Strength Wars

If you have not seen the YouTube battles, then you are missing out.


They are so exciting!

I stumbled across "Strength Wars" and watched to exhilarating battles. But, the most intriguing one occurred with The Powerlifter versus Street Workout Athlete. It is going to be difficult for me to hide who won. I will just say that the winning athlete basically had two of the three exercises or drills work in his favor. They were more functional for what he normally does as a workout routine. The other athlete had a musculature that agreed with the exercises, but the functional training was not up his alley.

All in all, the exercises, the coaching, the adrenaline was fair in this contest. I'm not quite sure the position of the bell was fair. But, you can be the judge. I gave it a tie. This battle of strength and others are just one exciting way to see the potential of human performance. Functional training is important as is being overall fit to cross-exercise or dabble in to the domain of another form of working out.

Here is the exciting battle: Strength Wars

With heart,
Derek

Derek Arledge, MS, CSCS       www.teempt.com        TEEM Performance Training, LLC

Adapting To Change

Everyone endures change. Many want change. Many do not want to accept it. Believe me...I know it is very difficult. This year, 2016, has been filled with change. Shifts. Re-adjustments and re-directions. TEEM is unique because wherever I live, it goes. The end of January 2016 marked my official move from Cambridge, MA to the Washington, DC area. From a home made back to home grown. Regular font = feelings back in January. Italicize = current feelings. Fitness hits many aspects in life.

One week in to my new location, and it feels shocking.
(Seven weeks in as a new resident of Northern Virginia and things are different. Trying to find my niche.)

Many people have said it will be fine.
(It will. But, I need support on having to start all over again.)

I believe it will be fine.
(With active patience, I ask...When?)

But, when you get out of your regular routine of exercising, bike commuting, having full-time work, and grinding on a daily basis in an accessible and familiar area...the change is very difficult.
(Cambridge was great! I even learned my way around the Greater Boston Area pretty well. Juggling full-time work in public health and work with TEEM worked. I adapted very well to an area in which I did not grow up.)

At times, I feel like I am doing something that I do not want to do but have to do because I need to accomplish the feat.
(I found my purpose in Cambridge and in Boston. I will have to find my purpose again in the DC area. It has been ten years since I lived here. I am a different person seasoned with experiences that could possibly make TEEM grow among other relationships.)

Dealing with TEEM in the Boston area was great. Personally, I achieved goals that I never achieved while working in a gym, having valued long-term clients with the possibility of getting other valued long-term clients. TEEM is built to establish relationships with clients. That value is a large part of the success. Moving back to the Washington, DC area does not mean the end of the organization. But, it may take some time to get back to the status established in New England. The good news is that to all of you who participated in training sessions in the Boston area...thank you! Thank you very, very, very much! Even though weekly training sessions have come to end, training is not over. I do not know what the future holds.
(Um, just keep smiling.)


With heart,
Derek

Derek Arledge, MS, CSCS         www.teempt.com         TEEM Performance Training, LLC