IOL Strength and Conditioning

Lots of bits and pieces getting caught up after crawling out of the new DVD tunnel nearly two weeks ago. Let me do a quick recap in case you’re waiting on something that may have been wrapped up recently, or will be in the next few days.

• First, Gray’s new DVD status—shipment arrives Friday and we’ll get the preorders out of here Saturday morning. All US shipments going priority mail will arrive between Tuesday and Thursday; here’s the order link if you want to get a copy on order for pre-Christmas delivery.
• Slightly jumping the gun here because I have more video files uploading right now, but since I know people have been waiting for these, here are the downloadable videos currently ready. The others are either uploading or will be ready by the weekend.
• Update for Kindle reader fans: Michael Boyle’s Advances in Functional Training and Dan John’s Mass Made Simple are now at Amazon.com in the Kindle store, and Gray Cook’s Movement is uploading now.
• I have the epub files for these and will upload to Barnes & Noble and other outlets next week.
• Dick Tyler’s classic, West Coast Bodybuilding Scene is at the printer; we’ll have the print book in stock in about a month, and the ebook available slightly before then. The Brother Iron ebook formatting will be done shortly, too.
• In case you missed it last week, I grabbed some nuggets from the lectures so you can get a notion of the information quality that makes up the new Perform Better Long Beach Summit Lecture CD set. Check out this line-up, some of my favorite speakers in the world right here!
• And finally, I have an update on Mandy. Last week she moved to rehab facility to begin her recovery journey — she’s doing well and has made new progress since arriving just a few days ago. I know she and her family would love to hear we’re thinking of them as they spend Christmas half-way across the country from the Texas they call home.

Here’s the direct address to Mandy’s room.

Mandy Trept, Unit 101
c/o Rancho Los Amigos
National Rehabilitation Center
7601 E. Imperial Highway
Downey, CA 90242

The Miles For Mandy event is this Saturday. The tireless organizers would appreciate your financial support, 100% of which — because they hustled up sponsorship money to cover event costs – is going to Mandy to help with her needs.

Here’s how to donate:

• By check to Bakersfield Track Club, c/o Miles For Mandy, P.O. Box 22705, Bakersfield, CA 93390
• Online through Eventbrite, just click on the donation link.

Now that was a mess of links! Just pick the one you need, eh?

We got a very nice review of Dan’s Intervention DVD from Lyle McDonald. I know Dan will be very pleased to see this one!

“Dan John’s new DVD seminar set Intervention is an absolute must-see product for any and all personal trainers who are trying to figure out how to deal with a variety of clients.  Dan takes his 300 years of personal experience in the weight room and manages, in the span of only 3 hours, to condense his encyclopedic information into a scheme of client analysis and program design that can be followed and applied easily.  As always, Dan avoids jargon and technical details and focuses only on the practicalities of what works, introducing concepts such as the role of age, the 4 quadrants of training, the spiral, increasing the size of your cup, realistic repetitions and so much more.    Questions are asked and answered and important movements are demonstrated properly by either Dan or seminar attendees.

“The production is good the video and audio clear as a bell (which is not always the case with products like these).  In addition, Laree Draper has gone the extra mile with the DVD production.  Hard to read points (Dan is scribbling on a whiteboard) are placed to the right of the screen along with PDF handouts that come on the disks themselves.  As well, every time Dan mentions a product or website in his seminar, a link is shown at the bottom of the screen for those wishing to seek out more information in addition to what Dan presents.

“Any trainer or coach who works with a variety of clients who differ in age, training status, needs, etc. should buy and watch this disk in its entirety.  Then watch it again to make sure you got it all.  Just an amazing product all around and one that I can not too highly recommend.”

Lyle McDonald
www.bodyrecomposition.com

Now available on CD and MP3
26 lectures, each an hour or longer, including a PDF of the slides from each presentation

I love going to conferences. I love being saturated in a learning experience, and love being with a group of people passionate enough about a topic to spend the time and money to get to a workshop or summit weekend. But when I get home, the truth is I usually go back to work as normal, and fairly often what I learned gets left in the hotel across the walkway from the convention center. The only way this doesn’t happen is if I use the material as soon as I get home, or if I get a refresher very soon after the event.

Taking notes in a live event doesn’t actually work all that well for me. Oh, I take plenty of notes…but I either can’t make any sense of them later, or worse, I sometimes don’t even open the notebook after I get home. (I’m embarrassed to say that, but it’s true.)

Last spring, I had this same conversation with Chris Poirier, the guy who puts together the Perform Better conferences, and we hatched a plan to record the Long Beach lectures and put them all on CD. This way attendees can review the material at home, and even pick up the lectures they missed while they were tossing med balls at Todd Durkin and hopping around one-legged trying to follow along with Mike Boyle.

Even better, those of you who missed the top industry speakers this year can now hear these lectures at home. I know next year’s Summits will be great, but those lectures will all be different—if you missed the lectures this year, that learning experience is gone. Here’s your opportunity to catch up with your peers in the personal training and strength coaching fields: 26 lectures, nearly 28 hours of state-of-the-industry education.

For the fun of it, I grabbed some nuggets from the lectures so you can get a notion of the information quality that makes up this CD set. Sample some of the sounds and atmosphere of the 2011 Long Beach Perform Better Summit via the mp3 snippets below, and note that these are MP3 files, which means the sound quality will be a bit lower than that of the actual CDs.

Check out this lecture line-up, some of my favorite speakers in the world right here! Note: If you’re on a mobile device that blocks flash, you can listen to the clips via this SoundCloud.com link.

Mark Verstegen: Barefoot Training, Benefits, Pitfalls & Progressions

John Berardi: Compliance: How to Get Your Toughest Clients to Follow the Rules

Lee Burton: Understanding and Implementing Corrective Movement Strategies

Dan John: The Four Quadrants of Lifting

Martin Rooney: Get Fast, Get Fit, Speed Training for Every Client

Brett Jones: Dynami Equals Power

Robert Yang: Breaking the Fatigue Cycle

Mike Boyle: Success Secrets

Nick Winkelman: Athletic Profiling, Periodization to Maximize Individual Performance

Gray Cook: The Movement Code

Greg Rose: Training Windows for Young Athletes

Diane Vives: Trimming the Fat on Functional Training for Female Athletes

Chuck Wolf: Regress Before Progress: Post Rehabilitation Program Design

Robert Dos Remedios: Building Better Athletes, Athletic Performance Training

Rachel Cosgrove: Creating Breakthrough Results with Female Clients

John Graham: Developing Practical Programs with a Scientific Foundation

Todd Wright: Dominate Your Space, A Spherical Model of Training

Sue Falsone: Head and Shoulders

Alwyn Cosgrove: Fat Loss Programming and Coaching

Ed Thomas: Functional Club Swinging

Todd Durkin: Maximum IMPACT in the Fitness Field

Brian Grasso: Long-Term Sports Training Development Models

Bill Parisi: The Five Biggest Mistakes I Made in the Personal Training Business

Vern Gambetta: Teaching Speed: Theory and Application

Dave Jack: From Good to Great

Thomas Plummer: Evolve or Die, Five Trends to Define Your Career

Here’s where you can order this fabulous CD lecture package:

2011 Perform Better Summit CD package