Happy Birthday Evan Johnson

Happy Birthday, and great job on the 535 squat.  Evan has made great strides this summer with a 500+ deadlift and squat, as well as great improvement in snatch, clean and push press.  Evan is an Arch Bishop Alter High School Grad, and is playing football at Brown University in the Fall.

Understanding your blood test results

I just found this very interesting site for all of those that have had blood work done, and are trying to understand the results.

http://www.amarillomed.com/howto.htm

Keeping a diet journal/diary can be a powerful tool

check out this article about the power of writing it down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080708/hl_nm/diet_diary_dc

Work Harder To Succeed.

Hard work works

For about the nine hundredth time I recently read an article about a new top secret rep scheme that is guaranteed to increase your lifts 600%.  The truth of the matter is that there are some simple truths to fitness and athletic performance, and they are as follows:

1.  everything works for a while.  Everything will improve your performance for some period of time, then you will adapt to it

2. Hard work beats all.  If the exercise is hard, brutally hard, you are going to improve.  Pushing the stimulus boundaries of your body, will make it change and improve

3.  If you aren't a little scared of the program, write a new one.  This one follows the one above, if you go into your workouts calm and collected, and you don't have to convince yourself you really should be doing this, it isn't hard enough to make changes in your body or how it moves.

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Girls of Alter High chalk up!

Alter Alumni  Louise V. squatted deadlifted 235, Megan S squatted 180, Sandy P, a junior, squatted 160, Ali M made a great showing at a 145.  All have made significant improvement.

Great Week for the Ladies

Megan S box squatted 180 x 3, Mary B box squatted 135 x 1 and Louise V. deadlifted 225 x 1, all three under 150 body weight!  Didn't have my video camera, but I will get video from here on out. 

Just can't workout today, just too tired?

check out this little boy, what an inspiration.  If you can watch this video, and still not get your butt off the couch....something is seriously wrong with you.

 

Great Week of Football Strength

My boys from the area football teams are starting to put some great numbers up in the major lifts. 

Notables this week are a 485 deadlift from Evan J, a 300 front squat and a 150 military from Matt P (155 pound bodyweight)  Max P put up a 190 military press and Evan N and David K broke the 405 squat barrier. 

Keep up the good work fellas.

Fast like the wind

Took some pics at the gym today.  These show the speed necessary for Olympic lifts to take place with proper execution.  I didn't have the sports setting on the camera turned on, but I think it makes the effect that much more dramatic

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Also Mary B. working on her chin ups,  and Ryan S. working the lower body triple extension with the dumbbell jump squats

Nice Squat Matt P.

Matt P. DB for Archbishop Alter High School's football team squatted 350 x 1 at a bodyweight of 154 this morning . Very nice job Matt!

chasing a 5 year old

As many of you know, I have a 5 year old child, Joe, who is a very active child.  we were at the park today, and as an experiment I mimicked him around the playground for an hour.  It was quite an eclectic workout.  Adding variety and new challenges to your program with keep your metabolism guessing and therefore ramped up.

Scholarship Congrats

Congrats to Arch Bishop Alter's Evan Johnson on his  scholarship to Brown University, and Fairmont High School's Evan Wray on his scholarship to Butler University.  Both Are great students and athletes.  We are happy to have them as part of the Power Enterprises family.

Welcome Isaac Michael Manfre

I would like you to meet my son Isaac, all 8.9 pounds and 22 inches of him.  Obviously a very proud dad.

 

Isaac 1

Isaac 2

Isaac 3

Native Eating

This Article is very interesting.  It basically documents how native people in this country, but also documented cases in Australia and South America, have gone back to their native diets, and have seen massive weight loss, Higher energy levels and a decrease in depression and diabetes. 

Congrats to Jenny Forster and the Arizona Swim Team

The Arizona Wildcats are the newly crowned national champion swim team.  Our own Jenny Forster is a contributing member of this team, so I thought I would mention it. 

We can no longer take credit for Ms. Forster's conditioning, as it is obviously handled by the excellent strength and conditioning staff at the University of Arizona, but she is Power Enterprises Inc alumni, so she gets the mention.

Congratulations to our own Sarah Andrews

Our own "little fish" Sarah Andrews got her Olympic Trial Cut time in the 200m bk.  Congratulations to her, her family and the Dayton Raiders Swim Coaching Staff.

Congrats to the Alter Girls Basketball Team

We have had the privilege of being associated with the Alter Girls Basketball team for a number of years now.  We wanted to wish them luck in the Ohio Girls Basketball State Finals, this Saturday March 8th in Columbus. 

We were mentioned in the local Dayton Daily News in an article, third paragraph.  This is the link to the article about the very talented Ms. Waterman

Waterman Article

Toughest Bird I have ever seen

It not that this bird swam to shore, its that the damn thing never dropped the fish.  Keep your eye on the prize!

Interesting Research

Two points of interest for the men who think that a little ride on the exercise bike while reading the paper, and never breathing hard is doing the job.

1.  out of shape (read: men that never do any high intensity exercise) are 100 times more likely to die while shoveling snow or sprinting for the bus than those who are in shape.

 

2.  scientists found that sedentary middle aged men who took up exercising saw a quantum leap in their libidos

 

Just some things to think about.