Monday, September 26, 2011

MVP Off Season Strength Training Program Starts Monday Oct 3, 2011

Endurance athletes spend all of their time training and competing by producing power with one leg. The MVP off season core strength training program is specifically designed to exponentially improve your ability to do this.

"It's the application of functional anatomy to training. You do almost everything in sports in a split stance, or by pushing off one leg from a parallel stance, so it just makes sense to train your body that way." - Mike Boyle, "Build Bigger Legs, One at a Time"

Periodized Fitness for Performance Improvement
Our proven approach to training endurance athletes combines multiple strength phases with mastery of body weight movements for enhanced structural stability with free weights to build head to toe strength and power. This approach has drastically improved the way Bay Area endurance sports enthusiasts move in the water, in the saddle and on their feet.





To insure you not only meet, but exceed your fitness goals, we've designed our program in the following manner:

  • October: you will increase your mobilty for better range of motion in your joints.
  • November: you will gain better joint stability. This is a good thing because you can only exihibit the amount of power that your joint stability allows.
  • December: now that your joints are more mobile with better stability, you will increase your total body strength.
  • January: we'll put more hustle in your muscle through increased power.
  • February: power endurance work, or simply put, this is where we kick yours so you will kick theirs.

Appropriate for All Levels of Fitness
Every exercise we have you do can be modified any level of fitness, or strength training experience. Since we are extremely stringent on form, you will only progress in weight/movement difficulty once you've shown us you're ready.
Click here for more information on our off season strength training program.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

INTEGRATE Fat TIre Fun Team Strikes Gold at Cyclebration



September 17, Folsom, CA - The INTEGRATE Performance Fitness Fat Tire Team took the Folsom Cyclebration Cycling Festival by storm this weekend as seven riders took the start line for the red, white and black. They brought home 17 medals as well as two first place finishes overall, two second place finishes overall and one third place finish over all. Last year, we had two riders and seven medals.

The riders competed in mountain bike short track cross country races (dubbed the "hurricane of pain") and time trial on Saturday as well as a cross country race on Sunday. Riders accumulated points based on how they finished in their races on a scale of 20 for 1st, 19 fo 2nd, 18 for 3rd, 17 fo 4th, etc. Overall standing were reached based on the total number of points accumulated.

The following riders and Maximum Velocity Program participants competed for Team IPF this weekend:

Cat 3 Women 34-
Jamie Hull, 1st STXC, 1st TT, 1st XC, 1st overall

Cat 3 Men 30-39
Paul Patangui, 2nd STXC, 1st TT, 2nd XC, 2nd overall after a 1st place tie breaker
Dan Lawson, 3rd STXC, 2nd TT, 3rd XC and 3rd overall
Eric PErkins, 6th XC

Cat 3 Men 40-49
Kevin Eck, 1st STXC, 1st XC

Cat 2 Men 50-59
Team Captain Gary Young, 1st STXC, 1st TT, 2nd XC, 1st overall

Cat 2 Men 40-49
Al Painter, 1st STXC, 4th TT, 4th XC, 2nd overall

The IPF Fat Tire Team had an incredible weekend, and I couldn't be happier with how they rode, represented themselves and how hard they trained to prepare for the event. It was an honor to have them race for the studio.

If you would like to ride with the IPF Fat Tire FUN group, please go to http://www.integratefitness.com/fattirefun.html. The group is aimed at getting new riders into the sport as well as helping knobby tired vets learn advanced skills and develop a higher level of fitness.

Riders of ALL fitness levels are always welcome on Fat Tire Fun Team rides.


Al Painter, NASM PES, CES, BA
President
INTEGRATE Performance Fitness
Northern California's Best Fitness Facility, Competitor Magazine
al@integratefitness.com