Well, I got an interesting email yesterday from a past client.
I will let you read it for yourself.
PJ:
I thought of you listening to the Broncos yesterday.
My Sunday afternoon ritual during Bronco season is to listen to the game on KOA and do my core-strength workout. After I had finished a 20 minute warm up on the stationary bike and started doing caterpillars to stretch out, the game hit halftime with the Broncos trailing 17-7. I remembered a couple things at this moment:
1. The Broncos had dominated the second half of games this season, and had only given up 3 points in the second half at home all year. So I knew they had a chance.
2. Champ Bailey commenting in the preseason that they had very few pulls and strains in the preseason. One of the only Bronco coaches held over from Shanahan to McDaniels is their strength and conditioning coach. Over the last few years Shanahan had over-ridden his own conditioning coach’s preferred method of stretching, which was warming up first and then stretching. Instead, the Broncos were a static stretching team. Anyone remember the 9 running backs they went through last year? Not anymore. Now they are conditioned properly. Here I am doing caterpillars AFTER I’ve warmed up and before I start doing box jumps and medicine ball work.
Sure enough, what happens? The Broncos outscore the Pats 13-0 the rest of the way. SI’s Peter King says that the Patriots looked “gassed” on the Broncos game-tying 98-yard drive and the only serious injury through five weeks of the season that the Broncos have sustained is a twisted ankle to a running back. Playing at a mile high means something again. The Broncos are a smash-mouth team again that are not just good, but the kind of team other teams don’t want to play.
I think a lot of that is because they do core work. They stretch the right way. They do the same things you advocate in your sessions.
It’s not to say that you’ll become a world class football player if you do the PJ workout. But it does give me more juice for why I do what I do when I work out, and why I firmly believe you’re coaching is the best physical regiment I’ve ever experienced.
You’d better hope your Steelers are a well-conditioned team November 9th. They’re gonna need all the help they can get.
I thought of you listening to the Broncos yesterday.
My Sunday afternoon ritual during Bronco season is to listen to the game on KOA and do my core-strength workout. After I had finished a 20 minute warm up on the stationary bike and started doing caterpillars to stretch out, the game hit halftime with the Broncos trailing 17-7. I remembered a couple things at this moment:
1. The Broncos had dominated the second half of games this season, and had only given up 3 points in the second half at home all year. So I knew they had a chance.
2. Champ Bailey commenting in the preseason that they had very few pulls and strains in the preseason. One of the only Bronco coaches held over from Shanahan to McDaniels is their strength and conditioning coach. Over the last few years Shanahan had over-ridden his own conditioning coach’s preferred method of stretching, which was warming up first and then stretching. Instead, the Broncos were a static stretching team. Anyone remember the 9 running backs they went through last year? Not anymore. Now they are conditioned properly. Here I am doing caterpillars AFTER I’ve warmed up and before I start doing box jumps and medicine ball work.
Sure enough, what happens? The Broncos outscore the Pats 13-0 the rest of the way. SI’s Peter King says that the Patriots looked “gassed” on the Broncos game-tying 98-yard drive and the only serious injury through five weeks of the season that the Broncos have sustained is a twisted ankle to a running back. Playing at a mile high means something again. The Broncos are a smash-mouth team again that are not just good, but the kind of team other teams don’t want to play.
I think a lot of that is because they do core work. They stretch the right way. They do the same things you advocate in your sessions.
It’s not to say that you’ll become a world class football player if you do the PJ workout. But it does give me more juice for why I do what I do when I work out, and why I firmly believe you’re coaching is the best physical regiment I’ve ever experienced.
You’d better hope your Steelers are a well-conditioned team November 9th. They’re gonna need all the help they can get.
Ben Day
Ben, thanks for the compliment. I am glad to hear that you are still sticking with the exercise skill sets you learned while a client at FT. You also made an interesting point about the change in coaching styles from Shanahan to McDaniels. I highly recommended that everyone change their workouts up from time to time as your body can plateau or get stuck in a rut. So, if that is you and you need a tune up give me a call. As far as the Steelers-Broncos game...let's talk November 10th.
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