As you can tell, I’m blogging early again. Are we seeing a trend yet?
I’m not sure what it is about Friday’s, but I haven’t been sleeping well at all on Thursday nights. With all the projects and other random stuff I’ve got going on, though, it’s probably a good thing I’m up and going!
Regardless, here’s your requisite Random Friday post:
– Assess and Correct will be ready to go Monday morning!
I know it’s been a long time coming, and we’re going to do our best to make it up to you. For next week ONLY, Assess and Correct will retail for $97. At midnight EST on Sunday, it will go up to the standard price of $127.
I can honestly tell you I’ve never been prouder of a product. I can’t wait to see the results people get from this truly unique and powerful program!
– Whether you agree with him or not, Mike Boyle has some interesting thoughts on the back squat and it’s role in programming. Here’s a quick video on his thoughts with regards to squatting:
I can’t say I necessarily agree with Mike, but I can understand where he’s coming from.
Trust me, you’ll see more from me on this front in the future. I’m fascinated in the differences between unilateral and bilateral loading.
– I’m going to start a new section in the Random Friday posts called “Quote of the Week.” Chad Waterbury is a great guy and this is taken a little out of context, but it did make me chuckle a bit:
Around that time I remember sitting in a movie theatre with my girlfriend and my spine ached from the load of my upper body mass.
– I’ve been using it for close to a year now, and I still haven’t decided how I feel about Twitter. Regardless, my web guy is in the process of hooking me up with a sweet new layout, and I’m going to give it a serious run over the next couple of weeks/months to see if it’s really worthwhile.
If you’re interested in following, check me out below:
Robertson Training Systems on Twitter
– I’m in the process of making my newsletter archives “Subscriber Only.” What does that mean to you?
If you’re not signed up, you won’t get them!
To sweeten the deal a bit, I’ve actually got an awesome project in the works. I’ve recorded an entire 1-hour seminar on core and low back training, and I’m going to make it available FOR FREE to anyone who is a subscriber to my newsletter list.
Interested? Just scroll up to the top of the page and sign-up. The video should be posted in a week or so!
In the interim, be sure to check out the current archives. There’s tons of great free information.
– Several weeks ago in a “Mike’s Bookshelf” blog entry, I review Elphinston’s book on stability. While I felt like I took a few things away from the book, the best thing I took away was a broadening of my views on stability.
In this case, it may be helpful to think of stability as a volume knob. For low-level exercises, you need to apply low-level stability. This would contrast greatly from a maximum-effort squat, where you’d want and need high-level stability.
You get into trouble when you try and apply high-level stability all the time, or even during low-level exercises.
– For those of you who are interested, we’ve already filled our internships at IFAST through next Spring and Summer. We’ll start taking applications for Fall of ’10 next Spring.
– Yesterday was my Dad’s birthday. Happy birthday old man!
– I’m not necessarily an Angels fan, but can you really go wrong with a Rally Monkey?
I didn’t think so.
Have a great weekend everyone!
MR