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Confidence and Sports
As I was enjoying this Arizona-Green Bay football game, I had a sudden jolt of inspiration to crank out something here for you on Game Speed Insider…
Now, I’m from Michigan. My dad spent some time back in the day with the University of Michigan football team (at 5-9, 170 lbs., he was a beast of an O-linemen…ok, he was actually a punter), when good ‘ol Bo Shembechler was coaching and it rubbed off on me growing up…we always cheered for the Wolverine football team on some fun, fall Saturday afternoons.
So as I was watching the Cardinals mollywamp the Packers, a familiar name kept coming up from the Cardinals
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New Year’s Eve, Ted Mosby and Motivational Sports Quotes
Man, can you believe it’s twenty-ten (2010) already? Crazy…
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen that show How I Met Your Mother (CBS Mondays at 8 PM Eastern Time), but I watch it all the time, own all the seasons on DVD, quote my favorite characters….you know, the whole nine.
Anyways, there was an episode I watched for the <totally lost count> time the other day where it’s New Year’s Eve and the show’s main character, hopeless romantic and narrator Ted Mosby decides to take New Year’s Eve into his own hands.
See, earlier in the episode and throughout the entire thing, Ted and crew say something like “New Year’s Eve is the most overrated night of the year…with all the hype and pre-planning it gets, there’s no way it can ever live up to its billing.”
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Strength Training For Sports
“Just add weight…”
Interesting story…
I was talking to one of my Platinum Athletic athletes a couple days ago (which is, btw, shutting down…just a little too much demand compared to the amount of time I’d like to to give to it…everyone currently in it, no worries, you’re still in for as long as you want), and through our emailing back and forth, he was telling me that while he was feeling quicker and faster, he wasn’t any stronger.
He said he was still using the same amount of of weight on all his major exercises, and his bathroom mirror was telling him he hadn’t gained any muscle either.
Hmm…
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Getting Stronger As An Athlete
I remember when I first started really learning all about what it meant to be a trainer and a “speed coach” (or an athletic coach or whatever generic name you wanna give it!).
Everyone who knows me personally knows that regardless of anything else, I am enormously self-motivated. I know what I want to do and know, and then I make it happen.
I go to every and any resource I need to learn about it and then I take ACTION. It’s a proven formula that has worked out really, really well for me.
So, back to when I first started really learning about training…I was a basketball player and I needed to get faster (well, ok….a LOT faster). So I went to work to try and figure it all out. And piece by piece, things started to come together, I started to really make things happen and voila!, I was fast (well, ok…REALLY fast). It didn’t happen overnight and it wasn’t easy, but damn it was worth it, ya know?
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Who Needs Muscle, Right?
Ahh, back to blogging and pouring out my heart on this keyboard in front of me…how enchanting.
Yesterday I was at the gym and happened to overhear 2 athletes having one killer, enlightening discussion.
Enlightening mainly because they taught me a ton of things that I had no idea about. Here’s a short paraphrasing of what their conversation looked like (please take note of the heavy “internet sarcasm” I’m conveying here):
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A List of 7 Cool Things…
After a long-break from the blog, I figured it was time to start cranking again…here we go:
1. I find that no matter what I do or who I meet, I’m always learning. I try to stay focused on always having an open mind and being *positive* and I find that valuable lessons seem to keep coming my way. You gotta love learning, right?
2. How many people do you know who are overweight (read: fat) and are always trying to lose the weight and get a hot six-pack? Lots, of course.
And how many of them do you see actually reach the point where they’d ever catch eyes on the beach? Almost never.
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The Best Exercise For Your Core…
Less than 36 hours remain in the Combat Core System + 3 MAJOR Bonuses Extravaganza.
Get in on it before the clock strikes ZERO:
Combat Core System + 3 MAJOR Bonuses Extravanganza <—seriously, I hooked this up…
And, as promised, here are the last questions Combat Core Creator Jim Smith answered for us on Game Speed Insider:
Question 14: I’m always confused on how to strengthen my core. I would like to know the best exercises to get your core strong?
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Core Training For Speed Part Dos
Another Sunday, another Lions loss…tell me, should I just give up on them now before they do the 0-16 thing again?!?
You know what though, at least there was one good thing I was able to take from the game…
…every player on that field had an incredibly strong, powerful core that allowed them to be more explosive, more powerful and simply, more unstoppable.
Speaking of strong and powerful “cores” (yup, you like that segue, don’t you!), I have more great, free content for you, all about core training.
Here it is, Part II of getting your questions answered by arguably the world’s top “core training” expert, author of the freaking awesome Combat Core and a guy I’m happy to call a good friend, Jim “Cool Core Smitty” Smith:
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NOTE: I SHOULDN’T BE SAYING THIS: I know Smitty’s best-seller Combat Core is really enticing, but please, DON’T GET IT YET! I’ve been talking with “Cool Core” and I think I’ve talked him into totally and completely hooking the Combat Core package up for you THIS WEEK (starting this Tuesday). So, again, please do not get Combat Core until next week. Just enjoy all of the helpful info below, be a little patient and when you finally do get Combat Core next week, it will all be worth it, I promise!
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Question 7: Of all the core routines you’ve seen people do, what is done the MOST but you feel is the least effective?
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Core Training For Speed Part I
I’ll be the first to admit it, the core training of myself and my athletes used to be REALLY bad.
We mainly used lots of crunches and sit-ups (which is wrong for athletes on lots of levels), while all of it was in just 1 or 2 planes of motion. Basically we ended up wasting a lot of our core training time and not getting it stronger or more powerful. Clearly, that was unacceptable.
And then, I met Jim “Smitty” Smith. Besides being a top expert to Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of the BEST core training manual ever created Combat Core, Smitty is also one of the coolest guys I know (that’s where the cool in “Cool Core Smitty comes from). And being so stinking cool, he reached out to me and helped me out. He straightened out everything I thought I knew about core training for speed and quickness and flipped it on its ear!
He taught me so many brand-new, cutting-edge, unbelievably effective stuff about core training, I literally had no choice but to start referring to him by his current wickedly brilliant nickname, “Cool Core Smitty”. Plus, he even let me in on a couple truly *unbelievable* secrets about core training that are so good, I can’t even share them here and the only place he “lets them out of the bag” is in Combat Core.
Now, as most people are well aware of, I asked all of my Game Speed VIP subscribers to ask me any and all of their questions about core training on Tuesday and we’ve gotten over 45 questions, just since then (”thanks!” if you sent a question in).
Now, I could have answered these questions and that would have been fine, but then I thought, “Wait, I have personal access to the world’s foremost expert on core training…why not let him answer the questions?”
So I sent an email to “Cool Core Smitty”, asked him to do it and he immediatly replied back within a couple hours not just with a yes or a no, but with almost 20 of the Core Training Questions answered (is he the man or is he the man?).
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Core Training Questions…
I’m in the heart of Chicago right now as I write this in an Einstein’s Bagel, with the Sear’s Tower just a block away from me….man, that is one tall building!
Anyways, I stopped here to get some food and thought’d it be cool if I made a post here on Game Speed Insider because truthfully, I’m curious about something and now, I just gotta know…
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