Archive for the ‘Sports Performance’ Category

Listen, Learn, Execute. Don’t Be Uncoachable.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 22:22 No Comments

Seth Godin delivers some great insights on coaching.
If you’re like most people, you have neither the time or the inclination to become a savant on exercise, nutrition, and the science of fat loss. The smart thing to do, in this case, if you’re looking to lose a little around the waistline, is to go [...]

This was posted under category: Sports Performance, The Mental Game

Train Your Strength, Not Your Skill.

Monday, June 11, 2007 22:01 2 Comments

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you know that strength and skill can sometimes be confused. Usually, what happens is that you’ll see a smaller person doing something a larger, stronger looking person can’t. Like this, for example:
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Now, do any of you really (I mean, honestly) think that Glover Texiera is weaker [...]

This was posted under category: Exercise Science, Sports Performance

Juan Carlos Santana and "Spartan Training."

Friday, April 13, 2007 14:59 No Comments

Ummm….pardon me, Juan Carlos Santana, but you wouldn’t be trying to take credit for all of Mark Twight’s hard work, are you? After all, he’s the one who trained the “300″ actors into Spartan shape, not you.
The Institute of Human Performance offers “Spartan Training?”
*tsk tsk* Capitalizing on a fad is one thing; taking credit [...]

This was posted under category: Sports Performance

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

Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:53 No Comments

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″ [...]

This was posted under category: Program Design, Sports Performance

Spartans are Ripped! 300 and Musings on Hollywood Workouts.

Friday, March 2, 2007 17:09 No Comments

I’ve been a big Frank Miller fan ever since my fanboy days in grammar school. I loved Batman: Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City (before it got the Hollywood treatment), and Ronin. Hollywood’s latest offering, based on Miller’s graphic novel 300 chronicles the struggle of 300 Spartan warriors as they face [...]

This was posted under category: Muscle and Strength Gain, Sports Performance