BODY CRASH

Welcome everyone...as athletes, our greatest threats in attaining peak performance is ourselves and injury. Avoiding or at least limiting injury is paramount. Far too many avoidable injuries plague athletes at all levels. No excuse to incur an injury during a warm up. Leading the way...foot, knee, shoulder, and in a few sports, head injury. Avoid what I term "body crash." The body is not a machine. Too many of us activate "push button" mindset. We devour wakeup pills, training pills, eating pills, go to bed pills. Under this premise, throughout "listen to your body." Pills screen out how your body feels and reacts. All in the name of performance, ain't gonna happen. Ever been tired even before your event? No matter what you read here, most of you will continue your habit. Forget the words, warm up. A singer warms up. PREP is the word and designed program. Stretching and motion in the pre event routine must compliment the motion of your event. Prep time should be 45-60 min. Break a sweat! Select and write out stretching and motion that fit your event. Injury, pain and rehab is no fun.

Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O

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PYRAMID

Hello and welcome everyone...this is the first of a three part series
re my drills and training schedule. A quote from Napoleon Hill..."every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it
the seed of an equal or greater benefit." From Moslow's pyramid of
Human Needs, the food pyramid and the Pyramid of Performance...
Focus, Emotion and Results, you will eliminate the clutter, confusion and mind jumping and mental traps. Eliminate the "what
if" syndrome. My training prep as I begin a new year...meditate for
seven/ten minutes. 2) yoga and stretching for 45 minutes. I compete
in eight sports with emphasis on track and field. My prep is the same six days a week. The seventh day, I walk three/five miles. My
training drills (initially), are comprised of plyometrics, flat 30m
sprints, sprinting up steps/hills. Developing fast twitch muscle fiber
and endurance. I perform these drills 3 days a week for the first
month of training and three days a week I'm in the weight room
toning the leg and arm muscles...ab drills and three different push up drills. More stretching and core drills. Everything is written out
before hand...no guessing. Each week schedule changes for muscle
confusion. Workout is for two hours with 30 min. cool down.Have
a safe and joyous Holiday season.
Have a meaningful life everyone...Jimmy O
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SPEED

Hello and welcome everyone...as promised, "transition." I am two
weeks away from my first big track and field meet of this year. Let's go back in time...to the prep and conditioning drills. The 2X4
push drill from one end of the gym to the other. Sprinting, pulling
the sled with 40 lbs of weight for up to 30M. Squat, jump and extend hands above my head lifting 12 lbs. All 5 sets. Now,
transition those drills to my T@F events...50M, 100M, 200M, HJ
and LJ. My final prep for the next 10 days consists of a 90 minute
workout...high impact. This is not for the weak of heart. After a
30 min. warmup...I do the following. Five 40M speed burst. Then
3, 200M sprints at 80 % capacity. Then three 100M at 80% capacity. Then three 50M sprints at 90% capacity. Then a 30 min.
cool down. You can apply these drills to any sport. I want my training to be tougher than the actual competition. I will be ready
to win and break all existing records. Stay tuned!

Have a meaningful life everyone...JimmyO
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