Posts Tagged ‘female athlete’

Michael Seril’s SandBell Smorgasbord

August 9th, 2010
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Good Monday Morning!

On our recent trip to the LA, California area (Whittier to be exact) we had the pleasure of meeting Michael Y. Seril. 

Michael Seril is a nationally recognized and respected figure in the world of fitness and exercise. In June 2006 Michael was recognized by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) as the 2006 Personal Trainer of the Year.  In 2007 Michael received the Community Leadership Award from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports.

Michael Seril has been named the recipient of a 2010 Jefferson Award for Public Service.  Michael was awarded this prestigious honor for his public service in building the Excellence Through Exercise Foundation into a well-known force for the improvement of the lives of children.

Michael has put together a SandBell Smorgasbord for you to enjoy with his various clients.  Check out his website (and more videos with SandBell Exercises) at: http://www.michaelserilfitness.com/

Enjoy!

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Beach Workout – Single Arm Skull & Toss w/ SandBell

August 2nd, 2010
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Good Monday Morning!

Sparrow and I are back on the beach for yet another SandBell/Cool Vest combo! We actually came up with this one back in Austin during a burnout set at our neighborhood pool.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Speaking of neighborhood pools, anyone else out there get looked at funny when you bring in a towel, stopwatch, 50lbs worth of SandBells, and some resistance bands to the pool? Don’t people get it? Some of us just love to train in all environments!

I do two pool conditioning workouts per week so if you’re in need of some ideas for training in the pool, send me a line and I’d be glad to help!


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SandBell Viking Toss with Rachel Cosgrove and Dos Remedios

July 27th, 2010
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Good Monday Morning!

We found a fun circuit video from a great friend and amazing trainer, Dos Remedios, who loves Hyper Wear products. Robert dos Remedios is the 2006 NSCA Collegiate Strength Coach of the Year. He is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA, and a sought after speaker and writer on conditioning.

He is also great friends with Alwyn & Rachel Cosgrove, who own and operate Results Fitness Gym. Both have written multiple books and are highly sought after trainers and speakers.

Well, Dos and Rachel teamed up to film Rachel doing an intense workout out at Hermosa Beach, CA! Rachel works out with multiple pieces of equipment, but the best is her training with the SandBells, performing a full body exercise called the Viking Toss.

Watch out though, Rachel is a true Man Eater in this video!

Enjoy!

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Bill Meyer, SCE, USAW
Head Hyper Wear Coach
Performance Director, CATZ-Austin

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Beach Workout: Russian Twist n Toss

July 19th, 2010
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Good Monday Morning!

Here’s a simple little core series you can do with any size SandBell.  We chose to haul a couple of 8 pounders down to the water’s edge at South Padre Island, TX.

The exercise is a compound set of trunk rotations that start with regular twists and lead into a ballistic exercise. We’re wearing our Hyper Vest COOL to make the summer time heat a little more bearable and it sure does make a difference!  Sparrow and I wouldn’t be caught without ours for our time on the hot, sunny beach this trip!

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Bill Meyer, SCE, USAW
Head Hyper Wear Coach
Performance Director, CATZ-Austin

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Fit Pit SandBell Slurpee

July 12th, 2010
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Good Monday Morning!

Last week Sparrow and I performed an original SandBell series named after its inventor (and the inventor of the SandBell), Cosmo Raines.  It was called the “Cosmic Slurpee”!

Well, while looking on YouTube, we found a Hyper Customer who was showing off a SandBell Slurpee (Slam + Burpee)!!!  We were so excited to see other fitness professionals getting into the fun that we decided to let you see her rendition of the Slurpee.  If you are in the Lacey, Washington area, you need to go to the Fit Pit, meet Susan Moore, and JOIN THE RESISTANCE™!

Enjoy the Video!

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Diane Vives and Volleyball – incorporating the SandBell sandbags and Hyper Vest weight vest for added resistance

December 14th, 2009
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Good Monday Morning!!

The final week of our Female Athlete Series with Diane Vives is here, and we thought we’d end with one of the, if not the, most popular sports for young females to play: volleyball.

This week, Diane brings us a few basic exercises on how to improve an athlete’s passing technique through a lateral lunge exercise designed to stress the muscles but not the joints and ligaments. As always, if your focus is injury prevention through the exercises we’ve brought to you the past 4 weeks, make sure the correct technique and speed is used during the exercise. If not done correctly, the issues a female athlete may have in the hip, knee, or ankle may simply be compounded instead of treated through these exercises.

Never Stand Still!

Bill Meyer, SCE, USAW
Head Hyper Wear Coach
Performance Director, CATZ-Austin

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Hate Push Ups? SandBell (sandbags) and Hyper Vest (weight vests) let you train for them without doing them!

December 7th, 2009
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Good Monday Morning!

Next up in our series related to the female athlete, we are tackling shoulder stability.

Gone are the days of military press and open-chain shoulder raises as the way to create a strong shoulder.

Although there are lots of injuries that take place in sports due to non-contact, open-chain activities (such as repetitive spiking of a volleyball and meter after meter of a certain swimming strokes), several injuries occur from contact with another athlete or the ground. Therefore, performing closed-chain shoulder stability exercises creates a well-rounded shoulder that is used to taking force at all angles and is more efficient at staying in its girdle during activity. Weight machines with a fixed range of motion don’t do the trick, as movement in sport requires a strong, stable shoulder in all planes of motion and at extreme angles.

Try giving these exercises a shot and take the time to feel the difference of an open-chain exercise versus a closed-chain. Enjoy!

Never Stand Still!

Bill Meyer, SCE, USAW
Head Hyper Wear Coach
Performance Director, CATZ-Austin

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Balance and Stability Training for Females with Diane Vives

November 30th, 2009
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Good Monday Morning!

This week we will continue the topic of training female athletes and how we can create a safer, stronger, and more stable athlete for any sport activity.

For many reasons, female athletes incur more lower body, non-contact injuries than their male counterparts do. One of the more technical reasons is that the Q angle is much larger in females than in males. (The Q angle is the angle formed by a line drawn from the ASIS to central patella and a second line drawn from central patella to tibial tubercle.) This increased angle creates more valgus-driven force on the female athlete’s knee. Valgus pressure at high speed or extreme force can cause debilitating injuries in the knee such as the dreaded ACL tear.

In this week’s video, Diane Vives and I show you a simple and fun exercise to assist female athletes in strengthening their lower body to avoid unnecessary valgus forces in a non-contact situation. This exercise can be done each training session or even daily to help produce muscle memory for the athlete, creating a more stable knee. Enjoy!

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Bill Meyer, SCE, USAW
Head Hyper Wear Coach
Performance Director, CATZ-Austin

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Grip Training for Females w/ Diane Vives – MMM #33

November 23rd, 2009
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Good Monday Morning!

Today we have a special treat for you as Diane Vives, fitness guru here in Austin, TX, joins me on the Hyper Stage. She’s going to help me kick off the next topic in the MMM series.

Diane and I recently got together to talk training and discovered that we both train a large number of female athletes from all sports. We decided to do a series of videos specifically geared to the female athlete and the non-contact injuries that they incur.

You don’t have to go far to find a female athlete in your circle that has had a serious non-contact injury happen to them in a sporting activity. Some say that lower-extremity injuries for female athletes is more of an epidemic than a simple problem. So over the next few weeks, we’re going to show you a number of simple exercises that will help decrease the chance of running into one of those pesky injuries in sports.

This week we’ll start off with a short interview with Diane and then introduce a grip exercise with the SandBellsâ„¢ that everyone can enjoy!

Never Stand Still!

Bill Meyer, SCE, USAW
Head Hyper Wear Coach
Performance Director, CATZ-Austin

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