I am back from Canada and I had an amazing time!! I have been too busy to write since I got back but I am starting back up this week…… so the nagging emails can stop Here are some of the highlights from my visit to Montreal: 1. Training the pulse. This made a HUGE light bulb go...

Well, I won’t be blogging at all this next week. I am heading to Montreal to visit my friend Jonathan Chaimberg of Adrenaline Performance Center. Jon is most known as the strength coach of some of MMA’s most elite fighters including Georges st. Pierre, Denis Kang, David Loiseua,...

I had a new article come out this week at strengthcoach.com. It is called “The Deadlift: teaching it and fixing it”. It is written more for trainers and coaches but can definatley serve some purpose for others. If you don’t have a membership to strengthcoach.com (why...

I did an audio interview this week at strengthcoach.com. It was on my recent article “Common mistakes of a mixed martial artist, from a strength and conditioning perspective” Have a listen...

1. It seems a lot of folks in the fitness industry like gimmicks. Fancy speed ladder drills, stability ball exercises, bosu ball stuff, balance boards, tire flipping, and so on. What ever happened to the basics? Most everything has its place but people seem to jump on the bandwagon of the...

I see it all the time, preparing for the demands of the Boston marathon instead of an MMA fight. This is the single most common mistake that I see in the sport of mixed martial arts. Not only do you see this in probably every athlete at the amateur level but it is a viral infection among...

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It was a good day for Impact this past weekend and the Oregon Open grappling tournament! Big congrats to all three IPT athletes for going undefeated for the day: Andy Wong won the Purple belt middle weight division and the Purple belt Absolute division. Andy racked up the points on all of his...

Q: I travel fairly often. When I am on the road I rarely have time to seek out a gym. The hotels I stay at have nothing more than a junkie universal gym machine and dumbbells that could hardly challenge a 4th grade school girl. Is there a way to increase/maintain strength and power while...

I thought I would give everyone a before/after shot of one of our clients at IPT. Jamie is one of the most pleasant individuals to be around and made an AMAZING body transformation!! And sorry boys, she just recently got engaged……..congratulations Jamie!! Here is what Jamie had to...

The way these kids move is simply amazing!! Talk about body awareness and...

With all the fitness gimmicks and BS out there, I figured I would start a “Gimmick Exposed” feature to this blog. I may get some hate mail or get lynched in a dark alley at some point……..but oh well. Let’s start with the most recent piece of crap I’ve seen,...

Okay, more like 8 but 10 sounds cooler 1. The draw-in method (belly button towards the spine, TA activation) is not a good method to support spinal stability. In fact it de-stabilizes the spine. Your spine will buckle if you choose to draw-in while your body is under significant load. People...

Bryan Marugg is one of our athletes’ at Impact Performance Training and Impact Jiu-jitsu. He is only 15 years old and is already becoming a decorated grappler. Bryan has competed numerous times at the adult level and taken home 1st place time and time again. Not only is Bryan a great...

Read/study for one hour per day, and you will be in the top 5% in your chosen field within three to five years. Thats 1095 to 1825 hours of continueing education under your belt! Not enough time in your day to read? Skip a tv show, get off the computer, or buy a book on time management and...

Stupidity at an all time high!! Does any one have a big enough scale that we could weigh the risk to benefit ratio on this one?? I hope the coach has a good lawyer. And hopefully he has good health insurance because the first smart soul that catches him doing this is gonna smack him in the...

Q:One of your recent posts about crunches said, “Can you think of anything in sport that emulates a crunch”? I know that you are a BJJ/MMA coach and practitioner, so wouldn’t you say that BJJ requires an athlete to constantly be in a flexed spinal position, especially in the guard...

1. Its amazing that so many trainers and coaches don’t asses their clients and athletes. Assuming, is a HUGE mistake!! Get educated at the Function Movement Screen so that your clients get what they deserve. 2. Get off machines….better yet get your clients off machines. This is red handed...

Videos like this remind me that myself and others have not made much of an impact on the world of fitness…….Enjoy the...

I got this story from Mike Boyle. Mike is a Strength and Conditioning coach I look up to and respect very much. Visit his site at strengthcoach.com “When things in your life seem almost to much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar…and the...

Hip extension, scapular stability, speed development, really, really hard. What more could you ask...

WARNING: The following post is hostile. (I have been out with an injury for 6 weeks….no jiu-jitsu for me) Sorry, I need to let off some steam!!! If you are a trainer offended by the title, its because you suck!! Personal Trainers are coaches. Coaches are meant to coach, right? When...

Got pain? Take a look at the type of footwear you have. Check out the heels. You too guys!! It’s not only women that wear high heels (well, drag queens too). Men also wear them. Look at all of the crazy so called athletic shoes like Shox!! One of the first things that I do with my clients...