Robertson Training Systems Newsletter 4.17
In This Issue
- Robertson Training Systems Updates
- Testimonials
- Training Tip
- Nutrition Tip
- Perform Better Seminar Recap
- Upcoming Interviews
- New Articles
- Schedule
Robertson Training Systems Updates
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All Interviews being pushed back a week
With the Perform Better seminar this past weekend, I'm a little
behind with the interviews. As well, I've got a full recap of the
Perform Better seminar below, so we'll restart the interview process
next week.
Testimonials: Magnificent Mobility and Inside-Out
Mike,
Just dropping you a note to say thank you for
Magnificent Mobility and
Inside
Out. Or, I should say my clients thank you because they have
been reaping real physical benefits from the knowledge you, Bill,
and Eric have coalesced into excellent products.
Thank You,
Chris Bathke,C.S.C.S
Los Angeles, CA
Training Tip
Take your fish oils
Okay, this isn't a training tip, but it was reinforced to me at this
weekend's seminar so I thought I'd throw it out there.
Fish oils may be the single-best supplement you can take. In
fact, they're so good I don't even consider them a supplement any more -
they're something I should be taking in every day just like water,
protein, etc. If you want to find out just how powerful they are,
just run a Pubmed search on any disease (heart disease, arthritis, etc.)
and include fish oil as a key word. Chances are, fish oil can
help.
A general rule of thumb is to get 3 grams of EPA/DHA per day.
If you're taking a general fish oil product like you'd get at CVS or
Walgreen's, you may need to take up to 10 pills per day. I prefer
Biotest's
Flameout, where I get the same total EPA/DHA from four pills.
Quite simply, fewer pills = higher quality.
Nutrition Tip
It's Not a Diet
- It's Nutrition Re-Education
By Mike Roussell
All diets fail
eventually. That is the truest statement
there is.
How many people do you
know that have lost a bunch of weight on
_____ (fill in your favorite diet) diet
but then gained most if not all the
weight back within 6 months? I bet you
know one person for almost every diet
out there (I know I do).
How could all these
diets be failures? People fail to
maintain their muscle gains or fat
losses because they see themselves as
going on a diet for a specific amount of
time and then reverting back to their
“normal” way of eating. Unfortunately
“normal” sucks for 90% of people.
This is why the key to
success is a nutritional re-education.
You need to re-educate yourself to what
is a normal diet. When you spend the
time and effort (by yourself or with a
nutrition coach/mentor) to nutritionally
re-educate yourself and change what you
view as a normal diet, you will exit the
rat race known at yo-yo dieting
(housewives aren't the only guilty ones
here, weight lifters and bodybuilders
can be the worst). You will truly
achieve a NEW you. You won’t be on a
diet, you will have changed the way you
eat.
So forget DIETING. Focus
on nutritionally re-educating yourself
to achieve a new normal. This is the
true key to success.
If you like this tip and want to learn
more about Mike and his products, check out his Naked
Nutrition website.
Perform Better Seminar Recap
I just returned from the Perform Better Seminar in Chicago, IL, and
it was an amazing weekend! Chris Poirier and the rest of the
Perform Better staff run an excellent seminar, and I think everyone
would agree this is hands-down the #1 lecture series on tour right now.
Here's a brief recap of the seminar, along with some tidbits from the
various lectures.
Friday, April 18th
Jess and I cruised up a little late on Friday morning, so we missed
the first two lectures of the morning. In the afternoon, we
attended several seminars:
Dr. Jose Antonio - Practical Sports Nutrition and
Supplementation
With my wife being a dietitian, we decided to attended Dr. Antonio's
seminar to start out day. Jose did an excellent job of reviewing
all the big supplements (creatine, glutamine, beta-alanine, caffeine,
various proteins, etc.) and discussed the research that was out their to
either support or refute the companies claims. With very few
federal regulations on the supplement industry, this presentation really
helped to cut through the BS and marketing that was out there.
Brian Grasso - Youth Fitness: The New Horizon for
Personal Trainers
Not only is BG a great coach, but he's a great speaker as well.
This lecture covered many topics, but the focus was on youth training
and ways to improve upon it. One of my favorite points was when BG
likened early sports specialization to focusing on only one topic in
school (i.e. math), versus getting a well rounded education up front.
We've effectively trained kids to be really good at one sport, while
taking away their gross athletic abilities. If you work with or
have young kids, do your best to expose them to a variety of sports and
movements. The more movements and skills they acquire early on,
the broader their movement "language" will be in the future.
Another point that I really liked about this presentation was how we
need to speak to and coach different athletes in different ways.
In other words, you don't coach a kid with high motivation and high
levels of skill the same way you would a kid that has high motivation
but low skill. This is one thing I need to focus on myself to get
more out of my athletes.
Martin Rooney - Speed Kills: Assessment of Sprint
Technique
The fact that Martin Rooney consistently coaches the fastest athletes
at the NFL combine grabs my respect. This presentation discussed
some of the basic sprint and deceleration mechanics he teaches, along
with which muscle groups are most involved at the various stages of
sprinting (acceleration, top speed, etc.)
Thomas Plummer - Money: Why You Don't Have It and How To
Get It
Thomas Plummer gave an excellent presentation on why the "big box"
gyms are on the way out, and why the little guy with a small facility is
on his way in. Considering the fact that Bill and I are hoping to
open a facility very soon, this was music to my ears!
Plummer went on to discuss that one-on-one, machine based training
isn't what people want. They don't want to look like bodybuilders
- they want to look and feel like athletes. Plummer is also a huge
advocate of professionalism within the industry. No Under Armor
shirts at work. No visible tattoos. Showing up early to all
appointments. Basically, taking the industry up a notch.
If you're a personal trainer, strength coach, or someone who wants to
get started in the industry, you owe it to yourself to hear Plummer
talk.
Saturday, April 19th
Lee Taft - Re-Thinking Multi-Directional Speed
I'm quite convinced that Lee Taft has forgotten more about speed
training than I've ever known. The guy is just a wealth of knowledge
with regards to movement training. This topic covered
multi-directional training, and how to improve it. Like many at
the seminar, Lee discussed the importance of learning decelerative
skills first and foremost. While many facilities are throwing kids
on over speed treadmills and trying to lower their 40 times, very few
are teaching them pure movement skills. These are the things we
need to be focusing on if our goal is to keep kids healthy AND improve
their performance over the long haul.
Mark Verstegen - Regenerate
I must admit, Mark Verstegen is a huge reason that I got into this
industry. His work has pioneered the way for many strength coaches
such as myself. While I couldn't stay for the entire session, Mark
discussed how regeneration is a huge component of the programming at
Athletes Performance.
Eric Cressey - Training Strategies for Overhead Athletes
If you're a baseball player in the Boston area, I can't imagine going
to a better coach than Eric Cressey. Not only does he talk the
talk, but he walks the walk as well. More importantly, Eric knows
shoulders about as well as anyone. If you want to get and stay
healthy over the course of your career, this is the guy to see.
Eric's talk covered how he develops training programs for overhead
athletes. However, instead of focusing solely on the shoulder,
Eric started from the ground up and displayed how you MUST look at the
body as a whole, kinetic chain, versus focusing solely on the shoulder.
I'm sure quite a few people in the crowd thought he was going to spend
an hour rambling on about shoulders, but as well all know, nothing
happens in isolation, especially with regards to sport movement.
This session was definitely a highlight for me personally.
Eric Cressey - Training Strategies for Overhead Athletes
(Hands-On)
In this session, Eric took the crowd through various mobility and
stability drills that he uses with his clients and athletes.
Again, the focus here wasn't solely on addressing the shoulder, but
rather the entire kinetic chain. The session worked everything
from the feet to the shoulders and everything in between.
Gray Cook - Secrets of the Hip and Knee
This was the final session for me on Saturday. My reason for
attending was two-fold:
1 - I'm a knee geek
2 - Gray Cook is really smart
This session focused on Gray's strategies for assessing knee/hip
health and function. While we attack things from different angles,
I think Gray and I both want to evaluate the body as a whole and get
away from a "knee focused" approach. Gray used the FMS to evaluate
clients, and then outlined some of his protocols to get clients back to
cleaner movement patterns. One of the concepts I really took away
from this seminar was the concept of "reflex stabilization" - or getting
stability from the appropriate areas at the appropriate times.
Some might also call this "active stiffness," but that's a discussion
for another day.
Sunday, April 20th
While I would love to say I was studious this day, that would be a
big fat lie. Instead, I did my
Bulletproof
Knees hands-on session at 8 am and my lecture session at 11:45.
Here's what I covered.
In my hands-on, my goal was to get the attendees up and moving.
More importantly, I wanted them to FEEL what their clients feel every
day that they train. Three of my primary components of knee health
are mobility, motor control, and strength, so those were the topics we
covered in this session.
We started off with basic foam rolling and soft-tissue work for the
hips, thighs, and lower extremity. I covered a little bit of
functional anatomy, as well as strategies to tweak any given foam
rolling position to get more out of it.
Next, I got the attendees moving by going through eight of our
Magnificent Mobility drills. However, rather than just
mindlessly going through drills, we did a lot of cuing on technique to
emphasize the need for HIP mobility, versus lumbar spine mobility.
I really wanted to drill the concept of movement quality into them.
We finished up with some intrinsic hip work (glute max, psoas/iliacus,
and posterior glute medius) and drills to clean up basic movements like
squats and lunges. All in all, I thought the session went really
well.
The lecture session went quite well, too. In this presentation,
I like to give the attendees an idea of why I do the
things that I do with regards to knee training and health. It's
hard to convey all your thoughts and ideas in a one-hour presentation,
but the attendees were great, especially considering they'd been pounded
with information over the past three days!
All in all, the seminar went extremely well and a great time was had
by all. As a presenter, I really feel like the PB format of two
sessions (one hands-on, one lecture) works quite well because it helps
reinforce the concepts. Not only do you get to find out WHY
someone does things they way they do, but you actually get to try it out
on yourself first. I really feel like this enhances the learning
process.
If you're interested in learning more about the summits, be sure to
check out the
Perform Better website. Trust me, you won't be disappointed!
Upcoming Interviews
April 28th - Eric Cressey,
owner of Cressey Performance; author, speaker and competitive powerlifter
(www.ericcressey.com)
May 5th - Bill Hartman, president of PR
Performance, physical therapist and strength coach (www.billhartman.net)
May 12th - Mike Yuhaniak, strength coach and
personal trainer (www.mikeyuhaniak.com)
May 19th - Dave Doan, bench press specialist and
IPF Masters Gold Medal winner
If you would like to submit a question for
one of our upcoming interviewees:
1) Please send an e-mail to info@robertsontrainingsystems.com
2) In the subject heading, please list the person your question is directed
towards (i.e. Mike Boyle)
3) In the body of the text, list one or two questions you'd like to have
answered.
We can't promise that our interviewees can
answer all questions, but we'll do our best to get a nice mix of questions.
Thanks for your support!
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