Want to hit the ball like Happy Gilmore? There are 2 rules to follow: Have awesome technique. Get REALLY strong. Truth No matter how strong you are and what training program you're doing, if your technique sucks, your golf swing will suck ballzzzz. If this is the case, go get a good coach to clean up your technique. However, if you have good technique, you NEED to be strong. None of this circus, side-show, BS that get's thrown around when people talk about training golfers. Yes, this is incredibly difficult but also incredibly stupid. Golf is a Power/ Strength sport, NOT an endurance game and NOT a "balance" game. I know a round takes 4-5 … [Read more...]
Foot and Ankle Care for Runners
April 16, 2013 by
Running can be really bad for you. It's roughly 1,500 steps in a mile.... Hello, overuse injury! Sh@t can literally scar your heart and kill you....I'm actually being serious here. http://youtu.be/Y6U728AZnV0 But, that's the extreme, chances are you're just gonna go run a couple of miles a few times a week and be miserable tell people how awesome it is, but we all know that's a lie. Creds to weheartit.com Even the inspirational posters say it sucks..."It won't stop hurting"...???????? The only place where you'll see people running and having a good time are TV commercials and fitness magazines. When was the last time you actually saw someone running … [Read more...]
Knees OUT!…Or You’re ASS Ain’t Doing It’s Job
April 11, 2013 by
I spend approximately 99.5% of my day hugging puppies yelling: KNEES OUT! This Should NEVER happen: But does all the time. It's really bad... For Comparison: This is really good. So what's going on in the first photo? Short Answer: Your Ass is broke.....as in, it's not working.. Long(er) Answer: Glutes act as an external rotator on the Femur (upper leg bone) and they are not strong enough to: Rotate the Femur out. Stabilize the hip. How do we know this? The knee collapses toward the midline because when it does the glutes stretch at the top of the Femur, when the glutes (or any muscle) stretches it FIRES. When muscles fire, they … [Read more...]
Metabolic Finishers to Accelerate Fat Loss..Or, How to Hate Life in 10 Minutes or Less
April 9, 2013 by
Metabolic Finishers are a really good way to beat the living sh@t out of yourself get some fat-loss training in after some heavy training. We pretty much covered this here, but folks wanted some examples... Why Finishers? After lifting something heavy you should be pretty done....so finishers are a good usually self-limiting exercise(s) that let you get good force output and burn some calories, without getting hurt, even though you're already pretty drained. Traditional circuits, usually, are not a good choice here (but body weight circuits are ok) because we're looking for exercises that we can go hard and switch easily. Having to adjust benches, dumbbells … [Read more...]
Stop Doing This: 5 Worst Machines!
April 4, 2013 by
Free Motion Squat Machine: http://instagram.com/p/XcqTpNPFUC/ Want to learn how NOT to squat correctly?......Do this. Why it's jacked-up: You're feet are out in front of you and your hips and back are locked into the pad. It teaches you to hinge from the knees and NOT the hips. Hell you physically CAN NOT hinge the hips. This means ALL QUADS, very little glute (only if you get low enough), and NO hamstrings. Ask someone to squat and 99 out of 100 times they break at the knees and move forward. In a good squat you should break from the HIPS and sit BACK into the motion. Think about it this way: If you had to take a crap in the woods you wouldn't sh@t on … [Read more...]
Get your Psoas (Pronouced So-As) Right
March 29, 2013 by
The Psoas is one of those "muscles of the minute". Just like the Glute Medius, Vastus Medialus and Rhomboids before it, right now EVERYTHING is somehow linked to a Psoas dysfunction issue. This isn't true....but it kinda is. In the last 2 years I've had more and more clients than ever with Psoas issues. But what is true is that the Psoas is waaaay more important than we used to think and in a lot of people, especially Desk Jockeys, it's either not doing its job, it's tight as hell or both. Either way it can and probably is contributing to your back pain and/ or anterior hip pain. Especially if you sit all day. What and where the Psoas is: It's a muscle … [Read more...]
RandomThoughts on Strength Training
March 26, 2013 by
Lets get some things straight: 1) Exercise Intensity: Percentage of 1 Rep Maximum..... It's a scientific, numerical, value...not a "feeling" about how "tough" a workout is. 2) Max Effort Training is about training at or above 90% of your 1 Rep Maximum. It has NOTHING to do with the "effort" you "feel" you are putting out. It's all about the relative intensity of the exercise. It's a NUMERICAL VALUE....if you can't put a MEASURABLE NUMBER on it...it's not Intense. Therefore, your 3 hour Zumba class, unless measured through the use of heart rate monitoring and judged against maximum hear rate, was not intense. Now that, that's out-of-the-way. 3) Max … [Read more...]
Beach Season is Coming….Fat Loss Workouts
March 22, 2013 by
Workouts are NOT the most important thing for 99% of the population when trying to get Beach Ready. Diet is.....but you knew that already. You can workout all the time but if your diet sucks you'll just be a "fat guy with big forearms". None the less workouts are really important because without them you end up skinny but with no muscle...you're just a fat guy with small forearms smaller fat person but still a fat person. In the Biz this is called "Skinny Fat" Let's face it, no one want to be "Skinny Fat". Skinny, but a high percentage of fat and almost no muscle. This IS NOT the goal. So we have to program workouts that will maintain or even … [Read more...]
