September 2015

THOUGHT, WORD & DEED
THOUGHT, WORD & DEED are the summary for SYSTEM. If you feel uncomfortable in your body, either by pain, performance or ability, you must draw your thoughts to improvement. Once it’s thought out, you write a plan with goals or find a workout you’d like to follow. You can add strength and stability to your torso, add power to your swing, or speed to your movement. But you must lay out a plan to follow and then follow through, by showing up, one day, ready to exercise. The showing up, the attempt, by sheer diligence and perseverance is the deed that proves to your mind and outline that you’re capable of change and improvement.
The more you begin THINKING of how you’d like to change your body, the better the PLAN you create to move toward your goals. The clearer the plan and vision the more effective each workout becomes. The more focused and specific the exercises, the sooner you reach your physical goals. The results, in turn, lead you back to thinking MORE about your workouts, body, and diet; leading to more plans, more workouts, more results. Paying attention is what it’s all about. The less you care about your body and your health, the more it goes away – literally and figuratively. The closer the attention, the better, faster and more continuous the development. Maintenance becomes The Way. You develop a Strategy for Yearly improvement. You incorporate Synergy through Trial of all the Elements, bringing them together with consistent Motivation toward ultimate yet evolving goals. You have in place, a SYSTEM. A Simple, Structured Training system. SST!

There is beauty in the physical plane. Through our physical nature we transcend earth and achieve the spiritual. All athletes in all sports experience it at some time in their lives. The best achieve it most often. Breaking tackles or cracking home runs, slam dunking, spiking, pinning, acing, slamming, scoring, outracing, hanging ten – everyone has had this feeling, this transcendence. An undisturbed, focused concentration, devoted to the higher development of the physical body, should be no more or less intense than attempting to elevate the spiritual. When this attention is directed toward a particular sport, the results are often higher than original expectations.

KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is power. By using this Simple Structured Training System to gauge your physicality, you will have in place a knowledge base that is as vital as any stock portfolio, physician’s folder, or reference manual which you can view as your blueprint for fitness, and the developing course you’ve taken toward improvement. Many people make the mistake of hit and missing their way toward fitness, based on advice or attempts at something seen in magazines rather than first-hand accounts of what got you to great shape. When you have the breadth of knowledge that these feedback tests offer, you have a bonafide plan that led you step by step from a place of a uncertain condition to a place of greater conditioning. Armed with these facts, you have something to substantiate when your will or mind come up weak, that “yes, something better is possible.”

These “Specifics” help to further clarify the type of training to pursue. By breaking these aspects into measurable, definable routines, you will be able to go from the average, everyday athlete who participates, to the one who competes at a higher level. There shouldn’t be anything average about you or your abilities. To grow is to learn, and the more you can decipher about your body and its requirements, the more you will be able to give away.

S.P.E.E.D.
S TRIDE – Footstrike cadence of applied leg force synchronized with arm cycles.
P LYOMETRICS – Contraction and extension of muscles to create force.
E XAGGERATION – Taking the stride out of its comfort zone adds versatility.
E NDURANCE – Dictated by pace and body position and the ability to hold both.
D IRECTION – Utilizing movement explosively in various planes of play.

Strength is created by adding resistance, progressively, over a full range of motion. Simply adding repetitions to movements, rather than weight, will increase the strength of the muscle. With strength comes stamina, then endurance. Endurance means staying stronger, longer. When athletes stay strong, they play their best game, for more of the game. A golfer who stays stronger plays the last 6 holes often better than the first 12. Strength is cumulative, when one area is strong and it ties to another and yet another equally strong bodypart, the result is compounded from the sum of its parts. By having a strong heart, the whole body benefits. By having a strong core, the whole body benefits. By having strong belief, faith, trust, and attitude, the whole body benefits. There is literally no end to the amount of training you can offer your mind and body. And every endeavor has a beneficial effect. Strength is a many-splendored thing.