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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 7/19/19

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BUT FIRST…CHECK THIS STUFF OUT

1. Strong Body-Strong Mind Workshop – Chicago, IL (w/ Dr. Lisa Lewis)

This will be the only time Dr. Lisa Lewis and I will be presenting this workshop together in 2019. In previous years we’ve presented it in Boston, London, Toronto, Bonn (Germany),  and Austin, TX.

This 1-day workshop is targeted towards fitness professionals and digs a little deeper into what really “bogs” them down and stresses them out….

…their clients!

We’ll be covering a multitude of both psychological and physical techniques to better serve your clients and YOU.

FYI: There’s only ONE more week to take advantage of the Early Bird rate.

Go HERE for more details and to register.

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STUFF TO READ WHILE YOU’RE PRETENDING TO WORK

How to Get Yourself to Workout When You’re Depressed – Aleisha Fetters

No witty introduction here.

This is a very serious topic that affects many, many, many people…,maybe even you.

Some fantastic insights and strategies provided by Aleisha in this article.

Diagnostic Doomspeak – Kieryn Marcellus

STOP TELLING YOUR CLIENTS THEY’RE WALKING BALLS OF FAIL

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest – Hanif Abdurraqib

My wife picked this up for me as she was perusing books to read while we’re away on vacation.

She saw the title (and the topic) and knew I’d love it.

And I do. A lot.

Anyone who grew up in the early to mid-90s and listened to hip-hop in that era will appreciate Hanif’s seamless ability to intertwine the nostalgia of groups like Tribe, Wu-Tang Clan, Dre, and N.W.A (and everything they stood for and what they did to elevate hip-hop and culture) with events in his own life and what it was like to grow up as a young black man in America.

Beautiful, witty, humorous, and oftentimes heart-wrenching writing.

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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 5/3/19

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BUT FIRST…CHECK THIS STUFF OUT

1. (Even More) Complete Shoulder & Hip Blueprint – 2019 Locations & Dates

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: May 25-26th (<– EARLY BIRD rate ends this weekend).

Sydney, Australia: July 13-14th at Clean Shred.

Melbourne, Australia: July 19-21st and Melbourne Strength & Conditioning. (<—  Includes bonus “Psych Skills for Fitness Pros” pre-workshop with Dr. Lisa Lewis).

This workshop will piggyback on the material Dean Somerset and I covered in the original Complete Shoulder & Hip Blueprint.

With this iteration, though, we’ll be going a bit deeper into the coaching and programming side of things:

  • How to program around common injuries.
  • How to “connect” the appropriate exercises to the client/athlete.
  • How to really add value with your assessment process.
  • How to squat and deadlift like a boss.

Find out more details HERE.

2. Strategic Strength Workshop – Boston, MA

NOTE: The Early Bird rate of $100 OFF the regular price ends THIS WEEKEND (May 5th)

Luke and I did this workshop last summer in London and figured it’s only fair to bring it State side.

Combined we have 30+ years of coaching experience (I.e., one Mike Boyle or Dan John) and this workshop will be two days where we uncover every nook and cranny as it relates to how we assess our clients/athletes and how we best prepare them for the rigors of every day life/sport.

This will be a unique opportunity for people to learn from myself, but especially Luke, who is one of the best and brightest coaches I know. This will be his first time teaching in the States.

For more information and to register you can go HERE.

3.  FREE E-Course for Online Trainers via Online Trainer Academy

This is a free self-paced mini-course from Jon Goodman and his team at the Online Trainer Academy. They are the experts who have helped more fitness pros transition to online training than every other company and coach combined.

You will learn:

1. The systems you need to repeatedly generate clients.
2. The marketing know-how to ethically and douchily (<– my word, not their’s) attract the right people.
3. The tools to get high-paying clients.
4.  An action plan to make it all happen.

—> Click here to get your free online training career blueprint

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STUFF TO READ WHILE YOU’RE PRETENDING TO WORK

Your Guide to Partial Range of Motion Exercises  – Aleisha Fetters

Nice synopsis of why (and when) utilizing partial range of motion exercises can be beneficial for strength and muscle building.

The Joy of Being a Woman With Muscles – Emily Beers

Because, fuck what others think (<— my quote, not the author’s).

Stop Doing That, Start Doing This – T-Nation.com

Here’s another compilation article I was part of via T-Nation.com. Some great insights courtesy of coaches such as Lee Boyce, Eric Bach, Nick Tumminello, and others.

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Stuff To Read While You’re Pretending To Work: 11/17/17

I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m sooooo pumped for The Punisher on Netflix. Now, I wouldn’t say I grew up a big Punisher fan growing up (remember that Thomas Jane movie back in the late 90’s early 2000’s?), but I am a big fan of Jon Bernthal and was intrigued by his playing of the character in season two of Daredevil.

Between that and Lisa’s birthday this weekend I’ll have a ton to keep me occupied.

Lets get to this week’s “stuff.”

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But First

1) Looking For Strong MOFo’s

Bryan Krahn and I looking for men (and women) who are 40+ (or thereabouts) to test-drive a program he and I are putting together called Strong MOFo

MOFo = Man Over Forty.

You can read all about it HERE.

Of, if you prefer the Cliff Notes version: if you’re a human being and looking to follow a 4-month program that’s designed to get you strong, maybe get you a better bicep peak, not kill you, and take into account you’re not 25 anymore (and written be two competent coaches) this program may be right up your alley.

Direct link HERE.

2) Media Cameos

I was asked to contribute to THIS article on Men’s Health titled “6 Signs You Need to Switch Up Your Workout.”

Okay “cameos” was a lie.

Stuff You Should Read

Complete Core – Mike Boyle

It would be hard for me to think of one coach who has helped shape my career and way of thinking when it comes to training people more so than Mike Boyle.

I remember the first time I met him back in 2005 when Eric Cressey and I drove from Danbury, CT to meet up him, Alwyn Cosgrove, and Valerie Waters at some seedy Irish bar after the three of them had finished presenting somewhere.

Admittedly, at the time, I had zero idea who Mike was. But Eric quickly set me straight and told me he was a pretty big deal. I went home that night, purchased Functional Training For Sport and never looked back.

I’ve watched every iteration of Functional Strength Coach and I still think his book, Advances in Functional Training, is still one of the best books I’ve read in strength & conditioning and one that really “meshed” things together for me as a coach.

So needless to say, here we are with another fantastic Mike Boyle project…this time diving deep into his brain on the topic of core training.

It’s Mike Boyle. This is gooooooood.

And, unfortunately, you only have until the end of today (11/17) to purchase this at the sale price of $50 off regular price.

10 Rules for Building Muscle Without Getting Fat – Eric Bach

Great stuff in this one from Eric – a guy I trust when it comes to adding on slabs of muscle without the belly.

What Is the Keto Diet? (And Should I Try It?) – Aleisha Fetters

Very thorough and a very fair look into the Keto Diet.

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Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 2/17/17

Another week down. Lets get right to it.

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Stuff to Check Out Before the Other Stuff

1. 2 Workshops Coming Up

Complete Shoulder & Hip Blueprint – Vancouver, April 1-2nd.

Dean Somerset and I will be in Vancouver that weekend to talk shoulders and hips and to start a tickle fight.

For more information and to sign up you can go HERE.

SUNY Cortland Health & Wellness Conference – Cortland, NY, April 8th

I’ll be at my alma mater the weekend of April 8th speaking at what I believe is the 4th or 5th annual SUNY Cortland Conference. Other guest speakers include my wife, Dr. Lisa Lewis, Mark Fisher, Brian St. Pierre, and Dr. David Just.

For more information you can go HERE.

2. The DB Row and Shoulder Health

The 1-arm DB Row. You do it, your best friend does it, the girl whom you have a crush on at the gym yet have never said hi to does it, everybody does it.

However, it’s still one of the most commonly butchered exercises out there. Check out my most recent “tip” on T-Nation on how to perform it right. [Video]

HERE

3. Gotta Go See John Wick 2

 

The first John Wick was the best action movie I’ve seen since The Raid (and the Raid 2). A little know fact about John Wick is that the guy who wrote and directed it was also Keanu Reeves’s stunt double throughout all of The Matrix movies.

Pretty bad ass.

4. Registration Closing Soon for Online Trainer Academy

 

You only have a few days left to take advantage of $200 off joining The Online Trainer Academy. Need a little convincing? Check out this FREE ebook by Jonathan Goodman titled the 16 Lasting Laws of Online Training…HERE.

Don’t worry, Jon won’t spam you. Because he’s not a dick.

Stuff To Read…

Rise of the (Weight) Machines: Why Exercise Equipment is Not as Bad as You’ve Been Told – Aleisha Fetters

I used to be the snobby, douche of a trainer who felt using machines was a waste of anyone’s time and that all anyone ever needed was to use barbells and dumbbells.

It’s a very stupid notion to think that training should be a “one or the other” endeavor. Thanks to Aleisha for including me on this awesome piece written for Adam Bornstein’s site.

Returning to Exercise After Pregnancy – Sarah Ellis Duval

This was a very pertinent article to read on my end given Lisa is tw0-weeks postpartum herself. She trained all throughout her pregnancy hitting the gym 3-4x per week on top of teaching 2-3 spin classes per week.

Psycho.

She’s been taking it relatively easy the past few weeks. I mean, she did take her body through the wringer giving birth to our son, Julian. Thankfully the fruits of her labor (<— pun totally intended) in the gym paid off in that she hasn’t had to deal with any significant health issues that many women face after giving birth.

Nonetheless, this was an excellent piece on things to consider.

Learning From Terrible Networking – Sol Orwell

Networking is an integral part of building a successful career and business. There’s right way to do it, and a wrong way.

Here’s Sol with some commentary on the latter. PLEASE read.

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I love this pulling variation for my female clients working towards crushing their chin-up/pull-up. This is Sara, she can currently perform sets of 3 chins for a handful of sets. However in an effort to get a little more volume I like using Rack Pull-ups, which is a variation I learned from Paul Carter. This is an excellent exercise for a few reasons: it forces the feet out front which helps maintain “canister position throughout (preventing excessive ribs flaring out and cranking through lumbar spine) in addition to allowing more t-spine extension and scapular retraction. It’s also an excellent exercise that hammers the lats and I love how you can accentuate the “stretch” at the bottom. Also to note, to steal a line of thinking from Paul, at the top the legs should be parallel to the floor. Any higher and you gain a leverage advantage and they’re not a difficult. Sara makes these look easy. Good luck….?

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