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Dan John: Hip Hinge, Hinge Assessment Tool

In the turmoil of Dan’s Intervention seminar, as we filmed for DVD, I took in… pretty much nothing. Later, I listened as the attendees gush (it’s true, they did), but it wasn’t until my fourth or fifth pass through the material that the built-in critic who poses as an editor began to subside and the breadth of the material began to seep in. Dan made such an organized, methodical march through a mountain of material—a solid thirty years of learning and coaching—that much later that I realized what a volume of thinking had been so simply laid out. It’s, I guess you could call it… stunning.

Here’s a clip in which Dan shows his newest concept for teaching hip hinging, the Hinge Assessment Tool, HAT.

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Included as Intervention
3-discs of workshop lecture
Various handouts, including a new e-booklet on Intervention
Full lecture transcript pdf
Full lecture mp3 audio file

Disc One: 75 minutes
Introduction to Intervention
The Health Lights System
The Fitness Spiral
Absolute Strength
The Impact of a Strength Coach
Qualities
Quadrants

Disc Two: 67 minutes
Age: Hypertrophy & Joint Mobility
Basic Human Movements
Patterning
HATE, Hinge Assessment Tool
Squat Patterning
Loaded Carries
Slow Strength, Grinds
Standards
The Four Steps
Asymmetrical Training

Disc Three: 70 minutes
The Triad Combinations
Testing
Rep Rules
Corrective Exercises
Scheduling Correctives, Strength and Skills
Programming the Elements
Example of Programming for an Elite Athlete
Other Programming Examples
Practicing Intervention
The Warmups
The Intervention Tool Kit

In the Realistic Reps clip below, Dan introduces his thinking behind rep ranges.

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Over the course of the editing, I must have watched this seven or eight times, and each time, something else stuck out, some little nugget I’d missed the other times through. That’s one reason I’m especially pleased (giggle to myself from time to time) that we added a a surprise to the package: The entire lecture is transcribed — there’s a PDF of the workshop included on the DVD. And oh, yes… wait for it… we also included an MP3 audio file so you can listen to it again during your flight to Perform Better. Or maybe it’ll have to serve as a week’s worth of commute learning. We’re also going to release the MP3 audio file and transcript as a stand-alone product later this summer.

All Dan’s handouts are on the DVD, plus he’s written new material in a PDF only available on this DVD, to expand on his thoughts since recording the workshop. This is one fabulous package, and we’re so confident you’ll agree, we’ll guarantee it. If you missed the video clips from last week or you’d like to place an order, grab a ride on this link, here.


Dan John: Intervention DVD

Course Correction for the Athlete and Trainer

I’m clawing my way out of a three-month deadzone, that place that swallows everything when a project gets exciting. It’s fun in the depths, and it’s even more fun on the way out… where I am right now. AKA, FINISHED! Dan’s new DVD shipped to the replicator Monday and will be here in just under two weeks.

My expectation is that over the course of the three-and-a-half-hour lecture a realization will wash over the viewer what an astounding amount of material Dan compiled. This is his training and coaching over the decades all distilled into a precisely defined system, an organizational feat that flows so smoothly it takes a second and third thought to recognize how complex the material is because it feels so simple.

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Over the course of the editing, I must have watched this seven or eight times, and each time, something else stuck out, some little nugget I’d missed the other times through. That’s one reason I’m especially pleased (giggle to myself from time to time) that we added a a surprise to the package: The entire lecture is transcribed — there’s a PDF of the workshop included on the DVD. And oh, yes… wait for it… we also included an MP3 audio file so you can listen to it again during your flight to Perform Better. Or maybe it’ll have to serve as a week’s worth of commute learning.We’re also going to release the MP3 audio file and transcript as a stand-alone product later this summer.

All Dan’s handouts are on the DVD, plus he’s written new material in a PDF only available on this DVD, to expand on his thoughts since recording the workshop. This is one fabulous package, and we’re so confident you’ll agree, we’ll guarantee it.

Included as Intervention
3-discs of workshop lecture
Various handouts, including a new e-booklet on Intervention
Full lecture transcript pdf
Full lecture mp3 audio file

Disc One: 75 minutes
Introduction to Intervention
The Health Lights System
The Fitness Spiral
Absolute Strength
The Impact of a Strength Coach
Qualities
Quadrants

Disc Two: 67 minutes
Age: Hypertrophy & Joint Mobility
Basic Human Movements
Patterning
HATE, Hinge Assessment Tool
Squat Patterning
Loaded Carries
Slow Strength, Grinds
Standards
The Four Steps
Asymmetrical Training

Disc Three: 70 minutes
The Triad Combinations
Testing
Rep Rules
Corrective Exercises
Scheduling Correctives, Strength and Skills
Programming the Elements
Example of Programming for an Elite Athlete
Other Programming Examples
Practicing Intervention
The Warmups
The Intervention Tool Kit

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Click here to learn more or
to place your order for Dan John’s Intervention DVD set.


Everything Strength (dot com)

For all the gazillion great weights-related articles and blog posts (and the not-so-great ones we might want to filter out), wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple, clean portal into the strength web? It could be curated by a few active ‘net participants who cover a variety of strength disciplines to bring together the most important news you need to know, and the hidden gems and bits of cleverness you may have missed along the way.

It could… and would!

Just taken live this week, it gained instant traction, averaging 1,000 daily visitors from day one. I think you’re going to like it: EverythingStrength.com.

Everything Strength

Everything Strength Weekly Top 10, June 2, 2011
Your top 10 click-throughs for the week, in order of clicks