Coaching those who crave more than the average workout in order to achieve optimal results within their lifestyle.
09/06/2023
Those prizes ššš
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Thanks for the individual and team support. Less than two weeks to go.
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21/04/2023
Great trip back to the motherland š“ó §ó ¢ó „ó ®ó §ó æ
Home Internationals secured with wins vs Scotland & Wales šš
Final squad announced for the 2023 World Championships in San Diego š
Reflecting on a wild 15 years as this will be my 5th World Championships wearing the Lion on my chest. Who would have thought it all those years ago.
This game continues to take me to unimaginable places in life.
Time to ā½ļøš
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10/04/2023
Best in BC šš„
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29/12/2022
Off-season. Nobody cares, work harder.
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30/08/2022
Man in the arena.
Locked in š
Let me know if youāre ready to work and want to join meā¦The new lacrosse athlete program is š§Ø and Iām in the trenches with you.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt (and Coach Ken ācookedā Whiteā¦IYKYK š¤£)
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15/08/2022
Big year ahead. Sights set on the 2023 World Championships with . Indoor off-season for . In-season with . A new challenge with .
Feels good to be back in the trenches. This game has taken me to unimaginable places in life.
Refocused is an understatement.
Training is about to level š
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07/08/2022
šØWarning: Removed from comfort zone. Rapid Growth Imminent.
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15/11/2021
Getting āWinteredā āļø
BIG focus on winter work capacity right now in my program. I do this by embracing all the added stimulus that these cold months bring, rather than avoiding them. Simply, more stress = more growth (in and out of the gym).
Time to lock-in and use the litany of excuses that are available during this season as tools. Whether training for yourself, your sport, or for fun;
A tough wake-up is a lesson in discipline.
A cold morning is added resiliency (and energy expenditure!).
A day of rain is perspective (cue 50 cent).
A challenging week of work and family schedules is an opportunty to overcome adversity and still undertake training (compound effect).
The list goes on.
If you can train consistently during these months, everything else just comes easier the rest of the year and in life generally (and no last minute rush or ā4 weeks to shredded programā before your next time on the beach).
Itās voluntary discomfort for a bigger return.
Are you one of those people that needs the extra push during the cold, wet, and dark days? Letās talk if so š²
āWe must undergo a hard winter training and not rush into things for which we havenāt preparedā - Epictetus
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08/10/2021
Veteran move from a young athleteā¦seeing whatās up next on the training plan š
Little do they know that itās actually the blueprint to the next 12 weeks of IA āhybridā training. Thatās 3 months of online coaching; 3 sessions per week delivered in-app, and 1 in-person session monthly.
215 athletes ready to work. Year 2. Letās go āļøāļøāļø
Proud of my guy and the growth of his company š. Heās creating a massive impact on western Canadian lacrosse and young athletes by offering more than just your standard lacrosse coaching. Itās a āfusionā of field and box lacrosse. Itās about developing the complete lacrosse athlete. Itās about being a great teammate. Itās a culture.
And itās only the beginning šš
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13/09/2021
Training is a vital life skill, itās not just for performance, vanity, and ego; yet so many teens and adults have no idea what they are doing in the gym and in ownership of their own health.
Sport forced me to learn about fitness/training/nutrition from a very young age. I knew I needed to master it in order to gain a competitive advantage on the lacrosse field. Many years later, I now understand that the true value of training goes far beyond athletic performance.
I often preach the good word to younger generations that training has massive benefits outside of the sport and bodybuilding rhetorics we associate it with. It is truly a life skill that we should all possess when you consider its impact on body confidence, mental health, learning grit/resiliency, sacrificing to achieve success, competing with yourself daily, and being the master of your own health.
My aim is that people of all ages understand this, whether in the sporting environment or not, and to equip them with the skill of training themselves for the rest of their lives. Our peak ATHLETIC performance may start around age 18 and end around 36 (on average), but why would we ever stop training for peak HUMAN performance?
is one place that I get the opportunity to preach this good word. Grateful for the opportunity and ready for another Autumn/Fall season aheadā¦Over 120 young and impressionable athletes in the hybrid (online & in-person) program starting up next weekāļøāļøāļø
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Imperfect š
I call this my imperfect workout. Or āI donāt give a sh*tā session.
I do it when I really donāt want to workout that day.
All these Instagram coaches (a generous term for some) and YouTubers that you follow also have their bad days. If they say otherwise and preach the ābeast mode every dayā mentality then they are liars. Simple and plain.
We all have our down days; when we just donāt want to train. On these days, I do my imperfect workout. It takes about 20 minutes including warm-up and Iām just as gassed as during some of my 45-60 minute sessions.
People glorify time as being indicative of a good workout: āI did 60 minutes of exerciseā - This completely undermines intensity/quality/purpose within training and assumes that thereās an ideal amount of time allocated to training to get results. Time is absolutely negligible if the right things arenāt being done within that timeframe.
Time is even more negligible if you donāt show up at all!ā¦
ALWAYS do a little something rather than nothing on those tough days, it all stacks up over time. Too many people obsessing over the perfect 60 minute workout, then skipping it entirely because the stars havenāt aligned to allow the āperfectā workout to take place during a busy/low motivation day.
In reality, 20 minutes of quality work will get you very far when repeatedly stacked up over the long-term.
The session:
1ļøā£SA Kettlebell Swings x5/5
2ļøā£SA Bent Over Row x5/5
3ļøā£Reverse Lunges x5/5
4ļøā£SA Push Press x5/5
5ļøā£Kettlebell Swings x10
*Use heaviest weight you can do for the reps. Donāt put it down throughout. Rest for as long as its takes you to complete all 5 exercises (equal Rest:Work ratio). Repeat x3 (or more!)
ENJOY. Something is always better than nothing.
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As a former NCAA Division1 student-athlete, I graduated like many do and spent several months, even years, coming to terms with stepping away from my NCAA career and all that came with being a student-athlete. What I missed more than anything was the peak physical condition that I was in during my collegiate years and how I took for granted the ability to train, compete, and work towards a goal every day with a dedicated coach. Not to mention the ability to eat everything in sight.
While working in fitness coaching and personal training, I often found former NCAA student-athletes reaching out to me for fitness advice and training programs. They all wanted the same; training that satisfied their craving for something more than your average workout.
āWorkoutā classes? - Not hard enough. They were used to much more than a few bodyweight exercises and 5lb dumbbells.
Their local gym? - Nobody to push them, lacking direction and motivation, nutrition became inconsistent and misunderstood (pizza and beer diet stops working after college for some reason).