Today, I’m happy to have coach Dave Tenney of the Seattle Sounders (MLS) on the site. I first met Dave a couple years back when he asked if I could evaulate some of the players on the team using the Omegawave because the organization was considering purchasing...
Heart Rate Variability Research Review
Originally developed in the 1960’s as part of the Russian space program, the science of heart rate variability has since found broad application in cardiac medicine, though in the last two decades this technology has spread into the elite levels of strength and...
Peak Training & Diet Design Summit Review
A couple weeks ago, my good friend Joe Dowdell sent me an advanced copy of his new product Peak Diet & Training Summit video course that was filmed from their workshop in NY at Joe’s gym last summer. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it out to the...
UFC 130 Training Camp Wrap Up
In this final installment of my series on Tim Boetsch’s UFC 130 training camp and the use of HRV to manage the training process, you can really see the big picture of what a training camp really looks like from the inside out. The final result was a drop in...
UFC 130 Training Camp: Weeks 1-2
In the second part of this article series on Tim Boetsch’s training for UFC 130, you can get an inside look at accumulated training effects, something that needs to be well understood if you’re going to effectively design and manage training programs. All...
UFC 130 Training Camp: An Inside Look
In this article series, I’m going to be providing an inside look at a component of training that is one of the most often neglected: program management. All too often, people write programs and then mechanically work their way through them without every really...