What strength and conditioning program works for you?

Everyone has a say when it comes to fitness. Whether it be for lifestyle or a specific sport/art, strength and conditioning plays a huge role if your goal is to be better. There are all sorts of programs out there like the latest CrossFit “Forging Elite Fitness” S and C program, or a basic and effective Olympic Lifting/Power Lifting program, or working with kettlebells. Whatever the program may be there are all sorts of good things to take from each. I’m not here to talk bad about any particular program and sure ain’t here to be bias on one or the other. I just want to let you know that there’s no “one size fits all” way of training. Bottom line, nuff said, done! As a trainer/coach you have to be open minded in this industry. I must confess that when I started CrossFitting in 2004 I was hooked and loved everything about it. I was seriously on some CF crack and was that guywho thought everything else was bullshit and this is the only way to go. Got certified couple years after that and was even more of a CF junkie (I wanna say crossfit deusch bag but I never acted like a deusch bag just was high on CF). Fast forward to now and being more educated, being more of a sponge, I know what fitness is all about and I’m still learning, will always be learning. I never ditched CrossFit because I still enjoy it and help run a very successful CF gym in Sacramento, CA. If you come into our gym where I train at you’ll see a wide variety of exercises I like to use while training our members.  You’ll also see other programs that I incorporate to mix things up and keep our members bodies guessing. I don’t follow a “this is the only exercises your doing in here and nothing else” set program. Now keep in mind that this is for the generalist who are seeking to live a healthier lifestyle. When it comes to training fighters for upcoming fights then the fitness is narrowed a bit and programming changes but thats a whole other topic for later.

You should come check us out in the area www.americanrivercrossfit.com and experience a great way to workout and have fun.

Try this one from the CrossFit Games site under South Texas Sectional WOD’s: Make sure you scale weight down if you’re not confident or don’t know the deadlift movement. If you don’t have access to a concept 2 row machine then sub a 1 mile run as fast as you can.

WOD 1 (Saturday, 9am) “Dead Man’s Row”

In 12 minutes, complete:
2K Row + Max Reps Deadlift (275/185lbs)
Score = Row time – (Deadlift Reps x 5 seconds)

4 Responses to “What strength and conditioning program works for you?”

1. Anthonyp says:

   March 12, 2010 at 9:33 am

   Chad, absolutely true, adn very well said. I could not agree more. Great post!
2. admin says:

   March 12, 2010 at 1:55 pm

   Anthony thanks for posting bro. Yeah its like jiu-jitsu, everyone has a style of their own. They pick up things that works for them. We all learn the same basic movements but its how we apply them in real time. Not everyone is going to be like the Roger Gracie’s, Marcelo Garcia’s, Cassio Werneck’s of jiu jitsu. it’s just like not everyone is going to like CF, Olympic Lifting, or gymnastics. Some people will create their own style of working out and stick with that. I’m glad im not that dude anymore getting metabolically deranged for 30 minutes every day of my life.
3. Aims says:

   March 13, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    This is a great post, Chad!
4. Marty Daquilante says:

   May 3, 2010 at 12:21 pm

   I have been able to work with weights now that I am in high school, and I want to learn which supplements to take. I want to take only natural things and forget anything like steriods. No way am I gonna mess myself up. Anybody have any advice?