What 3 Days of Snow Will Do...
Greetings,
Well, I hope you had a great Christmas holiday. Mine was spent being stuck inside for most of it. I went over on Christmas Eve to my parents for dinner, and to open up gifts. We couldn't get out of town for Midnight Mass due to the storm that hit, and Friday wasn't any better. This storm was so big, I'm sure you've heard about it on the national news. It didn't really slow down until Saturday afternoon. Close to 18 inches and 24 inches fell in some areas in our region.
So, with all that time, I had a lot of time to read my new Convict Conditioning book, go over some older books, review some sites, and work on my new site, while revamping another.
I did finish my Convict Conditioning book, and it really was a great read, all in all. Sort of a hybrid book on strength training, calisthenics, endurance training, and bodybuilding, but I use bodybuilding loosely in that sense. It lays out quite the progressive plan, with 6 major movements that are compound in their nature (which I like), and a 10-step plan for each movement to progress to more & more difficult, challenging exercises for that action.
I'm not sure how to fit this into my training right now. I've been planning for my races I want to do in 2010, and the first major event is a triathlon that I want to do again. I've done this triathlon twice in the past, in 2004 & 2005, and its held in a town I used to train & coach in. I'd love to do it once again. The other events that are important are my town's 5K (I took 3rd in it last year, missing 2nd by 2 seconds!) and the ND state amateur track meet. Those are my big three I want to prepare for. I might do some other 5K's that come up throughout the summer and do them just for fun as the come up. It's hard to really know when most of them get planned until the summertime anyway.
I feel for the swimming portion prep for this triathlon, the closest thing I can do is a kettlebell power workout for it, in place of it. The nearest indoor pool is at my old college, 25 miles away, and its not really a feasible thing to do with my work schedule and upcoming training schedule for clients. I trained for my other two triathlons without doing any swimming either, and got improved times in the bike & run anyway. This is what you have to do, when you live & train in rural ND. We don't have YMCA's or big-time fitness centers around every corner like a big city does. You simply have to make due with what you have. All I'll have is a bunch of kettlebells, a gym, and an upright bike to use at the gym to use, until I can get out on the road with my regular road bike. I'll have to use the treadmills too, for my running, until I can get out on the track again.
The registration for this triathlon will start next week, from what their website says. Usually the end of December is the time they open it up.
My other events of course are the local 5K race in June, which is a course I could run pretty often throughout town when it gets nice for that, and it will be a good course to run on as I prepare for the triathlon in April/May. In July, I'll really hunker-down and get ready for the track events of the 400m, 800m, and 1600m races. I might even do the 2 mile as well, not sure on adding that yet. I know last year's 2 mile didn't have too many in it.
In other news on my end, I am preparing for doing some in-person training once again in January, and making the neccessary changes to my websites to reflect that. ASAPWorkouts.com will now be my main site for in-person training information.
In my biggest news, I am moving a lot of my products and articles over into one main membership site, directed at preparing the high school athlete, and helping their parents out with the whole preparation process.
I feel right now, in this day & age, there is a greater need to reach out to high school athletes & their parents, in teaching better ways of preparing for sports. So many kids get lost in the world of reading muscle magazines for training information, and get mislead so much by it. Parents mostly think that sending kids to a bunch of week-long camps is the answer to getting them better, and by putting them in travel league after travel league. Coaches perhaps try to push way too much out of their athletes by recommending such things and giving the impression that they are almost mandatory for the athlete.
As a current coach once again, I see all these issues that are hitting all sides of the bench.
This mess has to stop, because its ruining high school sports! Participation numbers are going down, and I feel its because too much pressure is being put on these athletes, in all the wrong places.
That's why my new site is going to be FREE for membership access into it. I am going to be giving away all my past products, free for download, because I feel they need to get out more to the masses and shared with others. Things like my e-books, "Endure!" and the "Rocket Speed Training On A Budget" series, will be available for you to download, once you join the site. I also have a lot of other small workout guides, like "Power & Control Workout", "Caveman Strength!" and others that will be available, too.
Instead of trying to continually sell these e-books, I figured it would be better if I offered for sale my Coaching & Consulting services instead. People are always asking me direct questions pertaining to an athlete's needs, so if people really want all I need to offer them, I can't give them all of that through just one e-book or a collective arrangement of them. Those items are better used as resources. They need direct consulting, if they truly want the best strategy for today's young athlete.
So, I will be offering Full Year, Pre-Season, In-Season, and Off-Season coaching plans, as well as "Workshop by Phone!" and the "ASAP Coaching Call" option, too. The Coaching plans will be limited to the number of athletes I can take on for each plan.
I will still try to write some timely articles for this new site as well. I will also keep this blog going strong, too. This way, I only have 3 main sites to worry about: this blog, ASAPWorkouts.com, and the new one, yet to come...
It will be released soon, so keep your eyes open on the blog in the next week or two.
Until next time,
Run Fast, Run Strong,
Run So As To Win!
Coach Rick Karboviak
http://1MileNation.com
Well, I hope you had a great Christmas holiday. Mine was spent being stuck inside for most of it. I went over on Christmas Eve to my parents for dinner, and to open up gifts. We couldn't get out of town for Midnight Mass due to the storm that hit, and Friday wasn't any better. This storm was so big, I'm sure you've heard about it on the national news. It didn't really slow down until Saturday afternoon. Close to 18 inches and 24 inches fell in some areas in our region.
So, with all that time, I had a lot of time to read my new Convict Conditioning book, go over some older books, review some sites, and work on my new site, while revamping another.
I did finish my Convict Conditioning book, and it really was a great read, all in all. Sort of a hybrid book on strength training, calisthenics, endurance training, and bodybuilding, but I use bodybuilding loosely in that sense. It lays out quite the progressive plan, with 6 major movements that are compound in their nature (which I like), and a 10-step plan for each movement to progress to more & more difficult, challenging exercises for that action.
I'm not sure how to fit this into my training right now. I've been planning for my races I want to do in 2010, and the first major event is a triathlon that I want to do again. I've done this triathlon twice in the past, in 2004 & 2005, and its held in a town I used to train & coach in. I'd love to do it once again. The other events that are important are my town's 5K (I took 3rd in it last year, missing 2nd by 2 seconds!) and the ND state amateur track meet. Those are my big three I want to prepare for. I might do some other 5K's that come up throughout the summer and do them just for fun as the come up. It's hard to really know when most of them get planned until the summertime anyway.
I feel for the swimming portion prep for this triathlon, the closest thing I can do is a kettlebell power workout for it, in place of it. The nearest indoor pool is at my old college, 25 miles away, and its not really a feasible thing to do with my work schedule and upcoming training schedule for clients. I trained for my other two triathlons without doing any swimming either, and got improved times in the bike & run anyway. This is what you have to do, when you live & train in rural ND. We don't have YMCA's or big-time fitness centers around every corner like a big city does. You simply have to make due with what you have. All I'll have is a bunch of kettlebells, a gym, and an upright bike to use at the gym to use, until I can get out on the road with my regular road bike. I'll have to use the treadmills too, for my running, until I can get out on the track again.
The registration for this triathlon will start next week, from what their website says. Usually the end of December is the time they open it up.
My other events of course are the local 5K race in June, which is a course I could run pretty often throughout town when it gets nice for that, and it will be a good course to run on as I prepare for the triathlon in April/May. In July, I'll really hunker-down and get ready for the track events of the 400m, 800m, and 1600m races. I might even do the 2 mile as well, not sure on adding that yet. I know last year's 2 mile didn't have too many in it.
In other news on my end, I am preparing for doing some in-person training once again in January, and making the neccessary changes to my websites to reflect that. ASAPWorkouts.com will now be my main site for in-person training information.
In my biggest news, I am moving a lot of my products and articles over into one main membership site, directed at preparing the high school athlete, and helping their parents out with the whole preparation process.
I feel right now, in this day & age, there is a greater need to reach out to high school athletes & their parents, in teaching better ways of preparing for sports. So many kids get lost in the world of reading muscle magazines for training information, and get mislead so much by it. Parents mostly think that sending kids to a bunch of week-long camps is the answer to getting them better, and by putting them in travel league after travel league. Coaches perhaps try to push way too much out of their athletes by recommending such things and giving the impression that they are almost mandatory for the athlete.
As a current coach once again, I see all these issues that are hitting all sides of the bench.
This mess has to stop, because its ruining high school sports! Participation numbers are going down, and I feel its because too much pressure is being put on these athletes, in all the wrong places.
That's why my new site is going to be FREE for membership access into it. I am going to be giving away all my past products, free for download, because I feel they need to get out more to the masses and shared with others. Things like my e-books, "Endure!" and the "Rocket Speed Training On A Budget" series, will be available for you to download, once you join the site. I also have a lot of other small workout guides, like "Power & Control Workout", "Caveman Strength!" and others that will be available, too.
Instead of trying to continually sell these e-books, I figured it would be better if I offered for sale my Coaching & Consulting services instead. People are always asking me direct questions pertaining to an athlete's needs, so if people really want all I need to offer them, I can't give them all of that through just one e-book or a collective arrangement of them. Those items are better used as resources. They need direct consulting, if they truly want the best strategy for today's young athlete.
So, I will be offering Full Year, Pre-Season, In-Season, and Off-Season coaching plans, as well as "Workshop by Phone!" and the "ASAP Coaching Call" option, too. The Coaching plans will be limited to the number of athletes I can take on for each plan.
I will still try to write some timely articles for this new site as well. I will also keep this blog going strong, too. This way, I only have 3 main sites to worry about: this blog, ASAPWorkouts.com, and the new one, yet to come...
It will be released soon, so keep your eyes open on the blog in the next week or two.
Until next time,
Run Fast, Run Strong,
Run So As To Win!
Coach Rick Karboviak
http://1MileNation.com
Posted by 1 Mile Nation at 12/26/2009 7:16 PM 
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