tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22711704514390578802012-02-16T03:24:42.779-05:00My experience with strength and conditioning trainingTerrancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04786339492205361066noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271170451439057880.post-43069132698445193282010-07-30T00:06:00.003-04:002010-07-30T00:11:21.444-04:00

I know, I know it's been a while but now that I'm done with Summer School I'm ready to get back to helping people become healthy, bigger, stronger, and faster.... I'm teaming up with Paleo Chix, Gorilla Pit, and CrossFit affiliates to bring you the best information on training that I can... Until next time check out this new Ad from Nike for women....

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I get a lot of questions along the lines of, "Is this exercise specific for _____(fill in the blank) sport?" "Do I need to be doing all these unstable sport-specific exercises on bosu balls and other assorted unstable training?"With that in mind I thought I'd write this article on general to specific training.What is a sport specific exercise?Let's start off with a definition of sport-specific. A

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Just like any other explosive movement, the clean (or snatch) can help bridge the gap between total strength and total useable strength, if that is an area lacking. However, by itself it isn’t a miracle exercise. I love performing hang cleans myself, but a good clean is really a demonstration, or indicator, of explosiveness, just like a fast sprint and a good vertical jump are good demonstrations

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I am often asked how natural body structure can influence things like the ability to jump high, run fast, lift weight, or anything else. The truth is, your body structure and the way you are built can have a significant influence on not only the way you express your strength in all sports, but more importantly, it will influence the type of training that you tend to respond to.When it comes to

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=======================================================Myth #1 - Plyometric ability (reactivity) is a distinct, separate quality =======================================================Pull a rubber band back, stretch it, and let it go. It has long been thought that muscles behave the same way. When you pre-stretch them force is stored in the tendon which allows you to exert more force. The

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Human performance is something that is very near and dear to my heart. I can see through the eyes of a strength and conditioning coach as well as through the eyes of a head football coach. The balance for how best to prepare for battle on Fridays and Saturdays lies somewhere in between.Training philosophyYou must be efficient in your training: From a coaching standpoint, you must be efficient at

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Over the last month I’ve been working with the local high school to develop a program to physically prepare the athletes for their given sport. The significance of this school is that it is particularly small. This makes athletics dependent on athletes participating in multiple sporting competitions. So the most important consideration is the induced fatigue almost year round from sport practice

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Athletic performance enhancement is an exciting and dynamic field. More athletes are realizing at increasingly younger ages that simply playing their sport without training outside of their sport decreases their chances of successfully competing at the level they desire. I believe that this has also led to the unfortunate practice of early specialization. Young children who play one sport year

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- stance (noun): the attitude or position of a standing person or animal, especially the position assumed by an athlete preparatory to action— posture (noun): the position of the limbs or the carriage of the body as a wholeIn all sports, the rudimentary beginnings of movement starts with a specific stance or posture. Whether it’s a defensive stance on the basketball court, a three-point stance

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Speed training is a very hot topic. Hell, it always has been. In sports such as football, baseball, and soccer, the faster players almost always have the upper hand on their opponents. Speed literally does take the life out of another team. No matter how well you prepare yourself for a given team, if they have a couple more speedsters than you do, they automatically have the upper hand.How often

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It has been a while since I have posted. I have been in transit from Okinawa, Japan since Feb. 20th. Now that I'm home, I have taken on the full time role of parent and trainer. I will add student to that in the summer. So stay tuned for more articles and workouts....

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It's true - genetics do play a part in how fast you can run. But don't let that discourage you...Everyone can get faster. And anyone can improve their speed off the mark.And just a small improvement with training relates to a significant improvement on the field.With that said, what does it take to increase your sprinting speed?1. Increase Your Strength The more powerful your leg muscles are the

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So today I hung out on the range with my old team at the rifle range and happen to get into a pretty funny debate with a Marine about strength and power. He told me that as a Marine he would rather be strong than have power. As he told me this I almost fell to the ground in disbelief. So this brings me to this post about Strength vs Power.The word power is commonly misused or misunderstood. The

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I’ve heard many strength and conditioning coaches say that they “train their lineman like throwers and their skill guys like sprinters.” In my opinion, this is a great starting point for building strong and athletic down linemen. Elite level throwers are some of the strongest, fastest and most powerful athletes on the planet. They are this way because they train for these skills and they not only

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Every day someone asks me a question about training speed. So here are those questions heard most frequently as well as the answers to them.1. Static stretching prepares you for competition/practice.Static stretching actually reduces power output. Athletes should prepare for practice by doing a dynamic warm up that progresses from basic, low intensity movements to faster, more explosive movements

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There is a cornucopia of training information for almost every athletic endeavor that you can imagine partaking in. This information can be found online, in books, and from seminars. You don’t have to go very far to learn about training for your sport. Whether that’s football, mixed martial arts, bodybuilding, powerlifting, track and field, soccer, baseball, hockey, or anything else, the

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This is post is from a friend of mine in California that has his own sports specific training center. I asked him to try CrossFit and tell me what he thinks about it and if he feels it could be used solely for training an athlete. This is his response.Crossfit gyms are popping up across the world. I think they are great for the general population who are looking for something more than a

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We are always talking about eating Primal like, but do you train Primal like? Technology, research, exercise prescription and doctor advancement has come a long way in the last 20 years but we still have an alarming rate of orthopedic injuries still occurring. Do you screen your clients to the 7 Primal Movements or do you just screen them for movements that you are going to use?The concept of the

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This is an awesome post that CrossFit Asia has on their Lean Up Challenge website. Enjoy and thanks CF Asia crew.Effective, healthy weight loss isn’t only due to the simplistic calories in, calories out paradigm. Nor is it solely reliant on diet and exercise. It’s everything – it’s all the various signals our body receives from the environment that affect how our genes express themselves and

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Basketball Agility DrillsAgility Drill #1 - Super Shuttle1. Starting underneath the basket with your back to the court.2. Shuffle backwards with hands in a defensive ready position to point A.3. Sprint backwards from A to B focusing on minimizing the time to change direction. 4. Side step facing the court from B to Start position (again keep hands in defensive position).5. Jump to touch the net

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So in my many years of sports, training, and coaching their has been a silent debate over what is agility and how to train it. After some extensive research I think I might be able to define what agility is and how it pertains to human performance in training and sport.Wikipedia defines agility as: the ability to change the body's position efficiently, and requires the integration of isolated

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I’ve heard people say it takes too long to teach the full Olympic lifts correctly and that an Olympic lift with poor technique isn’t safe or effective. Well, I agree that poor technique in any lift isn’t very safe or effective for anyone. This is why we teach correct technique to our athletes from the beginning in anything we have them do. However, we need to remember that we’re dealing with

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Lately, I’ve been reading many articles and different points of views pertaining to the Olympic lifts and their use in training athletes. Many people say that the lifts are nothing more than a means to reach triple extension and that there are other ways to achieve this such as by jumping, bounding, or performing squat jumps, box squats, kettlebell swings, and tire flips.People have various

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Mental toughness is a personal, persevering decision. You can view this as an athlete's desire to continue exercise, even when passing through higher and higher levels of fatigue. I began experimenting with myself and fatigue this year after the Games and came to see some interesting results. I used to believe that everything about fatigue could be defined physiologically. I would see myself

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One of the guys at CF 949 has asked me about posting basketball conditioning workouts.... Well I played basketball in high school but really used it to keep in shape after Football season and before baseball season. So here is my attempt to put together some agility and foot work drills for basketball players...Agility ladder drillsThese are often associated with other sports (such as soccer or

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Now that football season is coming to an end, many kids are looking to get stronger and faster for next season. There are many things that go into preparing kids for the next season, and conditioning is one of those things that usually isn’t done correctly. I’m sure many of you have seen people pushing the Prowler on YouTube until they puke or you’ve heard some of the ridiculous conditioning

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One thing that absolutely baffles me about most football strength training programs is that everyone does the same thing. The linebackers go through the same training as the quarterbacks. The wide receivers do the same exercises, sets, and reps as the linemen. As if we weren’t different enough as individuals, now we’re going to take guys who perform extremely different functions on the field and

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I don’t claim to know it all in regards to warming up or even pretend to know what warm-up method is best for each individual lifter, athlete, or average Joe. In fact, the more I read and learn, the more I realize what I don’t know. What I would like to offer in this brief article are ways to maximize the effectiveness of the warm up while minimizing the possibility of any detrimental effects.

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I don’t claim to know it all in regards to warming up or even pretend to know what warm-up method is best for each individual lifter, athlete, or average Joe. In fact, the more I read and learn, the more I realize what I don’t know. What I would like to offer in this brief article are ways to maximize the effectiveness of the warm up while minimizing the possibility of any detrimental effects.

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This article isn’t going to make me any friends, but hopefully it will open the eyes of some people and help them look outside their fields of thought and expand their thinking. During the last seventeen years, I’ve been exposed to several concepts and ideas as they pertain to strength and conditioning, including Olympic lifting, powerlifting, core training, assessment based training, Western

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BARBELL SHOULDER PRESS/MILITARY PRESSSTARTING POSITIONThe shoulder press, which requires a person to learn how to move their head around the bar, should be taught first to develop a movement pattern that will be needed to finish a push press. The most effective method to set up the shoulder press is to start with the bar resting on squat stands or power rack cradles at a height around the upper

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Former UCLA men's basketball coach John Wooden's Pyramid of Success is his careful selection and arrangement of the habits that are the fundamentals of his definition of success, which is "peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best that you are capable of becoming." "No written word, no spoken plea, Can teach our youth what they

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With the beginning of football season, the long anticipated excitement for the early powerhouse match ups has finally arrived. Coaches get their first look at new players, and fans can see what they can expect from their favorite teams. However, for some reason, many of the players that we were looking forward to watching are no longer on the field. Sadly, in recent years, what you can expect is

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Going beyond parallel or going “rock bottom” is definitely optional. Getting to parallel is important, however. Fred “Dr. Squat” Hatfield writes, “You should learn how to go down into the squat position low enough. The top of your thighs should be about parallel to the floor or slightly lower, in a well-executed squat. Higher than that, and you’re losing some of the benefit to your quads.”There

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Most of the time, you’ll see the deadlift performed like a cat taking a shit. You know what I mean—the arch and twitch technique? There are a ton of reasons why someone would deadlift this way:· Their form sucks.· The weight is too heavy.· Fatigue has set in.· They aren’t flexible or mobile enough to set up according to their individual leverages.· Their core strength sucks.· They like cats.It

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Sandbags are an excellent way to transfer what you’ve gained in your strength program to the field. But many guys just aren’t sure how to use them. Here are six ways to easily implement sandbags into your football strength and conditioning program.1. High rep conditioning workRunning, jogging, or pretending to jog as you shuffle your feet in a lame attempt to convince your coach that you’re

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In 1998, the American Journal of Sports Medicine featured an article titled, “The Association Between the Menstrual Cycle and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in Female Athletes.” This article confirmed the suspicion that many coaches already had, which is that hormonal as well as anatomical predispositions were to blame for the seeming epidemic of female athlete ACL tears. I’ve come to the

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Strength training for kids? You bet! Done properly, strength training offers many bonuses to young athletes. Strength training is even a good idea for kids who simply want to look and feel better. In fact, strength training can put your child on a lifetime path to better health and fitness.Strength training, not weightliftingFor kids, light resistance and controlled movements are best — with a

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Today my doctor cleared my to take off my walking boot and to start strength training. Today has to be one of the happiest days I have had in a while. While I'm still restricted from jumping until Jan/Feb time frame but this is a big step in my recovery from surgery....

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Today's workout was Angie, 100 pull ups, 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, and 100 air squats for time. When I started out I had a goal of going 10 sets of 10 on pull ups until my body remembered that in the last 4 days this would be 265 pull ups. After the fourth set of ten my pace dramatically slowed down. I caught my wind during the push ups and sit ups. Next was the portion that I was worried about,

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Today in our coaches course we had a Marine that was at the CrossFit Level 1 Certification at CF Asia in Sept. He was trying to convince me that his unit couldn't really do CrossFit because they don't have a lot of equipment. So the debate began. Every time I gave him a suggestion on what he could do he kept responding with, "but if we had this." This is the problem I have. Before Operation

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This weekend I jumped back into CrossFit... The awesome CF Asia crew welcomed me back with Eva 5rds for time of: 800m run (I rowed 1,000m still cant run yet), 30 32kg kettle bell swings, and 30 pull ups. Knowing I'm not 100% yet I did 3 rds instead of 5. Time was 26:58. Sunday's WOD was 5rds for time of: 15 95lb Push Jerks and 15 L pull ups. Finished in 16:28. Not blazing times but it felt good

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The amount of sleep an athlete gets appears to have a large impact on sports performance.Cheri Mah of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research Laboratory has been following the sleep patterns and athletic performance of Stanford athletes for years. Her research continues to show that getting more sleep leads to better sports performance for all types of athletes. One study she authored,

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Paleolithic Diet: How our bodies want to be treated.The human genome has changed little over the past 40,000 years . Our ancestors developed agricultural practices about 10,000 years ago (see a Timeline). The advent of agricultural marked a chaotic period for our bodies to adjust to these foreign foods. The fossil record shows a massive decrease in average height, health, and rapid increase in

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IRAQ: Where it all startedMarch 22, 2008 11:33 amMarine Staff Sgt. Terrance Gant, 30, of Indianapolis, has been deployed twice to Fallouja.He was part of the 3rd battalion, 5th regiment when it was a lead unit in the late 2004 battle to liberate the city from insurgent control. Now he's back as the Three-Five is helping in the recovery of the battle-ravaged city.In a couple of months, the

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Citation:For extraordinary heroism as Combined Anti-Armor Platoon Commander, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 25 March 2003. While leading his platoon north on Highway I toward Ad Diwaniyah, First Lieutenant Chontosh's platoon moved into a coordinated ambush of mortars, rocket propelled grenades

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So I have always been interested in Self Myofascial Release(SMR). So back in Dec. of 2008 I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Alexander and his lovely wife Carolyn at the CrossFit Orange County grand opening. Jeff and Carolyn are the founders of Network Fitness in Costa Mesa/Hunting Beach area. They have workshops and seminars for SMR. This is their website: http://www.networkfitness.com/index.htm

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Today was the first time I got to make a workout for my Marines since I got hurt back in August. They did a team workout. It was teams of 2, while one ran the loop appr. 1 1/4 miles, the other preformed Cindy until the runner returned then they switched roles. While correcting the form of one of the Sgt's while doing push ups. He looks up at me and says, "I hate your PT(physical training)." I

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On August 8th 2009, I ruptured my left Achilles tendon while working out. I wasn't doing anything wrong or dangerous, I was doing box jumps. I didn't land wrong or awkward. It just sometimes happens. Here are some things I think people should know about Achilles tendon injuries and your options should it happen to you.Acute Achilles Tendon RuptureRupture, or tearing, of the Achilles tendon is a

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This is a post on Elite Fitness Training Systems that I as a former footabll player and High School coach I find hard to believe. Post your thoughts to comments.Three Football Speed Training Myths BustedWhere the hell did we go so wrong when it comes to football speed training? When did it become acceptable to pass off the hard work that entails training for football speed and replace it with

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