Thursday, January 26, 2012

90 days until RKC 2!

Wow, 3 months away. I remember sitting in my hotel room in Hawai'i last August a few days after the RKC (I know tough life). I looked at the Dragon Door schedule and saw the dates. I signed up without a second thought. Still high off the experience of Level 1 I made the purchase. Dave Clancy has been doing a countdown on Facebook. The countdown started about 6 months ago. Complete with days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining. With the date fast approaching, my palms just started sweating.

My training has been good to date. Going to the CK-FMS in October got me to address some issues I had with my body. No not the "does this kettlebell make me look fat?" kind of issues. But the issues of a 40 year old that has been lifting, running, jumping and throwing things since high school.  Doing correctives isn't meant to be fun, it's meant to keep you doing the "fun" things. Thanks to my coach Mark Snow I have correctives built in to my programming. Even better is I've started to include them in my Small Group classes (shhh don't tell them it's good for them, I've been sneaking them in!).

Still the plan is to be in St. Paul in April with my fellow RKC's. It will be nice to put a face and voice to several of the people I only communicate with through some form of Social Media. It will be good to share ideas with fellow RKC's on programming, class structure and running a facility. I can't wait to learn from passionate and knowledgeable RKC's. It will be good to fire up the group, not that I know anything about firing up groups of people.

Do I have doubts? Hell yeah I do. The half body weight press, with my shoulder history worries the heck out of me. A solid pistol with my crappy ankles worries the heck out of me. But that is the beauty of it. If I don't try, then I'll constantly say, what if? If I don't get the press or pistol in April, I have 90 days to complete the tasks. 90 days and more knowledge and tools in the arsenal. Plus if I truly don't think I'm ready for April, the next RKC 2 is in July in Italy.  Can you say extended vacation?

So what does this mean for the next 3 months? Smart training, no distractions, a grumpy Pharaoh (of course I'm never grumpy), nervousness, excitement and learning.

Pharaoh out!

Monday, January 2, 2012

What's going on?

Been a while since I've posted anything, apologies. The past few weeks I've been following my program in prep for the RKC 2. I've also been looking forward to new workshops and certifications coming up. Things I'm looking forward to in 2012 are

  1. Z-Health 3 Essentials of Elite Performance in Austin, TX
  2. Training with my coach Mark Snow of sghumanperformance 
  3. FMS level 2 workshop in Nebraska
  4. Easy Strength Seminar in Nevada
  5. RKC level 1 and level 2 in Minnesota
  6. VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!! Location TBD
  7. Art of Strength Development Course in Rhode Island
  8. TRX Sports Medicine Suspension Training Course Level 2
All of these workshops/certifications are going to add to my tool box and help me become a better coach. There's always a possibility of attending more workshops/certifications. 2 of the certifications I attended last year (CK-FMS, Combine 360) were spur of the moment decisions (so happy I made them). What are you looking forward to in 2012?

Pharaoh out