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The Fraud Story, My 40-Yard Dash Time And BIG News…
Hey! First off, I hope everything in your life is as awesome and exciting as what’s going on in mine right now (SO much goin’ on!). I have a pretty rare story I want to share with you today…
….it’s a seriously embarrassing story about me and the FIRST time I ran the 40-Yard Dash, cleverly titled “The Fraud” story.
The Fraud Story
As you’re probably well aware, I am naturally a very SLOW athlete.
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Sports Speed Training
Hey there, glad to have ya here.
Tell me, what’s the issue with the current state of speed and sports with athletes?
More and more, the only athletes I see out there on the field or the court who have game-breaking speed or unreal acceleration are the ones who were born that way — the ones with the genetics that had them pre-determined to blaze around like gazelles in an open field on a scorching hot Friday afternoon, after a quick meal of Red Bull and wheatgrass!
What about the rest of us? The ones who aren’t born with obnoxious speed or explosiveness, who actually have to work for the results we want?
When I was younger, I was S-L-O-W. Heavy feet, weak thighs and glutes that couldn’t even imagine cracking a walnut between them (sidebar: if anyone now needs to open up a walnut…lol, I digress). It reminds me of when I was playing in that big AAU tournament as a teenager in front of all those college coaches down in Kentucky.
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Complete Speed Training
I hope your Christmas/holiday season was great.
All week, it’s been great to hang out and clown around with a lot of the people you don’t get to see that often. I saw Sherlock Holmes yesterday with the whole family and it was pretty darn good.
Robert Downey Jr. is my FAVORITE actor (Iron-Man was so dope) and he did a killer job portraying Sherlock Holmes, while holding down a wicked British accent throughout the movie. The rest of the film was good, not great, but if you like action or mystery type movies, you’re definitely going to enjoy this one!
Now, a surprising question (well, it used to kinda surprise me…I guess I’m just used to it now) I get a lot regarding getting quicker, faster and more athletic goes something like this:
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Strength and Speed Workouts For Athletes
Funny story…
I’m walking back into my condo complex late last night, and I see the complex security guard, Steve, up ahead (his back is turned to me).
He doesn’t hear me, so I just figure I’ll just walk by, give him a shout-out and keep it movin’. So, I stroll along and right as I get about 2 steps from him, he quickly whips around, sees me, JUMPS back and shouts,” Holy s**t, you scared the hell out of me!”
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Some Blazing Speed Questions Answered…
WOW…so many good questions coming in about The Blazing Speed Challenge.
My assistant Austin said he’s never seen so many passionate, looong emails coming in about ONE thing…looks like some people are READY for more speed.
But, have no fear, I did my best below to answer some of the MOST common questions. Enjoy!
Q: How does The Blazing Speed Challenge work exactly?
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Improving Your 40 Yard Dash In 10 Seconds…
I am CRAZY busy right now getting something BIG ready so I’m going to make this short and uber-sweet for you right now…
Here’s a simple tip to improve your 40-Yard Dash within a few seconds.
It takes advantage of a phenomenom known as potentiation. All that simply means is that “you do one specific thing for the sole purpose of making a second thing better”. The first thing “potentiates” the second.
So to use this to you advantage for your 40-Yard Dash, you’d want to potentiate the the Dash beforehand.
How do you do it?
Easy, lots of ways to do it. Here a couple things you can do:
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All About The 40-Yard Dash…
I love watching the NFL Combine!
I mainly watch the 40-Yard Dashes (I mean, this is Game SPEED Insider, right?) and I love it for a couple reasons:
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Speed Training Programs, Breaking News and Chicago…
A lot of stuff is going on here…
First of all, I’ve been spending a lot of time putting some work on the next product.
What’s great about it is I didn’t even have to do any of the content in it…I literally and completely randomly met a genius of a man who has been teaching me *genius* things, and now he wants me to put it out there for the world.
I wish I could say more right now, but just know that it’s going to be terrific, affordable and HUGELY beneficial for you…the mystery continues.
I also just finalized some plans to take a 3-day trip out to Chicago next week…any Game Speeder’s out there have any suggestions of restaurants/places to go while I’m there (let me know in the Comments section!).
And thirdly, I just finished putting together a speed training article for my good friend Mike Westerdal over at Critical Bench and I thought I’d share a blurb from it with you below….enjoy.
“…second, you need the RIGHT regimen for speed training. And that’s where I’m hoping we can help you out here, giving you the most optimal quickness or speed program, so you CAN get a heck of a lot faster and quicker, today.
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Saving Time and Kicking Butt In The Gym Part III
I just saw this new movie that came out today, Funny People. I consider myself a bit of a movie buff (like the rest of the world, right?), so to keep it short and sweet, I thought Adam Sandler and Director Judd Apatow really showed their range with this movie.
They both showed me things I hadn’t ever seen out of them, and more importantly they had me laughing nonstop for the whole movie. Good stuff…
Now, back to training and getting you results, so far in Saving Time and Kicking Butt Parts I and II, we’ve covered super-sets and intra-set activity.
As we wrap up with Part III today, we are going to take a more general look at your training. The basic message today is focusing on progress, and progress only.
I used to talk to Mad Scientist Kelly Baggett all the time, and through all of the amazing details, tricks and tips I learned with that kind of “inside access”, the biggest thing I learned was that it’s all about doing as little as possible, while not sacrificing any type of results.
If you can get the same results from 10 minutes a day versus 100 minutes a day, well, I think which one you’d choose should be totally obvious (I know I’m taking the path of least resistance so long as it leads to the same place).
The issue arises far too often because athletes in general are so damn motivated today. They just want to work and train and work and train and so on. The phrase “more is better..” DOES NOT fit here though.
More is definitely not better MOST of the time with training.
There is a very fine line between the right amount, between doing too much and too little and you will ALWAYS be better off doing too little than too much.
That is why so many of the people who have their hands on a copy of The Truth About Quickness Insider’s System were so shocked that mine and Kelly’s workouts didn’t require you to spend hours and hours a day to get a ton quicker…it’s just not necessary.
So, today, I ask you to take an honest look at your training and see if there’s anything in there that isn’t serving a direct purpose in making you a better athlete or coach.
Head over to the comments section and let me know what it is you plan on changing so that you can get better results in less time…I’ll be the first one (brutal honesty below).
-Alex
Saving Time and Kicking Butt In The Gym-Part I
So, I just finished watching Entourage (great show and I seriously recommend it for anyone who doesn’t watch it by the way).
In this episode “Turtle” (a main character), was going through somewhat of a crisis.
It was his 30th birthday and as we all know, birthday’s can often make us do some soul-searching…Turtle was no different.
After 30 years of life, he looked back on what he had accomplished and didn’t like what he saw (mainly because he hadn’t accomplished anything). I would say that he felt like he had been wasting his time, not getting anything done, not making ANY moves.
Put it this way, the guy got a Ferrari -AND- a Porsche on this birthday, and still felt bad (the nerve, right?).
Now, I know one thing: I never want to feel like a time-waster. I am too motivated, too persistent and just too impatient to waste any of my time. I’m sure you feel the same way…our time is important, no question about it.
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