4 week results

The retest of the big three lifts (bench, clean and squat) were very encouraging. The younger kids (8th grade and up) showed great improvement. An average of 30 pounds on a bench, 20 pounds on a clean and close to 50 pounds on the back squat.

Our older athletes also showed great improvement, but with experience comes slower progress. Some elite litters go years with only a few pound improvement.

That being said, with the adults we showed an average of 15 pounds on the bench, 20 squat pounds, and 20 clean pounds. Over a four week period, that also includes some very tough conditioning routines, I am very happy with the results.

As far as the population that is working on my program, I don't discriminate for anything other than injury. By that I mean, everybody lifts, jumps and sprints regardless of background, soccer mom, to football player, to tennis player, to executive. The movements are taught in a safe manner, and we have demonstrated good results in all groups. That we work with.

I am looking forward to seeing what my high school football players can do with this the SAS program. They are presently starting on week 2, they have just finished there season, so I will keep you posted.

Week 4 is upon us

Week four of the first cycle of the SAS program starts tommorow with a retest of the big three lifts. Regardless of result, the program will continue to be an ever improving entity. The program's main objective is to produce athletic excellence by constantly being open to necessary change, and adapting to an ever changing sports needs enviroment.

Ladies, Build a Better Butt

Enough Said!

Super Oatmeal

Breakfast from the Olympic Training Center's Dietitian Bob Seebohar

Flipping out at 0530

Congrats Mike Overman

Congratulations to our own Mike Overman who scored the best time on the obstacle course at the  2009 Police and Fire Challenge held last week.  He and his team mates also won the team event which was the combination of a 5k run and the obstacle course.

Why?

This picture is taken from a gym blog that celebrates this kind of injury as accomplishment.  This to me is not, in anyway accomplishment, this is a mistake.  I will concede that with enough high intensity, sports performance based training, injuries are going to happen, no athlete stays 100% healthy 100% of the time.  On the other hand I battle everyday to safeguard with every means possible, to prevent such injuries from happening.  If your sport is fitness, then great, go ahead and hack up your hands.  I work with  athletes that train with my to improve their sport, not their "Fran" score.  If this athlete plays golf, is a quarterback, plays tennis or baseball, and you have caused such an injury because you are doing workouts containing nine thousand swinging pullups, that athlete can no longer practice their sport, and you have failed as a coach.

We have experimented with many training protocols over the 15 years we have been in business, and I will admit, we have done workouts that result in this kind of stupidity.  The only difference is we figured out these practices were stupid and ultimately unproductive and moved on to research more productive methods to produce athletic improvement, in as safe an environment as possible.