Apparently I lied. I don’t piss excellence. I just spent the past 45 minutes writng today’s post, only to see nothing appear when I clicked “post.”
Excuse me while I go punch a hole in the wall. With my face.
UPDATE (10 minutes, and one concussion later): Okay, so rather than be a jerk and leave you hanging, I’ll just write a Cliff Notes version of what I originally wrote.
1. Last week was a big week at Cressey Performance. Our athletes were pissing excellence all over the place, and while I know Eric highlighted many of these over on his blog already, I figured I’d show some love, too.
- Tim Collins absolutely shoved at Yankee Stadium last week. You can watch the highlights HERE. In addition, Tim stopped by MLB Network to talk some shop with Mitch Williams on his mechanics. Pretty cool stuff to say the least! Click HERE to watch.
- Lawrence Academy senior, Tyler Beede casually threw a perfect game featuring 15 strikeouts. No big deal.
- Not to be out done, Lincoln-Sudbury senior, and fellow Vanderbilt bound (along with Beede), Adam Ravenelle, pitched a complete game one-hiiter with 18 strikeouts, along with two home-runs at the plate.
- Both Trystan Magnuson (Oakland A’s organization) and Steve Cishek (Florida Marlins organization) had Big League call ups last week. Congrats fellas!
- Stanford University sophomore, Sahil Bloom, earned his first victory of the season holding off Pacific with five scoreless innings pitched.
- Softball star, Lauren Tuiskula, struck out 13 batters while tossing a no-hitter, leading Leicester to a 2-1 victory over David Prouty. The win helped Leicester qualify for the Central Massachusetts State Tournament
- And lastly, the Sox swept the Yankees this past weekend, and more importantly Youk made Joba cry.
All in all, it was a pretty surreal week for us at the facility, and something we likely won’t see repeated any time soon. But, nevertheless, it’s always awesome to see our athletes kicking ass and taking names.
2. Keeping with the baseball theme, I wanted to give a shout out to my alma mater, Mercyhurst College, for winning the PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference) title this past weekend.
They head to Eastern PA this weekend to compete in the Division II Atlantic Region Championship Tournament. Coach Spano, who was the assistant coach when I played there (1997-1999) and took over as head coach the year after I left, has done a fantastic job at building a nationally ranked program. Congrats coach, and good luck!
3. I just submitted an article this weekend to both t-nation.com and livestrong.com, so keep your eyes peeled for those. As well, I should have my first FEATURE article in this month’s issue of Men’s Health magazine (what, what!), so I’ll definitely keep you posted on that, too.
4. For those interested, someone sent THIS link on my Twitter feed listing every exercise I’ve ever featured in my “Exercises You Should Be Doing” series. Pretty cool stuff!
And, after that I wrote about how I overheard some girl at Whole Foods over the weekend mention how she had just started running barefoot (presumably after reading Born to Run) and wanted to know if there was any supplement she could take to reduce the swelling.
I went on to say how that would be akin to someone reading how lifting weights can make you all big and swole and stuff, and then heading over to Westside Barbell tomorrow to go toe to toe with AJ Roberts.
Probably not a smart idea.
As much as the shoe industry has fooled us into thinking that we NEED footware, we also need to realize that we’re not meant to run on pavement! I just find it comical how people think they can skip steps 1-117, and then can’t figure out why they hurt themselves, or why they never stick with anything all the way through. It’s kind of like the person who decides that they’re going to start a diet, but rather than reduce their calories by a few hundred kcals, they decide to do something more advanced, like intermittent fasting.
Then, after two days, they feel like crap, and attack the stack of Oreos stashed underneath their bed. If people took the time to make the proper progressions, and not feel like they had to be a hero all the time, they may actually find they’ll get better, long-term, results.
Honestly, what I originally wrote was way more cool than that – but I hope you get the general idea. I’m just really pissed right now and need to go lift something heavy.
On that note, see ya!
