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Program Design

Fit Your Exercises To Your Goals, Not Vice Versa.

April 29, 2007

The other day I had a great conversation with Dr. Warden about the perils of teaching exercises to clients. Specifically, we talked about the hazards of teaching a hang clean to a person who, shall we put it, is “coordination-challenged.”
While he detailed his difficulty in conveying the particulars of this challenging movement to his [...]

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Is It Helping You Or Hurting You?

April 16, 2007

Look at your workouts using a Cost:Benefit ratio:
Is what you’re doing helping you achieve your goals, or impairing your ability to ever get there?
Let’s say you walked up to me and told me, “Eugene, I want to run the marathon and be the fittest, healthiest 35 year old on the planet.”
I would argue you need [...]

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How Long Until I See Results?

March 31, 2007

Probably one of the top 10 questions I get asked by new clients is,
“How long will it take before I start to see some results?”
Well, the answer to that question is a tough one, because a great deal of it relies on the client. It depends on:

How motivated you are to create changes in [...]

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An Update to Spartans are Ripped! "300" Training.

March 15, 2007

So I will admit it – I was wrong about one thing in my previous post about the Crossfit training the cast and crew of “300″ underwent. The workouts were not totally random. Instead, they closely followed typical Crossfit-style progressions, using work, time, intensity, and focus as variables. And the actual “300″ [...]

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Fundamentals.

March 22, 2006

Tonight in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class, I had the distinction of working with a complete newbie – not only had this guy never done Jiu Jitsu before, he had never even set foot in a martial arts class ever (he was a former wrestler, however). Faced with the prospect of having a complete novice as [...]

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"Go ahead, you can laugh all you want/I got my philosophy"

June 7, 2005

From the ETF Wellness Homepage:

My Exercise Philosophy (in a Nutshell):
I was once a hater. Of all trainers and exercise protocols that I thought to be inferior methods of producing results, whether through inefficiency, or unsafe methods, or haphazard loading, etc. But I’ve since reformed.
I have my preferences, to be sure. I believe that while there [...]

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