I have been looking back at my posts and I realize that it has been pretty sporadic lately. If that was not enough of a clue, my best buddy told me I have been crappy at posting. No excuses other than I am trying to explode my main business, which is happening. I love training adults, but helping out kids is really fun. What a great thing it is to help kids develop great fundamentals and healthy habits. That being said, there should not be any kids reading this stuff.

I picked up a mew camera the other day and started playing with it. I can now see what I was doing wrong at the RKC. I am not fully locking out my right elbow. I am working on that through the use of video. I wish that I had started this earlier, it would have prevented a bad habit from developing. I have come to see that video taping can help with how I do and how I teach techniques.

I will be putting video up now more consistently and of a greater variety. I have been asked to put up the group workouts also and may videotape the exercises. The Shen Chuan has been going really well. We have been hitting our groundwork phase and everyone is progressing well. I would love to get out to Salt Lake City to train with Jake Shannon really put some catch wrestling into the mix. We already do quite a bit as Joe Lansdale's father was a carnival wrestler back in the day. Joe hurts you with his stuff!

I have started showing more of my edged weapon stuff in class. i am honing it up in the hopes of teaching a class in the DFW area at a local knife makers place. I hope to meet up with him soon, now that I have some time during the day. I am picking up one of his blades in the near future.

I have gone back to Viking Warrior Conditioning and really love it. I think that it is the way to train. I do not see any cardio program giving you the same benefits, especially in as short a time period. I have dropped down to the 16kg and really want to own the program. It has gone better this time around as I have more rest lately. I am coupling it with a 3 x 3 program of basics - Military Press, Squats and Pullups.

This weeks group training was:

3 x 3 clean and press
3 x 3 squat
3 x 3 row
3 x 3 windmill

I had everyone use a heavier weight then normal. There were several people that were shocked by the weights they were able to handle. I had two people really own the next weight up! Go Jaqui!



Awesome Submission

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Don't do this at home!

Sometimes you have to wonder how people have become certified as trainers. I would love to know the reasoning that went along with this exercise. At some point they had to think, "Hey, this would be cool!"

I have never seen anything so out in left field. The potential for injury and a lack of common sense is astounding. I really can't say enough...

Training has been going pretty well lately. I have started a 5 x 5 program for a 6-8 week period. I love Kenneth Jay's Viking Warrior Conditioning, but had to take a break. I was burned out from just training 6 hours or more a day. It is a nice change and gives me a chance to work on double kettlebell drills for a while.

I have stopped taking on new clients lately. I have been really busy with my main focus, Amazing Athletes. I am not planning on having any workshops until maybe July or August.We have had some great opportunities to reach young kids with the message of fitness and we are trying to make the best of it. There is such a large percentage of overweight kids, that anything that reaches them is a positive.

reaching for the dream...

I try to keep things positive on this blog. I also live my life that way. I always try to reach higher and achieve what I want to achieve. It is really cool to find examples of people breaking from their shell to work at achieving their dreams. This lady is positive and has great talent, she just needed an outlet. I wish I could sing...



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Impressive Skill

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Overtraining

I tend to walk a fine line between sane training and over training. I run and teach so many kids classes during the day that I am always somewhat tired. I often find that the best way to teach kids is to model the skill, behavior or action that they need to do. It can take a toll on the body after a little while. I also changed the sequence of my training. I was doing VO2 Max on day 1 with strength day on the 2nd. I flip flopped the days and have been doing lots of Get Ups on day 1 and VO2 max on Day 2. It seems to wear me down a little faster. I know I have been doing upwards of 25 minutes of Get Ups. That is way to many Get Ups. I start out without weight and move to kettlebells without a break.

I went out tonight to practice VO2 Max and after 10 sets, I could not get into the rhythm. I decided to cut it short this week and just recover and start next week with a more intelligent plan of action. I am putting VO2 Max on Day 1 and a lot fewer Get Ups. I really love Get Ups, but will be using more weight and probably hitting 3-5 reps a set.

This is a case of rather be lucky then good. Capoeira actually worked!

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Get Up

We have been working the get up a bunch. I feel that it is one of the best exercises that you can do. I really like what the RKC has done with it in conjunction with Gray Cook and Brett Jones MRKC. This is a clip from Dr. Mark Cheng's group in LA. It shows a pretty good Get Up.

I also like using other martial artists doing kettlebells as they are a great tool for improving skills and techniques. It is amazing how many of the movements that fighters make have a corresponding pattern in kettlebells.

Great Takedown

Here is a great lesson on the ankle pick. It is a move that works really well in the real world as well as the mat. They do a great job of demonstrating and explaining it!




I have stepped back a little on my workouts. I have been working the Get Up and moved back to the 16kg in the VO2 Max. I highly recommend Dragon Doors two newest titles, Kalos Sthenos and Viking warrior Conditioning. I feel that they will change the way we look at training. I am on board and will post more on it later this week.