Change the intensity of your workouts

With the use of a heart rate monitor or proper program development, change the intensity of your workouts (i.e. increase your BPM to 75% of your max or decrease to 60% of your max). Your body will be forced to adapt and change which is critical to taking away plateaus and continuing your progress towards you goal.

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Change or modify your training program often

One of the biggest problem areas we see in training runners and endurance athletes to hockey players to dancers is they are doing the same training program month after month and they wonder why they are not improving. No matter what you looking to achieve, you must change the volume, intensity, and type of training on a consistent basis. Include recovery days, download weeks, higher or lower intensity training, and maybe even use alternative forms of training. Your body will love you and it will be forced to adapt more often. This will potentially eliminate the plateaus and hopefully, increase your personal best.

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Video Games will Make you a better athlete?

I ran across this article which provokes some internesting thoughts. Can a video game improve your cognitive thoughts and make you a better athlete? I do think it can but you do have to make sure you don't become a couch potato and think you will be able to perform your best. Check out the article.

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New Nike sports watch site

Hey, everybody.

We just completed the build out of our new Nike watch page. We tried to create a page that speaks to performance, training at an elite level and hitting goals. Check it out if you have a minute. Nike sports watches

Later.

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Fishing in the Midwest

Paul Johnson, a friend of mine, caught this fish over the weekend.



Also, Paul will be leading us on a trip to the Boundry Waters in Northern Minnesota this fall. Check back for more details. Anyone been to the Boundry Waters area?

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Heart rate monitors

Check out the next addition to our website. The
heart rate monitors section was just added.

Food for thought around heart rate monitors and overtraining.

One of the biggest problems with training for adults and youth is overtraining. We have been told if we work harder than the next guy, we will be better off than him. While is some cases, people are not putting their full effort into the training and need to work harder. A large percentage of people just need to allow their body to recover by taking a day off or not training at a really high intensity every day. The heart rate monitor will help you stay at the proper intensity level by monitoring your heart rate.

Hope that makes sense.

Later.




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Son's baseball game. Unfortunaly, we lost.

It was a great night in Minnesota for baseball. The weather was perfect. Slight breese about 76 degrees. But no runs to show for the work. So we lost.

Talk to you tomorrow.

Stephen

A great Day in Training Land. Who wants to run stairs?

Good morning.

Today has started off well. We have finalized the summer schedule and have the trainers in place. We are ready to take on the summer of training. But enough about details of business.
Lets move on to an interesting question?

If you are an baseball, softball, or a player that has a only quick 15-30 sec sprints or no sprints at all, why do you run for 1 mile or more during your training? When does that apply to improving your performance?

Our thoughts are almost never. So why do we do it? Because that's just what we do or I seen some other players doing the same thing, well that is not good enough for you. We would recommend you do a metabolic run. It is a circuit of sprints and drills done for 3-4 minutes with rest in between the circuits. This more closely emulates the game and will greatly increase your conditioning level in a way that you can use.

See you tomorrow.

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Speed and Power development over the summer

We are going to be starting our summer sessions for speed and power development. The starting of summer always brings a lot of thoughts on how to train young athletes. The standard pattern is to sign athletes up in 3-5 two week programs and then start captains practice for conditioning and call it a good off-season program. One of the major mistakes I see parents or athletes make is trying to go all out for two weeks at a time with differing training groups or camps, then do absolutely nothing the next two weeks, then back at it for two weeks. It does not allow the athlete to develop his overall speed and strength, because the next week they are not building on what they did the two weeks previous. The money spent for camps would be better placed working with somebody, like once a week over a extended period of time. This allows the body to receive the training better and be challenged over a longer time. Thats about it.


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Great day for business

Just a note to say we are finally making progress on the completion of our website. We just completed the main pages for our sport watches
. Take a look if you have and minute. And any feedback would be great. I will keep you posted on other areas as we complete them. We should be completed by the end of June.

Also, good news on the training front. We picked up the St. Thomas dance team
.
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