I was a student athlete and have been training young athletes for over 15 years. During that time I have studied the human body and how it works and learned the processes by which a young person increases strength, speed, agility and power. I have developed effective programs for everything from football to soccer, girls basketball to cross country, wrestling to kayaking. I have helped dozens of athletes fulfill their dreams of becoming NCAA athletes or just make the squad.
Last week one of my former athletes asked me to take on a new challenge. She and I trained for 3 years together while she was in high school and she went on to play NCAA volleyball in Kansas. With her volleyball career on hold, she decided to train for a Figure Competition. We discussed it came to the understanding this is way out of either of our wheelhouses and we would learn to do it together.
I contacted a colleague of mine, Tasha Phillips, in Des Moines, Iowa for some guidance. The more I learned from Tasha, the more I realized I did not know. I have always been a believer I should never ask an athlete to do something I would not do, and the best way to learn is to do. So I decided to truly help my client, her name is Cloie, I need to do what she is doing and understand the challenges she will go through. For the next 12 weeks I am going to stick to the meal plan (plus a couple hundred calories) and do the workouts each day with Cloie.
We are a couple days in to it and when we tell people what we are doing they tell us how cool it is and they want to follow our progress. Each week both Cloie and I will post blogs about our challenges, successes and overall progress, We will also post pictures and meal plans as we go. Follow me on Twitter @tdueber for regular updates.
Wish us luck!
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