heading to the Olympia expo (time sensitive)
Published: Fri, 09/24/10
Hi ,
I'm about to head out to the Olympia Expo right now to meet
up with Critical Bench interviewer Ben Tatar and Dave Ruel
the Muscle Cook.
We are going to grab supplement samples and watch strongman
and the World's Strongest Bodybuilder II for Bench.
I'll keep this short, I gotta go catch the shuttle soon.....
You've probably been hearing a LOT about Eric Cressey's
brand new Show and Go Training system -- the very plan that outlines
EVERYTHING you need to know to look, feel and perform better in
just 16 short weeks.
But in case you missed my email the other day, you can still grab the
full system at $50 OFF for a little while longer here:
In this program, Eric shares some of the most strategic performance
enhancing methods I've ever seen. Just check out this article for a
taste:
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3 Principles crucial to the success
By Eric Cressey M.S. , CSCS
If I had to pick three principles crucial to the success of both
athletes and non-athletes, they'd be the following:
1. Realize that consistency is everything. I always tell our
clients from all walks of life that the best strength and
conditioning programs are ones that are sustainable. It's not about
working hard for three months and making great progress - only to
fall off the bandwagon for a month. This is absolutely huge for
professional athletes who need to maximize progress in the
off-season; they just can't afford to have unplanned breaks in
training if they want to improve from year to year.
If a program isn't conducive to your goals and lifestyle, then it
isn't a good program. That's why I went out of my way to create
2x/week, 3x/week, and 4x/week strength training options - plus five
supplemental conditioning options and a host of exercise
modifications - when I pulled Show and Go together; I wanted it to
be a very versatile resource.
Likewise, I wanted it to be safe; a program isn't good if it
injures you and prevents you from exercising. Solid programs
include targeted efforts to reduce the likelihood of injury via
means like mobility warm-ups, supplemental stretching
recommendations, specific progressions, fluctuations in training
stress, and alternative exercises ("plan B") in case you aren't
quite ready to execute "Plan A."
2. You must balance competing demands, and prioritize the ones that
are the most pressing at a given time. Using our professional
baseball pitchers as an example, their training consists of
strength training, mobility work, medicine ball throws, movement
training, and the throwing program (which is near daily in nature).
In the Cressey Performance system, when the throwing program ramps
up, the medicine ball work must come down substantially, and the
strength training tapers off just a bit. You simply can't keep
adding without subtracting something else and making a tradeoff, as
athletes only have a certain amount of recovery capacity, and it's
hard to fine-tune an exact movement like throwing a baseball if
you're fatigued from everything else.
Managing competing demands is arguably more challenging in the
general population, as their jobs outside the gym are usually more
stressful than those that face many professional athletes - meaning
that the Joes and the Janes have less recovery capacity with which
to work. It seems logical that when you add something to a program,
you have to subtract something else - but I'm constantly amazed at
how many people decide to just tack on more volume when they can't
lose fat or gain muscle mass fast enough. Sometimes, you just need
to change the composition of the program, not add more and more,
thereby creating three-hour marathon training sessions. This leads
to my next point...
3. The success comes from the overall program, not just the
individual parts. In other words, synergy is everything.
The aforementioned pitchers can't just go out and start a throwing
program after doing nothing for three months. Rather, they need to
work to enhance their mobility and get stronger, more reactive, and
more powerful first. If they skip these important steps, they
increase their likelihood of injury, make it harder to re-acquire a
skilled movement, and reduce the likelihood of improvement.
In the general population, a good strength and conditioning program
consists of tremendous interdependencies. How well you deadlift
depends on the training you've done in the previous month, week,
and day - and how thorough and targeted your mobility warm-up (or
lack thereof, in many unfortunate cases) was prior to that day's
training session. Those trainees who have the best results are the
ones that line everything up - from nutrition, to strength
training, to mobility work, to movement training, to metabolic
conditioning, to recovery protocols.
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Pretty cool, huh? When you start combining smart, specific
strategies like THAT, reaching your goals becomes a LOT more
realistic!
You can check out the testimonials and get $50 OFF at Eric's program,
but the promo IS getting ready to end so I'd make my way over to
the below link now:
==> Show and Go Training (Last Day)
Okay gotta run. I'll take some cool pics at the Olympia and post them
on facebook. Plus I've got some crazy pics from Mexico too.
Keep an eye out for those, I think you'll really get a kick out of them.
Talk soon,
Mike Westerdal
CriticalBench.com