Kinetic Connections

Newsletter Week of 7/25/10

Larry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:48:18 +0000

The dog days of summer are here. The temperature and humidity is rising, the baseball races are starting to mean something, and football training camps are just around the corner. What does it all mean, fall sports are coming soon. Hopefully all of those who participated in summer sports and speed and agility camps will be able to showcase their new found skills. Our summer camps come to a close on Tuesday. This will give our athletes just enough time to recover from the strenuous rigors of their training. Just a few thoughts on recovery. It is an important phase of any workout program and should be part of any training program. Highly driven athletes often overlook the recovery phase of their workouts. Constant increases in workloads without any type of recovery can lead to overtraining syndrome. The symptoms are hard to recognize at first. People first feel they are out of shape and end up working harder only to find they are getting slower and weaker. Things to look out for: tired legs, difficulty sleeping, increased resting heart rate, irritability and anxiety. The cure is rest. Overtraining can be reversed quickly if caught early. It can take 6 months or greater to reverse if proper steps are not followed early. The lesson here is listen to your body and rest it when indicated. The end result, your performance will benefit from the proper work rest ratio. Rest is part of working out. Have a good week.

Project Perfection 2010, Week 25

Larry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:32:36 +0000

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Newsletter Week of 7/18/2010

Larry — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:06:22 +0000

Persistence is the word for the week. We caught up with Carley, our figure contestant, this week. We performed her fourth assessment and the results were tremendous. Carley has lost 11 pounds since mid-January and close to 5% body fat. She is sporting six pack abs. and well defined arms and legs. Carley’s training has been tedious and the results have been slow to come. She has experienced doubt, disappointment, and the desire to give up. She doubted her workout program was right for her because the results weren’t immediate. She was disappointed in the slow results which made her want to give up at times. Fortunately, Carley didn’t give up and her persistence has paid off. The results have taken 7 months to appear. The lesson here is to believe in what you are doing, follow through and your persistence will pay off. Keep on working out. It will pay off in the long run.

Have a good week

Project Perfection Week 24

Larry — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:51:32 +0000

We’re back on track. We finally caught up with Carley earlier this week and performed a reassessment. The results were fantastic. Carley’s transformation is nearing completion and she knows it. She has lost 11 pounds overall and toned herself up completely from head to toe. Her body fat has dropped from over 19% to 15%. She is close to symmetrical throughout in her legs and arms. Carley shows confidence in herself by how she carries herself and her attitude. She is eager to hit the stage in a competition. The search for a competition continues.

Our goals for phase IV are pretty simple: improve posture, lose a little more weight, and finish off the legs. Her next workout for phase IV is being formulated at this time. The results for phase III were better than expected. Hopefully we’ll have some pictures up in the near future. Carley promises to keep in better touch with us. Check back with us next week to track Carley’s progress.

Newsletter Week of 7/11/2010

Larry — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:50:15 +0000

Hello Everybody from the staff at Kinetic Connections!

Summer is flying by very fast. Our S.P.A. camp comes to an end Tuesday. We will be starting our camp to improve linear running speed on Thursday, July 15th. It is a perfect complement to the S.P.A. camp. Contact us ASAP if you have an athlete interested in attending. The results will speak for themselves.

As far as summer flying by, one only has to get up at 4a.m. see how quicly we are reaching the end.The sun is no longer up at 4. It was two weeks ago. It will keep coming up later and later, until after December 21st. You may have a lot of things you said you were going to do this summer, but haven’t. Get started right away, summer will be over sooner than you think and you’ll regret not doing what you said you were going to do. The same goes for your plans to improve your health. Get them started right now. Too often we find excuses not to start a workout or exercise program. All of a sudden our start time slips away like a summer. Don’t let it. Get up and do something now. You have to start somewhere.

Have a good week.

Newsletter Week of July 4th

Larry — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:20:38 +0000

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Proect Perfection 2010 Week 21

Larry — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:06:37 +0000

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Newsletter Week of 6/27/10

Larry — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:55:18 +0000

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Project Perfection Week 21

Larry — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:11:15 +0000

We are in contact with Carley and things are going well. She reports she is running faster and farther. She does secretly admit she misses lifting weights at the intensity she was lifting before. Carley notes her greatest improvements with this phase so far is definition in her legs and her abs. are ripped. She feels the tone in her arms has remained. We are getting close to reassessment. We are also working on picking out a competition to enter. The competition should be picked this week. Not much else to report. Looking forward to seeing Carley’s results in person.

Newsletter week of 6/20/10

Larry — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:04:50 +0000

The summer is shaping up nicely. We hope everybody is shaping up nicely. Our S.P.A. (Speed, Power, Agility) camp is under way. We have a great group and changes in the athletes are already visible. The staff is very pleased with everybody and their efforts. It was funny to hear everybody complain how sore they were after the first day. By session number three, there were very few complaints of soreness. Our easiest week has been completed, the difficulty increases each week with the goal of having everybody in tip-top shop and performing at their highest level by camp’s end.

Why the soreness in people who have been playing sports and are for the most part in shape? Two reasons, lactic acid and specificity of training. Lactic acid is the waste muscles produce when they work hard. It is felt as muscle soreness and stiffness in the muscles. Specificity of training means if you train only one way i.e. as a distance runner, your body adapts to be efficient at that activity. If you train differently, for example by doing sprints, your body is not adapted to that, as a result you not sprint very fast and your muscles may react by becoming stiff. The good news is, both situations improve with training. This is another reason to mix up your workouts. One of the goals of a trainer is to keep the body from adapting by changing workout routines. This is another good reason to seek out the advice and supervision of a trainer. They can help you get over those stale spots in your training when you aren’t seeing progress.

We hope you are in the middle of your summer workout routines. Get out of your comfort zone and do something different. You may be pleasantly surprised.

The Staff at Kinetic Connections