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When i was a kid, I specialized in sport at a pretty young age. Once I began playing football, I loved the sport and often played multiple seasons per year (summer and fall). Even though I ended up playing 16 seasons in my career, one aspect of my game wasn’t...
Read MoreThe Files are INSIDE the computer When it comes to being a strength coach, the training (in person) is really only one aspect of the job. There are countless tasks and responsibilities that creep into your job profile. The difficult thing is staying sharp with all of these duties.
Read MoreIn most sports, if you don't have speed, you're at a serious disadvantage. Sure you can make up for it with skill in some cases, but you're making it really hard for yourself. I haven't always put so much emphasis on speed training, but I do now. Speed Training *The picture above is from one of my athletes, Pat Norton. Pat is extremely dedicated an...
Read MoreREADING IS FUN-DAMENTAL. I can still remember the old NBA commercials, repeated throughout my youth. They must have hit home because I truly believe you learn something from reading, no matter what it is. Obviously most non-fiction has information it's trying to present and fiction tries to tell a story....
Read MoreWhat if I told you there was a way to fight disease, rebuild your immune system and improve longevity, and that it was FREE. There is, by activating Autophagy through fasting. WHAT IS AUTOPHAGY Autophagy is the process by which our body, eats or recycles itself during times of low...
Read MoreThe fact that I need to defend coffee is shocking to me. There's no other beverage that I love as much as covfefe. I'm definitely not unique in my love for the nectar of the gods, but there is a large percentage of the population that fear this elixir. There...
Read MoreDon't just lift weights. Get FASTER. There are two things I'm very passionate about in coaching: Speed Training and Performance Enhancement. I know many people will say the same things, but I don't think they really act on it. If you coach field sport athletes and you don't help them...
Read MoreThere's one thing that everyone seems to be afraid to talk about, and that's being overfat. For so long, being fat has been extremely insulting and people take it very personally. In time, we've started saying things like 'big boned', 'overweight' and even obese - which somehow doesn't sound so...
Read MorePersonally, I normally follow very simple rules when it comes to fitness and health. The gimmicks that circulate the talk shows and health magazines don't usually equate to real results. It’s usually something unique that will pique people’s interests to sell a product; I thought 10,000 steps was one of those gimmicks. The basic rules of fitness a...
Read MoreHave you ever seen the commercials for the Dr Ho's muscle stimulator? For those wondering, that's essentially an Electrical Muscle Stimulator (or Myostimulator, aka EMS). It's not just for home shoppers though, there is a real case to use EMS for strength gains. What is EMS exactly? The basis is...
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