In the high-minded world of fitness these days, terms like “functional,” “patterning,” “activation,” “high intensity,” “assess-reassess,” and “program” litter the landscape. Terms once full of meaning now not much more than buzz words used to complicate the simple act of moving your body. We – especially yours truly –
Age comes for us all it is as inevitable as the night swallowing the day. We get slower and weaker and we hurt more. We seemingly have to work twice as hard to just maintain our base level of fitness. If you’re anything like me, you never
Toeing up to the line on the day of competition is a confluence of training factors where you should have absolute certainty of the degree of your fitness. Your fitness should be peaked at its highest point. What factors converge at this point? Well, certainly the execution
By: Coach Jake Saenz A while back we put out an article titled THE DEGREES OF QUITTING which brought forth some interesting ideas on how athletes react to physically challenging efforts. If you haven’t read it yet we suggest doing so as it sets the stage for what we’ll
By Coach Tod Moore I knew it was going to be a tough session for the athletes. Typically when we do a 60 minute continuous effort it’s aerobic in nature. Jake had programmed 4×15 minute work capacity circuits back to back. None of them were easy, so
When Jordan asked me to write a piece on why training was still fun for me, I’m not going to lie I really struggled. These days when I think about training, I honestly don’t think about it as being fun. Approaching the age of 42, training these days mostly reminds
The idea of combining sport specific skills with physical training is nothing new. A short trip down the instagram rabbit hole will show you all manner of crazy shit. Does this idea have merit? Should we combine skill based training with physical training? We
By: Coach Jake Saenz “Fatigue makes cowards of us all…” – General George S. Patton What is quitting? A conscious change in behavior due to external factors, in this case physical stress and discomfort. Note, that I used the term “conscious” as in you have elected
