I have talked alot about giving you and your athletes tools to get better rather than just serving them up some fitness for the day. I want to talk today about a conversation i had this weekend with Matt Murski. A long time friend of mine and mentor. He never ceases to [...]
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30 Aug 2010I posted a video a couple months ago showing one of my warm ups for any general movement you may be doing. In my opinion this can be used to get ready to run a marathon or snatch 100kg. Obviously for each task you will need a more specific warm up with some [...]
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25 Aug 2010As i mentioned last week in my post about Whole 9 Life i have been working directly with Dallas and Melissa for the last couple months. Obviously I have a pretty high opinion of them and it is well deserved if you have ever spent time with them in any capacity.
Dallas and [...]
In case you haven’t heard of Dallas and Melissa, go check them out at Whole 9 Life. I have never met them personally but know of them through reputation and other people in the community that i really respect. Recently i reached out to them for some assistance with nutrition and essentially life [...]
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19 Aug 2010Since i have not had much to say i wanted to let you into my training recently. Hope you enjoy it. THis is the good, bad and ugly.
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15 Aug 2010Since i choked last time there was a local competition i want to make a point and let everyone know about this one. A good friend and sometimes guest poster here is putting on a weightlifting/conditioning competition. He is working with Ursula Papandrea and Chad Vaughn to create something they call OlyAthlete.com [...]
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13 Aug 2010This is an important topic that has been overlooked until recently. As we each split off of general fitness and start to specialize in different things. For me it has been weightlifting so i will use that example when looking at appropriate conditioning for a weightlifter.
As a weightlifter my goal is to lift [...]
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11 Aug 2010So here we are about a month after completing our first group program. I would say it was a huge success!
We had PRs on everyday of the final week of the program with some guys hitting PRs a couple times in a single day.
In my post program assessment we asked what people [...]
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5 Aug 2010There is something that has bothered me for the last couple months that i want to talk about today. Forgive me for ranting a bit but ya’ll understand how things can get under your skin.
I want to start this piece with a reflection back on when i first became an official personal trainer. [...]
I have been an epic fail (Apologies if you waste your whole day on this site) lately and i blame vacation for that. i am back now and will hopefully have some fresh new content for you. As always if there is anything you really want to hear about please just post it [...]
