HPI Strength and Conditioning

A look back at 5 years of training.

Happy Thanksgiving to our family near and far. for everyone in this pic as well as all our members through the years, and for all the training that has taken place to improve the human performance. 🇺🇸

Dear HPI Friends & Family-

A great friend of mine once told me that the only constant in life is change in which I have found to be profoundly true throughout my years.

With that being said, Nicole and I are here to tell you that our lease is expiring and we will not be continuing HPI. As much as we would love to continue in what we consider to be one of the best strength and conditioning facilities in Virginia Beach, we simply will not as we have other business endeavors that will be taking us elsewhere.

We will be completely honest in this exit note to all of our faithful members. Discontinuing HPI is somewhat bittersweet for us. The past 4 years have been some of the most challenging and rewarding times that we personally have ever endured. Virginia Beach is a tough area to establish a training center as it is one of the most saturated fitness facility cities that either of us have ever been in. In turn, we fought for every single member and personal training client. I am very proud that we always paid our employees well and always had our bills paid while making a great name for ourselves in the industry.

Most importantly what we want to convey is that we are forever grateful for all of the friendships that HPI has brought us over the last four plus years. We have met some incredible Americans during our time in Virginia Beach and everyone together is what truly made HPI great. We never rode the coattails of anyone or any fad. HPI brought people together from all walks of life. The memories, the friendships formed, the thousands of training sessions that became great dinner conversation. HPI has been a place where members came embraced our unique training methodologies and process, appreciated the ability to train, and cut all the other nonsense out that often follows gyms. Quite honestly, HPI has an amazing gym family and culture that is not easy to find.

It is our sincere hope that all of HPI’s followers have benefitted in some way from HPI and please know that we did not come to this decision lightly. So, wherever the road may take you we hope HPI will stick with you and that you won't entrust your time, talent, and treasure to just any place. Do your homework. Nicole and I will always be indebted to all of you for the support throughout the years. Again, the only constant in life is change.

I will offer this piece of advice to you and I will paraphrase my friend, Seattle Seahawks Head Strength Coach, Chris Carlisle: if you’re a strength coach, blaze your own path. Do not follow someone trying to reach the pinnacle of success. Stay true to your beliefs and know that there is an incredible mountain ahead that faces you as this is a very challenging industry.

Lastly, through the years, HPI has had literally 1,000s of people through the doors. However, we would be remiss to not give a huge THANK YOU to the following people that were and have been with HPI for quite some time. These people didn't just hold a membership but actually put in the work and will always be HPI Family:

PLANKOWNERS:
Mark Edge
David & Rebecca Corley
Susan Lutte
Jason Webb
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Jonathan West
Keith Hathaway
Seamus Flatley
Melissa De Marco
Kara Stolplinski
Lynsey Xenakis
KC Moffett
Rachelle Kavon
Emmett Moore
Andrew Duke
Bonnie & Zac Keller
Tracy Heller
Natasha Nicholson
Cat Weaver
Jay Kenslow
Teresa Rodgers
Brandi Bradshaw
Karen Alberger
Andi Grant
Kelsey Watson
Melissa Schade
Mike Imprevento

Your friends,
Rob & Nicole

+HPI's Last Day of Training will be Saturday, November 26th 2016 will be HPI’s last day open from 0800-1200. Our last class will run that morning at 0900

This is just the beginning of great things for this guy. Congrats to Coach Mason on completing basic. We had no doubt he would crush everything especially PT. 🇺🇸"Being a solider is more than courage, it's sacrificing yourself for something greater than yourself." We are so proud of you! 🇺🇸

Love your entire HPI Family

"The art is in the programming" and the past 8 weeks has lead to 3RM testing. Training will always teach us more about peformance then reading about it.

If you don't have the right variables you'll never have a favorable outcome.

13OCT16
ESD Finisher➕3 rft
100 yard shuttle
20x total DB Walking Lunges
15x Burpees
20x Slam Ball
25x Sit-ups

WORKING the WEAKNESSES. Getting out of the hole is one of the toughest parts of any squat. Part of today's program is BUILDING Power by STRENGTHENING the bottommost part with 6x4 1 and 1/2 FRONT SQUATS.

MINIMALIST Program 4-week program now available for $10.99. For more program info check out www.hpi-vb.com. This program is perfect for the frequent traveler, who perhaps frequents hotel gyms where minimal equipment is available. It is also an optimal program to keep in your arsenal for those vacation or weekend trips from time to time.

Alchemy Assault 8-week training cycle now available for purchase at www.hpi-vb.com $29.99. Originally developed for our nation's elite warriors, US Navy SEALs, this program is the epitome of functional strength and conditioning. It has a heavy emphasis on Olympic lifts and track workouts promoting speed and power development, maintenance on maximal strength, and honing of short duration high intensity metabolic conditioning that was designed around a day in the life of a special operator. This program is NOT for the faint of heart or the Beginner.

To cap off tomorrow's festivities::
1 round performed every 4:00 for 20 minutes.

Notice as this "well known" trainer performs in a "Crossfit Challenge" on the show "The Doctors." First, the box jumps valgus knees (caving in), the bouncing back and forth from the box to the floor without stepping back down off the box and resetting. This defeats the purpose of this plyometric explosive exercise and sets the athlete up for an achilles injury. Next, the lumbar flexion during the push press and the slam ball and on. This isn't bash session but rather meant to be educational.

Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper unite on The DRs I own nothing. Jillian and Travis's crossfit challange.

Week 2 of the Permutation Phase coming up this week. Only the persistent and consistent will see results. Stay the course. See you in the gym!