Optimizing Back Health With The Kettlebell Swing

Optimizing Back Health With The Kettlebell Swing

Wild West Workouts & Circus Training vs. Programming & Training

Simplicity in its purest form is basic and effective with regards to fitness. So many ways to do a squat, bicep curl and push up these days it's enough to make ones head spin. I promote solid strength fundamentals first and foremost. Being almost 45, having started lifting in the early 80s w universal and nautilus equipment at my local YMCA are my roots. As I progressed into highschool and playing varsity football I was then given the platform of bench, squat, power clean, tbar row and military press. Other then needing a posterior chain exercise I can honestly say those basic 5 are still a primary way of my personal and professional training. I've trained hundreds of clients, athletes and trainers and the basics are always what I focus on. I've evolved with the times with a love of TRX, Kettlebells, stability/BOSU balls and strength bands in the past decade+. If your posting videos of some crazy ass funky ooh ahh way of a basic lunge, push up etc... I'm not for you. Good luck and good riddens. That stuff don't work my friend. As well attending workshop after workshop to learn bootcamp and mind numbing rhetoric based versions of basic strength movements you're wasting time and money. It's takes 10000 reps or so to master a movements biomechanics. Sorry that doesn't happen in 8, 16 or 24 hours of training. Every single person who trains is different and you need a basic foundation of strength and muscle building to build off of. Making someone's HR elevate, gasp for breath and sweat is not training. Making a client walk on a treadmill for 2,3,4 minutes every 10-15 minutes of a training sessions IS NOT training. It's actually filler and shows you don't really know what to do to truly help your clients or athletes. Copying a YouTube video or some goofball sports conditioning drill then having a deconditioned person do the same has got to be the lamest form of personal training going. If you've never spent years coaching and mentoring w top strength coaches YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS asking regular people to do agility, dynamic warm up and explosive training. That leads to injury, no fat loss, no muscle gains and pretty much a booby trap for failure. The industry is going through a corrective adjustment and it's time leaders, pioneers and fitness professionals lead by talking and walking.  I always speak from experience and observation. Seek knowledge, embrace information, research an answer to a question and practice before you teach.