Posted: 9/27/2012 5:53:18 AM EDT
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My son and stepkids are lucky to have me. I am a good resource (and role model) for them for learning strength and conditioning technique and smart nutrition.
(My stepkids' dad played in the NBA, and I'll be damned if he learned anything about strength and conditioning. Toe raises/calf raises is the main exercise he recommends to his son for improving his vertical. The big lifts are never mentioned. Yeah...) I wish I had some good knowledge resources when I was growing up. I wish I had resources like this forum (and others) when I was growing up and into my 20's. I was on the C-team of the US ski team in the late '80's. These days the c-team has some pretty good training resources at their disposal. Back then we had our on-hill coaching, but we were mostly on our own for any other training. Coaches would give us some advice, but beyond that we were mostly on our own. I was 29 when I ruptured a lumbar disc. I was doing hack squats with over 400 lbs, and in the middle of a rep I decided to see if I could gain some mechanical advantage by rocking my pelvis back, in effect rounding out my lumbar. ZAP! Instant pain. Of course my back has never been the same since. That was '98; still a few more years until a guy could learning anything from online resources. The knowledge was out there. There were plenty on people who knew how to squat. But you needed to be in the right circle of people to learn that stuff, or you needed to have the right coaching, etc. I had no coaching. I was a Boeing engineer in Seattle. I was a weekend warrior on my skis and bike. I was working out alone. I had no circle of weightlifting friends. If I knew then what I know now... I'd probably not be living with a back injury now, At least, not for the same stupid reason. I would have been able to fully realize the possibilities of my young body. If I knew how to lift and condition and eat when I was in my teens and twenties? Shiiiit... |
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Quoted: My son and stepkids are lucky to have me. I am a good resource (and roll model) for them for learning strength and conditioning technique and smart nutrition. (My stepkids' dad played in the NBA, and I'll be damned if he learned anything about strength and conditioning. Toe raises/calf raises is the main exercise he recommends to his son for improving his vertical. The big lifts are never mentioned. Yeah...) I wish I had some good knowledge resources when I was growing up. I wish I had resources like this forum (and others) when I was growing up and into my 20's. I was on the C-team of the US ski team in the late '80's. These days the c-team has some pretty good training resources at their disposal. Back then we had our on-hill coaching, but we were mostly on our own for any other training. Coaches would give us some advice, but beyond that we were mostly on our own. I was 29 when I ruptured a lumbar disc. I was doing hack squats with over 400 lbs, and in the middle of a rep I decided to see if I could gain some mechanical advantage by rocking my pelvis back, in effect rounding out my lumbar. ZAP! Instant pain. Of course my back has never been the same since. That was '98; still a few more years until a guy could learning anything from online resources. The knowledge was out there. There were plenty on people who knew how to squat. But you needed to be in the right circle of people to learn that stuff, or you needed to have the right coaching, etc. I had no coaching. I was a Boeing engineer in Seattle. I was a weekend warrior on my skis and bike. I was working out alone. I had no circle of weightlifting friends. If I knew then what I know now... I'd probably not be living with a back injury now, At least, not for the same stupid reason. I would have been able to fully realize the possibilities of my young body. If I knew how to lift and condition and eat when I was in my teens and twenties? Shiiiit... yeah... I took my oldest boys out to coach Burgeners yesterday...they don't even realize how lucky they are. |
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If I could go back in time I would start much sooner.
Growing up I was really skinny. REALLY skinny. Everyone told me to wait till I got older and I'd gain. Well, I waited, and I waited, and I waited and I never gained. It took me till age 30 to realize that I had to do something about it.  I wasted about 12 or 14 of the best years I had.
But better late than never I suppose. |
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If I could go back in time I would start much sooner. Growing up I was really skinny. REALLY skinny. Everyone told me to wait till I got older and I'd gain. Well, I waited, and I waited, and I waited and I never gained. It took me till age 30 to realize that I had to do something about it. I wasted about 12 or 14 of the best years I had.
But better late than never I suppose. absofickinlutely |
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If I could go back in time I would start much sooner. Growing up I was really skinny. REALLY skinny. Everyone told me to wait till I got older and I'd gain. Well, I waited, and I waited, and I waited and I never gained. It took me till age 30 to realize that I had to do something about it. I wasted about 12 or 14 of the best years I had.
But better late than never I suppose. absofickinlutely I know that back in the day when I was lifting in high school, they definitely didn't place the same stresses on compound movements- sure we benched, but leg press in place of squats, no deadlifts, mostly isolation movements. So, yeah, NUMERO FUCKING UNO would be that I had never quit lifting. I have the squandered time syndrome as well. I have never been overly athletic, but lifting for the last 20 years or so instead of NOT would have made a huge difference. And B (see what I did there?) would be to focus on the compound movements. Wasted the better part of a year fucking around with no focus when I did start lifting again. The internet is a great source for sharing these universal truths. |