Friday, June 11, 2010

Looking for a Personal Trainer?

Hello Loyal Readers,

I am looking for people who would be interested in doing some gym workouts under my training. I have always thought about trying to be a personal trainer and I guess this would be like a first trial run. Ideally, I would have 3-5 people in a group and the session would last between 30 minutes to an hour.

My philosophy on physical conditioning is that the best results in power, strength, and overall athleticism come from constantly varied functional movements, executed at high intensity. Functional movements are defined as those that can move large loads, long distances, quickly; examples of these are pull-ups, cleans, jerks and squats. I also see it as critically important that results are measurable quantitatively.

A sample workout of mine might consist of:

4 rounds for time:

-9 20inch Box Jumps

-7 75lb Clean and Jerks

-5 Pull Ups

-3 165lb Deadlifts

You can see that if you first complete the workout in 12 minutes, and then complete the same workout 3 weeks later in 9 minutes you are obviously in better shape, you are more powerful. Quantitatively Measurable Results.



I am in town all summer and am generally flexible time-wise, so I’ll certainly try to work out a schedule when a couple people are able to get together. I would hope to have 2 sessions a week but I don’t want to scare anyone away with requests for commitment. These sessions would be free. The only payment I ask for is for you to be honest with me about how I can improve as a trainer.

One last thing: You should know that I believe strongly that people need to LEARN how to work out – they actually need coaching on how to do the movements that will help them become a better athlete. I am not looking to coach so can I sit next to you and encourage you to finish those last leg curls, I see coaching in the gym as the teaching of the movements. If you have ever entered the gym without knowledge of what to do, and so you settled on seated calf presses, you especially should take me up on my offer.

I guarantee you will see results during the first session in that my teaching will show you a new side of the weight room and my workouts will put you on your ass like nothing you have ever done in the gym before.

If you are interested, even a little bit, please email me back (StephenGHubbard@gmail.com) or respond here and we'll work something out.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Just a Little Trust

If you don't think your offense can throw 25 open passes in a row, you have big problems. If the thought:
I hope someone hucks it soon, because I don't trust our team to work the disc up the field with in-cuts.
enters your head, you've got big problems. If you don't trust your teammates with the disc, no matter the defense, you've got big problems. If you are equally worried about the defense earning a turnover as you are about your offense giving away the disc, you've got big problems.

The drill that can easily build trust in the ability to string together 50 short passes: small-field keep-away with 1 or 2 players playing all-time offense. Soccer teams do it all the time, I really don't understand why more Ultimate teams don't.


Vid of the Day: What I'm talking about.

Song-Your-Sure-You've-Heard-A-Million-Times-but-Never-Knew-What-it-Was of the Day: Justice: Genesis

Microbiology fact of the Day: You body is composed of 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Regret #1

If I regret anything about my college career, it is not getting a job at RIMAC, the university's gym/weights/racquetball complex. The jobs look super easy and, to quote an anonymous source, " the work is super chill. (Brah)" . I would have gotten to hang around the gym which I do anyway, and I could ogle all the good looking athletes while on the clock.


So ill say again, if you want my advice for your college years: work at the gym swiping student ID cards.



Quote of the Month:
"When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices."
- John Wooden

Awesome-Gallery-of-Awesome-Photos-of-an-Awesome-Nationals-Shot-by-the-Awesome-Meeko of the Day

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Love

I hope you all can one day love something as much as I have loved playing for the UCSD Air Squids for the past 5 years.


That's it for today.