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Inside Training Revolutions Issue 4:
"The Classic Things You Do to Shoot Yourself in the Foot" by Charles Staley, MS, CSCS
What is this article about?
Learn what mistakes you keep making and why you haven't learned the first time. We all make mistakes through life and training. However, the goal is to make a mistake only once. Hopefully, by then we have learned how to not make it again.
Excerpt from the article: "We all like to take a certain amount of pride in doings things right. However, let me assure you, even the smartest, most dedicated trainees make lots of mistakes on an ongoing basis. That's why even the best athletes have coaches. In fact, the better you are, the more important it is to have a skillful coach- someone who's been down the road you're traveling and who can point out the various obstacles along the way.
Allow me to be your coach for a moment...
If you can intuit the logic in my argument, I'd like you to allow me to be your coach for a moment as we explore the various errors that people make in their quest for physical perfection, and how to either avoid them in the first place, or to learn to substitute more productive habits and behaviors in the future..."
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"Over-rated & Under-rated Training Methods & Mentalities: One Coach's Perspective"
by Rick Karboviak, CSCS
What is this article about?
An informative article written by a coach that has used different modalities with clients and athletes alike over the years. Some of these modalities are not useful in a real-world setting and translate to nothing but wasted time and effort in a training session. Some methods are over-looked and consequently under-used in training, which could be why so many exercisers are not achieving the results they desire.
Excerpt from the article: "Everyone’s favorite 4 minute torture drill, the Tabata Protocol, has people clamoring its effects, and others scoffing at it. The ones who scoff say ‘4 minutes can’t do that much for you, you need at least 20 minutes to workout before you gain anything.” If that were true, than I’d be a fat slob, since I’ve done Tabata protocol workouts and 10-15 minute high intensity interval training workouts for the past 7 years. I was even doing Tabata intervals well before I even knew they were called Tabata’s! These workouts have been a staple of my ‘cardio’, or what I have basically termed ‘conditioning time’. The routine of 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest, for 8 rounds is very easy to setup, and tough to go through. I think most who scoff at it are too used to losing their wandering focus in a 20-30 minute exercise spin on a bike or cross-trainer."
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"The Pain in the Neck with Pilates"
by John Izzo, NASM-CPT, PES
What is this article about?
One of the most popular group exercise classes around today is examined and dissected. John explores the one move in Pilates that shifts the risk-to-benefit ratio from good to bad, and reveals why so many that perform this modality all look the same.
Excerpt from the article: "There is no doubt that the popularity of Pilates as a form of exercise has grown over the past 5 years. With its fluid and sleek movements, this type of exercise (firstly developed by Josef Pilates) has attracted many females that yearn for “toned” muscle lines. From my observation, Pilates consists of long and short level postural movements (both isometric and concentric/eccentric) that challenge stability, balance, and overall muscular endurance. But with most group exercise programs, it lacks a pre-workout assessment carried by a fitness professional with a keen eye in biomechanics. Most group exercise instructors are pre-occupied with maintaining rapport with participants, finding music, and correcting “obvious flaws” in choreography. “Obvious flaws” are typically thought of as purposeful—whereas the participant is using flawed movements because they are not adhering to the instruction or simply cannot perform it because of a low fitness level. What most participants, as well as some instructors, don’t understand is the fact that flawed movements are caused by biomechanical dysfunctions precipitated through poor posture, poor exercise techniques, and myofascia disruption (adhesions, scar tissue, injuries, etc). Ultimately, most flawed movements are executed subconsciously from physical limitation—not from lack of cognitive reception."
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"Everything, But the Girl: A Girl's Gym Guide"
by Leigh Peele, NASM-CPT
What is this article about?
What is a girl to do once she enters a fitness center? Some females know they are 'not in Kansas' anymore once they hear the clanking and see the numerous machines that occupy the rooms. Most fear this overwhelming experience and strive for a map. But what happens when YOU become the map?
Excerpt from this article: "Whatever you have available to you just know that these are spots you need to be focusing on. Don't get so overwhelmed by all the plates and bars that you walk away. Start out simple. You can get a proper full body workout with some dumbbells and a bench, heck even less. The best thing about free weights is they allow you to adjust to you and to use more muscles and move in more directions than machines. Getting a tailored to "you" look is going to happen more from natural "you" movements. Now that you know the gym a little better it's time to learn what to do once you are in it and what to do outside of it."
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"Eating on the Go: An Important Message"
by Robert Belley, CCS, IYCA
What is this article about?
Why do nutrition programs fail? Because they are not realistic, livable, or palatable. Robert reveals some healthy alternatives to trick your mind and keep your physique on a healthy course to improvement.
Excerpt from this article: "Helpful hint, if you’re gonna choose chocolate add some real cocoa powder, if you’re gonna choose vanilla add some extra vanilla extract. Now here’s one of my favorite little secrets to sweeten up your french toast. First grab some sugar and place it in a small seal-able container. Second, grab some pure vanilla bean and place the sticks in the container with the sugar. Let this sit for a few days. The vanilla will flavor the sugar to taste out-of-this-world! Simple enough right? Now you can sprinkle this into your egg/protein powder mix and it will definitely turn it up a notch!"
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"The Body Contract 2.0" by James Chan, NSCA-CPT
What is this article about?
The Body Contract Workout assembles ideas from Dan Duchaine (author of the book Body Opus), traditional bodybuilding, and eccentric variation to build muscle. It is developed by a bodybuilder with proven results and will do wonders for you. Excerpt from this article: "Although eccentric training can induce muscular size, many people in the strength and bodybuilding biz feel that eccentric training has a poor cost to benefit ratio. In other words, although the size gains from negatives is significant, the training is too traumatic and damaging to the muscles. The Soviets (when there was a Soviet Union) looked into eccentric training, but felt it didn’t do much for strength gains in the long run." _________________________________________________________________ "Get Your Abs to React!" by Dave Schmitz, PT, ATC, CSCS Stop the endless crunches and empty rhetoric about abdominal training! Learn how the abdominals work in a performance based setting and how they biomechanically effect the entire body. You will learn more exercises that will become more effective tools than any other. Excerpt from this article: "Muscles are really very dumb. Abdominal muscles are no different than any other muscle. They don’t think they simply react to momentum, gravity or ground reaction forces that are transferred through your arms and legs. The faster and more neuromuscularly efficient muscles react to these drivers the leaner, stronger and more functionally efficient you become. Many trainers, coaches, and fitness minded individuals understand the role of the core as it relates to static or isometric stabilization. However, when it comes to controlling functional movement, training the core to only be an isometric stabilizer is not going to optimally prepare the body to handle daily or athletic activities." 
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