Category Archives: Strength and Conditioning

When the aim of training is a lot more than simply look good at the beach, a structure to meet specific peformance goals must be created and addressed

Liberated Thinking for Better Health – Part 3 of 3

Continued from Liberated Thinking Part 2
I will just make one last point about this misconception, how we are prisoners of this box that we have embraced and blind us to see the big picture. Why else do people believe that the key to health is just exercise and diet and refuse to listen to other…

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Liberated Thinking for Better Health – Part 2 of 3

Continued from Liberated Thinking Part 1
What would be a good example of a generalized, sound-bite, broad concept?
A good example comes to mind when I think of food shoppers as they go to the supermarket for their shopping. Take for instance, when people look for low-fat items because fats have been vilified. They’re seen as the…

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Liberated Thinking for Better Health – Part 1 of 3

Hey Guys, it’s Coach Izzy and it’s a pleasure to be back and chatting with you again. Now, in the last installment of our post, The Freedom of Self-Sufficient Fitness, we mentioned how people have become dependent on other people’s ideas and thoughts, and in doing so they have given up their freedom.
So, today we’re…

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Claim It Now! – The Freedom Of Self-Sufficient Fitness – Part 3 of 3

This is the conclusion of the article on Self-Sufficient Fitness. Click HERE if you have not read it. Enjoy!

Remember, what we have to do is reshape our thoughts and simplify our observations. In doing so, we are going to see why many of the facts out there, and I say this facts in quotation marks…

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Who is Bossing You Around? – The Freedom Of Self-Sufficient Fitness – Part 2 of 3

This is a continuation of the article on Self-Sufficient Fitness. Click HERE if you have not read it.

Now, please don’t go around twisting my words since I am not calling anyone unqualified. Many of these exercise gurus have excellent points and much to teach, but the main concept here, the main idea, is that once…

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The Freedom Of Self-Sufficient Fitness – Part 1 of 3

Hey guys, this is your friend and host, Coach Izzy.
How are you doing? How have you been?
I know it’s been a while since I did any type of recording, but I am happy to be back and sharing new ideas. And in case you did not know, I have six books published so far and…

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With Feline Agility – Part 2 of 2

Cats, Functional Training, and Bandwagon Jumping Part 2

By
Coach Izzy
How many Sports Specific Training experts do you know who will gladly give machines a scornful look but ignore sports specific does not mean sports mimicking? For example, throwing a punch to a moving opponent requires a motor pattern that is completely different to that of throwing…

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With Feline Agility – Part 1 of 2

Cats, Functional Training, and Bandwagon Jumping
By
Coach Izzy
Moving from the East Coast to our new home on Bainbridge meant a stream of changes for us all. There was the mellower pace, the new atmosphere, the altered mood of daylight in this higher latitude, and getting to know our new community. It’s been—without a doubt—a welcome change…

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Inspiration: Whispery in Voice, Loud in Results

It is those facing the greatest barriers who are the least interested in burdening others with sob-sob stories. Instead, they quietly take action to achieve their dreams and conquer adversity, inspiring us in the process. One of greatest examples of such tenacity and determination came to my life humbly but powerfully. I would’ve never imagined the magnitude of her ordeal if others had not told me first. Her energy and smile concealed events that would leave most in despair.

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The Door That Would Not Budge

The lessons that stick with us for life are the ones that blow our minds with their simplicity. They make us feel incompetent, if not ridiculous, but their impact weighs heavily in our future decisions. One of such lessons came to me early in life and has served me as a powerful guide when frustration sets. It was as if life had decided to give me a crash-course in misguided good intentions at that moment.
I love to open my speaking engagements with the tale of this lesson and though my audience gets a hearty chuckle out of it, they immediately understand the depth of such a powerful event, and from that moment I have their undivided attention.

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