Yo Tribester! Week 4 of 5 in this (relatively) long month! It’s the penultimate week of our Agility Block and we’ve got another round of exciting and varied workouts. We are going to explore drop sets, intermittent and long-length isometrics, tuck jumps, and broad jumps…to name a few cool changeups. As is often our pattern, there are 3 sessions that…
As opposed to commenting about the Bermuda Triangle or B-rated movies…this is a little op-ed piece I’ve been wanting to put together for quite some time. My version of the Devil’s Triangle involves over 4 decades of experience and observation in athletic and fitness training. It’s a story of temptation, seduction, success, and calamity. Actually that last statement sounds like…
Oh yeah! Week 3 of Month 2 in the Agility Block is here! This means it’s time for a bit more intensity. We’ve been using a high degree of variety but now we are going to pull that back a little and concentrate on effort in a few applications. We’ve talked about how agility is comprised of mobility, stability, reactivity,…
Wow, Tribe Member, our WOW (workouts of the week) are super exciting as we get into the 2nd week of Month 2 of the Agility Block. We are continuing to work on multi-directional movement competency and elasticity. We are using an A-B-CX2 split and we are combining exercises and positions athletically. I’ve mentioned the agile mindset previously. Or let’s call…
Today’s post is a quick one offering up a bit of training advice that you may find useful. As my buddy PK says, it’s a nugget of peak performance. Might even be a pearl of training wisdom. Whatever. Isometrics have great value in training and they should be a part of your conditioning system. I hesitate to use the term…
Hello Amazing Tribe Member! Happy New Year! We are jumping into 2024 and this month is the second and final one in the Agility Block. And JUMPING is, literally, what we are focusing on this week and month. Many of you were very patient with our last month, recognizing its fairly easy and preliminary nature. This month we get to…
Seasons Greetings Training Tribe Member! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours! We are moving into what is often an incredibly dynamic and variable time of the year. Sometimes the holidays are quiet and you find yourself with plenty of time and energy to smash some workouts. Other times there is travel, entertaining, and work at a level…
Howdy Tribe Member! In our programming, this month is a 5-weeker, and it’s time for week 4. I’ve got some dandy challenges for you this week. In keeping with our theme of agility, we’re snagging some conditioning circuits (Condi-circ, pronounced Kondee-Serk) along with some free choice sports participation. Allow me to describe these concepts. We are using two forms of…
Not long ago I posted a few workouts for folks to try out around Thanksgiving. Several of those were taken from our Training Tribe library. I received some great feedback on those sessions. None of them were overly elaborate representations of comprehensive training systems. They were just fun, relatively quick workouts to shake up a routine or to make it…
You are a magnificent Tribal BEAST! Let’s celebrate your inner animal with a smattering of shapeshifting movements! This week we continue to build into the Agility Block by layering on additional elements of movement competency. As you’ll recall, we started out the Block by re-familiarizing ourselves with basic patterns like pushing, pulling, lunging, squatting, hinging, and rotating. Then we appreciated…
