Texas

Just returned from texas and the national open 14s in frisco. My student had a pretty good tournament losing to the 5 seed in the main draw 2nd round and then went on to win 4 matches in the back. Didnt get any training done just spent hour after hour watching matches. Got back to training last night did a full med day of ETK with pullups and getups didnt feel to well but got it done back to a heavy day tomorrow.

Rolling Along

Things have been pretty smooth as of late,training going well doing my ETK routine and have been on Mondays doing snatches. Did 100 with a 30lb bell in a about 4 and half minutes, trying to work up weight wise to see if i can do the RKC probably in'10 unless the lottery comes through for me. I am going to do the Z cert in San Diego in June depending on housing so doesn't leave much cash for RKC. Practicing a little more going to play Nat 45s in doubles in June and maybe Nat 50s in a year we will see so far thank god for ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Z Health Workshop

Many many thanks to level IV Z health practitioner Leslie Cordova of xplosivestrength.com for the great Z workshop she put on at Sunset Hills Country Club. We had a mix of athletes from world class triathletes to out of shape business men and she did a wonderful job assessing everyone and giving them their own drills to do to help them to move better and feel better. If you haven't tried Z health you owe it to yourself to check it out you can contact me or contact Leslie through her website directly. Training has been plodding along about the same, and starting to train for tennis a bit more, going to play national 45s this year and then train for a year for the national 50s if I can keep my body holding up. Keep checking back new project coming June 1st.

Another month gone by!

It has been a whole month since my last post and things have been busier than ever. The Family returned from grandma's and all the free time I had to do extra training and writing went right out the window. My training has slowed to usually 3 days a week and if I get a fourth day in I usually do deadlifts and some interval work, the rest of the days look like this, light day- 5 ladders of 3 rungs bottoms up kb clean and press 15 kb snatches turkish get up and pullups.
medium day- 5 ladders 4 rungs kb clean and press 20 swings turkish getup and pullups. heavy day-5 ladders of 5 rungs manmakers turkish getups and pullups. Seems to be working well right now, diet has been off the chart poor, way to much sugar but somehow body comp hasn't gone completely haywire though it has made workout days feel more difficult. Have a few new projects in the works my posts will be much more regular so stay tuned in.

OMG a New Post

It has been a while since posting here got out of the habit and have been teaching, training, researching, writing and working a ton. That being said I have found that the learning curve of things goes in cycles. Sometimes I just don't feel like I am going anywhere and other times it is full speed ahead. I have read some terrific books lately which I will write about more in the coming weeks and have been doing some fun consulting with some great athletes which I will follow up on later as well. Training has been going well back into a rhythm with ETK 3 days and deadlifts on the variety days. Need to do more interval work for body comp though. Look forward to sharing some new insights soon.

Pro of the Year!

At the USPTA California convention over the the weekend I was awarded the 2008 Professional of the Year for the California division of the USPTA. It was an unexpected honor and I was very humbled with the nomination and to actually win the award was one of the highlights of my career. Many thanks to Mike Gennette of district one and to all of the pros on the California convention committee for the recognition, it is much appreciated.

Busy Two Weeks

Well its been a couple of weeks since ive written anything but I have been really busy with players and trying to prepare for a couple of presentations I have coming up. Last saturday I did a presentation on strength and conditioning for tennis players at the California USPTA convention. It all went off very well with a lot of attendees that had great questions and some good insights with their own training. My personal training although a little inconsistent has been progressing well. Still doing the ETK ROP with added pullups and core work and on variety days getting in some intervals and deadlifts. Still loving the Z health, some how making my body feel better and better.