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June 2012
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Watch BEYOND WHAT YOU KNOW!!!
Often we find ourselves stuck in position. It feels like we’re not moving forward with our endeavors and we’re not seeing any rewards or profits for any of our work. We go in and follow our routine to a T or we do just enough to tell ourselves that we’re making an effort but are we really.
i often tell people...
May 2012
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Watch
BEGINNERS!! LOWER REPS FOR HIGHER GAINS!!
“Movements or exercises that do not give the muscles the required resistance, but are the kind that involve a great number of repetitions, never break down any tissue, to speak of. These movements involve a forcing process that cause the blood to swell up the muscles, and simply pump them up.” -George F. Jowett, The Key to Might and...
April 2012
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March 2012
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Are You Doing Your Abdominal Training Wrong?
recently i’ve been getting a lot of questions about torso/core/abs training in relation to athletics, especially in the format of combat sports. these also are coming , not surprisingly, from subjects who seem to be trying to correct issues that are effecting their performance due to pain/discomfort in the lower thoracic/lumbar region ( between the lowest ribs and sacrum). more times than...
Watch Physical Benefits Of Deadlifting
Why Deadlift? To us asking that is akin to asking Why Breathe? The Deadlift is one of the most ancient, fundamental and just flat out alpha lifts out there. In no other lift do you raise hundreds of pounds of weight off the ground with your bare hands. There’s really something magical about the Deadlift. You just don’t feel the same amount of confidence and joy...
January 2012
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TRAINING LIKE A SUPERHERO AND EATING LIKE A SUPER...
OVER TRAINING AND UNDER CONSUMPTION!!!! they are perfect combination for failure. i see it on a regular basis in the competitive combat sports. Many young and inexperienced athletes take bad advice that is not founded in any kind of reality about the proper way to cut weight and combine that with the modern notion that you have to “suffer” and go through some kind of “right of...
December 2011
3 posts
not DOGMA, just suggestions........
WatchChok Sabai competitor/ assistant instructor Naomi “Chopper” Cookson works on her metabolic training by doing intervals on the bag.
Intervals are both fun and challenging and can be programmed to be easier for beginners or you can deviate the work to rest ratio to increase the level of difficulty for more advanced players.
November 2011
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WatchChok Sabai competitor Elias “Hitman” Hernandez does jump rope sprints. Being able to translate jumping rope into a running pattern is a perfect progression to open up all sorts of options for interval training. Try to get as many footfalls with in a segment of time as possible.(1 footfall is when 1 foot touches the ground……OBVI!!!) if you can get 35 in 15 seconds gradually...
October 2011
3 posts
Smoker at Chok Sabai Muay Thai tonight was amazing! So much great new talent and just an overall fun time was had by both the competitors and the crowd. Renzo Gracie academy, Lions Roar, Evolution, Mushin, C3. Team Undefeated , and Chok Sabai were all strongly represented by there fighters and as always Kru Natalie Fuzz played the consummate host to everyone who came through the door. It went so...
WatchClockwork jiu jitsu purple belt Kevin Schaffer doing Olympic bar bell snatches as part of his power training. This lift I find help over all with getting athletes to understand connective movement to increase there explosive power in there individual sports. I also find the key to these types of movements is to not over use them and get to far away from the primary purpose of understanding the...
WatchMuay thai competitor Aurora LZ uses the agility ladder for the dual purpose of warming up and footwork. All to offer people forget the importance of footwork drills, especially for speed and the ability to decelerate and change direction. From combat sports to tennis to even snowboarding for athletes this tool is essential for people just looking to change things up in there day to day training...
September 2011
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WatchChok Sabai Muay Thai competitor Donald Green doing a battling ropes /split squat drill during training in preparation for his upcoming fight.although battling ropes are usually use for either just metabolic or power/explosive training I like mixing I components of training that require skill and coordination on days where a subject isn’t focusing on “going hard” and concepts like...
I am back on the grid and out of the desert. Although the environment was rough & the heat was pretty intense I did get in some training, actually some really great training. Some climbing and crawling patterns, eichens yoga, and no lack of things to carry and lift. No matter where you go if you apply a little creativity and have a good knowledge base you can put together some awesome training...
August 2011
10 posts
AND WHILE I'M ON THE TOPIC OF FRIGGIN' PANDEMICS.. →
Kanye West said straight up that George Bush didn’t care about black people. I’ll question weather Obama gives a damn in general about the middle/lower classes white or black in his choice to do this.
this is a global pandemic. →
WatchThis is an example of a “flow drill” or “mo-stability” training I use for more advanced clients as either a warm up after movement prep or on a less aggressive day when the focus isn’t about moving heavier loads. Keep in mind you should have a firm grasp of all of the movements in this drill before attempting to link them together otherwise you’ll end up with...
WatchIn this post we have clockwork jiu jitsu instructor Russ Kerr does a one handed pull up variation using a Jungle Gym XT. We’ve been working toward. This over the past 6 weeks with hopefully to be able to get these without assistance.
WatchIn this video Ann,using a 12k bell & Josh, using a16k bell, demonstrate a kettle bell complex that I love to use for both metabolic and power endurance training.
It consists of:
10 2 hand swings
5 uni-lateral snatches per side
10 2 hand high pulls
5 uni-lateral clean & press per side
Rest-1:30 minutes
I try to get it done in under 1:30 minutes. Once I can complete the...
WatchChok Sabai competitor Ann “Pocket Titan” Lieberman uses a “mo-stability” drill cromprised of a turkish get up with a high windmill variation.
July 2011
2 posts
Haven't posted anything in a bit sorry......
have been really busy this summer with lots of great things. first i would like to say that we’ve expanded our strength and conditioning program at CHOK SABAI muay thai adding a class we are calling “ODD OBJECT SANDBOX”. it is a primer class in fundamental odd object lifting, crawling patterns and pulling movements with a healthily amount of jump rope thrown in. it’s is...
June 2011
3 posts
my peers understand this, but .......
i’m constantly asked by clients and people new to physical culture about “abdominal” or “core” work. i think this article should help.
(taken from exhuberantanimal.com)
core sense
If you’ve come within a thousand miles of the fitness industry in recent years, you’ve surely been exposed to the latest round of core training mania. Everyone’s doing it, or some version...
really interesting article from Steve Myrland ...
From: Exhuberantanimal.com
Why Athletes Should Avoid The Bars
(An intemperate look at barbell-centric training) by
Steve Myrland
“Get out of the weight-room boys. I don’t need you weight-room strong … I need you farm-strong.” Irving “Boo” Shexnayder LSU Track & Field Coach (to his team)
Perhaps the most persistent blunder athletes and coaches make in training to compete is regularly...
