Nordic Quads Three words that strike fear into the heart of any client..... Glute Ham Raise... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGH6SIk15x8 this shit is INSANE, they ain't that easy... Tyreek Hill runs VERY fast. His hamstrings are VERY strong, eccentrically/ concentrically, repeatedly, huh... "subjects who produced the greatest amount of horizontal force were both able to highly activate their hamstring muscles just before ground contact and present high eccentric hamstring peak torque capability." - Sprint Acceleration Mechanics: The Major Role of Hamstrings in Horizontal Force Production just saying. Usually GHR's look more like … [Read more...]
You Should Do This: Iso Hold Dizenzo Row
May 7, 2020 by
Dizenzo Row If I said it once, I've said it a hundred times, a hundred different ways. "You can never have too much ass, abs and upper back." "Muscles up front are for show, muscles in back are for GO!" "You can tell if someone is strong when they have a big ass and thick upper back." If you're posterior chain is lacking, you're leaving better posture, performance, and injury prevention on the table. "A healthy posterior chain is required to counteract forces, sudden movements, and physical demands and is fundamental in physical performance, prevention of injuries, and physique development . A healthy posterior chain also enables good posture and motor control … [Read more...]
You Should Do This: Slider Pushups
April 28, 2020 by
Alternating Slider Pushups Last time I wrote about some of the characteristics good athletes displayed. Truly elite athletes are, in short, Masters of Movement I like to think about it as , "Good movers are analog, not digital." Good athletes intrinsically figure things out and make movement happen. It always looks smooth, controlled and purposeful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY5RIA8uxIY Skip to 6 minutes in an enjoy...THAT is movement mastery. Rarely looking like the rest of us they're on the struggle bus, trying to link motions together. "These results suggest that experts were able to focus on motor planning integrating visual information with … [Read more...]
Intermittent Fasting: Physique Miracle? Or Am I Just Hungry?
March 11, 2020 by
We used to just call it, NOT EATING. But now it has a name. Intermittent Fasting And its all the rage. Keto is like so 2018, am I right? Dr. Oz is even on the bandwagon, and we all know he NEVER gets on bandwagons... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSYXJJA7Nrs This is pretty much sums up how I've felt about IF since it first burst onto the scene circa 2010, “It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.” ― Robert Oppenheimer Much ado about nothing. My 2 cents has always been you see improvements in health because YOU LOST WEIGHT and … [Read more...]
Social Media Workouts and the Because He Played Fallacy
February 4, 2020 by
"I saw these really SPORT SPECIFIC workouts on Instagram. Maybe we could incorporate some of these exercises" If I had a nickel for every time I got some variation of that line, I'd have at least $50. Keep in mind, that's 1,000 nickels. Point Is: I get that line often. While it's of good intentions it's 100% uneducated and misguided. Keep in mind, its not the clients fault. "You Only Know Everything You've Learned"- Alwyn Cosgrove And unfortunately for the last 2-3 decades the "fitness biz" has done a piss poor job of actually educating the public. Instead, we used to hold "speed camps" and "combine training" where your kid would get faster in a … [Read more...]
Chaos Training: Bees Knees or B.S.
December 13, 2019 by
"Better learn to get tight, real f**cking fast, or you'll lose some teeth" - Matt Wenning That's the best way I've heard chaos training ever described. If you've been around here for a while you should know by now that i'm not really a fan of unstable surface training for strength, power, hypertrophy and really all things awesome. Occasionally, it can be used as a deload, to strengthen "stabilizers" and just be a change for monotony. But it ain't gonna do much for you long term. The fundamental issue with unstable surface training, The Ground Moves and joint centration becomes a beotch, force needs to be diverted from power production to joint … [Read more...]
Winter is Coming: Get Ready to Ski.
September 19, 2019 by
I Have NEVER Skied. Fun Fact: I train a whole bunch of skiers. More Fun(er) Fact: They don't need "Ski Specific" training to improve. People that sell you "sport specific" are often charlatans who don't actually know what sports specific means. And NO sport specific DOES NOT mean the movement kinda sorta LOOKS like the sporting movement. Sport Specific: For an exercise to be classified as "sport specific" it MUST, in the same motor regime, accurately replicate similar joint angle velocities as the sporting movement its self. Most Fun Fact: In my experience, the "training" most skiers (and weekend warriors as a whole) do, isn't training at all. It's … [Read more...]
You Should Do This: Side Plank
August 27, 2019 by
I'm Pretty Partial to Obliques. I think they're pretty important. Essentially, obliques "tie" the ribcage to the hip. "Core abdominal musculature plays a critical role in nearly every baseball-related movement as it is heavily utilized for maintenance of posture, throwing, swinging, twisting, pivoting, running, and jumping activities. These muscles, especially the internal and external obliques, help transfer forces along the kinetic chain from the lower extremities to the upper extremities." - Epidemiology and Impact of Abdominal Oblique Injuries in Major and Minor League Baseball Anatomical Role of the Obliques If you read an anatomy book it'll tell … [Read more...]
