The specifics (found in another website) seem good.
Ever feel like you guys overcomplicate things?.
The advertisement of no side effects is incorrect. Some people are sensitive to flashing light and may experience nausea and vomitting after a treatment. In Toronto I used my unit on an athlete who had this unfortunate experience.
Also, anyone with a history of cancer should not use this or any related technology as this can increase cancer cell growth.
I don’t guess you are going to go over protocols?
I have close to 10-12 different protocols depending on the need, time of year, type of activity. They are related only to this technology because of the power, wave pulse and wavelength specificity, as compared to other units.
Many have been created based on trial and error as part of my research on the performance end. So if you have this device let me know what you have been doing and I might be able to guide you.
All the time. It is the biggest problem with this industry. I think there is a basic human need to do something “special” when all you need to do is keep things simple.
Agreed
Soccer especially, doesn’t need to be that complicated.
Tire flipping in soccer? Certainly not a mainstay of any successful program
By football players, we mean US football. No one I know flips tires for soccer players.
Hahaha, I bet we could find a few trainers out there flipping tires before soccer practice and doing a few farmer’s walks. That’s the sad part.
I need to start saying american football on here. Forget that it means two different things. I train a few soccer(football) kids, and they benefit greatly from general strength programs. I use a variation of 531 with all my athletes, just changing the rep protocols and exercises of the assistance and auxillary work. Depends on the sport. I am a big fan of simplicity. I can’t say if what I do is superior, but I will take the results. Most of the kids that do our program are highly injury resistant and superior in many facets physically to their contemporaries. I like the KISS principle. When it comes to injury, I think ESTI and myself like to nip things in the bud before they become full blown issues. Technology can be your friend. That being said, I don’t like gimmicky things, there has to be an effect I can see or feel myself before I ever use anything.
Why 5-3-1???
The conditioning coach at Manchester United spent a week with Louie Simmons at Westside discussing workouts & everything he learn’t/has read is used very sparingly in the whole scheme of things there. Very sparingly. A lot of the players look as though there not lifting anything or anything relatively heavy.
The worst training method I saw on the training pitch was at a semi professional soccer club & they were carrying atlas stones in pairs of 5, dropping them, for the next 5 to carry in the other direction.
These things had enough weight to crush ones foot. Training which would scare me $hitless.
Its a scary world out there, especially at the wrongs clubs with the wrong trainers, more suited for training guys in the Highland Games Strongman event.
Yes some coaches have tried to use tire flipping in soccer and farmers walks etc
It’s just bullsh1t
As for Man Utd or other coaches at Westside - even if that’s true, that’s just a waste of time, especially at the higher end clubs.
Although strength training does have its place at higher end clubs.
(Without debating the definition of ‘strength training’ as applied to soccer) - That’s an opinion sadly not a (universal) fact.
All the top players seem to be getting stronger & stronger (faster), you can see it in there bodies.
C.Ronaldo, Rooney, Messi etc…
Appearance means nothing.
Drawing the conclusion (in soccer) that simply ‘looking strong’ means they lift weights is completely incorrect. The fact is that some clubs are lucky if they even have gyms.
Example - The ‘strongest’ looking player in the EPL is probably Drogba.
He doesn’t lift.
to say look a C. Ronaldo. Last I checked, he was one of the worlds best. My bottom line belief is all things being equal, the stronger athlete almost always wins. There isn’t a sport where strength isn’t a factor including golf. RB 34, I use it because I get exceptional results with it. Most of my athletes have too short of an off season to go into block periodization, so I use a conjugate hybrid. I would be lucky to get through GPP and half of SPP before they go back. 75% of their year is under different programs, except football. I routinely have kids who test at the top of their incoming classes every year in strength, speed, and agility… Until I see a reason to change things, I don’t.
No 23, do you think that much like hockey , baseball, and hoop, perhaps strength training is late getting to soccer? I remember Charlie telling me how he thought 90% of hockey training he saw was crap. I believe the quote was “If you are doing one thing right, you are already better than 90% of the trainers out there. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King.” Charlie was funny. I started following his methods and things I learned along the way, and for 3 years running, I have a scoring champ for AAA Tier 1 hockey. Do everything pretty much against the grain, and with wonderful success. I owe a lot to Charlie and his guidance. My one kid is supposed to go top 20 in OHL draft next year. He is strong for a 15 year old and it shows on the ice. Can’t move him off the puck. His father said since he started training with me 5 years ago, you can see his game pick up every year. we started with super light weights and body weight exercises. Now he out squats many of my college football kids with ease. I actually hold him back so he doesn’t get too muscular. World cup looks pretty physical. I imagine the same holds true for it as well.