Question of Intensity

Reading on the subject of fitness, athletic enhancement, and strength and conditioning, will exhibit to you how many new and innovative programs there are.  Many are just fluffy, cookie cutter programs, but some are successful, very successful, and they all have one thing in common.  Wether the program is a complex mash of Olympic lifts, sprints and standard lifts, or solely Kettlebell or Sandbag based, the successful programs all have intensity at their root.

The famous quote about fitness programs is that everything works for a while, and I believe that is true.  To add to this, in order to make any program work well it must make your body adapt to a new stimulus.  This stimulus must be a higher level of ability that will therefore show improvement in body composition, oxygen consumption and maximal strength levels.

So what ever it is you do for fitness, doing "it" intensely is much more important than duration, or style.  Definitely error on the side of intensity with good movement form, it will get you where you need to be.

Super impressive display of athleticism

This one says it all

My new favorite fitness quote from coach Rip

Women who claim to be afraid to train hard because
they “always bulk up too much” are often already pretty bulky,
or “skinny fat” (thin but weak and deconditioned)
and have found another excuse to
continue life sitting on their butts.

Mike Overman's Firefighter Combat Challenge Workout

Here is one of five rounds that we recorded last Saturday of Mike's preparation workout

Combat Challenge Training from paul manfre on Vimeo.

Evan Wray is a Notre Dame Football Athlete

Our own Evan Wray informed me this afternoon that he made the squad at Notre Dame!  All this accomplished within months of some very serious personal tragedy.  Fantastic effort on his part from a great kid.

Evan and his family