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The Workout Is Not the Whole Athlete
A workout happens inside a life shaped by fuel, sleep, stress, and recovery. Understanding how Fuel, Activity, and Rest connect helps athletes and coaches give training numbers context and decide what the athlete needs next.
Your Workout Does Not End When the Workout Ends
You do not start every workout at zero. Each session becomes part of the training that follows, making workload, recovery, and sequence essential context for understanding the week and planning tomorrow.
More Is Not Better and Less Is Not Better
Productive training calls for the work that fits the athlete and the moment. Knowing when to add demand and when to protect recovery helps each session support progress toward a larger goal.
Hard Is Not a Number
Calling a workout hard describes how it felt, but leaves the cause unexplained. Connecting effort to volume, rest, and session structure turns that impression into useful information for planning what comes next.
Time Is Not Workload
An hour in the gym can hold many different training experiences. Effort, rest, and session structure reveal what the clock cannot—and help explain why longer workouts do not automatically deliver more value.
Same Workout Different Effect
The same workout on paper can create very different training experiences. Rest, effort, and session structure shape the workload—and reveal why recording what you did is only the beginning.
ATHLETES USE 3000 YEAR OLD CONDITIONING PRINCIPLES TO INNOVATE… FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE
“The High Performance Management Model: From Olympic and Professional to University Sport in the United States”. It describes the development and value of having someone manage the balancing of all the elements of an Athlete's life necessary to produce consistent, healthy, long term, valuable, satisfying high-level performances.
Soft Tissue Issue of Golf
Golf, is often seen as a low-impact sport. But in reality, it involves repetitive motions and significant rotational forces that can lead to various soft tissue issues and injuries. When you break it down, the golf swing is a full body head-to-toe movement that should be looked at strategically to help avoid injury and add years to your game.
Power of the Big Toe
Think for a moment about how YOUR body moves magically through space, and how ALL your body parts seem to magically know what to do in that movement. It makes sense that whatever is in contact with Earth during that movement would be the first thing to take action – a pushing action against the Earth, and that everything above that would need to follow, in sequence or there would be NO magic movement through space…
GOLF: Thought of the Month - COMPETE!
When I was growing up, I had a Great Coach… She made a lasting impact on my game and my life. She would always tell me, “don’t play golf swing on the course, play golf."
QUESTION: “What do you mean ACTIVITY?”
I will ask questions about what kinds of activities people like to do and what kinds of activities they don’t like to do. The range of answers can be incredible. I Don’t Like to… to run, to swim, Push Ups, strength training, etc… “I have bad knees”, “my Dad believed in sink or swim as a means to teach me how to swim”, “I can’t even do one”, “I don’t want to bulk up”…
OVER-TRAINING: Don’t be a Tripod with one leg too short.
What does that mean? The automatic assumption about Over-Training is that someone “trained too much”. In this assumption, too much running, or too much strength training are usually thought to be the culprits…
QUESTION: “Which is better, the treadmill or the bike?”
My answer is always the same, “which one do you like better?” And almost without exception their response is “the one that is better for me, so which one should I do?”; typically I will say again, “which one do you like better?”… one day I couldn’t help myself, I wanted to see how many times someone would go round and round in this circle of questions and answers… seven times before they finally rephrased by commanding me to “just pick one!” So, I very slowly said, “the one you like better.” Finally, it made sense to them.