Sports Performance Training

Sports Performance training has been around longer than I have been alive. All around the world, athletes have been training specifically for their sport, whether it was the Olympics, college, high school or professional. Sports Performance Training is not new. Even with the long history of performance training, I still find myself explaining to people exactly what is involved. When people ask what I do, it takes a little more time to explain the “what and how” of sports training. Compare that to personal training, and it is night and day. People ‘get’ personal training for the most part, but many have no idea what Sports Performance Training is. Allow me to take this time to clear up some of the confusion about Sports Performance Training finally. Further, let me pitch to you why every serious athlete out there should be involved in Sports Performance Training in one way or another.

Cute little muscles

  I heard a woman in the center where I work ‘complement’ this guy about his “cute little muscles.” I had to laugh and wonder if she realized that, even though she really did mean well and thought she was giving the guy a complement, having “cute, little muscles” is not something most guys want to ever hear. It is kind of like the girl of your dreams telling you that you are like a brother to her. Its nice, but just not something you need to hear. Guys that train hard, want big muscles. I do not care how many guys tell you that they just want to be cut, or that they are just trying to add “some” size. That’s all bull. Any guy that is serious about training, wants BIG GUNS, and wants to be jacked.  

Three simple (very simple) steps to losing weight (fat)

  

 

I will keep this short and simple. No theories, no major explanations, no stories…just some facts based on years of experience, education and experimentation.  

Do these three things and you will increase your chances of losing major fat, in the quickest time possible.

Doctor, Doctor Give me the news…..

  Today was the fourth time I “treated” someone for “frozen shoulder” successfully, in the last three months. Meaning, the fourth time that another person was cured from their incapacitating frozen shoulder, which was, by the way, diagnosed by their trusted doctor. With most, the story is always the same; Shoulder was injured years ago, no rehab was done, a few months in, their doc told them that they have “frozen shoulder,” and they would need some rehab and hope for the best. Some got the news that they would possibly need surgery. All four of these people suffered from this shoulder problem for over two years. They learned to live with it, because after all, their doc told them they had to.

Are you still an athlete??

    

“I’m an athlete”. I hear that statement almost everyday when dealing with the general public or friends in one way or another. As we get older and our bodies give into gravity, our feet just don’t move as quickly as they once used to, our jump shot is really a thing of the past, and our bench press is almost embarrassing to perform in public, we often want to hold on to that perception of ourselves that we are still indeed an athlete.

Why are you here anyway??

  I wonder why some people even bother working out sometimes! Walk into any gym in the free world and you will see people busting their butt, training as hard as they can, and going full out. Right next to them however, you will see people not even breaking a sweat. Doing 40 reps of 2 pounds and carrying on a conversation while they are “working out!”…All smiles. Why bother? What makes this scenario worse is that people will pay a personal trainer to train them and the both of them will somehow devise and implement this same “training” strategy…meaning 30 to 60 min of extremely high rep, almost no intensity, no strategy training sessions. It’s a joke, it really is. But these people are willing to pay these

What to do when you injure yourself..the basics

  

This may sound like a moronic article, but you would be surprised how many people out there (a) get injured, (b) have NO idea how to deal with it and what to do, and (c) do the WRONG thing. So, with the risk of sounding like your elementary school teacher or worse yet, your mother, here is what to do when you injure yourself.

Here’s a story… about a man named Brady…(Mental Toughness)

  

I haven’t talked much about the psychology side of sports and training at this point, but with so many great examples of mental toughness from this weekend’s NFL playoff games, it seems like a perfect time.  

If you watched, the games this weekend you witnessed many feats of high caliber play making and big time mental toughness. One example of this is Tom Brady and the
Patriots. Love him or hate him, you have to respect the things that Tom Brady has done.

Huge Special MLK Day 48 hour sale…

My good friend Jason Ferruggia is having a 48 hour sale on two of his most popular products in honor of Martin Luther King day. If you don’t know about Jay Ferruggia then you have been missing out on one of the best sports performance coaches in the world. Jay is a world renown sports performance coach and is a head writer for Men’s Fitness. His programs flat out produce results!

Chaos theory – Cause Chaos, lose fat

  “What exactly is chaos? The name “chaos theory” comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data.” 

“State of confusion, lacking any order. Chaos, with reference to chaos theory, refers to an apparent lack of order in a system that nevertheless obeys particular laws or rules” Don’t worry, this article isn’t about advanced mathematical theory or high level physics, rather it’s about training and how to get the best effect for your body.  

As you can see from the above definitions, chaos theory is taking a system that appears to be chaotic and finding the order within that chaos. This is in essence what a good trainer will do for you in your effort to burn fat in the fastest time possible, and, dare I say…even build muscle quickly.  

Check me out on the FitCast

Last night I made a guest appearance on the Fitcast. The FitCast, if you don’t know is a Fitness PODCAST that has become a HUGE phenomenon in the fitness community. Kevin Larrabee and John Williams are the hosts and they talk about a plethora of things related to fitness.

HIIT Training Questions and Answers

I get a ton of questions everyday about various things so I thought I would share some of the questions I get about HIIT training and maybe help out some other that may have the same questions.

Keith,

So, How you doing so far??

  

OK, its been one full week and how are you doing on your New Year’s resolutions? Some of you are probably going strong, been on your diet for 6 or 7 days now. Others might still be struggling to find that perfect workout. Yet, the majority of people out there are doing nothing different than they were most of last year…looking for and offering up excuses to why they haven’t started their training regiment, and or their new nutrition plan for the year.

Lift weights, Lose Weight

  

I train men and women, teenage boys, and teenage girls. I train senior citizens, and high caliber athletes. Tonight I have to train an 11-year-old boy for speed development, and tomorrow an obese man. The interesting part of training such diverse clientele is that most of them all have the same basic training structure. Whether my client is a 15 year-old girl who is training for basketball, or a 30-some-year old female trying to lose weight as part of her New Year’s resolution, all of them train with weights. None of them complains really about weight training except for one part of the population…the young and middle-aged women!