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Rom fast exercise…uh thing. Are you kidding me?
Posted by: | CommentsYou know every once in awhile you come along something revolutionary, something extraordinary and something that makes you question everything you know or thought you knew. This isn’t that something.
4 minute exerciser
Now maybe this thing provides a heck of a workout but I will probably never know. Curiosity will not over power my stinginess to subtract 15 grand (yeah you heard me) from my bank account in order to try it out. This thing promises to provide a world class workout in as little as 4 minutes including the muscles that push pull and squat. Perhaps it does but like I said at a hefty price tag of 15 thousand big ones, I’ll never know.
But I do have some questions.
What about “core stability”?
What if your sport requires you to go longer then 4 minutes?
Is this 1 size fits all? If yes that means that an NFL player should leave Defranco’s gym will be able to use it and a sedentary woman will be able to leave Curves for this?
No supervision required? Idiot proof?
And here is a simple observation. One of the selling points is that it only takes 4 minutes which makes it easy to fit into a busy schedule. Well judging by the size of that thing that means you aren’t going to be taking it anywhere so that means you would have to go back to wherever it is to use it. Doesn’t seem so easy to fit into a schedule for a lot of people.
And if 4 minutes is all you have to spare for exercise…how valuable is your time that would justify the purchase of this thing over something else that takes a little bit longer? Does that mean that a 20 minute workout using an $80 piece of equipment isn’t worth your time? Are you Donald Trump? (If you are what are you doing reading my blog if your time is worth that much money?) To conclude, are you kidding me?
What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Why?
Thoughts on the Shane Carwin fight against Brock Lesnar
Posted by: | CommentsWarning there are spoilers.
As you might know I am a fan of Mixed Martial Arts both because I was a martial artist with a love of Judo in particular and because I am a strength and conditioning coach/personal trainer. Now this past weekend was a big fight between Shane Carwin who came in with an astonishing record of 12 wins and zero losses with nobody even making it out of the first round and Brock Lesnar a freakish athlete who held the legitimate Ufc heavy weight belt. Here let me just show the promo video so you can get a little bit of an understanding of what the fight was like in case you went unaware of it.
Now here come the spoilers.
The entire first round was very one sided in favor of Carwin. Carwin has monstrous power and was giving an incredible beatdown on Lesnar. If you ever wondered what a frightened look on Lesnar’s face would be like it was after he felt the power of Carwin. I was amazed that they didn’t stop the fight thats how much of a beat down it was.
The thing is it didn’t last. Going into the second round Carwin basically locked up and had lost all of his strength/power and was unable to stuff Lesnar’s takedown. A friend of mine who could actually be a fight analyst had a little debate with me via facebook comments where he said it was probably attributed to “adrenaline dump”. I figured he was unable to buffer his lactic acid.
According to an article on MMAfighting.com Carwin claimed to be feeling the effects of lactic acidosis. Supposedly it happens with the build up of lactic acid in your body which causes the effects of fatigue and is a biproduct of the body using it’s ATP stores (adenosine tri phosphate).
Now I’m not going to pretend to be smarter then Greg Jackson (Carwin’s trainer) because I have no champions or number 1 contenders to my credit while he’s put out the likes of Carwin, Georges St. Pierre, Rashad Evans as well as a host of other bad asses. I can only comment as a coach on the outside looking in.
Carwin has serious power but it appears he doesn’t have power endurance. It could be because he hasn’t trained to produce, buffer and tolerate high levels of lactic acid which would be required for power endurance. The only thing I can really recommend is to program that into his training sessions with specific work rest ratios with the intention of doing that. The only way I really know how is with the lactic acid tolerance protocol and lactic acid boost protocol from Viking Warrior Conditioning.
Since power is a function of strength and speed I would probably focus a little bit more on speed via over speed snatches done to the rules of that book. I really believe that if he could have maintained the kind of power he had in the first round of that fight it would have been him walking out with that 4x hand raised in the air of victory.
I am currently doing the V02 Max protocol from that book and it is actually a little scary how effective it is.
So what do you think? Do you agree with my opinions? Yes or no I am curious what you think.
Ashley Greene uses kettlebells
Posted by: | CommentsYou know anyone who knows me knows I am not one to watch the Twilight series. To me real vampires burn when exposed to the sun rays instead of sparkling or glowing or whatever the hell they do in that movie series. Hell if I am going to be on a team for anyone in a movie I pick team Megatron.
All hail Megatron, the Decepticon lord
However I was just perusing Josh Hillis’ blog and found that the starlet of Eclipse (the new movie in the Twilight series) used kettlebells to prepare for her role. Now for one thing this does get me stoked because it helps spread the word that kettlebells are awesome for attaining the body you have always wanted. Take a look at her.
Ashley Greene trains with kettlebells
Not bad right? One of the major fears many of my female clients have is that kettlebells are going to turn them into men. Well Ashley Greene doesn’t look like a man. I don’t think she looks like a vampire either (well neither does the vamp main character in my humble opinion) but that’s a different story.
Her nutrition from what I can tell consists of things that you would find in nature. Meat, veggies, things not processed and that goes with kettlebell training for a winning combination. Hmm, that is pretty much the same exact advice I give to my female clients. I guess movie stars aren’t all that different from us after all.
So ladies, what can you learn from this? Train smart, eat smart, set a deadline (like being in a movie) get results. Guys, what can you learn from this? Pretty much the same thing. If not send your lady friend to this post and maybe she’ll learn something.
What do you think? Agree? Disagree?
The Biggest Loser Strength Kit. Are you kidding me?
Posted by: | CommentsSo today I was sitting on my bed jammin a little bit on my guitar because I couldn’t think of anything to write about on this here blog you are reading. As I am playing I am also glancing around the room searching for my muse and noticed that my t-shirt drawer was open. Standing out of my shirts was a shirt that some of my friends had given me as a present/joke which I sometimes where to fitness seminars just for a laugh. It said “I workout everyday” and has a picture of a WiiMote.
Then I realized “Wii have a problem.”
You see just as I saw that I had a bit of a flash back to when I was Christmas Shopping at Best Buy and found an ingenious item for sale called The Biggest Loser Strength Kit for the Nintendo Wii.
Biggest Loser Strength Kit, complete with 5lb dumbbells
Are you kidding me? First thing, if you want to be strong you have to do things that require strength. 5lb dumbbells won’t require strength unless you are just waking up from a hospital bed after a long time in a coma or are just getting out of a full body cast. Hopefully you aren’t.
Now second if you want to change your fitness levels and change your body don’t use video games to do that. Chances are video games are what got you there in the first place so don’t expect them to get you out no matter how bad you want them to. Get up off your ass and get outside train hard and train consistent and do things that require strength (even if strength isn’t your goal).
Now I know you got some thoughts floating around your head. Let me hear them.
"Isn't it ironic?
Posted by: | CommentsA little tooooo ironic…Yeah I really do think”
Do you suppose they are saving their strength for a squat personal record? I doubt it. My money says they are going to the stair steppers. Isn’t it ironic? Don’t ya think? A little toohoo ironic…yeah I really do think.
So I was driving home from running one of my kettlebell classes last week and was carrying some flyers with me touting the benefits of kettlebell training. When I happened to pass by a small gym named Anytime Fitness. I figured “Hey that might be a good place to spread the pain.” So I stopped by to drop off some flyers. I walk up to the door and grab the doorknob and pull.
It didn’t budge. I pull the other door, same thing. I look up and see that the business hours are over at 7pm and it was maybe 5 minutes after that. ANYTIME Fitness my ass! Why the hell is the place called Anytime Fitness if they are closed at an hour that is one of the most common for people to train??? Isn’t it ironic? Do ya think? A little toohoo ironic…yeah I really do think.
Now here is another one. This was taken directly from Planet Fitness’ (a gym chain that represents that which I hate) website.
“The Judgement Free Zone®
As the most innovative health club brand in the United States, Planet Fitness is known for a lot of things – our absurdly low prices, our lunk alarm, and most of all perhaps, for our Judgement Free Zone® philosophy, which means members can relax, get in shape, and have fun without being subjected to the hard-core, look-at-me attitude that exists in too many gyms.”
Judgement Free? Really? Then what is a lunk? I guess being “hardcore” and “having a look at me attitude” is subject to their judgement. Isn’t it ironic? Don’t ya think? A little toohoo ironic…yeah I really do think.
F___ it. Here is a training session you can do anytime without being judged for being hard core. all you need is your kettlebells and maybe a gym boss timer
Eric Moss over and out
