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Advice I’d Love to Give Myself 15 Years Ago

I've reached a point where I feel confident in my role as a strength and conditioning coach, so I thought it would be fun to share some advice with the idea of “what would have gotten me to this point faster?”

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Advice I’d Love to Give Myself 15 Years Ago

Teaser Announcement

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Teaser Announcement

I cannot even begin to express how excited I am for this next project of mine. I know I am being secretive, but I just want to make sure everything materializes before I announce anything. I have been planning this project, announcement, endeavor for a long time and finally I

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Young Strength Coaches & Google

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Young Strength Coaches & Google

The Summer of 2008, I made a decision that I wouldn't buy a single text book for Graduate School. While I was obligated to buy one during my last semester of school (only one), I graduated with high honors without purchasing a single text book. How did I

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Strength Training and Branding

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Strength Training and Branding

[caption id="attachment_287" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Awesome Advertising"] [http://www.adamringler.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/gatorade-g-series.jpg] [/caption] Several months have past by and who would have thought that my most successful article would be about the Jabbawockeez

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Recovery Tools & Tunes

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Recovery Tools & Tunes

Greetings Blog Readers! I wanted to take a moment out of my day to talk about the very important issue of recovery. Recovery is often over-looked when it comes to fitness, and is one of the many reasons why people grow tired of working out and lead to burn out.

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Coaching Philosophy: Introspective Look

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Coaching Philosophy: Introspective Look

INTRODUCTION "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do." Jerry Garcia. There is no doubt that within competitive athletics, athletes and coaches alike are always striving to be the

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The Importance of Support

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The Importance of Support

> "You don't realize how important Family/Peer support is until you don't have it." Just a short blurb for today discussing how important a support structure is for your weight loss nutritional goals. Dieting and weight loss is hard enough to do alone

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In-Season Training Woes

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In-Season Training Woes

The beginning of school means a lot for a traditional student. It means football games, parties and studying for classes. For the strength coach, (GA) like myself, it means 50 hour weeks, endless amounts of coffee, workouts, training and all the other knick-knacks of dealing with in-season teams. It'

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Early Specialization: Worked for Tiger

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Early Specialization: Worked for Tiger

Topic of the day is going to be early youth specialization. Right now there are some people that believe in it, and others who strongly disagree. I was just recently listening to a Podcast by Mike Robertson of Robertson Training, titled, In The Trenches, who had guest Mike Boyle speaking

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Busy, Busy and More... Busy!

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Busy, Busy and More... Busy!

Alright gang, I have to admit, I haven't updated in awhile... and I apologize. I've just been crazy busy these last two weeks. If you could peak your eyes back into the back-end of this site, your would see that I have about 9 articles/blogs

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I'm Loving the VFF's

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I'm Loving the VFF's

I've been putting some serious miles in with my Vibram FiveFinger Flow's and let me tell you, buyers remorse has NOT kicked in. Actually, I find myself looking forward to future purchases of VFFs. For a nearly 200lb manchild to run barefooted on cement is no

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