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I was listening to an Onnit podcast where Aubrey Marcus was interviewing his S&C Coach/Trainer and how they fell upon their style of unconventional training methods. Through their stories, they talked about having a base in body building building styles, which I think most people have some knowledge of if you were picking up muscle mags in the grocery stores. Not saying its easy by any stretch, but most of the workouts posted in the mags throughout the 90's and early 2000's were all geared in that direction. Then they talked about a variety kettle bell techniques, yoga, speed development, pre-ha and re-hab, trx, full body circuits, etc.
And as they went on and on, I listened and found the occasional goose bumps on my arm, for two reasons that support each other and give me more confidence (which is needed more often than shows).
I've always written honestly over the past years and those who have been around read about... well, all the above that Aubrey and his trainer listed. My beginnings were also grounded in those workouts pulled from mags, then evolving into full body circuits, then speed and agility, then TRX, then yoga, then kettles, and as it moved along, we started combining things. I remember early in my yoga experiences, I started tinkering w thoughts like "How can we add a DB to these yoga moves?" and more importantly, "What am I learning in yoga that will transfer over the weight room?"
If an experienced coach sat and watched a more advanced session, they'd be able to pick apart the roots of where things come from.
Basically, I'm just proud I never had my head too far up my own ass to ignore all that's available to learn. I never arrogantly boxed myself into "I'M A _____ GUY!" and pissed on everything else. As individuals we all like what we like, but as trainers/coaches, there's no room for that ignorant approach.
The yoga, kettles, speed work, power training, super sets, circuits, all the experiences training in the parks and in the stadiums... its combined for a pretty unique, unconventional, fun and functional method and I'm pretty happy with how things have developed.
(That was me patting myself on the back)
Just saying, I'm kind of alone in this, I dont really have trainer friends or people to bounce things off of so when I hear pros speak and I'm on their page, I feel good about what we do together.
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Speaking of yoga...
So sometime soon, we'll be starting a yoga class at Everybodies, which the more I think about it, the more I think its a pretty perfect arena for this class. I hear there's quite a bit of interest and we'll probably have a nice little group for the first class so most of my talking will be about form and safety and often it will always linger around those topics. But once we're through that part, the actual class starts.
(uh oh, is this where his yoga woo woo crap starts?)
I was just talking to someone 10 minutes ago about the class and she said that she was looking forward to it and listed several reasons why. I felt the need to warn her "this isn't a toe touching humming class." Obviously, I don't mean that as a shot at the lighter style of yoga class, but I don't want to mislead anyone either. This isn't a slow flow.
Physically, you're going to sweat your ass off. You're going to challenge your body in ways you're not used and possibly not as intense as you're used to.
You're going to feel your hamstrings, your triceps, your hips, your shoulders, your feet, your hands, your core, in ways you may never have. Literally.
Physically, yoga really helped shine a light on areas of my body that were out of balance, weak, and/or tight. I remember my hip flexors cramping all the time and if it wasnt my flexors, it was my glutes, it was always something... but it was all good. I found great pleasure in being exposed, to myself, as to where my training needs addressed.
But as much as I say "We wont be humming," there's the flip side. We also wont be jamming hard, flying in and out of poses, just cruising through a bunch of movements, sweating and listening to sweet music.
(I've written and deleted 3 different paragraphs trying to describe what will happen... All I can say, and will say in class, forget whatever you thought was going to happen.)
Questions:
Do you drive places and when you arrive, you'd fail the quiz titled "Name 3 things you noticed on the way here?"
Do you let work issues linger and effect your home life?
Are you hanging onto childhood issues?
Do you react certain ways, notice them and dislike that you do it?
Do you find yourself playing with your phone out of habit when you could be engaged in people around you?
Can you remember 3 meaningful things you did this week?
No training method has helped me more than this.. in the gym, in work, with everything.
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My oldest, Abby, is enrolled with a local theater group which meets on Saturday mornings. While she's there, Livi and I head over to Beans and play Connect 4, then head back 90 minutes later and meet her out front,
Abby recently tried out for one of the plays run out of the theater and was waiting to hear back if she made it. As we stood across the street from each other, her badly language didn't look good and I thought for sure she didn't make it.
For those few moments, some new feelings and thoughts came in... this would be her first real experience with rejection... and my first as her dad, helping her through it. Ive coached for around 10 years, lost plenty of games, dealt with players and clients and their losses or short comings, missing goals, etc. And through those, I've been able to find the right words to help. But here on the corner of the street waiting for her to cross... I was thinking "Oh $hit,"
Fortunately, there was no bad news yet, just a bad mood.... 10 or 16? Sometimes its hard to tell.
A few days later, she did receive the call that she did not make it and when we spoke on the phone she sounded disappointed but ok, which was good to hear, but I wanted to know how much she cared. We can fail or come up short, but we cant be ok with it... how to communicate that to a 10 year old? To my daughter?
I asked "What do you think?" She said "Well, I signed up w a singing coach." I asked "Do you think that's what you need to do?" She said "I think it will help, they didn't say what I should do but a coach would help me. I'll call and ask them what I should do to make the next play."
Did I say she's 10? Not sure why I was so worried, she apparently can handle rejections much better than her dad.
I was so unprepared but she did exactly the right thing. Take it, learn from it, move on.
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Physically, yoga really helped shine a light on areas of my body that were out of balance, weak, and/or tight. I remember my hip flexors cramping all the time and if it wasnt my flexors, it was my glutes, it was always something... but it was all good. I found great pleasure in being exposed, to myself, as to where my training needs addressed.
But as much as I say "We wont be humming," there's the flip side. We also wont be jamming hard, flying in and out of poses, just cruising through a bunch of movements, sweating and listening to sweet music.
(I've written and deleted 3 different paragraphs trying to describe what will happen... All I can say, and will say in class, forget whatever you thought was going to happen.)
Questions:
Do you drive places and when you arrive, you'd fail the quiz titled "Name 3 things you noticed on the way here?"
Do you let work issues linger and effect your home life?
Are you hanging onto childhood issues?
Do you react certain ways, notice them and dislike that you do it?
Do you find yourself playing with your phone out of habit when you could be engaged in people around you?
Can you remember 3 meaningful things you did this week?
No training method has helped me more than this.. in the gym, in work, with everything.
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My oldest, Abby, is enrolled with a local theater group which meets on Saturday mornings. While she's there, Livi and I head over to Beans and play Connect 4, then head back 90 minutes later and meet her out front,
Abby recently tried out for one of the plays run out of the theater and was waiting to hear back if she made it. As we stood across the street from each other, her badly language didn't look good and I thought for sure she didn't make it.
For those few moments, some new feelings and thoughts came in... this would be her first real experience with rejection... and my first as her dad, helping her through it. Ive coached for around 10 years, lost plenty of games, dealt with players and clients and their losses or short comings, missing goals, etc. And through those, I've been able to find the right words to help. But here on the corner of the street waiting for her to cross... I was thinking "Oh $hit,"
Fortunately, there was no bad news yet, just a bad mood.... 10 or 16? Sometimes its hard to tell.
A few days later, she did receive the call that she did not make it and when we spoke on the phone she sounded disappointed but ok, which was good to hear, but I wanted to know how much she cared. We can fail or come up short, but we cant be ok with it... how to communicate that to a 10 year old? To my daughter?
I asked "What do you think?" She said "Well, I signed up w a singing coach." I asked "Do you think that's what you need to do?" She said "I think it will help, they didn't say what I should do but a coach would help me. I'll call and ask them what I should do to make the next play."
Did I say she's 10? Not sure why I was so worried, she apparently can handle rejections much better than her dad.
I was so unprepared but she did exactly the right thing. Take it, learn from it, move on.
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My new coffee cup
