CrossFit

I watch “trainers” nut punch their clients from the top rope again and again, yet if they had just an ounce of data, for example: a way to track volume over time or a $50 heart rate monitor, it would make them think - dear tiny infant Jesus in a CrossFit Onesie what am I doing to this person. This ineptitude or failure to care or grow is the biggest reason I find it hard to train or work in most "S&C" facilities. Don’t get me wrong I think this is part of the evolution of quality coaches.

This title is just not true, but I had to get you here because you probably think athlete monitoring is super cool, but have no idea how it will help you if you don’t have a PhD in Metabolomics and Human Physiology.

It’s been 4 years since I started monitoring athletes using HRV.

Started with ithlete..

then Bioforce…

Now the Omegawave Team System.

Of course along the way I have made mistakes, talked to some experts, made some more mistakes, and now have gained an understanding... with less mistakes.

1. Buy the highest quality ingredients you can find - Eat. Enjoy it. Be Thankful.

• Purchase an Organic Free Range Turkey from Natural Grocers or a Farmer’s Market in your area.
• Use Grass-Fed Butter. It’s delicious.
• Don’t buy canned Pumpkin or canned Cranberries – instead make it from fresh organic ingredients. All can linings are riddled with BPA (derived from synthetic estrogen)

To become the fast and vicious Olympic Lifter you want to be, you have to lift without lifting. This is not a zen-like approach of using your mind to Snatch all the weight, it is learning to pull or push yourself under the bar instead of trying to lift it up to you. It is the giving up on the idea that you have had since the first time you picked up a barbell – that you must lift it – all the time.

Starfish Feet – OverPuller – doesn’t like to lose any tension on the barbell.

Athlete - a person who is proficient in sports and other forms of physical exercise.

Is Betty the soccer mom who trains regularly, is faster than her kids, and sometimes plays tennis with other soccer moms an athlete?

Yes

Is she really?

No

Do we really want to be the guy or gal that argues the semantics of the word athlete and crushes Betty’s dreams?

I hope not

It is annoying, like being the guy who finds a way to use the word semantics in an incredibly informal blog post.

The number one rule of fitness is show up - maybe that's because it makes fitness professionals and the gym industry money and sometimes lots of it. Or maybe not in Gold's and 24's case. They just want to get you on autodraft.

Yesterday, I tried to wait five seconds after someone was done talking to say anything and the goal was to end that anything with another question. I also worked on waiting for others to speak instead of trying to move the topic where I thought it should go. I failed….again… and again… and again,