Picture this: you're out playing basketball with your friends on a Monday night. Pickup games with your friends at the local rec center are one of your favorite ways to blow off some steam and bond with ... Continue Reading
Coordination Training for Future Champions
Almost a half-century ago, a famous Finnish coach and athletic authority Lauri Pihkala said, "Boys don't be in a hurry to join the men." His warning is still applicable today and should be ... Continue Reading
Finding Balance in Our Physical, Personal, and Professional Lives
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.” - Thomas Merton It’s perhaps a bit overused as a word - balance. It’s also a darn tricky concept to optimize in ... Continue Reading
Kettlebells Improve Balance and Job Satisfaction
Yes, you read that correctly. A new study from the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research assessed the effect of kettlebell training on a group of forty office workers. If it helps, I like to ... Continue Reading
How to Achieve Bite-Sized Bits of Balance in Life
My new friend in Hawaii bid me farewell with a few choice words. She said, “You need to go home and work on balance.” I’ve been pondering the idea of balance ever since I got back from my trip. I’m not ... Continue Reading
Having It All: How to Cram Training, Working, and Life into Every Day
A couple people have asked me recently for advice about how they can strike a balance among work, personal obligations, and training. It’s always a useful question to revisit, and I do have some ideas, ... Continue Reading
Warm Up Drills Can Increase Balance and Proprioception
Balance and posture are critical aspect of athleticism. Balance is a complex integration of various body systems, including your sight and proprioception (the ability to sense where parts of your body are ... Continue Reading
Balance for Grapplers & Humans: Using BJJ Techniques to Balance Life
Let’s chat a little bit about balance and how we might achieve it in our lives, from the perspective of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. We can use grappling as a metaphor, at least in part, as long as we accept we ... Continue Reading
Balance for Grapplers & Humans: The Relationships Between Physical & Emotional Balance
One of many concepts that has a specific meaning in grappling but a complementary and related meaning in life is balance. We need to be able to balance in order to grapple effectively. If we have balance, ... Continue Reading
