Hey all,
Just wanted to let you know that my blog will be making a comeback in January of 2008.
I’ve been hard at work on several big things for the coming year, and well, something had to give due to limited time.
You’ll get first hand knowledge of all the goings-on as well as regular bits of education, applied research, and even some personal stuff.
Hope you all have a great holiday season.
See you in 2008
Bill
When was the last time you reviewed your personal training goals?
Do you have your goals written down?
Have you selected a date of accomplishment for your goals?
Are you keeping a written journal of your daily tasks required to achieve your goals?
If you aren’t, how will you know when you get there?
Why do boxing aerobics classes wrap their hands if they don’t actually hit anything?
Bill
My buddy Adam Campbell from Men’s Health Magazine and Jeff Volek, one of if not the top researcher on lower-carb dieting just released their book this week. You can get more info from Adam’s blog. I was lucky enough to have see this book formulated and created over the last year or so, and it’s great AND founded on some of the best research ever done on the topic. The book is called the TNT Diet.
In the battle against cancer, research takes money. It’s that research that saved my friend, Alwyn Cosgrove’s life. His brainchild LiftStrong brings to together the cream of the crop of strength and conditioning and fitness professionals to provide over 800 pages of information on a wide variety of topics. With our encouragement, Alwyn provided his “cancer diaries” which were the regular emails he sent out to us as he beat cancer for the second time. Theses diaries alone are worth the donation that you’d be making the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society let alone all the programs and advice from the top names in the sports training and fitness industries. Get LiftStrong.
My friend, and NSCA Strength Coach of the Year, Robert Dos Remedios (AKA Coach Dos) recently published his book Men’s Health Power Training. If you want the lean muscular look of today’s top athletes, you need this book. The foundations and programming in this book come directly from the programs that Coach Dos uses to develop his athletes, many of whom now play for majory colleges across the country and in the NFL.
Bill
P.S. 9 days until the return of Van Halen to Indy. 23 days until Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony (formerly of VH, of course) hit Indy as well. Anyone want to join me on stage to jam with the Waboritas?!!
Jim Smith from www.dieselcrew.com sent me this video because I train a lot of golfers.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/sports/2007/10/03/mcdougall.id.golfer.without.arms.kbci
Here’s a thought….barriers aren’t there to prevent one from being successful. They are there to identify those who want it bad enough.
Bill
Before you decide that your client has “tight” external rotators of the hip from your visual, static assessment, you better check them for femoral retroversion. Retroversion is the result of a reduced femoral neck angle relative to the line through the femoral condyles.
The reduced angle will result in a greater degree of hip external rotation and a reduction in hip internal rotation.
To identify this you’ll use Craig’s Test which you’ll find with a quick Google search.
Bill