Aaron Downey demos the farmboy workout that helped turn him into one of the NHL’s most feared enforcers.A mix of the old and the new schools, Downey does plyometrics in the middle of a potato field, carries a log up a hill, balances on exercise balls and of course works on his punching.  posted on 03.10.09

Aaron Downey demos the farmboy workout that helped turn him into one of the NHL’s most feared enforcers.A mix of the old and the new schools, Downey does plyometrics in the middle of a potato field, carries a log up a hill, balances on exercise balls and of course works on his punching. 

posted on 02.23.09

Ovie Mughelli, a fullback for the Baltimore Ravens, performs one of his lofty off-season workouts. He runs, crawls and claws his way up a specially built incline that is really, really steep. After this workout, running on flat ground is a piece of cake.

There is no shortage of steel and heavy machinery in Youngstown Ohio. Kelly Pavlik makes use of all of it when he trains at the Iron Man Warehouse in his hometown. This is the classic power training that makes a man wallow in the nostalgia of boxing’s heyday. Pavlik is truly a classic fighter as he first enlists the power of God to help him through his workouts. There is definitely something more than a prayer, however, behind Pavlik’s enormous right hand. Watch for this power puncher to go for the knockout against a very game and very competitive Marco Antonio Rubio this weekend on a stacked card that includes the Puerto Rican messiah that is Miguel Cotto. posted on 02.21.09

There is no shortage of steel and heavy machinery in Youngstown Ohio. Kelly Pavlik makes use of all of it when he trains at the Iron Man Warehouse in his hometown.

This is the classic power training that makes a man wallow in the nostalgia of boxing’s heyday. Pavlik is truly a classic fighter as he first enlists the power of God to help him through his workouts. There is definitely something more than a prayer, however, behind Pavlik’s enormous right hand.

Watch for this power puncher to go for the knockout against a very game and very competitive Marco Antonio Rubio this weekend on a stacked card that includes the Puerto Rican messiah that is Miguel Cotto.

Sometimes we at TLAE get caught up in the highfalutin techniques of the cutting edge. So today we bring you Philip Daniels of the Washington Redskins, an athlete unafraid to get old school and lift some extremely heavy weights. Daniels powerlifts in the off season. For the featured session, Daniels has heavy chains attached to the bar which, as he reaches the lower portion of his squat, come to rest on the ground. The lower he goes the more chain is on the ground, in effect lightening the load on the bar. The lower one is in their sqaut position the less weight one is able to handle safely, so by using chains Daniels can maximize his workload without compromising his health. posted on 02.19.09

Sometimes we at TLAE get caught up in the highfalutin techniques of the cutting edge.

So today we bring you Philip Daniels of the Washington Redskins, an athlete unafraid to get old school and lift some extremely heavy weights. Daniels powerlifts in the off season.

For the featured session, Daniels has heavy chains attached to the bar which, as he reaches the lower portion of his squat, come to rest on the ground. The lower he goes the more chain is on the ground, in effect lightening the load on the bar. The lower one is in their sqaut position the less weight one is able to handle safely, so by using chains Daniels can maximize his workload without compromising his health.

posted on 02.13.09

No workout can prepare him to fight off the allegations of his ex-wife, but the training Dwyane Wade puts in with wonder-coach Tim Grover in his native Illinois has earned him a starting spot at this Saturday’s NBA All Star game and a gold medal as a starter for the US Olympic team.

The lifting and stretching regime Dwyane goes through at Attack Athletics serves the double purpose of rehabbing his accumulating injuries and improving the muscle and joint endurance that are tested so heavily in the NBA.

Troy Polamalu is that Super Bowl Champion Steeler with the unorthodox hair. Even more unorthodox than his ‘do however is what he does at Marv Marinovich’s Sports Lab in Orange County, California. Polamalu -barefoot for the whole workout- performs extremely dynamic lower body movements, most of which look like highly modified pilates staples, at very high speed. The movements and the pace at which they are executed are supposed to represent a closer analog to what Troy does on the football field than traditional weight lifting. Hmmmm, this seems to be working. Look at more of the unleashed creativity that is Sports Lab training. posted on 02.11.09

Troy Polamalu is that Super Bowl Champion Steeler with the unorthodox hair. Even more unorthodox than his ‘do however is what he does at Marv Marinovich’s Sports Lab in Orange County, California. Polamalu -barefoot for the whole workout- performs extremely dynamic lower body movements, most of which look like highly modified pilates staples, at very high speed. The movements and the pace at which they are executed are supposed to represent a closer analog to what Troy does on the football field than traditional weight lifting. Hmmmm, this seems to be working.

Look at more of the unleashed creativity that is Sports Lab training.

posted on 02.08.09

We’re finally over the hump. Spring is right around the corner and the thermometer has finally started climbing back to a comfortable level. For those of us here at TrainLikeAnElite that usually spells the beginning of sweltering humidity and shorter naps, but for Kyle Harrison, Tewaaraton Trophy winner and current Major League Lacrosse star, February simply means preseason. Have a look at Harrison’s off season workout that prepares him for the grueling MLL season.

Half feat-of-strength half well-established-training-method, for a workout Laird Hamilton drags logs around on the beach. When your claim to fame is riding waves so giant that other pro surfers question your sanity, everything you do needs to be tinged with the extreme and the over-the-top. posted on 02.02.09

Half feat-of-strength half well-established-training-method, for a workout Laird Hamilton drags logs around on the beach. When your claim to fame is riding waves so giant that other pro surfers question your sanity, everything you do needs to be tinged with the extreme and the over-the-top.

posted on 01.30.09

In what according to Dana White will be “the biggest f***ing fight” in either of these men’s career, George St. Pierre will square off with MMA and Brazilian jiu-jitsu wunderkind BJ Penn at UFC 94 this coming Saturday.

Watch BJ make faces and noises similar to a mother in labor as the lightweight champ goes through a weight routine a few weeks out from the big fight.

A few thousand miles away, GSP goes through a dynamic workout with David Loiseau, Denis Kang, and other fighters currently living in that hockey-centric nation to America’s north.

Not coincidentaly this superfight is taking place during Superbowl weekend. Considering the massive amounts of planning and marketing required for the event, it is a wonder that The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s president still has time to do things like this.

“We’re athletes, we’re not only golfers” says Camilo Villegas, a rising golf star who in the past year claimed two PGA Tour events and rose to number seven in the World Golf Rankings. Camilo trains like an all around athlete, but, with a mind towards the vertiginous and ballistic nature of the golf swing, pays special attention to rotational movements and stability development. As you can see above, even the way this guy sizes up a put is athletic. posted on 01.29.09

“We’re athletes, we’re not only golfers” says Camilo Villegas, a rising golf star who in the past year claimed two PGA Tour events and rose to number seven in the World Golf Rankings. Camilo trains like an all around athlete, but, with a mind towards the vertiginous and ballistic nature of the golf swing, pays special attention to rotational movements and stability development.

As you can see above, even the way this guy sizes up a put is athletic.

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