This weekend I participated in Pat Powers’ volleyball clinic as an assistant coach in Chicago. About 60 eager volleyball players spent 11.5 hours over a full weekend of non-stop solid talk, drills, game strategy and more by non other than volleyball legend Pat Powers. I’ve participated in a few of his clinics several years ago. …
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Week 12 – P90X Review
This is my final strength training week. I’ll have to replace my recovery and core focus next week and my last overall, for my 5-day beach volleyball trip in Clearwater, Florida. I feel pretty good about completing this program and ready for a great summer. Game on! So now that my 90 days are over, …
Week 11 – P90X Review
What a blast! I can’t say anymore this week compared to last week. Interestingly, this is the last week for some of the routines that I’ve come to hate and love. This is my last time doing Chest and Back. I’ll miss you! I’ve started to pick up the pace on my beach volleyball training. My coach …
Week 10 – P90X Review
10 weeks down, 3 more to go. Noticing progress in anything you do is just the best fuel to keep you motivated. My approach this week was to focus on TRAINING instead of just working out. This thought, combined with progress in my mid section and increased rep count kicked the intensity level up. I …
Week 8 – P90X Review
My climb continues. I can feel the anticipation to reach the end. By now, your body is now used to taking more reps, more weights, squat deeper all the while your mind is absorbing and silencing the earlier months’ desire to give up. Now, you know all about feeling a runners’ high and understand better …
Week 7 – P90X Review
Facts: I’ve completed 49 days of the P90X program in 57 days. I’m almost 2/3 of the way towards my goal. Through a bad cold, flu, lots of travel and other commitments, I feel that this is a great accomplishment. I’m now going into the 8th week focusing on core and cardio (recovery week). I’m …
Week 6 – P90X Review
How does one week turn into two? Travel out of the country for 4 days, pack your schedule with as many meetings as you can and wait to have your email inbox so full that you are forced clean it pass midnight before you can drop dead. That was my week. It started ok, then …
Week 5 – P90X Review
After recovery week, this week felt like the first one in some ways. There were brigther moments of sustainable development which showed in my endurance, more strength in some areas and better overall metabolic capacity. Back and Biceps left my arms sore for over three days. Chest, Shoulders and Triceps was a very tough routine where I bailed out much sooner …
Day 31 – Back & Biceps
45 minutes of solid and sustained workout in just two areas. Basically, pull-ups and dumbbell movements. Intensity and focus seem to be the theme for the second month of training. You want to start this week with a low weight if you are not used to sustained and isolated muscle training or you will burn …
Day 29 – Chest, Shoulders & Triceps
I pushed play on a new video today and what a superb workout it was. After recovery week, this workout wants to confuse you with all kinds of chest-shoulder-tricep combos in a unique way. I was a wimp. Near the end of this one, I couldn’t even start one push-up. The shoulder burn was too …