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Ian Graham Interview

May 19th, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized Add Comment

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Here is an interview I did a little while ago with Ian Graham, co-creator of the Athletic Body System.

Ian got involved in sports and fitness training from a relatively young age. It was in secondary school, when in started running cross-country and track that he started developing his interest in sports training, fitness and physique development.

Ian quickly ditched the cross-country and focused his attentions on the speed and power events of sprinting, long jump and triple jump. It wasn’t until Ian started training for these events that he personally began to notice real changes in his own physique and further stimulated his interest in training and physique development.

Ian competed in the sport of track and field for many years and won many medals at the juvenile, junior, Under 23 and senior level, including a national junior title in the long jump back in 1996.

Over the past few years, Ian has organised and successfully ran several sports performance and functional training seminars, with some of the world’s best sports performance coaches and trainers.

He is a Certified Personal Trainer and a Certified Level II USA Track & Field Coach in the Sprints, Hurdles, Relays, and the Jumps events.

Along with Bryan Cavanagh, Ian operates a small personal training company in Dublin, Ireland called VIP Training or ‘Visual Impact Personal Training’ “For Results You Can See”

Listen to the Ian Graham Interview

Check out Ian and Bryan’s Athletic Body System

Join Ian’s muscle and fitness social network http://www.myathleticbodyspace.com

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Nomar Garciaparra’s Baseball Core Routine

March 27th, 2010 Filed under: MMA Workouts 5 Comments

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This is another article from Jim Smith, author of Combat Core.

From the Stack, this article details Nomar Garciaparra’s (a six time all-star with the Dodgers) baseball core strengthening routine.

I really like this statement outlined in the article:

“…think of a young athlete that lifts weights for the first time. Jen Walker states that rapid gains are made, but those gains aren’t at the muscular level, they are at the neurological level. The gains are made through an efficiency improvement in overall movement.”

This is an imperative distiction when considering to load an athlete as they improve. Foundational strength levels must be well established and evaluated before speed of movement is considered. This is especially true of young athletes or those whose stregth training age is young. It is also of equal importance when discussing the explosive rotational movements of baseball players.

Another training concept to highlight:

“Everything that we do is geared towards augmenting our athletes’ on-the-field movement,” explains Friedman, “So we focus on body movements rather than the individual parts of the body.”

Simple, sensible and yet profound. The goal is essentially to improve athletic performance. Strength training or GPP increases the athlete’s potential to perform at a higher level on the field and since movement does not occur in isolation, the athlete must be trained with compound, full-body movements.

Craig Friedman (trainer) focuses Nomar’s core training on medicine ball work. He incorporates explosive exercises such as: Med Ball Swings, Granny Tosses, Squat-to-Press Passes, Overhead Passes and Chest Passes, Craig understands that explosive movements where the weight or implement is released have a higher power output and a faster speed of movement.

About the Author
Jim Smith is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist who writes for Men’s Fitness and the Elite Q/A Staff. Jim has been involved in strength training as a performance enhancement specialist for over 8 years and has worked with athletes from various sports who compete at various levels. He has published articles about his unique training style and innovative methods for many prominent strength and fitness related sites. He is also the authored of three renowned strength manuals. For more innovative training solutions, visit www.CombatCoreStrength.com

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Combat Core – The Benefits of Zercher Lifts In

March 20th, 2010 Filed under: MMA Workouts Add Comment

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This is another article from Jim Smith of Combat Core – The Benefits of Zercher Lifts

You would be hard pressed to find a strength professional that wouldn’t back up the benefits of zercher style lifts. They are irrefutably some of the toughest means of core training that should be part of any serious strength program.

A zercher lift involves the weight, typically a bar, being held in front of the body in the bend of your arms. When the weight is in place you perform a basic movement, instantly turning the exercise from basic to a “big money” movement; getting more bang for your buck so to speak. Try for yourself and experiment with one of the following combinations and see if you can find a muscle group that you weren’t aggressively engaging.

Zercher lifts can be performed with:

* Sandbags
* Barbells
* Axles
* EZ Curl Bar
* Rocks
* Logs
* Partner’s Bodyweight

Zercher movements include:

* Lunges
* Step-ups
* Squats
* Deadlifts (sometimes called Prisoner Squats)
* Walks
* Torso Rotations

Zercher lifts require the athlete to aggressively brace and maintain a static upright torso position while the rest of the body executes some type of movement. This immediately teaches the athlete how to transfer force and breath while under great tension.

This is the most basic requirement of creating great power.

About the Author
Jim Smith is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist who writes for Men’s Fitness and the Elite Q/A Staff. Jim has been involved in strength training as a performance enhancement specialist for over 8 years and has worked with athletes from various sports who compete at various levels. He has published articles about his unique training style and innovative methods for many prominent strength and fitness related sites. He is also the authored of three renowned strength manuals.

To read my interview with Jim go here ===> Jim Smith Interview

For more innovative training solutions, visit www.CombatCoreStrength.com

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