It’s time to blow our horn. We work with our clients to bring out the best in them. Our goal is to provide you with the proper exercise environment to move on to the next level. You can’t keep doing the same thing over and over and expect different results.That’s the definition of insanity. Last week I spoke of the staff’s constant pursuit of knowledge in the world of exercise and strength and conditioning. Science and research has produced constant changes in the training world. It is our goal as a staff to keep up with the changes and present them to you. We have been fortunate enough to have some athletes come to us with a desire to become better at their sports. These athletes were already above average, but they wanted to get to another level. Not only were they practicing their sports with their teams, but they also came to us early on the weekends (7:30-8:30a.m.) to do something extra, something different. The results have been excellent.

First of all, we would like to congratulate Andy Dana, an alumni of Kinetic Connections. Andy is a freshman at Dubuque. He was awarded team MVP in baseball. Andy worked with Kinetic Connections for 3 years. We saw him at Christmas for a couple workouts and he said they did a lot of the stuff we did over the years, but our workouts were harder. We have two athletes presently attending Antioch High school who have been working with us since late last fall, Pam Rodriguez and Josh Antilla. Josh has worked with us for the past two years. A year ago he was playing baseball in the spring. He went from one of the slowest on his team to one of the fastest. This year he switched to track and is running the 200 and 100. We were able to watch Josh run the 200 last Friday. He came in 3rd in his heat and missed qualifying for state by one place. His time of 24s. flat was a PR. He has gone from the back of the pack to the front throughout the season. We expect greater things next year. Watch for Josh next fall during the football season. Pam is our hardest worker. She has made a commitment to becoming better at track. She runs the 100, 200, and the 4×4 relay. Pam’s times have improved steadily throughout the season and she has PR’d in all distances throughout the season. She was the start of the 4×2 in the sectionals and her team took third in their heat. They did not qualify for state, but they also are improving. Pam has made a commitment to improve herself over the summer through weightlifting and conditioning. Watch for her next spring, she is only a sophomore.

I said before, everybody that comes to us is a good athlete, but the ones that come to us come to get that edge. Do something different. Something out of their comfort zone. We watched the track events the past two weeks. It was great to see the people who have come to us are continuing to get better. They haven’t reached their highest potential. We watched others who have done well in the past just do the same thing. They stay at their level and place according to the competition.Our hats off to those that come to us. The results speak for themselves.

Have agood week. Hope to see some new faces. We’ll take you where you want to go.

The Staff at Kinetic Connections