Do You Have What It Takes To Be More Successful Than The Guy Lined Up In Front Of You?

Without clearly defined goals, you simply can’t achieve the success you want!

Goal-setting is a common weakness for struggling athletes and a common strength for successful athletes. Good goal setting will improve your motivation and self confidence, while poor goal setting or avoiding goal setting altogether will greatly decrease your chances of success.
Let’s start with a research-proven fact: if you believe in yourself, you’re more likely to be successful. I know that’s not rocket science. But ask yourself: what affects your belief in yourself as an athlete?

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PS. - If setting, meeting and EXCEEDING your goals in the weightroom, on the playing field and in LIFE sounds interesting to you sign up for the Next Level Strength & Conditioning Program TODAY
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"Atmosphere"

Michigan S&C coach Mike Barwis talks about giving his players his intensity and energy.

The bottem line is, APPLY TODAY for the 2009 Next Level Off Season Strength & Conditioning Proram.

Do you know an athlete that needs to put on 10, 15, 20+ pounds?

I would like to take this opportunity to inform you that on January 21st 2009 I am launching my Next Level Performance System's Off Season Strength and Conditioning for Football Program.

This program is designed to increase an athletes' speed, agility, coordination, explosiveness, mental toughness, injury prevention and much more.


The Application Deadline is on January 5th 2009. CLICK HERE to subit your application TODAY.

This customized, sport-specific program offers the cutting edge in athletic performance enhancement with an emphasis on injury prevention. Next Level Performance System offers an unparalleled, individualized and comprehensive approach to personal performance enhancement at any level.

WHAT CAN OUR PROGRAM DO FOR ATHLETES:

· Increase acceleration and MAXIMIZE breakaway speed
· Pack on slabs of rugged lean MUSCLE
· Increase raw STRENGTH and explosive POWER
· UNSTOPPABLE endurance for the 4th Quarter and BEYOND
· MAKE YOUR ATHLETE BETTER AND DOMINATE THE COMPETITION!

We seek to create a positive environment to help your athlete meet their performance goals.

We practice SAFETY FIRST. The athlete will:

· Be properly supervised by a full-time CERTIFIED fitness professional
· Master proper exercise technique for MAXIMUM size and strength gains
· Establish, meet and EXCEED realistic weight room GOALS that are guaranteed to carryover to the playing field

This is a great opportunity for athletes to receive top of the line professional CERTIFIED instruction, to pack on pounds of durable lean muscle and significantly improve game-day speed.

Submit your application today and get these Wonderful FREE Bonuses:

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This is an excellent opportunity for the athlete to know exactly were they stand, strength-wise and get a feel for the work they will need to do to be ready for next season on the playing fields at the next level.

BONUS #2 - FREE Next Level Performance Systems
4 Week Beginner/Intermediate
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This jam packed resource is a sneak peek into the philosophy behind the Next Level Performance Systems Off - Season Strength & Conditioning program. 12 easy to follow workouts guaranteed to make any athlete in any sport bigger, faster, stronger.

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Ten Ways to Discover Your Sports Potential

Simple Strategies for Athletic Success
By Elizabeth Quinn

I've worked with athletes and studied sports performance for over a decade and in that time I've noticed some basic characteristics that many of the top athletes share. Of course, there are exceptions: I've known elite cyclists who have awful diets and party late into the night and win races the next day. I've also seen the most disciplined and regimented athletes have mediocre results year after year. So while not all of the following characteristics are essential to achieve athletic success, this list comprises many of the strategies used by some of the world's best athletes and it is a sure-fire way to start recognizing your own sports potential.

What Is Your Sports Potential?

If you haven't yet practiced these principles you may not even know your true sports potential. That's perfectly fine. In fact, that's the point. The concept of discovering your potential is not a fixed concept. Potential in anything is always relative to where you are now. For this reason, you will have to adjust your goals as your abilities improve. Remember the saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step? That is how you find your potential. One step at a time.

Ten Ways to Discover Your Sports Potential


1. Love Your Sport
A major theme in human psychology is based upon the concept that success is a by-product of doing what you love and humans struggle when we attempt to apply the principle in reverse; mistakenly believing that success will bring happiness. This fundamental theory is also applied to sports success. If you love your sport, you will easily find pleasure in every aspect of it from training to racing -- and this is what brings success.

2. Develop Training Discipline
Elite athletes have extremely rigorous training, dietary schedules and skill development routines. While you may not have the luxury of training full time, if you want to reach your potential, you'll need to set aside a specific amount of time to train each week. Sometimes finding time to train amid conflicting priorities such as work, family and social obligations can make it a challenge. For this reason, developing a structured training plan or routine can help.

3. Build More Strength
Building strength is a simple way to improve your performance in nearly any sport. More strength equals greater power, speed, stability, and endurance, while reducing muscle fatigue and reducing the risk of injury.

4. Eat Right and Stay Hydrated
Proper nutrition is often overlooked as a way to reach your peak sports potential. But consider how the right food and drink at the right time can be the difference between feeling strong through a race or bonking. Good nutrition alone may not win you medals, but poor nutrition is definitely going to lower your success potential.

5. Have the Right Parents
Yes, it's true, your genetics are important when it comes to determining overall sports ability, but they are not the only thing. What you do with your genetic gifts are entirely up to you.

6. Get Enough Rest
Adequate rest is a largely ignored component of most athlete's training programs. But more evidence is supporting the idea that it's the quality, not the quantity of your training that will have the largest impact on your performance. In fact, there are some many problems related to overtraining, that it actually has becomes a condition. It's called overtraining syndrome and it's an athlete's enemy because it saps not only your energy for your sports, but it robs you of your passion and enthusiasm for your sport as well. Remember that adding appropriate rest and recovery days into your training is critical for success.

7. Work With a Qualified Coach or Trainer
Not everyone needs, wants or can afford a coach or trainer, but if you really want to find your potential it's not a bad idea. Think about it. Every elite and professional athlete has a coach or trainer. Why? Because a qualified professional makes it his or her job to help you find your strengths and weaknesses. They provide objectivity and sees things you don't. They fill that gap in your training knowledge and offer variety, expertise and motivation when you can't find it. They also figure out the details and let you focus on doing your best. Who doesn't want that?

8. Take Advantage of Technology
Whether it is an aerodynamic bike wheel, blister-resisting socks, a heart rate monitor or shaped skis, taking advantage of the technology that is available in your sport can often help save seconds or improve your accuracy. Not every product delivers what it promises, though, so do your research and talk to experts before you drop you dollars on products that are mostly hype.

9. Practice Specific Skills Until They Become Automatic
The more your train the more efficient you will become. If your sport requires specific skills, such as a serve in tennis or cornering at high speed while cycling, you need to spend time honing these skills so they become natural and automatic. Nothing will lower your performance faster than analyzing your actions while you are competing. Take time to train sports skills exclusively and perform repeat drills once a week. This is another area where working with a coach or trainer is essential.

10. Consider Honing Your Mental Game
Sports psychology isn't just for elite athletes. While they may be more likely to work with a sports psychologist, the benefits of visualization training and guided imagery, relaxation training, and mental rehearsal can be used by anyone to increase confidence, reduce pre-race jitters and anxiety and help you avoid psyching yourself out during training and competition.

http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/sampleworkouts/a/SportsPotential.htm

The Randy Moss Method

THE MOSS METHOD finds Randy Moss sharing his fitness methods and philosophies on athletics in a candid instructional way. Football fans and fitness hounds will want to see this motivational program from one of the most recognized and respected players in the NFL.

In this AWESOME DVD Moss shows why he is seperate from all others in the NFL... HE HAS DETERMINATION!!!

WATCH!!!

Workout of the Day 07/29/08

Kettlebell Circuit
- Squat Clean x 5 each arm
- Push Press x 5 each arm
- Clean and Press x 5 each arm
- Reverse Lunge x 5 ea arm
one minute rest
5 rounds

3pt Kettlebell Chest Press - 3x8

Wall Ball x 12
Rack Walk - down and back twice
Pushups x 20
- 2 rounds

WOD 7/16/08

Dynamic Warm Up

Double Kettlebell Circuit x 3 @ 16kg
-Cleans x 5
-Rack Squats x 5
-Swings x 5
-Press x 5

Bench Press
-5 @ 12RM
-5 @ 8RM
-5 @ 10RM

-3 @ 5RM

-5 @ 8RM

-3 x 1 @ 2RM

-As many as possible @ 10RM

Double Kettlebell Push Press x 10

Tire Flip x 2 minutes

- 3 rounds -

WOD 7/9/08

1.
Deadlift x 10 @ 205#
Kettlebell Press x 10 @ 16kg
- 3 rounds -

2.
Push Ups x 20
Kettlebell Swings x 20 @ 20kg
- 3 rounds -

3.
Wall Ball x 10
Rack Walks - down and back twice
- 3 rounds -

The Benefits of the Dynamic Warm up

• Increases body temperature and warms the connective tissues
• Increases blood flow to muscles and heart (i.e. charges the circulatory system)
• Delivers more oxygen to muscles (specifically greater exchange of oxygen to tissues because hemoglobin gives more oxygen at higher temperatures as well as greater oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange)
• Increases nerve conduction velocity (i.e. activates the nervous system)
• Improves efficiency (rate and strength) of muscle contraction and reaction time
• Promotes more efficient cellular metabolism (i.e. facilitates metabolic transition to activity-specific energy systems)
• Excites the hormonal system
• Increases the amount of synovial fluid in joints (thereby decreasing the viscosity of the joint capsules)
• Decreases muscle viscosity
• Lubricates the joints and reduces muscle and joint stiffness
• Increases joint range of motion
• Increases muscle coordination through related movements
• Increases work capacity
• Prevents injury

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO

The off-season is a time of relaxation for most students, but unfortunately for you as a football player, it is your time to put in extra work to get ahead of the curve and get yourself ready physically for the upcoming season.

Although two-a-day practices leading up to the season will get you in solid cardiovascular shape assuming your coach does them right, it's not going to be enough in most cases to get your prepared for a long football season.

All players should spend their summer time both running and in the gym lifting heavy weights....
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DOING WHAT WE DO

No Excuses!!!!