I am pretty excited about my upcoming project with my good friend Wil Fleming of Force Fitness in Bloomington, IN. We will be doing a team-taught 1-day clinic at Athletic Revolution in Northeast Indy where we will be covering some CRITICAL topics in our quest to ‘Build Better Athletes”.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Wil Fleming here’s a quick bio on one of the great up-and-coming S&C coaches in the country!

Wil Fleming is the Owner of Force Fitness and Performance and Athletic Revolution Bloomington, in Bloomington, IN.  Force Fitness opened just over 3 years ago and is already one of the most successful training facilities in the Midwest with nearly 400  clients, 25 athletes earning Division I scholarships and nearly 45 athletes moving on to compete at the NCAA level in Division I, II, III.

In addition to being a business owner, Wil  was one of the authors of the IYCA’s Essentials of High School  Strength and Conditioning, along with other noted performance experts Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson, and Dr. Toby Brooks.  Wil is also the author of the Olympic Lifting instructor Course from the IYCA, in which he details his progressions for teaching the Olympic lifts to athletes of all levels.

Wil earned a bachelors of science from Indiana University in Nutrition Science. He is a  Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist from the NSCA, a Youth Performance  Specialist from the IYCA, and a level 1 performance coach from USA weightlifting.

Prior to being a business owner, he was an Olympic Trials participant, a division 1 track and field coach at Indiana University, an all-American athlete, and the school record  holder at Indiana University as a hammer thrower. Wil was a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs for Olympic weightlifting after winning the Jr. National Championship in the same sport.

Our Day’s Events…..

Date: Saturday February 11, 2012

Location: Athletic Revolution Northeast Indy- 5111 E. 65^th
St, Indianapolis, IN 46220

8:15-9:00
AM- Check-In

9:00 AM-10:15 AM

Robert dos Remedios- Strength and Conditioning for Football: A
comprehensive guide to Programming

10:30 AM-11:45 AM-

Wil Fleming – Olympic lifts and Plyometrics: Unlocking Power for
Your Athletes

11:45 AM-1:00 PM- Lunch on your own

1:00 PM-2:30 PM-

Wil Fleming: Hands On – Olympic Lift teaching progressions: A practical approach to teaching your athletes to Clean, Snatch and Jerk correctly.

2:45 PM- 4:15 PM- Robert Dos Remedios: Hands On – CHAOS: Speed and Agility training for true football speed

4:30 PM – 5PM- Q&A with Coach Dos and Wil

Price:  $99 per person
or $250 for up to 4 people from 1 coaching staff / team of trainers

Individual registration $99.00

Coaching staff or Team of trainers from same gym (up to 4 people) $250

*NSCA and NATA ceu’s will be awarded for this event.

I had a few thoughts I wanted to talk about as we end 2011….these are more or less ideas and questions I wanted to pose to everyone as we wrap up what was hopefully an amazing 2011 for you, your families, and your training.

What did we choose to focus on this year? The positive or the negative?

Hey, first off I am guilty of spending too much time on the $hitty stuff that we see in the fitness and conditioning world. I remember a video that was posted a couple of months ago of a Crosssfit affiliate gym doing a continental clean and the uproar that this caused. This video reached million view status as the video was facebooked, emailed, and tweeted all over the world. My friend Marc Coronel posted something that really made me think long an hard about this trend (of spreading heinous video). He said that he wished more people would focus on the GREAT THINGS that are happening in our field and spend less time and energy on the crap that is and will ALWAYS be out there. How true is this? I was talking to Josh Henkin about this and said to him that we often try to hit a couple of thousand YouTube views with GREAT training videos and this car crash gets millions?! Sure its much like the video “Friday” where people just want to mock it and marvel at it’s awfulness but nevertheless, we are spending time that we could be watching vids from people like Josh Henkin and TRX who provide what I consider some of the best education available in this industry.

What have YOU done to help others this year?

I’m not talking about helping people get fit, lose weight, feel better about themselves….all of these are amazing and you should be very proud. As trainers and coaches we have an amazing power, we have the ability to lead, encourage, and motivate others everyday. You may not realize it but you are often a hero in your client’s and gym member’s eyes.

I firmly believe in “paying things forward”…I also believe that when people see US doing awesome things in our community etc. we have awesome power to motivate them to do the same. Here at coachdos.com we have taken a page from Mike Seril who owns and runs an amazing gym in Whittier, CA. Mike has taken this power and created community programs providing physical education to youngsters, led food drives, held charity workouts, and generated raffles with proceeds going directly to helping his community. We have held pub crawls to benefit animal shelters and toy drive workouts that not only raised thousands of dollars in toys for the Boys & Girls club but also provided an amazing workout for community members.

The bottom line is that it’s EASY to make a difference and you know what? IT’S FUN!

Lastly, do we have our priorities in order?

Ok, I know that everyone is different and that something that makes one person happy may not have that same effect on someone else. I do, however, believe that there is a bigger picture to  what we do everyday. I talk about this in my “Building better Athletes” lecture that I gave this year. I ask people what do they think my job as a college strength and conditioning coach is…and then I tell them what I REALLY do. I talk about looking at the “bigger picture”. Sure I want to get my athletes bigger, stronger, faster…heck, my job is to build better athletes right? Sure, but it’s also to help change lives. To build work ethic and patterns of behavior that will last their entire lifetime. I want every one of my athletes to become monsters in the weightroom and in their sport but I also want them to graduate from college, get a great job, have an awesome family and continue to thrive with all the values and work ethic that I helped to instill in them. For THEM to be successful and to pass these behaviors onto others simply by example. Getting kids stronger and faster or helping a client lose weight is relatively easy when compared to the “bigger picture”.

Well, I just wanted to lay down some thoughts I had floating around in my head the past few weeks and to say thanks to all the people in this industry who have made a difference in my life and have helped me professionally. This video was created by one of my very best friends Frank Addelia and I think it targets my priorities…

Wishing everyone an amazing Holiday Season and I hope that 2012 is even better than you could ever hope for! DO WORK!

** EVERY PURCHASE OF ANY OF THESE PRODUCTS (BELOW) WILL GET YOU INTO A WEEKLY TRX RAFFLE!  I WILL BE GIVING AWAY A TRX EACH FRIDAY STARTING DEC. 9TH FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH**

Well, we have finally done it folks! We have compiled WOW’s (workouts of the week) and BID Vids (Break it down videos) onto data discs that can easily be downloaded to your computer, smart phones, tablets for viewing when you travel, at the gym, ANYWHERE!

The WOW compilation consists of 2 data discs featuring over 90 workouts and over 9 hours of footage! These are real-time workouts feature Men’s Health Power Training sessions, Density Sessions, Timed circuits, Finishers, and a variety of other CST circuits.

The BID Vid compilation consists of 1 data disc featuring over 70 break it down videos totaling over 5 hours of awesome footage! These BID Vids cover exercises like TRX moves, Kettlebell tips, Olympic lift variations, sandbag exercises and a TON of others.

As a BONUS if you buy either of these products, you will receive a DVD of my 75 min. “Building Better Athletes” lecture on designing programs from the ground up from the 2011 Perform Better summits. this DVD also features highlights from my highly acclaimed hands-on session in Long Beach, CA!

BID VID Compilation DISC + Bonus DVD $39.99

WOW’s Compilation 2 DISC Set + Bonus DVD $49.99

DISCOUNTED Bundle package of BOTH BID Vid and WOW’s DISCS with BONUS DVD(Save over $20!) $69.50

Highlights from the FREE ‘Building Better Athletes’ DVD that comes with EITHER of the DISC sets above!

Please note that these are DATA discs and not DVD’s. These allow you to see each wow or BID vid as an individual file then save to your computer, smartphone, tablet etc. as you choose. These MP4 files are easy to view via just about any media player like windows media player, iTunes, quicktime player etc.

Hey all, all of you who are familiar with me knows that I DO NOT promote many things out there. I have a handful of folks out there that I hold dear to me and I rely on them for information, guidance, and tips to help me improve my game.

Well, Joe Dowdell is one of those fit pros that I can rely on for great information and knowledge. Joe is one of the most successful trainers on the planet and is fast becoming one of the most recognizable trainers around. Joe is a best selling author who runs one of the top gyms in the country but what I love about Joe is the fact that he’s ’in the trenches’ DOING WORK everyday….everything from super models to MMA fighters to Olympians to stay at home moms! In a word, this guy is the TRUTH.

I have had the pleasure of doing a staff training for him and his trainers a PEAK performance NYC and more recently Joe & I put on an awesome seminar at his gym this past summer. I can honestly say tht Joe is one of the best PEOPLE I know.

Joe has put together a short video HERE that might help change your life. Whether you want to build a successful career as a trainer,  run a profitable gym, write in magazines or just get better results for your client – this is a must watch video

In addition, Joe has put together the complete DVD and manual set from his PEAK SUMMIT event that he put on with another great friend of mine Dr. Mike Roussell. If you’ve read either of my books, you know that Mike is my GO TO guy when it comes to nutrition for fat loss and performance (he wrote the nutrition chapters for both Men’s Health Power Training and Cardio Strength Training!). Keep an eye out for the launching of this product as well but you need to go HERE ASAP and check out this video if you want to stay in the loop! Do yourself a favor and DO NOT MISS OUT ON THIS DEAL there has never been so much training & nutrition information covered in a single product before! Check it out HERE