Summer is coming, spring sports have started, and everybody is starting their spring cleaning. Spring cleaning is a time to get the house and yard ready for the summer. It’s a great time to do a personal inventory and see where you are personally. Our business deals with physical training. Commitment, sacrifice, and dedication are involved in succeeding in your workout goals. Many people who had lofty New Year’s Resolutions have already fallen off the wagon. Most of the time lack of honesty with oneself or some type of rationalization helps people to fail at their goals. One of the comments we hear from people who quit their workout program is, ” It’s easy for him to do that.” Working out is hard for everybody, only how people embrace it is the key to their success. A great summary of the trials and tribulations of  committing to working out is on our website in the entry for Project Perfection 2010 Week 9. I highly recommend you take the time to read it.

Our weekend workouts continue at Grass Lake School. Next weekend we will be holding a workout on Saturday, April 3rd only. There will be no session on Easter Sunday (April 4th). We have seen a continued increase in the number of girls who play basketball at our weekend sessions. We continue to look into the option of holding a separate session on weekends specific to court sports only. Stay tuned.

As you may or may not know, Project Perfection 2010, is a project we have taken on in the area of bodybuilding and figure competition. We have a male and a female athlete preparing for competition in late fall or early winter 2010. They are doing this under our supervision. One of the key components to their training is their diet and management of their diet. We have been very fortunate to have Jennifer McDanial, a sports dietitian, as our consultant. You can see her biography on our website under The Experts. Jennifer has been the key to our athlete’s success. She is available to consult clients on diets to achieve their goals. If you are struggling with management of your diet, we recommend you contact her. You will not be disappointed. We wish all of you a Happy Easter.

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Week nine has our athletes feeling the grind. Jon has been in the gym following his routine to the tee. As far as availability for comments, Jon has been AWOL. This weeks comments from Carley summarize how self consuming a committment like this can be. Carley writes the following:

“Phase two is kicking my butt, but in a good way! The 3 hours in the gym is tough, but wondering what my body will look like after these 6 weeks keeps me going! I am eager to see even more changes, and even more excited about competing. I’ve taken up wearing heels more often to practice my walk haha. The diet portion of training has become much easier. I think I’ve finally forgotten what all good tasting (but bad for you) food tastes like, and fruits, veggies, and whole wheat stuff is delicious! The one thing I really feel I need to focus on is stress management now. I never truly realized how mentally draining training was. Meditation and early morning buddhist inspirational quotes help me evaluate certain things and situations and I feel more at peace, and overall more energized and happier! So if anyone else is training, I would highly suggest what I’m doing because is just as much mental as it is physical.”

Jon has started using creatine along with protein as part of his training regimen. The hardest part about taking the creatine has been maintaining a 64 oz. or greater intake of water. Finding balance between diet, workout, and managing the rigors of daily life is truly a challenge. So far, Jon and Carley have been up to the challenge and surpassed it. More good things to come.

It was nice to get a taste of Spring this past week. Unfortunately, the snow reminded us good things don’t last forever. Kind of a lesson in life. Enjoy things while they are good because change is the only thing that is constant. Just like the weather there is good and bad. We will have both. Some people don’t deal with the bad very well. Those are the people that seem to struggle more than others. They have a tendency to fall into a pattern of chasing what they had rather than what is to come. Just like working out, people fall into a pattern and keep trying to do the same thing because it worked at one time. That isn’t a realistic way to approach things in the workout world. Our bodies change with our workouts and age. Changing your routine and trying new things benefits you in your workouts in so many ways. But, like the weather, some workouts are good and some are bad. You don’t know until you have tried. Keep on trying. if you feel you need a change in your routine to help you move forward, contact us.

Enough on motivation and weather. Another great week came and went in the world of kinetic connections. Both of our bodybuilders are moving along according to plan. We continue to work with children, high school, and young adult athletes on the weekend. The parents have been participating on Saturdays. Our greatest increase in trainees has been athletes between 9 and 11. We continue to work on plans for football combine style training, court training, and possibly soccer training sessions. There has been a call for more sport specific training.

Last of all, people have asked if they can pay with credit card. We now have a PayPal account. You cannot navigate to PayPal from our site. In order to pay us through PayPal you have to go to PayPal and pay to kinetic Connections. To make payment, pay to: services@kcconditioning.com. Keep your receipt and show it to us at times of service. If you have any questions, please call us.

Time keeps moving on. Another week is completed and both athletes are well into their new program. Both Jon and Carley have had the opportunity to review their entire workout in the gym with us. Both of them commented on the change in approach for this phase. Both have noted more soreness after their first week than the first week in Phase I. As we noted last week, we are going to really  focus on the weaker areas. The approach will up the number of different exercises to be performed on a particular muscle group. The repetitions and sets will remain the same for each exercise. The biggest change is the trouble areas will be worked twice in a week.

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When all is said and done, we usually are not honest with ourselves.

It is very common for somebody to notice marked improvements early on in their strength or running or any other type of exercise program they choose to start. The same holds true for diets. Weight loss comes quick in the first few weeks. In both situations, the rapid improvements come to an end and that’s whenContinue reading »