11.19.15
Week 1 day 3
WU: agile 8
WO:
Broad jump: 3x5
Squat: 45x10, 135x5, 225x3, 275x3, 325x5x5
Bench: 45x10, 135x5, 225x2, 235x3, 275x3, 305x5
a. pull up: fat grip x 15, 12, 12, 14
b. side bend: 85x25,25x2
c. tri rope push down: 110x25,22,20
grade: B+
location: ARC
diet: red
sleep: 6:37 - 69% HR 50
Comment: Squats felt a lot better, especially after the first two sets. Bench I took a slightly longer pause of 2-3 seconds and I could feel it. I havenāt been pausing at all and it really impacts that lift. Rest of the work felt pretty good.
SWIS Write up:
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How to treat scars - Probably a mistake going to this over Matt Nichol and Jordan Moon. I know Jordan and Matt so I decided to go with one Iāve never heard of. I already had a copy of Jordanās presentation, but I heard him and Matt did a phenomenal job. The scar was just using accupuncture points as well as treating scars with DC current. I had them use it on my right side which has a couple surgical scars. Immediately after maybe I felt a little looser, but i was also relaxing on a table for 10 minutes. Didnāt feel much better the next day. Maybe their treatment works maybe it doesnāt. Overall, probably not the best lecture to start with.
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Serrano Fats- Probably a mistake for me to go to this one as well. Eric kicked ass and did a great job presenting, but heās been a mentor to me over the past 5 years and weāve previously discussed most of his presentation. I should have went ot Donnie Thompsons. Living in Columbus I see JL Holdsworth pretty frequently and Iāve seen him speak in the past. He has a phenomenal talk on training athletes based on their level of experience. Serrano overall talked about the misconceptions with various types of fats, the misguided attack on saturated fats, and the fatty make up of several common foods. The benefits of avocado oil, coconut oil, and fish oil.
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Fred Hatfield - Fred talked a lot about CAT. It was interesting hearing it out of the horses mouth, which I would say was the summary of the event. Fred has to be in his 70s and unfortunately is losing his train of thought. Interesting hearing his philosophy on building absolute strength.
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Paul Chek Part 1 and 2. - Iām a huge fan of Cheks philosophy. He talked about the four Doctors- Dr. Quiet, diet, movement, and sleep. He preaches the fundamentals and being honest with oneself. Dude is a hippie, but comes across as completely genuine. He impressed me more than anyone else at the conference.
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John Berardi - Talked about nutrition for recovery. Interesting talk and I was interested in seeing how he was as a speaker. He is not the huge personality a lot of the other speakers are, but he is very good at what he does. I was fourtunate to be able to talk with him, JL, Serrano, and Ken (the guy who puts it on) that night. I think John is doing big things with PN. He is very successful and at this point he is impressive because he has nothing to prove. He states his opinion which is highly factually based and doesnāt bullshit people. I donāt know if I would consider him an innovator in performance, but I would say that he wonāt feed you shit and he tries to put out quality information every time. I was impressed with his professionalism and character. I could completely be misreading the guy, but he seems to be a good guy.
Day 2
Ian King - Another huge name that I wanted to see. He appears to have a huge chip on his shoulder and appears guarded, while at the same time he would talk with anybody who came up to him. Talk was pretty poor because he cited problems in the strength industry without offering any solutions. Listening to individuals who talked to him it appears he thinks there should be more emphasis on stretching and almost exclusively a focus on hip dominated exercises.
Eoin Lacey - from the Irish Sports institute. Nice guy and very much influenced by Serrano. Brought up a lot of functional medicine principles. Overall it was an ok talk in my opinion. It ended a little early which allowed me to catch more of Paul Chek.
Darren Whilloboughy - PHd from Baylor - talked about the biochem in building muscle, pretty much an hour and a half review for me, not a lot of practical data. Per Jordan he dumbed his talk way down for this event.
Poliquin - the grand finale was Poloquin who talked about neurotransmitter type for program design. My take away was that he is currently training people based on their personality type. I think itās an interesting concept and there may be some validity to it. He seemed very bored as a presenter and it almost seemed like he wanted some of the questions from the audience to challenge him, and that did not happen.
Overall: It was cool to hear it out of the horses mouth. I donāt think I left there feeling like I picked up a lot of tips to use in the clinic. I think the long gap between conferences made people focus on their bread and butter. A lot of which I had read about previous to the conference. Will be interested to see what the future holds for the SWIS. Met really great people and all the presenters seemed approachable.
Thought: spend your time wisely. Invest in others.
God bless, vigilance and virtue
DF