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| Bridge Windsor - Detroit |
16 May 2013
We left my parents place just North of Toronto around 10:30 am. Smooth driving all the way down to the border and even crossing the border i did not get pulled over and searched like last time. For good measure i made sure to keep my bayonet at home this time just in case.
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| Detroit |
We rolled into Columbus around 7 pm. The first thing we notice...WHITE CASTLE (as much as we joked, we did not go in for any sliders, next trip, maybe.)
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| Columbus Ohio -White Castle |
Early to bed because we knew we had 2 long days ahead of us.
17 May 2013
Buddy Morris
First up at 9 am was Coach X Buddy Morris. He was intense, informative and a great way to start the day. he dropped the odd F bomb which i thought was great. No Pics as i was too busy trying to scribble the jewels of wisdom he was spitting out.
Some general things he covered (no specifics because, well, he makes his money off this stuff)
-he raised some great thoughts on trg plyometrics
-always work in a recovery block into your training
-re-thought the way i view Stress
-progress, gains, and energy are Finite
-a cool trick to measure how beat up your CNS is
-training is a long term process
-lastly something i will simply call S.A.S. but this is a concept i have done for the past few yrs but will make sure i try to always take it into consideration.
Mind Blowing #1
Julia Ladewski
Julia was next up. Very easy on the eyes and very easy to listen to without putting us to sleep at 10:30 in the morning. She also was tanned, Jacked, and looked like she could Bench Press a truck and a metric Ton. Her presentation was Youth Athletes: Are we contributing to the problem?
Not having Kids or training them i sat with an open mind and ended up learning alot. She raised a tremendous amount of questions in my head. As well quantified A lot of observations i see even in 18-20 yrs olds. Next to Buddy's presentation hers was the presentation i pulled a metric ton of Information from. Things for myself to look at in my own training as well when others ask me for help.
At this point i need to interject. One of the reason i was attending the seminar was to meet up with my Pull Up Coach, Mentor, and Friend Harry Selkow. After the Buddy Spoke i did hang out in the back with the crowd as JL Holdsworth, Harry, and Buddy all chatted and exchanged golden nuggets of training advice. You can and will learn as much if not more between presentations at the LTTS.
Well after Julia Spoke my girl dragged me over to make sure I met him. I will admit I was slightly nervous. We had only chatted via email chatter. Well that nervousness was gone in about 0.04 seconds after he saw me. Harry's eyes went wide, he apologized and excused himself from the group he was in and he nearly knocked over 6 people to get to me. We exchanged a huge manly bear hug, Then my Girl got the same the same Bear Hug. We started chatting about Julia's presentation, to which Harry halts me and then says "Lets go talk to her!" Instantly i was relaxed and felt right at home. We chatted right up until the next presenter.
John Meadows
John Spoke Briefly on Mountain Dog Training and then did an extensive Q&A with the room. John is a walking super hero. Every comic book you have ever read he is the embodiment of. He is HUGE, Jacked and tanned all the time. His knowledge of training and nutrition is extreme and far reaching as his physique is freaky. It should also be mentioned he does all this with health limitations which is even more incredible. I simply sat and listened through most of his presentation because writing one thing down you missed 2 other caveats of training gold.
We went off at about 1 pm for Lunch and returned for another Mutant super hero of a presenter.
Let me also say that every EFS Coach and presenter that could be present for the presentations was in the room with us learning. Which is a HUGE point. These are some of the best in North America if not the world at what they do. They NEVER stop learning.
By Lunch time the following had happened:
-My overall physical strength had increased by 10% and i had gotten 5% faster just by learning to Buddy talk.
-Julia increased my GPP by 5% and my ROM /stability by 15% with her presentation.
-By the end of John Meadow's Presentation my bodyfat had dropped 2% and my lean muscle tissue had increased by 5%
-Meeting Harry Selkow had increased my overall awesomeness by 45%
Realize all of these numbers are qualitative and Un-testable but i stand by them.
By this point my Girl had already managed to try to snuggle up to Stevie P and when i came over he was begging me to take her away (jokingly i think)
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| Stevie P was super cool and was more than willing to have his photo taken the next day. Notice his super awesome Tornado necklace. He swears it makes him feel 100% healthier. |
Matt Kroc
"The tragedy in Life is not setting goals too high and failing to reach them, it is setting them too low and achieving them"
If you have not seen a video of this guy train or read an article of his you should. Very inspirational and a little crazy. His topic was Destroying Limits Through Psychological Conditioning. Some of his material was not entirely new to me because i have read almost everything he has every posted online but to see it in one presentation all laid out turned on some light bulbs and reminded me of some other things i had forgotten.
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| One of Kroc's slides, it also sums up the mindset he spoke of |
Me: "Um Mister Coan can i trouble you for a picture?"
Coan: "Eddie. Sure No Problem.
Dave Kirschen happened to be hanging out so i told him to jump in as well.
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| Dave, Me, Eddie |
Fred Duncan
I will be honest i had only read one article from this guy before the seminar but he definitely proved to be a solid presenter although he did look like a super hero like the previous 3 presenters. His topic of Peri-Workout Nutrition was very well researched and he presented some very controversial arguments in regards to nutrition that go against almost everything i have ever read. His argument make sense and it is good to question the status quo once in awhile.
Gabriel Naspinski
I had read a few of his articles on EFS and he proved to be another thought provoking presenter. He reinforced somethings i had already learned and also exposed how much more i had to learn in regards to establishing and writing Training templates. He really understands the science behind establishing a program for the long term.
Dave Tate
First off he was introduced by Chad Aichs, a man who would make Shrek look small if he were real.
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| Mr. Aichs |
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| Dave Tate. Yes surprisingly no one wanted to sit front row. But i did. |
He left us for the evening by saying:
"I give you Permission to be Excellent" -Dave Tate
It was about 7:30 in the evening when we got back to the hotel.
Harry had invited us to come back later in the evening to hang out at the hotel so there was no was i was going to turn him down. I got to sit with my girl, Harry, Mike Hope, Eddie, Matt & Julia Ladewski.
Harry put me on the spot telling Eddie that i was doing 20 pull ups for him the following day and told mike Hope and Eddie about this recovery training log i have been pumping out. Harry really is a great coach and inspiring human being.
Matt was walking barefoot, at Harry's suggestion. Harry NEVER wears shoes, ever. Marshall Johnson walked by earlier in his socks carrying his famous Fuel Jerry of Water. I suspect that also might be Harry's influence.
At around midnight we all turned in. The coaches were training at 0800 hrs and we were scheduled to start at 0930 hrs, i some how doubted that we would be as on time as we were on day one. day two was the meat and potatoes days.
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| Keep Moving Forward, Keep Getting Strong(er) |
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