Comments on: Listening Ears

By: Lisbeth

Lisbeth — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:11:49 +0000

Rich — LOL — we’re trying to keep you guessing.

Rockstar and I talked about this subject after the 5pm tonight and we’re in total synch. Well, actually she and Jen were in synch earlier in class but I forgot to grab the camera in time. Darn it.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:08:57 +0000

Learn

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:07:33 +0000

WOW!!! Lis, Meliss talk about conversation swings. Rock solid on training. Trainers train, athletes learn (hopefully).
BTW, I once ate rabbit rasins

By: melissa

melissa — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:11:54 +0000

I love that we have so many members who have taken their level one and have experience with all the lifts that we do. If you pay attention to all the trainers, listen carefully…typically it is ONE cue that we give for the athlete to work on…the one we feel is most important and will be most beneficial. Most poeple cannot process and respond to multiple cues at once and that is why it is so important to let the trainers do the training. Feel free to come over and make your own observations to one of us or to yourselves, but let the trainers be the ones giving the verbal cues. To much input from too many people is oftentimes very overwhelming to the lifter, especially a new one.

By: Lisbeth

Lisbeth — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:28:10 +0000

Okay, but here’s the rub to that. If you’re front squatting and you’re in the bottom and struggling to come up, if I tell you “High elbows” and you pull them up, then you are likely to bring your chest more upright too, and more likely to be able to complete the lift. If I am your coach and I say nothing but wait until after you have failed the lift, is that helpful?

Similarly, if someone is in the bottom of a back squat and has not gone deep enough, I will often hold my comment until they have finished and then tell them that they needed to go deeper. But there are those people who then say “Why didn’t you tell me when I was in the bottom? I would have gone deeper. I didn’t know.”

Many situations, many different answers. I think the important thing here is for a coach to coach and to choose that timing of his or her instruction. They need to choose it well, but that comes with experience.

Does that make sense?

By: jen

jen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:26:30 +0000

Good Point Jackie! I feel the same way, I can do better fixing the next movement. I can’t fix while doing a lot of the time.

I also used to eat dog food!

By: Rockstar

Rockstar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:28:35 +0000

btw that TT is sooo dammmmnnnnn cute!

By: Rockstar

Rockstar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:27:51 +0000

Going back to the blog, I find this very important specially during oly lifting. If I am in there middle of a front squat for sake of example, I can’t correct my form once I’ve started the lift. So I encourage feedback once I completed the lift.

By: Rockstar

Rockstar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:57:48 +0000

I used to east powder laundry detergent when I was younger…turns out I wanted to be cleaned inside and out….

By: beery

beery — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:32:01 +0000

My sister used to eat these when she was little and she would drink the juice.

http://tinyurl.com/ycg7y5b

The picture does not do justice to what these things looked (and smelled) like. It was like taking a band-aide off a festering wound after three weeks. Don’t be fooled by the “meat” either. I think that’s some sort of brand name but I guess lips and buttholes are technically meat. I can’t believe my parents actually bought these for her.