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An overview of early specialization, competition, and communication in youth athletics

On Wednesday we moved out/in office furniture.  I did nothing athletic, whatsoever. FBB Press: 95x5/115x5/3x5@135 Pull-ups: 5x5 Pull-aparts: 2x25 Hanging Leg Raises (HLR): 3x10 Deadlift FSL: 5x5@225 T-Bar Row: 5x10 Dips: 5x10 Really good lift. Camp starts today.  Freshmen reported this morning, vets tomorrow.  Life is about to get crazy.  Looking to get two lifts […]

Got this in after travelling back from Arkansas.  I just needed to move and get the flight out of my system. SSB Squat: 225x5/260x5/295x5 Ab Rollouts: 3x10 Pull-aparts: 2x25 FBB Bench FSL: 5x5@185 T-Bar Row: 5x10 RFESS: 5x5 I got the T-Bar handle from the store.  It's excellent.  I highly recommend it.  My back and […]

I was tapping out today's training and was going to tell everyone about how one of my Hockey Player's couldn't do a strict sit up and needed to be able to, since he is leaving in a week and some hours, and was going to be TESTED on the strict sit up when he gets […]

Today our lifters hit some rep work upper body.  Incline bench press and a lot of volume followed.  Great to see the groups coming together and working as a team.  We now have three times the squad trains at.  We had a guest JP Carroll in from up north.  He was on vacation.  Dude is […]

Today was tough getting back to a normal scheudle after a great trip to my old stomping grounds.  Was great to watch what the big dogs do and to see it is a lot of what we do at TTF.  I would love to eventually work at that level for awhile while keeping my private […]

A Journey To Success

I'm trying to save my shoulders (specifically my rotator cuffs not cups as I’ve heard people like to refer to them) while still getting some decently heavy work in. This is a good combo for low end work.

Last week I went on a rant on why you need to practice lot. This week I’ll give you some ideas on how to go about it.

is NOT War

You have all the basics for your home gym, now what?

Although my hamstring seems to be almost completely healed, I neglected to realize how well the Home GHRs work to rehab through injuries due to the unique ability to incorporate a push up for assistance.

Wow!  Am I tired.  I thought about coaching from one of the Zero Gravity chairs we have in office part of the gym.  THAT would have been a sketch!!! Like all issues, I like to face them HEAD ON!  Because of this fatigue, it was PROWLER Time! Yup, works better than caffeine! 8 x 40 […]

5 weeks into prep... right where I need to be.

I don't think people really realize the context of what this really means and what standards of training really mean. I do think that it's one thing that gets taken for granted or isn't really even thought about, and I'll note a couple examples to demonstrate what I mean.

Like my program, it's about the acquisition of skills, not the demonstration.

You have put in 2-3 months of training and now it is the time to heal/rest/recover prior to the meet. This is a time when your mind will start to play tricks on you, but you have to mentally commit to the time off for your performance to be the best on the platform.

Podcast Interview with Eric Fiorillo of Motivation and Muscle

After watching her at a meet I had a long conversation with Chakera & DJ Holcomb her husband.