Tag Archives: Conditioning
A Definition of Hard Work and Commitment
There is a recent blog post on the strengthcoach blog about the disconnect between the trainer and client. Read the post here. I really liked the post and thought that I would share it with you.
The article talks about the difference between what is important to the client and what the trainer perceives to be important to them. While fitness may be the number one priority for the trainer, it may only be 3rd or 4th on the list for the client. To the client, fitness is typically just something they do a couple of times per week to fulfill a need to lose weight, reduce medications, or increase self-esteem. The quicker the trainer realizes this, the better.
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Tagged Avon, Blog, Conditioning, Fitness Sucks, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Motivation, Nunn's Performance Training, Personal Training, Weight Loss
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Why Most Speed And Agility Camps Don’t Work
Every off season, parents come up to me and ask, “Do you have a speed camp going on right now.” My answer, “No.” They’re usually pretty surprised by that answer. The reason we don’t do them is simple. Most of them don’t work.
There are a couple of reasons why most of them don’t work. The first being that training should be a constant thing. It’s not something you pick up for four or six weeks during the offseason and then put it down till next season. When we’re talking about things like running mechanics, the only way to get good and stay good at them is through repetition. I’ve seen it many times. I’ll work with a kid till their season starts; then they come back afterwards and they are back to their same bad, slow habits. Perfect practice makes perfect.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Conditioning, Fitness Sucks, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Nunn's Performance Training, Speed, Strength
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Top 10 things Learned And Achieved For 2011
Yesterday, I received an email from one of my clients that I thought I would share with everyone. I thought it was pretty cool. She put together a list of things she learned and achieved over the course of the year while working out with us. Here’s her list:
1. Designating 4 specific days and times at the gym is more effective than saying I’ll go 4 days a week.
2. I have kept 90% of my training appointments in the past year.
3. I have trained a minimum of 3 sessions per week for 13 months now, the longest workout streak of my life.
4. The number on the scale is my daily FYI, fluctuating often and therefore, no longer makes or breaks me.
5. I look forward to working out.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Blog, Conditioning, Fitness Sucks, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Motivation, Nunn's Performance Training, Speed, Strength, Testimonials, Weight Loss
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Top Ten Of 2011
Yep, it’s that time of year again. At the end of each year, I go back and review which of my posts got the most web traffic. Here’s this year’s top ten:
1. Does Muscle Fiber Type Effect Performance In this post I talk about the differences in muscle fiber type and how it affects an athlete’s performance.
2. The John Broz Method One of the more popular topics in the strength training world in 2010 was the training that John Broz does in his Las Vegas gym. This post discusses my opinions on what he does.
3. The Real Reasons Why People Don’t Exercise The name says it all. These are the reasons why people don’t workout.
4. Is A Calorie Really A Calorie? In this post, I discuss some of the myths about nutrition.
5. Spot Reduction Revisited In this article, I talk about a T-Nation article on spot reduction.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Blog, Conditioning, Farmers Walk, Fitness Sucks, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Log Press, Machines, Motivation, Nunn's Performance Training, Speed, Strength, Strongman, Weight Loss
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Hope For The Holidays Write Up and 12/20/2011 lifts
So, I decided to do Hope For The Holidays. Hope For The Holidays is a strongman competition that North American Strongman puts on every year in St Louis to benefit Our Little Haven, a home for children without parents. The goal of the show is to provide the children with Christmas gifts. So, as if I needed to compete one more time this year, I decided to sign up and do it. Here’s how it went:
260lb Axle Clean and Press
I got fourteen reps and was barely edged out by another competitor who got 15.
260lb Farmers Hold For Time
This is never a good event for me. I really need to improve on this. I held it for about 30.xx. I’m pretty sure I got like 6th.
30lb Crucifix Hold
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Conditioning, Deadlift, Farmers Walk, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Motivation, Nunn's Performance Training, Speed, Squat, Strength, Strongman
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This Is Who We Are.
At Nunn’s Performance Training, we are about half way through our second year being in business. During that time, we have always kind of struggled with our identity. Are we an adult fitness studio? Are we sports performance? What is our brand? Are we corporate wellness? For most businesses, these types of things are usually decided before it is ever incorporated. For me, it wasn’t. This business was started out of necessity. Not an “entrepreneurial seizure” as Micheal Gerber would put it. Every gym that I had worked for had a failing business model and went under quickly. So quickly that I had to scramble to figure out something to keep cash flowing in. This is where Nunn’s Performance Training was born. So when setting up my business, I looked at who my clients were. I had a handful of adults and a handful of middle school and high school athletes. All of which have been with me for several years and through a couple different failed gyms. They followed me from one gym to another, my garage, and eventually into a space I could call my own. Why did they follow me? Because they were serious about being the best versions of themselves.
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Tagged Avon, Conditioning, Deadlift, Gym Tour, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Motivation, Nunn's Performance Training, Personal Training, Speed, Strength, Weight Loss
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Energy System Development for Soccer
Lately, energy system developement (otherwise known as conditioning for you old school folk) has been a very hotly contested subject between soccer coaches and strength coaches. It usually ends with the soccer coaches erring on the side of aerobic training (long, slow distance) and strength coaches siding with alactic and glycolytic training (short bursts – otherwise known as anaerobic). The question is…who’s right?
In a recent study published by the American College of Sports Medicine, Osgnatch et. al. found that about 70% of the time was spent doing low-level, aerobic activities with about 30% of the time spent on higher intensity movements. Running full speed accounted for about 3% of the total match time or the equivalent of a 4 second sprint every 90 seconds.
Ok, so what does this mean?
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Tagged Avon, Blog, Conditioning, dynamic warm up, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Long Slow Distance, Nunn's Performance Training, Personal Training, Soccer, Speed, Strength, Westside
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9/17/2011 Sandhill Crane Festival Strongest Man
So, last Saturday, I drove up to Wheatfield, Indiana to compete in a Silver level strongman competition. This was a last ditch effort on my part to get qualified for Nationals. As it turns out, the only other competitor registered was Lightweight Pro and 2009 National Champ Doug Madewell. Since we were the only two registered, the promoter asked if we wanted to raise the weights. I thought this was a great idea! This way, we could use Nationals level weights. Everything was feeling pretty good during warm ups and I was excited to get the show going.
Press Medley
This was supposed to go 180lb dumbell, 300 axle, 320 log. The weight in the dumbell came out during Doug’s run, so, to be fair, they changed it to 150lb db for me as well. Got through the db fast but lined up a bit off center on the axle and missed the clean and was forced to continental. Pressed the log easily for 1st place.
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Tagged atlas stones, Avon, Axle press, Conditioning, Deadlift, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jason Nunn, Log Press, Nunn's Performance Training, Speed, Strength, Strongman
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A Couple Interesting Fat Loss Tips
The last few months I’ve come across some articles that have
changed how I thought about fat-loss. I’m guessing a lot of you if you were to
tell a friend how to lose weight you’d probably give the simple, “eat less and
do more cardio.” Well, that sounds easy enough, but doing too much of those can
actually be counter productive in the fat-loss game.
If you eat too little and practically starve yourself (under about
1,000 calories a day) your body will actually start to store more fat. Our
bodies are very, very good at adapting. When we eat less, it adapts and “holds
on” or stores all the extra calories (energy to our body) that it can to
“survive.” What do extra calories store as? You guessed it, fat. If you consume
too few of calories, your body may actually store fat, instead of getting rid
of it.
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Tagged Avon, Being Awesome, Conditioning, Indiana, Indianapolis, Jeff McDole, Long Slow Distance, nutrition, Speed, Weight Loss
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8/28/2011 and 8/29/2011 Strongman Events and Bench Press
8/28
Yoke walk – worked up to 850 x 60ft for 2 sets
Farmers walk – worked up to 315 x 80ft, picked 405, but no walk
Stones – did a bunch of reps with 275
8/29
Bench worked up to 405 x 2 singles – still having quite a bit of pain in my sternum, so I shut it down there.
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Tagged Athlete, Avon, Conditioning, Indiana, Indianapolis, Personal Training, Speed, Strength, Strength Training, Strongman
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