My buddy Adam Campbell from Men’s Health Magazine and Jeff Volek, one of if not the top researcher on lower-carb dieting just released their book this week.  You can get more info from Adam’s blog.  I was lucky enough to have see this book formulated and created over the last year or so, and it’s great AND founded on some of the best research ever done on the topic.  The book is called the TNT Diet.

In the battle against cancer, research takes money.  It’s that research that saved my friend, Alwyn Cosgrove’s life.  His brainchild LiftStrong brings to together the cream of the crop of strength and conditioning and fitness professionals to provide over 800 pages of information on a wide variety of topics.  With our encouragement, Alwyn provided his “cancer diaries” which were the regular emails he sent out to us as he beat cancer for the second time.  Theses diaries alone are worth the donation that you’d be making the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society let alone all the programs and advice from the top names in the sports training and fitness industries.  Get LiftStrong.

My friend, and NSCA Strength Coach of the Year, Robert Dos Remedios (AKA Coach Dos) recently published his book Men’s Health Power Training.  If you want the lean muscular look of today’s top athletes, you need this book.  The foundations and programming in this book come directly from the programs that Coach Dos uses to develop his athletes, many of whom now play for majory colleges across the country and in the NFL.

Bill

P.S.  9 days until the return of Van Halen to Indy.  23 days until Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony (formerly of VH, of course) hit Indy as well.  Anyone want to join me on stage to jam with the Waboritas?!!

A recent study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine has identified another potential contributor to ACL injuries in female athletes.

It seems that females tend to have an imbalance between the heads of their gastrocnemius with the lateral gastroc being much more active than the medial gastroc during straight ahead running and cutting.  This may actually increase the strain on the ACL in some situations (it certainly does so when tested statically).

The theory is that the increased lateral gastroc activity is an attempt to increase knee joint stability since female knees tend to be more lax.

Females also tend to cut and land from jumping with smaller hip and knee angles which are known risk factors in ACL injury.

Take these issues into consideration when training your female athletes.

Bill

“I can’t wait until I’m strong enough, so I don’t have to do this anymore.”
-Steve K. at 6 am this morning

I really like this 1,000+ squat video of Fred “Dr. Squat” Hatfield.

By today’s standards, his squat suit is inferior, he has to walk the bar out of and back into the racks, and the squat is FAST!

Now go lift something heavy.

Bill

I was talking about age and performance this week, and then this story pops up locally and has become a national story.

Just don’t mess with Grandma or she may just kick your ass!

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007708300431

Have a good long weekend.

Bill