- Fun times with Dad…
I was raised by a single mother who did the best she could to raise me to be a man of good moral character, and respected social standing. My dad and her were never an item, so I spent most of my life without a regular male figure in my life as she wasn’t in a hurry to replace him. Throughout my life, I had a few “father figures” like older male relatives, friends fathers, coaches, etc that I gained bits and pieces of information on how a man should move in this world. Often these bits of information weren’t the best, but it was really all I had.
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Have to see when things just aren't working...
Sometimes you have to know when things just aren’t going your way, and take a break. I plan on competing in my second powerlifting meet July 17th, but things aren’t looking great for your ol’ buddy Chad. Today marks the third workout in a row where my strength has taken a reverse course, and I’ve left the gym dissappointed in my performance. So, it’s time for a well deserved break. For the next week, I’m not touching any heavy lifts. No heavy squat, bench pressing, or deadlifts. In giving my body a break from the hard training, I hope to come back more energetic, and on the path to power again. I’ll have about 4 weeks to train for the meet after this break, so I should see some decent progress.
Enough about me, let’s talk about you. How often do you find yourself in the “stink”? That frustrating point at which all progress stops, and you find yourself just kind of going through the motions in your training? Times like these call for some intelligent decisions. When we hit that dreaded training “plateau”, we need to carefully examine what we are doing, and what we can change to get the oven burning again. Does the volume need reduce? Does the volume need INCREASED? Do we need to lighten theweights, and do more reps? Do we need to INCREASE the weights and decrease the reps? Whatever the reason, it’s time to go back to the drawing board.
Don’t keep doing the same thing day in and day out if it isn’t moving you forward! Make the neccessary changes to keep seeing progress.
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Hagerstown fitness expert Chad smith finds a tasty, low calorie treat in a most unusual place. Watch as Chad interviews Bernard Paul, owner of Uncle Louie G’s Italian Ice and Ice Cream in Hagerstown, MD.
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In one of my recent coumns for the Herald Mail entitled “Know Your Knuclehead Trainers”, I described some the trainers that I feel give our industry a black eye. One of these is the “out of shape” trainer. This trainer isn’t in presentable physical condition, and usaullay can be seen eating McDonald’s at least once a day.
Well, I got an e-mail from a reader who took offense to this description. In the e-mail she describes her brother who is in college studying exercise science, and is training atheletes to support himself. She says that I was being harsh and judgemental because her brother really doesn’t have time to workout due to his college and training schedule, and that with my attitude, she would hate to be one of my clients.
So here’s where I need your opinion. Re-read the column HERE and give me your opinion. Was I being too harsh? Or was i right on point? Leave your comments and let me know!
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Today upon recommendation from my friend, and former client Scott Ford, I payed a visit to Dr. Eric Jones of Cumberland Valley Chiropractic in Hagerstown, MD. I’ve been frequently dealing with neck and back pain from years of weightlifting and wrestling, which notice gets worse with age (and more wrestling and weightlifting).
At one point, my neck was in such bad shape, the nerves had actually began to stop communicating with the muscles on the left side of upper body, and caused atrophy. That wasn’t good. Fortunately, one of my clients at the time was a physical therapist, and she worked with me to get me “back online” so I could get back to business as usual, you know, wrestling and weightlifting.
Well fast forward to 2009, and I tricked out my neck carrying some dumbells, and my arm gets to tingling. That tingle slowly began to turn into weakness. This time I decide to head it off before it begins again, so here’s where the story began, seeing Dr. Jones. My experience was more than I expected as Dr. Jones took his time to thoroughly explain what he believed was the cause of my problems, and walked me through his proposed treatment.
This isn’t going to be an advertisement for Dr. Jone’s practice, but I’m looking forward to working with him to finally get rid of this monkey I’ve been carrying for waaay too long.
If you have a treatable condition that’s keeping you from performing your best, handle that and get back in the game. Little injuries and “tweaks” tend to get worse over time, so don’t continue to blow them off. Physical Therapists, and Chiropractors can get to the source of what ails you and help correct the risidual effects so the same injuries don’t happen over and over again.
Take care of yourself, and look for an interview with Dr. Jones soon!
-c
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