Muscle Tutoring

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When you exercise, you are going to be using the muscles that are already working well.  This is done in order to provide the most efficient means by which to accomplish the task at hand.  Whether you are lifting weights, running, playing a sport, participating in a group fitness class, or performing any other means of physical activity, you are programmed to do so as efficiently as possible.  This means if muscles that should have an ability to help perform the task are not able to be used, we will naturally compensate and use other muscles in its place to still achieved the desired outcome.

The Game of You

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"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.  The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." -- Albert Einstein

Our basketball team during my senior year of college was the best I've ever played on.  We ended up 30-2 and second in the country.  Something that became apparent to me during this season was how little we would spend prepping ourselves for other teams during practice and film relative to what we had done previously in my college career and also relative to how much time we spent improving our own systems.

#TBT: September 24-September 27, 2012

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Wise Words Wednesdays: Will Smith

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Takeaway quotes:

• "Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, God-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste.  It is something that truly exists in all of us."
• "Talent you have naturally.  Skill is only develop by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft."
• "I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented.  Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic."
• "The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I am not afraid to die on a treadmill.  You might have more talent than me.  You might be smarter than me.  But if we get on a treadmill together, there are two things:  You're getting off first, or I'm going to die.  It is really that simple."
• "You don't set out to build a wall... You say, "I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid," and you do that every single day and soon you have a wall."
• "If you are not making someone else's life better then you're wasting your time."
• "The first step before anyone else believes it is you have to believe it."
• "Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity."

Expect Greatness.

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Does Local Exercise Induced Fatigue Transfer?

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A couple weeks back Charlie McMillin sent out a tweet containing the following study:

Isolated Exercise:  Does Local Exercise Induced Fatigue Transfer?