction.

How he works

Not a program.
A practice.

Nico works with a small number of athletes remotely. Not a program with a start and end — a practice that compounds. All three pillars run in parallel. Direct contact, slow progress, real results.

Most coaching optimizes for the metric. This work optimizes for the athlete.

  1. 01 Start with where you are No baseline assumptions. No prescribed starting point. We look at what's actually there — and work from that.
  2. 02 All three rooms Health, Skills, Force in parallel. Pull one lever and the others respond. Ignore one and it becomes the ceiling.
  3. 03 Remote, async You don't need to be in the same place. You need to do the work. Check-ins, video review, adjustments in real time.
  4. 04 Pick a rung Progress as slowly as possible. The mountain metaphor: sprint at the start and you don't finish. We pick the rung that's honest and hold it until it's solid.

From the log

01Most adults move with less grace than a two-year-old. Here's why that happened.11 min
02The body is not a machine. It's an ecosystem. Train it like one.8 min
03Why "be careful" is the most damaging sentence in movement culture.6 min
All writing →
01What an ecological approach to movement actually looks like in practice.14 min
025 minutes of juggling before every session. Here's the data.9 min
03Dense training explained: fixed work, fixed time, track it.12 min
All video →

Say hello

nico.lorenzo.mccoy@gmail.com

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