IOL Strength and Conditioning

Last fall after an off-the-cuff comment by Dave Whitley in our IronOnline forum, he, Mark and Tracy  Reifkind and I started pulling together the pieces for a kettlebell workshop here in the San Jose area.

Featuring Rif, IronTamer Dave and Tracy, we’re set for Sunday, May 2nd, $149. This includes lunch (thought you guys would think that was important enough to list), and we’ll be filming this for dvd; the workshop fee includes a free dvd set once the dvds are ready.

We’re holding this at Greg Everett’s Catalyst Athletics in Sunnyvale. It’s just a few miles from the San Jose airport, if anyone wants to fly in, and we got a great discount ($59 down from $109) at a hotel about a mile from Greg’s that includes a hot breakfast (won’t be fancy, don’t get your expectations too high), and a free shuttle from the airport. We’ll have a number of people around, so no one will need to rent a car if flying in… we’re a friendly bunch.

Rif is teaching everything we need to know about lat strength, how to use the lats better in pressing and pulling, tissue quality and length and other stuff we never think of about these important back muscles.

Dave is presenting twice, once on kettlebells as a tool to teach movement and tension principles, the getup as the foundation for all grinding kettlebell lifts, how to perform the bent press and how to boost your military pressing power. His second session is on strongman stuff, how to learn bending and grip strength, breathing and feats of strength, and how these techniques can be used in our regular training.

Tracy is the Swing Queen. She uses a variety of swing progressions to add intensity to this simple exercise. Instead of just doing a few sets of swings and moving on, she teach us how to program the swings in ways we never thought of.

At the end of the day, they’ll bring it all back together for an hour of open questions and answers. We’ll be able to ask whatever was missed during the day, but better yet, we’ll see if they have different answers or if they share the same views. This promises to be my favorite part of the day.

Here are the rest of the details, including a sidebar with plenty of links to the presenters’ websites, blogs and video archives: San Jose Kettlebell Workshop.