Kalos Sthenos - Kettlebells from the Ground Up
For the past couple of days I've been going through Gray Cook and Brett
Jones' DVD and manual, "Kalos Sthenos - Kettlebells from the Ground Up." It's a
fantastic resource, and one that I'm going to review in-depth in a later
blog post.
Today, however, I want to talk about communication
skills.
As many of you know, I'm willing to read, listen, and
learn from just about anyone. Even if it doesn't fit into my core
philosophy in the long run, and least I can say I was open-minded and
willing to give it a shot.
After watching Gray speak at
seminars, within DVD's, etc., I can see why he's as wildly popular as he
is. His communication skills are fantastic.
Could he wow
you with his knowledge of functional anatomy? Sure.
Could he
use big, fancy, scientific words to make himself look...
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The Continuing Education Journey
Last week, I pissed some people off.
While it was my
goal to be intentionally inflammatory to trainers/coaches who aren't
"cutting the mustard," so to speak, it seems as though I also pissed off
some of my core contingent as well.
People who are
serious about training clients and athletes. People who are serious
about getting them results.
And most importantly, people
who take their jobs, and this industry, seriously.
So
if you're a hard working trainer or coach, and I pissed you off, I
apologize - that was not the goal. I value what you do every day more
than you know.
Today, my goal is simple - to help show
you some steps you can take immediately to elevate your game and become a
better trainer or coach.
To make things even easier, I've
put them in a nice, flowing...
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How to 'Cook Young Athletes Slow'
The long-term approach to youth fitness and sport training
is an essential ingredient and critical component of understanding how to
work with clients in this very sensitive demographic. Fitness
Professionals must learn to appreciate that with young clients, the goal is
not to 'lose weight', 'increase speed' or 'gain strength' - it is to
enhance skill. Increases in all biomotors (strength, speed,
flexibility and cardiorespiratory) will be secondary benefits that occur
naturally and as a result of quality, skill-based training systems.
A few weeks ago, I spoke with legendary Strength Coach, Joe Kenn,
about this very issue.
Coach Kenn is as qualified, respected
and 'in-the-trenches' smart as they come. He's served for more than
20 years as a premier Strength Coach in U.S.-based Colleges and has worked
with a litany of past and current stars from...
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Joint Mobility
By now, everyone should be familiar with Coach Boyle's Joint-by-Joint approach to training.
In fact, I thought it was so great I tried to take it a step
further in my Mobility-Stability Continuum article. (Just watch out
for the NSFW pictures - I don't get much say in what T-muscle promotes in
that regard!)
But this has gotten me thinking - I think there
are two joints that are really critical to fluid, effective movement.
And within that line of thinking, I feel like they (possibly more
so than any other joints in the body) need a balance of both mobility AND
stability to be truly effective.
Those two joints are
the hips and scapulae.
I know, I know - maybe this
isn't totally original thought, but hear me out.
Think about the hips - if they...
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