Daily Training Tip #866

As an athlete, you need to be slowly increasing your squat weight, building up to at least 2.5 times your body weight. This might take a while to accomplish, so just keep working and keep building!

Daily Training Tip #865

Only you can do the work. No one else can do your work for you. Others can help out, point you in a direction, but only you can actually do the work and see the results.

Daily Training Tip #864

Make sure your shoes fit your feet properly. Having shoes that are '2 sizes too big because I'm going to grow into them' is not helping your performance in the gym.

Daily Training Tip #863

A big part of your training needs to be Complex Exercises that work multiple muscle groups at the same time. These lifts, such as Olympic Lifts, are crucial to your development.

Daily Training Tip #862

Make the most out of your workouts. If your session for today is 15 minutes, a half hour, or an hour, make the most out of it! Only you will decide how far your career is going to go!

Daily Training Tip #861

When completing one leg exercises, make sure they follow the two leg protocol. Example; while jumping on two legs; be light, quick, fast, soft, quiet etc. Same holds true for jumping on one leg!

Daily Training Tip #860

The best athletes win in most situations. So the question is; what are you doing to become the best athlete that you can be?

Daily Training Tip #859

One of your goals during any plyo session is to minimize ground contact time. Hit the ground and get off the ground! One way to assist in this, is to use rubber bands to assist you.

Land light and explode back up!

Daily Training Tip #858

Power is a combination of speed and strength. Having power is a must for all athletes! Build speed and strength today!

Daily Training Tip #857

Focus on Short Distances. Completing sprints at an all out effort for a short distance over and over again WILL improve your speed, power, explosivensss AND endurance.

Going on a long slow run will hinder your speed, power, explosiveness and might improve your endurance.

You pick!

Daily Training Tip #856

Learn Olympic Lifts. Perform Olympic Lifts.

Olympic lifts will help you reach your potential faster. Learn them, so you perform them without any error. Then complete them on a regular basis.

Daily Training Tip #855

Your body is just like a High Performance Race Car. It needs the proper fuel, proper care, proper rest, etc in order for it to run. If you put a can of coke into your race car, will it run? Will it out perfrom the competition?

Think about what you are doing to yourself, your career is too short to make mistakes.

Daily Training Tip #854

You need to be progressing through your training program. Each day needs to build on each other and to be building towards your goal.

Daily Training Tip #853

Be creative in the gym, however, make sure you stick to your overall training plan to see the best results.

Daily Training Tip

Sometimes things out of your control prevent you from getting to the gym; when it happens, make sure you don't skip your workout. There are plenty of things you can at home to make up for it. You can do squats, abs, lunges, planks, jumping jacks, etc. There's never an excuse to miss a workout!

Daily Training Tip #851

Squats are the 'King' lift. You should be doing some sort of squats on a daily basis; front squats, back squats, one legged squats, box squats, etc. Squats help you build muscle and strength in your lower body!

Daily Training Tip #850

Make today a Single Leg Training Day. The stronger each leg is individually, the stronger they are together. You can't be an athlete without have single leg strength and power. Turn your workout today into a single leg workout by completing each scheduled exercise on one leg, then repeat for the other leg.

Working Hard and Working Smart!

Daily Training Tip #849

It's the 'little things' that seperate you from the rest of the pack. Most times, nobody knows you are even doing the little things, they never see it, the never hear it. They sit and wonder; how did he do that? Well it's easy, you were able to do that because of all of the little things you did when no one else was looking!

Daily Training Tip #848

Bring a playground setting into the gym for your workout today. Watch how kids play at the playground and repeat those movements while training; skipping, jumping, change of direction, falling down & quickly getting back up, monkey bars,etc. You can learn a lot from a kid!

Daily Training Tip #847

Lift often and lift heavy. Buiding muscle improves you and improves your career in many ways. While lifting, lift heavy. You don't get much out of lifting light weights. Make sure your last set and your last reps are tough to complete.

Daily Training Tip #846

Movement in the gym needs to be flowing, rhythmic, powerful and explosive not rigid and programed. Working Hard and Working Smart!

Daily Training Tip #845

Make sure your workouts resemble your area of improvements. For example; if you want to be a better skater, make sure you are training your skating muscles...sprinting, jumping, lifting and skating.