March 2009
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February 2009
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Ovie Mughelli Runs Up A Really Steep Incline
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.
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Dwyane Wade in the gym.
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...
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Kyle Harrison is Stronger than I Thought
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...
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January 2009
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Bj vs. GSP
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...
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Lance Armstrong's Weight Regime
After a three year hiatus from competitive cycling the prodigal son that is Lance Armstrong has made his return. In preparing for the sport’s end all be all, The Tour de France, Lance has been picking up the weights again and started a new training regime to build lean leg and core muscle. His unparalleled dedication will hopefully see him rebound from his 29th place finish at...
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Mike Lambert putting in the work
If you want to be able to spike a volleyball off the face off the world’s best volleyball player like this, you’ve got to be in pretty good shape.
AVP Pro Mike Lambert is certainly putting in the conditioning work to do so. He flies around the court while holding a medicine ball in an effort to adapt to the ever-challenging medium of sand.
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Arolvski 360
Morgan Freeman has a voice so wizened and worn that his narrating skills are world renowned. For this 7 part YouTube documentary following former UFC heavyweight champion Andrei Arlovski the producers decided to grab the first person that could imitate a Shawshank Redemption voice over and let him read the fighter’s back-story.
As Arlovski prepares for what is truly the fight of his life,...
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The X Games workout
Snowmobile racers are athletes too.
Today’s workout is designed for X-Games competitor Carl Schubitzke, but it could be used by almost any individual preparing for any sport. Because motorsports demand an extremely high level of performance over an extended period of time, all sorts of drivers, including NASCAR and F-1, have embarked on general fitness routines like this one that are...
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University of South Carolina Slosh Pipes
Core stability is part of the new gospel of athletic training. One way to achieve core stability is to handle unstable objects, so that stabilizing muscles are fully engaged. The University of South Carolina swim team does just this in one of their dry-land workouts by lifting slosh pipes, long cylanders partially filled with water.
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Ninja Warrior Training
How does one tackle the hardest obstacle course on earth? Well if you’re Bryant P. from Waipahu, Hawaii then you do a combination of strength, balance, and explosive exercises. Oh yeah, you can do pinky pull ups, too.
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The Natural's circuit weight routine
When Randy Couture decided to drop from heavyweight to light heavy in the UFC he needed to maintain strength but still drop the 20 or 30 pounds he had on his frame at heavyweight. His lifts, as shown here, changed from high weight power workouts to lighter weight lifts with a higher focus on muscle endurance. Apparently they had their intended affect as the workout performed in this video helped...
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Anthony Gonzalez sleeping at altitude
Former OSU and current Colts wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez is working to improve all the time, even when he sleeps. Gonzalez rests and spends much of his time in an altitude simulation tent in which the oxygen concentration is held below seal-level standards. Long used by endurance athletes and mountain climbers, altitude simulation spurs the body to produce more red blood cells which, in turn,...
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Allen Iverson's coach is pumped.
Allen Iverson is infamous around the NBA for his disregard of training schedules. Apparently on the rare occasion that he can actually rope Iverson into a proper workout, Denver Nuggets strength and conditioning coach Steve Hess gets so excited he can barely contain his own breath. Iverson’s lifts focus not on strength as much as they do on flexibilty and balance.
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Terrell Owens "Rubber Band Man"
Terrell Owens is known almost as widely for his work ethic as for his trash talking and elaborate touchdown celebrations. In this sneak peak into one of his in-season routines, he performs whole body movements while donning a matrix of resistance bands. Work with resistance bands can establish strength through a range of motion and the bands, unlike weights, pose little risk of injury. It’s...
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December 2008
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Stefan Holm Jumps High
Some sports require more specific physical skills than others, but few endeavors are as narrow in scope as high jumping. Swedish legend Stefan Holm pretty much spends all his time leaping looming impediments whether it be the most extreme hurdling you’ve ever seen or trying out seven different ways to jump over a bar.
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Alabama Women's Gymnastics Conditioning
The Alabama women’s gymnastics team has a conditioning competition. Much of gymnastic skill training is closely linked to strength development, so these women focus on the one element which might be lacking in their normal training, cardio.
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5:30 AM Running with Central Michigan Wrestling
In a college sport that has been dominated by only two schools since its conception, the Central Michigan wrestling team is trying to break the mold as they compete for a top three spot in the NCAA Tournament. In the tradition of training outside the box, CMU’s head coach Tom Borrelli demands that wrestlers wake up at 5:30, when other coeds are just dozing off, for strenuous track workouts....
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Dallas Robinson Sprint Training
“Hey, y’all. My name’s Dallas Robinson. I’m really nobody. I’m a 6-foot-4, 210-pound white guy that lives in Kentucky. I train myself. A lot like everybody else, when I got out of college, I went and started working. For a year, I was miserable. I wasn’t doing what the Lord created me to do, and that’s run.” So begins this mini-documentary on the training and progress of Dallas Robinson, a little...
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Auburn Swimmers Swim-Til-You-Puke
Today we bring you the sprinters of the Auburn swim team. Whether it be their strength training, swimming warm-up, or this insane swim-til-you-puke (literally; I’m not exagerating) main set, there is something to be said about bringing a sense of play and creativity to one’s training. In case you think this kind of stuff doesn’t work, Cesar Cielo, one of the swimmers featured in...
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Dwight Howard is a Beast
Hear about the training of Dwight “Man Child” Howard, NBA Superstar. Dwight is simply the physically dominant force within his sport. Also watch him perform his favorite strength exercise, the bench press.
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Intense University of Iowa Workout
Tom Brands, three time NCAA champion and Olympic gold medalist, puts his defending national championship team through a high intesity live wrestling workout. Strong focus is paid to defending national champion and most outstanding wrestler in the 2008 tournament Brent Metcalf.
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Core Routine for Runners
Up-and-coming American 5k runner Brent Vaughn goes through his core routine. He credits this very advanced routine with helping him to maintain his form in the late stages of races.
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Julius Peppers Trains like an Athlete
NFLer Julius Peppers’ workout emphasizes balance, flexibility and coordination. You don’t see him with a dumbbell heavier than five pounds.