Playing Hit and Miss

It has been a crazy few weeks of training. I have been fairly consistent, but in no way as consistent as I would like. I injured my shoulder and right arm doing heavy pullups with the 88. It set me back a few weeks on my goals as the injury kept me from being able to turn my wrist. I was able to work on VO2 Max and Get ups. In some ways the injury helped me. i was forced to evaluate my techniques and really focus on my Get Up form. I noticed that it actually helped my shoulder. It did that through the mobility and flexibility inherent in Hard Style. The T-Spine mobility that is stressed in Kalos Thenos created a distinct release of my upper neck and shoulder. There was an immediate lessening of the pain and dysfunction that I had been experiencing. This coupled with Joint Mobility and some Z Health has made this heal much faster then I thought.

I have decided to open up some training time again. I have had quite a few people ask me to start training people again. I have some lunch time and afternoons open if interested. I am also doing some online training if that works better. Please email me at brittstrainingsystems@gmail.com if interested. I am still running group classes on Saturdays and we are going to start a 6 week program on the 11th. we have room to add more people.

Once again, I have failed to blog. Bad Paul!

I came across this clip this morning and thought it was pretty cool.



The workouts have not been as good as they have been. I have a nagging injury in my forearm that causes me to not be able to rotate my hand well. I am able to hit VO2 Max and Get-Ups and have been really working on those two exercises. I have also been a wuss and have been training indoors the last couple of weeks. I hate being a wimp, but it has been warm in the garage!

I have been looking back at my posts and I realize that it has been pretty sporadic lately. If that was not enough of a clue, my best buddy told me I have been crappy at posting. No excuses other than I am trying to explode my main business, which is happening. I love training adults, but helping out kids is really fun. What a great thing it is to help kids develop great fundamentals and healthy habits. That being said, there should not be any kids reading this stuff.

I picked up a mew camera the other day and started playing with it. I can now see what I was doing wrong at the RKC. I am not fully locking out my right elbow. I am working on that through the use of video. I wish that I had started this earlier, it would have prevented a bad habit from developing. I have come to see that video taping can help with how I do and how I teach techniques.

I will be putting video up now more consistently and of a greater variety. I have been asked to put up the group workouts also and may videotape the exercises. The Shen Chuan has been going really well. We have been hitting our groundwork phase and everyone is progressing well. I would love to get out to Salt Lake City to train with Jake Shannon really put some catch wrestling into the mix. We already do quite a bit as Joe Lansdale's father was a carnival wrestler back in the day. Joe hurts you with his stuff!

I have started showing more of my edged weapon stuff in class. i am honing it up in the hopes of teaching a class in the DFW area at a local knife makers place. I hope to meet up with him soon, now that I have some time during the day. I am picking up one of his blades in the near future.

I have gone back to Viking Warrior Conditioning and really love it. I think that it is the way to train. I do not see any cardio program giving you the same benefits, especially in as short a time period. I have dropped down to the 16kg and really want to own the program. It has gone better this time around as I have more rest lately. I am coupling it with a 3 x 3 program of basics - Military Press, Squats and Pullups.

This weeks group training was:

3 x 3 clean and press
3 x 3 squat
3 x 3 row
3 x 3 windmill

I had everyone use a heavier weight then normal. There were several people that were shocked by the weights they were able to handle. I had two people really own the next weight up! Go Jaqui!



Awesome Submission

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Don't do this at home!

Sometimes you have to wonder how people have become certified as trainers. I would love to know the reasoning that went along with this exercise. At some point they had to think, "Hey, this would be cool!"

I have never seen anything so out in left field. The potential for injury and a lack of common sense is astounding. I really can't say enough...

Training has been going pretty well lately. I have started a 5 x 5 program for a 6-8 week period. I love Kenneth Jay's Viking Warrior Conditioning, but had to take a break. I was burned out from just training 6 hours or more a day. It is a nice change and gives me a chance to work on double kettlebell drills for a while.

I have stopped taking on new clients lately. I have been really busy with my main focus, Amazing Athletes. I am not planning on having any workshops until maybe July or August.We have had some great opportunities to reach young kids with the message of fitness and we are trying to make the best of it. There is such a large percentage of overweight kids, that anything that reaches them is a positive.

reaching for the dream...

I try to keep things positive on this blog. I also live my life that way. I always try to reach higher and achieve what I want to achieve. It is really cool to find examples of people breaking from their shell to work at achieving their dreams. This lady is positive and has great talent, she just needed an outlet. I wish I could sing...



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Impressive Skill

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Overtraining

I tend to walk a fine line between sane training and over training. I run and teach so many kids classes during the day that I am always somewhat tired. I often find that the best way to teach kids is to model the skill, behavior or action that they need to do. It can take a toll on the body after a little while. I also changed the sequence of my training. I was doing VO2 Max on day 1 with strength day on the 2nd. I flip flopped the days and have been doing lots of Get Ups on day 1 and VO2 max on Day 2. It seems to wear me down a little faster. I know I have been doing upwards of 25 minutes of Get Ups. That is way to many Get Ups. I start out without weight and move to kettlebells without a break.

I went out tonight to practice VO2 Max and after 10 sets, I could not get into the rhythm. I decided to cut it short this week and just recover and start next week with a more intelligent plan of action. I am putting VO2 Max on Day 1 and a lot fewer Get Ups. I really love Get Ups, but will be using more weight and probably hitting 3-5 reps a set.

This is a case of rather be lucky then good. Capoeira actually worked!

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