The Trickle Effect

Maybe because it's wrestling districts time and, I have a bunch of guys set up to go kick ass this weekend...that I thought it a good idea to write this post. We have all heard the axiom "the greatest successes always leave a trail." Well, this morning the wrestlers got their sedes for the districts and low and behold there are only two out of the 15 guys I worked with that have #1 sedes for the districts and I have a pretty good idea why, atleast in part, why these two received top dog at the districts. Because, they most certainly did leave a trail...
1. These two wrestlers were the only, I REPEAT, the ONLY two athletes out of 15 who took their nutrition seriously right from the start. In fact, their parents had me over their homes way back in the summer to make clear of how they would develop a strong nutrition plan for the whole year. We planned their attack, so to speak.
2. These two athletes were the only two out of the 15 athletes who did not miss our pre-season strength and conditioning workouts for lame reasons like being sick or too tired to train hard.
3. Their good nutrition sustained them 'work-horse-strong' through their workouts and through their regular wrestling season practices and matches. They never 'letup'.
4. one wrestler was 43-1, the other 37-1!
5. Both athletes are fine students. One is an A student... the other a B+ student. These guys obviously have alot going for them
6. One is a senior with 5 schools on high recruit alert...
7. The other is only a freshman. Just wait a few years... he will probably get several full-ride offers
8. I watched both of these guys wrestle during the regular season and saw them just dominate their opponents for 6 full minutes. I mean these guys made life miserable for their woeful opponents for 6 crushing minutes. Do you know what it feels like to get your ass handed to you for 6 minutes? It's 6 minutes of "this sucks"! And frankly, this was awesome for me to watch!
9. These guys now get a few byes so, they can just chill and watch from the side lines as some of the other wrestlers have to qualify tonight to survive another day at the districts tomorrow.

Now, these two young scholastic champion athletes realize how awesome it is to take care of "business" early on so that they have very little to worry about when the season really counts.

Moral of the story? When you prepare for tasks with good nutrition life seems to get a bit easier.

Unleashing the TRX Series-CORE

You all know by now that crunches and sit-ups
do very little, if anything, to produce a strong core.
Dr. Stuart M. McGill, a world renowned professor of spine biomechanics at the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada),
and author of Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation(2nd Edition),describes and provides evidence of how crunches are a large cause for lumbar spine disc rupture.
But, it is with experience and observations that I have decided long ago to eliminate them from my training, as well as my clients' training programs.
Here is a quick look at some of the progressions in core work using one of our most favorite functional training tools at the Matt Jennings Boot Camps training studio...
The TRX Suspension Training System.

(And, if you think you need crunches or sit-ups for the jacked-6-pack...click the video below)

Unleashing the TRX Series-UPPER BACK

If you are ready for the TRX UPPER BACK progressions...



Here they are.



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