Athleticism is being highly competent and coordinated at performing the foundational movement elements. Basically, you are really efficient at moving quickly and fluidly, squatting, pulling, pressing, sprinting, lateral directional changes, force/power production and rotation.
Getting good at everything on this list won’t make you “elite”, but you’d certainly have a respectable baseline of athleticism that would apply to most sports and recreational activities.
Read the full article here to find the 10 exercises
10 Facts On Training Calves
(including the one about them functioning as a secondary Heart)
From the blog
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1. The calves are comprised of multiple muscles 2. The calf muscles perform multiple functions 3. The calf muscles are a mix of fast twitch and slow twitch muscle 4. The two main calf exercises are standing calf raises, and seated calf raises 5. Train with a full ROM
6. NO BOUNCING 7. Calves are very genetic 8. Calves do tend to respond to high volume 9. The calves Pump Blood back to the heart 10. The “best” calf workout that is straight-forward to perform
The glutes are the powerhouse muscles of the body. Strong glutes equals Faster, Stronger, More Powerful Individual. Everyone – Men and Women – needs to train them.
Here is how…
1 – The glutes are 3 muscles that you need to train
2 – If you cannot feel or contract your glutes at all… do this
3 – Deadlifts versus Squats?
4 – Hip Thrusts
5 – To Deadlift for Glute Development…
6 – To Squat for Glute Development…
7 – The Bulgarian Split Squat
The Man That Changed My Life (And A Reflection on Luck)
(from the newsletter)
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"I think you can fucking write, so prove it…"
~Bob~
Luck was REAL (and is real), and good and bad circumstances could occur to someone that they had NO CONTROL over, could never account for, and any attempt at explanation would be post hoc fallacious reasoning.
How many times in your life have you gotten lucky?
Seven Years Ago, I met a man, his name was Bob Ihlenfeldt
At the time I had been writing for one year, and I wrote a lot on facebook. That may sound ridiculous but at the time facebook had a better reputation and writing long form FB posts could actually get you a following
"As a guy who’s struggled to be consistent in the gym throughout his 20s, one of the big problems I (and I believe many others) face is overdoing..
..it in the gym when you’re trying to “finally get in really good shape.”
It’s easy to get super inspired by reading fitness experts online once you finally decide “this is my time!,” and end up killing yourself in the gym and overdoing your CNS and burning out
I think a great newsletter idea would be “Understanding what kind of shape you’re currently in and tailoring a plan so that you slowly build up, be consistent, maintain perpetual gains, and avoid burnout.”