Category: Training
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Performance + Capital City Elite
Tom Shoji, Head Volleyball Coach at Willamette University, stands with his arms crossed and watches as 58 female high school athletes (all players in the Capital City Elite Volleyball Club, which Shoji directs) jump and lunge and squat and jump and sprint and slide. It is Saturday morning and these athletes are going through extensive…
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Between Step 1 and Mile 1000
Lately, I have been working with Aaron Hague and Chris DuBois of Performance Training. When I showed up the first time at the South Club, Aaron took me through a standard Functional Movement Screening in order to find out if/where my body was out of balance and what needed strengthening and what needed lengthening. After…
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Imagine, Train, Do: Bruce and Kay
Bruce and Kay Johnson showed up about 40 minutes early to the first Courthouse 2 Venti’s race. They were excited and enthusiastic and I remember seeing pictures of the couple taken by my friend Kourtney during the race giving high-fives to the C2V mascot, B.R. Stein. Bruce and Kay embodied what the race was about–fun, fitness, the…
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Train
There is a book in the lobby of every Courthouse called The Instrinsic Exercise Jay C. Kimiecik. In it, Kimiecik talks about how no one does anything just because it is good for them. We do not do things because we have to, we do them because we like to. When you think of exercise,…