no problem..

Well, in college (FAU, exercise science program), I was sort of a "standout" student in terms of my obsession with sports performance. My grades, the questions I asked, and the teacher's I talked too after class reflected it.

So I learned that "perfect competition" (www.perfectcompetition.us) provided internships to student's who were deemed "serious" about the s&c craft. So I went in, interviewed. They did a "background check" with my professor's. I got the opportunity.

2006-2007

So I spent an entire semester interning ~25 hours a week or so, middle school, high school, and college athletes. I was taught their system, read their internal documents on training, talked extensively with the main coaches. I led those groups of athletes through warmup, prehab, speed sessions, core, lifting, and flexibility BASED on their protocols. Usually it was myself and another intern & coach, but due to scheduling I did the entire session myself.

At this time, their was an NFL Combine Prep going on led under the coaching of Pete Bomarrito (http://www.perfectcompetition.us/Pete_extendedBio.htm). I assisted with the training of the nfl combine athletes, some big names, some not, but pretty much all dedicated as fu*k hardcore athletes. I taught them form on lifts, spotted, made protein shakes (holy shit F that), forced them to foam roll & stretch, and got their meals for them sometimes. On a few occasions, when Pete was "out of town" or whatever, I trained the nfl combine prep class myself. I'm pretty sure it was on two occasions, and being a student-intern, that was absolutely insane - i loved it.

I also was given the opportunity to train some pro & developing nba basketball players, as well as some minor league team (the pitbulls?).

Regardless of how well I performed, Pete & I did not get along too well. We are just on entirely different wavelengths, we butt heads easy. Now, I have no shame calling this guy a huge asshole in my opinion, BUT, he is one of the most ridiculous S&C coaches I've ever seen. The guy _knows his shit_. He is absolutely obsessed with getting results for his combine/pro athletes.

So, obvious tension existed the whole time, but when my internship was over, Pete offered me "another". He agreed to pay me some cash-monies but then we clashed heads again and I dipped.

2007

So now I had to do another internship, one that actually counted for credits. So I did my internship at Memorial Fitness Center. I trained old people, kids, weekend warriors, heart attack victims, etc. Occasionally I trained athletes. So, I meet this guy Bruce (Who would later hire me). He asks me why im in s&c and what I want to do. So I give him my mindset, and he's talking me out of s&c, telling me it's not for me. He was just testing me & busting my balls, but I didn't know that. So I was like whatever brosef im going to make athletes better peace-out. So he gets this guy, who is training for a "skeleton tryout", some olympic event. He had to meet a bunch of numbers for this 'skeleton combine' and he was way off. So long story short I trained him for ~12 weeks (I forget) and freaked him out, he hit every test, 5" on vert, tons on his broad jump/med ball toss/speed etc.

So bruce put me on as s&c coach, started giving me people to train.

Intern ends, get hired, work at s&c. There I started off slow, training h.s. athletes. Getting results. So we put together some summer camp. Again, ~50+ kids, real good results. So then he introduces me to one minor league guy and some football guy. They both look at me like im nuts, considering I was 147 lb, looking like a walking stick.

So whatever they decide to train because of how I talked about training. After a few weeks of training, minor league guy tells his agent about how good training is, so he sends me more people. Then more people. After you know it I had like 8 guys or so in a minor league off-season training camp. So that went well, got insane results with alot of them. They go off to minor league season, and absolutely blow up the pre-season testing. They all said they loved the training we did, because honestly it was results based, I am sort of obsessed about results like that coach Pete.

2008-2009

Now it's midway into 2008, I train more people, team's, kids, high school, college, football, whatever. Summer comes around, 2008, we got ~65 kids or so, an entire baseball team, and just tons of h.s. kids. Anyway, that went well.

Then I did another minor leage off-season prep, got even better results. Some freakish shit, as you can see on my youtube.

So, Bruce Aven, my former boss, he trusted alot of responsibility in me and built a s&c program around me. Bruce Aven btw, is an absolute freak athlete & a real good dude. I mean, out of shape he can just walk up to a 300 lb barbell and squat it like it's nothing, pull 405 on a trap bar no warmup, hold it and make fun of DRusso, and broad jump 110 no warmup.

Also on the side I was training eddie/taje and myself. Eddie & taje's performance blew up. So did mine in my opinion.

Not to get it twisted though, I did of course not achieve results with some people. I do not call them athletes though, because they were wimps, lazy, and weak minded.


That's pretty much it man. I might have got some dates wrong don't hold me too it.



Well, I hope my bio above sheds some light on it. I did learn alot from some good people & good professors, such as Bruce Aven, Pete Bommarito, Keith Shimman, and David Sandler. That's how I got my opportunities, learning, applying, being given opportunities and excelling at them.

Beyond that, I was very self taught. I just studied supertraining/verkhoshansky/every article I could find. I did alot of self experimentation with training methods.

I kind of did the 'opposite' with what you are talking about, even though it was in a short time span. I started out gaining experienced and now years later have decided to "write some articles". Kind of the flip side.

Beyond that, I always took training serious, but I never approached it with the right mindset or knowledge. Growing up I didn't have anyone tell me anything. So I started training properly for something (boxing) in 2005. I started off with a ~24 min 5k time, which of course would have been lower had I not cramped, maybe ~22m or so. I decided to get that time down as low as possible, using intervals/protocols I got it down to mid 17's, with a PR 4:32 mile, but mostly running 4:45-4:55's, as well as going 8 rounds boxing on many occasions at ATT.

I was fighting through hand injuries from early 2007 to late 2007 (nearly a year). That's where my TVS journal picks up, in october 2007.

So you know the rest, 27 to 39" RVJ. Got bored of RVJ + Family issues = detrained and became a bum.

My whole life I've been riddled with injuries, and I'm just an endurance athlete by nature. So I take alot of pride in the vert achievement, less so in the mile/5k/10flight stairs feats. Regardless, I put in work & got results. Looking back though I wish I would have stayed with boxing/kept my conditioning, because hear I am two years later with the itch to get back into it and compete. So that's my only regret. I don't think anyone on TVS/here understand how good of shape I was in, it was seriously psychotic. Hopefully I can obtain that mindset again and regain it, which I think is happening lately, but it's going to take alot of late, long, and drenching workouts to get it back


2010

I'm back :F

twenty ten get right 2 years before doomsday 2012 holla atcha boy.


pc man

wtf is stint shooting?

those were heterosexual adult films, made with my canon hv30, IN HD.

*click for hd*.

cool man glad u liked it hehe! all thank to nba02941204910 :F

ya some people got no idea i did any of that stuff.. they just think i rock high socks, dunk, and make fun of scammers.

haha

wow man, that's awesome that you got to work with all those ppl and do all that stuff.  Glad i asked you, i didn't know how u got to where you were, thought you just went to college and then got an internship and started working somewhere or something like that

your entire story you were getting sick results with the athletes

was there ever a time the athletes just didn't get better, like from the get-go you all the people you trainined got awesome results? Did anybody get hurt training under you and it became a big deal or something like that?

Well, i had "witnessed" and "assisted" with ALOT of training before I had trained athletes entirely under my programs. I had the ability to witness what was working and what wasn't, at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. So, before implementing my own programs, all that prior experience really helped me shape my own training ideas.

As far as results go, I can say with confidence that EVERYBODY I trained, who was serious, got good results. I trained lots of people who half-assed shit also, so, of course I had people who didn't improve, but that was mostly on them. Either their parents were paying and they didn't want to be there, or they signed up and just were lazy, those people can't make progress.

Man, you just can't NOT make results if you're improving your strength (in lifts & reactive movements), and managing fatigue properly. Of course some people made really freaky gains, others made just "good gains", but everyone was gaining nonetheless. My duties at MSC for the most part, were putting on muscle & making people faster. I still had the people who were vert focused, fat loss focused, pure speed focused, pure mass focused, etc, but mostly mass & speed for baseball.

I've had a few people get hurt, but most often than not, they did something wrong. One kid broke his ankle doing stepups, he jumped off the box and landed on something all crooked. One kid hurt his hamstring real bad during performance testing, landing extremely deep in a broad jump. One of my minor leaguers had a major back spasm, doing agility drills, the day after squatting. Another minor leaguer tweaked his hamstring shagging in the outfield (catching fly balls). Russo hurt his pec doing iso pushups after iso bench, that lasted a long time. The person I hurt the most, was myself, since I did alot of experimentation with training ideas.

That's about it when it comes to that...

My most proud moment as a s&c coach came during summer s&c camp, in a conditioning session. This new kid shows up, we're doing sled circuits. He's like "LEMME DO IT!". I'm like, "nah man you're not ready". He keeps bugging me, so I let him. He does the circuit, which everyone is completely adapted too, and he pukes his guts out. Then, he's like, "ok im good now let me finish", so I'm laughing and go ok. He does another circuit, pukes his brains out again. Session is now over, and I see him standing on a bench, with a garbage can nearby. Then I see a bunch of kids running around laughing. So I go see what's going on, and he's taking a dump in the garbage can. He kept coming for one week, but disappeared, probably due to the teasing. I guess he couldn't hold it in lololololol.

peace mang.

what the hell, that's one of the weirdest stories i've ever heard, why that story with that kid who shit in the dumpster make you proud?

you have heard of test sports club though?