This week's episode features an awesome interview with Wil Fleming.
Wil is a sports performance coach and co-owner of Force Fitness and Performance in Bloomington, Indiana.
This is a valuable, rapid fire interview discussing how to improve athletic performance with Olympic weightlifting.
Here's some of what you'll learn in this week's show:
Stealth shoulder exercise or is this a little bit crazy?
There's an unconventional exercise that provides fantastic strength and mobility, if you learn how to perform it safely and progress it properly.
That exercise is the kettlebell SOTS press. The SOTS press is an incredibly powerful exercise for the shoulders, as well as your entire body. I'll explain all about it. First, you should realize this exercise is NOT for everyone. But, if you're interested in developing ridiculously strong, powerful, mobile shoulders and want to learn how to progress this exercise from scratch, please read through this entire article.
In this week's episode, I openly share my own training mistakes and failures.
These 7 things are the top reasons I failed to make progress for many years in my own training.
Learn from my mistakes.
Listen all the way through this important episode and learn how to accelerate your progress and avoid the pitfalls of exercise and nutrition.
Peak Performance coach and expert Dan Gonzalez joins me for this week's podcast episode to discuss the mindset in peak performance.
Dan is the author of a best selling book called "The Art of Mental Training."
In the book, Dan explains and teaches the important psychological skills required for peak performance and mental toughness.
I'm honored to get Dan on the show to discuss his unique experiences in peak performance training where he has worked with top athletes, executives, pro-fighters, and many other professionals since 1988.
Everybody wants to build muscle and lose fat. If that's true, you could say we all want to be bodybuilders, at some level.
With that said, let me tell you about the movie, Generation Iron.
Generation Iron is amazing film. A visual masterpiece with a powerful story about the sport of modern bodybuilding.
Bodybuilding is a different kind of sport and Generation Iron is a different kind of film. From the stories, to the scenery and filmmaking, to the drive, desire, and passion of all the athletes, this film is a journey.
This new modern day bodybuilding documentary recently became available on DVD and it’s already a classic.
There's a lot of great exercises for the abs and, in my opinion, none of them have anything to do with sit ups or crunches.
The key to abdominal strength and development is about training the whole body to stabilize at a high level.
What I mean is stabilizing in functional movements, not training to actively flex our trunk (as with sit ups and crunches).
One the best ways to develop abdominal strength is with basic barbell lifts.
Joe DeSena, the founder of Spartan Race, is the week's podcast guest.
In this week's show, we take on the topics of mental strength and ultimate conditioning.
You'll also hear about Joe's new book, Spartan Up.
It was great to speak to Joe and hear about how he created Spartan Race and how this has grown into such a global brand.
Joe's been an entrepreneur since the age of 8 and he has an impressive background in business and as an endurance athlete, which you'll hear about in this great interview.
This is a "rapid fire" and content rich interview session.
Exercise technique, exercise selection, and optimal nutrition are all critical components in our training success.
To get the results we want, we've got to do the the right things.
Of course, we have to know what it is we want.
Assuming we do, there is something that's so important to our success, yet it's not discussed nearly enough, in my opinion.