Category: Motivation

One of the key factors in a young athlete’s continuation with a strength training and conditioning program revolves around the effectiveness of the conditioning supervisor or strength coach. The strength coach should view him, or herself, as both an educator and a motivator.

1. The educational role involves teaching the athletes about different weight training exercises. why the exercises are important to their sport, and about basic physiological principles to gaining and maintaining strength.
2. The motivation function involves regular encouragement pushing the athlete toward meaningful challenge.

These are also keys to why the ASAP; Athletic Strength And Power program works so well. The strength trainers and personal trainers continue to push the athletes toward goals in accordance with the athlete’s physical and mental maturity level. They know about education and they know about motivation.

If you’re located in the Greater Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky region, and you need a personal training program designed to take you to the next level using state-of-the-art methods and equipment…. if you’re looking for an acceleration training program designed to increase your speed and improve your agility, balance and coordination…..and, if you’re looking for sound nutritional advice, too…. start thinking ASAP….Athletic Strength And Power! Then, head down to see the trainers at The Workout! Act, Think and Train like a Champion

All Rights Reserved    Copyright 2007 www.AthleticStrengthAndPower.com  blogpost by Ed Cicale and adapted from his quotes from the October-November 1985 Volume 7 Number 5; National Strength & Conditioning Journal

One of the key factors in a young athlete’s continuation with a strength training and conditioning program revolves around the effectiveness of the conditioning supervisor or strength coach. The strength coach should view him, or herself, as both an educator and a motivator.

1. The educational role involves teaching the athletes about different weight training exercises. why the exercises are important to their sport, and about basic physiological principles to gaining and maintaining strength.
2. The motivation function involves regular encouragement pushing the athlete toward meaningful challenge.

These are also keys to why the ASAP; Athletic Strength And Power program works so well. The strength trainers and personal trainers continue to push the athletes toward goals in accordance with the athlete’s physical and mental maturity level. They know about education and they know about motivation.

If you’re located in the Greater Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky region, and you need a personal training program designed to take you to the next level using state-of-the-art methods and equipment…. if you’re looking for an acceleration training program designed to increase your speed and improve your agility, balance and coordination…..and, if you’re looking for sound nutritional advice, too…. start thinking ASAP….Athletic Strength And Power! Then, head down to see the trainers at The Workout! Act, Think and Train like a Champion

All Rights Reserved    Copyright 2007 www.AthleticStrengthAndPower.com  blogpost by Ed Cicale and adapted from his quotes from the October-November 1985 Volume 7 Number 5; National Strength & Conditioning Journal

One of the key factors in a young athlete’s continuation with a strength training and conditioning program revolves around the effectiveness of the conditioning supervisor or strength coach. The strength coach should view him, or herself, as both an educator and a motivator.

1. The educational role involves teaching the athletes about different weight training exercises. why the exercises are important to their sport, and about basic physiological principles to gaining and maintaining strength.
2. The motivation function involves regular encouragement pushing the athlete toward meaningful challenge.

These are also keys to why the ASAP; Athletic Strength And Power program works so well. The strength trainers and personal trainers continue to push the athletes toward goals in accordance with the athlete’s physical and mental maturity level. They know about education and they know about motivation.

If you’re located in the Greater Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky region, and you need a personal training program designed to take you to the next level using state-of-the-art methods and equipment…. if you’re looking for an acceleration training program designed to increase your speed and improve your agility, balance and coordination…..and, if you’re looking for sound nutritional advice, too…. start thinking ASAP….Athletic Strength And Power! Then, head down to see the trainers at The Workout! Act, Think and Train like a Champion

All Rights Reserved    Copyright 2007 www.AthleticStrengthAndPower.com  blogpost by Ed Cicale and adapted from his quotes from the October-November 1985 Volume 7 Number 5; National Strength & Conditioning Journal

One of the key factors in a young athlete’s continuation with a strength training and conditioning program revolves around the effectiveness of the conditioning supervisor or strength coach. The strength coach should view him, or herself, as both an educator and a motivator.

1. The educational role involves teaching the athletes about different weight training exercises. why the exercises are important to their sport, and about basic physiological principles to gaining and maintaining strength.
2. The motivation function involves regular encouragement pushing the athlete toward meaningful challenge.

These are also keys to why the ASAP; Athletic Strength And Power program works so well. The strength trainers and personal trainers continue to push the athletes toward goals in accordance with the athlete’s physical and mental maturity level. They know about education and they know about motivation.

If you’re located in the Greater Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky region, and you need a personal training program designed to take you to the next level using state-of-the-art methods and equipment…. if you’re looking for an acceleration training program designed to increase your speed and improve your agility, balance and coordination…..and, if you’re looking for sound nutritional advice, too…. start thinking ASAP….Athletic Strength And Power! Then, head down to see the trainers at The Workout! Act, Think and Train like a Champion

All Rights Reserved    Copyright 2007 www.AthleticStrengthAndPower.com  blogpost by Ed Cicale and adapted from his quotes from the October-November 1985 Volume 7 Number 5; National Strength & Conditioning Journal

If you’re approaching forty years old, the aging process is probably affecting you, just like lot’s of other athletes your age….with it’s aches and pains and stiffness. You really can’t stop this process through physical activity and training, however, you can seem to slow it down. You can compensate for it by trying to maintain your present fitness level. As our bodies change, we experience a number of physiological changes. These changes include the following:

• reduced aerobic capacity
• weakened bones…through bone loss or osteoporosis
• diminished muscular strength and endurance
• decreased sense of balance
• slowed reaction times
• increased body fat

What we’ve found at ASAP: Athletic Strength And Power is that many of the aformentioned physiological changes are sometimes more a factor of inactivity than of aging per se. In other words, use it or lose it!!  So, the aging athlete just needs to stick to it….gut it out and keep striving!

Some of examples of athletes who have extended their careers beyond 40 years old are Morton Anderson, Karl Malone and Cal Ripken. Interestly, Bill Collins holds the world record for Master’s Athletes. He’s 55 and ran an 11.5  100m dash last summer. Or Alfred Guidet’s 200m record of 23.6 which he did at the age of 55 also. How about the 70 year old Bobby Whilden, who just last year ran a 12.7  100m dash!!!  If it interests you, check out the amazing records of the USATF Masters’ records.

But maybe the most intriguing story to me is the one of Hulda Crooks, a California "Grandma" who achieved some very amazing feats. After the death of her husband, Hulda Crooks, age 60, took up hiking and mountain climbing. By the age of 66, she had climbed Mt Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states. At 72, she climbed it twice in two weeks…just to have the opportunity to show some teenagers. When she was 91, she climbed Mt Fuji, Japan’s highest peak. And to think that she didn’t start this until she was 60 years old. it’s no wonder that the California Department of Parks named a southern peak of Mt Whitney: Crooks Peak after all, she climbed to the top 23 times. Now that’s taking it to the next level.

All Rights Reserved      Copyright 2006 www.athleticstrengthandpower.com   post written by Ed Cicale

If you’re approaching forty years old, the aging process is probably affecting you, just like lot’s of other athletes your age….with it’s aches and pains and stiffness. You really can’t stop this process through physical activity and training, however, you can seem to slow it down. You can compensate for it by trying to maintain your present fitness level. As our bodies change, we experience a number of physiological changes. These changes include the following:

• reduced aerobic capacity
• weakened bones…through bone loss or osteoporosis
• diminished muscular strength and endurance
• decreased sense of balance
• slowed reaction times
• increased body fat

What we’ve found at ASAP: Athletic Strength And Power is that many of the aformentioned physiological changes are sometimes more a factor of inactivity than of aging per se. In other words, use it or lose it!!  So, the aging athlete just needs to stick to it….gut it out and keep striving!

Some of examples of athletes who have extended their careers beyond 40 years old are Morton Anderson, Karl Malone and Cal Ripken. Interestly, Bill Collins holds the world record for Master’s Athletes. He’s 55 and ran an 11.5  100m dash last summer. Or Alfred Guidet’s 200m record of 23.6 which he did at the age of 55 also. How about the 70 year old Bobby Whilden, who just last year ran a 12.7  100m dash!!!  If it interests you, check out the amazing records of the USATF Masters’ records.

But maybe the most intriguing story to me is the one of Hulda Crooks, a California "Grandma" who achieved some very amazing feats. After the death of her husband, Hulda Crooks, age 60, took up hiking and mountain climbing. By the age of 66, she had climbed Mt Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states. At 72, she climbed it twice in two weeks…just to have the opportunity to show some teenagers. When she was 91, she climbed Mt Fuji, Japan’s highest peak. And to think that she didn’t start this until she was 60 years old. it’s no wonder that the California Department of Parks named a southern peak of Mt Whitney: Crooks Peak after all, she climbed to the top 23 times. Now that’s taking it to the next level.

All Rights Reserved      Copyright 2006 www.athleticstrengthandpower.com   post written by Ed Cicale