There is an old fable that a frog in water where the temperature is being slowly raised will not jump out of the water, as the changes to their detriment are slow. Compared to a frog suddenly placed in boiling that may realize this is not a healthy place to be. It appears to me […]
In the modern history of athletic preparation, there has been growing consideration for physical preparation. What the Americans call ‘strength & conditioning’. It may not be accurate to suggest that physical preparation is a new concept. The interpretation of the stories of the Greek athlete Milo of Croton from 6th BC gives support to a […]
The story goes that back in about the 1970s two high level bodybuilders agreed to a sprint race, and during that sprint race they both tore hamstrings. This story entertained many, however I took a more serious lesson from it. Combined with my observations of the shift in posture from the 1960s to the 1970s […]
It’s been 21 years (1999) since the first Get Buffed!™ program was released. A lot has happened in that time, and we have a lot to talk about! You can break this journey down into three periods – the origins, the reactions and the impact. The program and its unique concept have changed the way […]
Having the 2020 Games postponed by a year and not really being sure whether it was even going to happen was tough. How hard was it to time a peak in the unknown? There were the 12 Victorian (AUS) swimmers denied the opportunity to compete in the Olympic trials due to COVID regulations around travel. […]
Its July 2021 and the Games of the XXXII Olympiad originally scheduled for Tokyo 2020 are now happening! Up until a few months ago no-one was sure they would. Many Games become ‘known’ for something. Especially since 1968…. Mexico City 1968 was known for two African American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised […]
Sometimes our personal experiences really shape our professional direction. The injuries I suffered in the 1980s gave me a massive kick-start towards solving injuries in athletes, not the least rupturing my ACL when tackled by a motor vehicle at about 20 years of age, before even the advent of arthroscopic surgery for knees in my […]
Carrie Sheinberg was a technical skier who competed at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics in slalom. She was named to the US Ski Team when she was 17-years-old and stayed on the team for eight years. Sheinberg won US titles in combined in 1995 and in slalom and giant slalom in 1997. She later attended […]
When pain becomes your teacher with physical preparation coach Keith Minikus Keith is a physical preparation coach based in Texas USA with a long history of strength sports training – football, powerlifting and Olympic lifting. Over time Keith developed some series injuries that were threatening this ability to continue what he loved to do, train. […]
At a time of year when giving is on the mind, I want to share that in my opinion the best gift a physical preparation coach can give is the gift of quality of life. And whilst the cardio-vascular benefits have decades of support, and the muscle density has now been raised to the same […]