No barbell, No athlete. PART 1

If you consider yourself an athlete but you don’t have a strength and conditioning program, I am sorry to be the one that breaks you the news; You are NOT an athlete. And if you do have a strength and conditioning program but it doesn’t include a barbell, the truth is you are not serious about being an athlete.
A strength and conditioning program that doesn’t involve a barbell will never be a real athletics strength and conditioning program. Barbell training is the base of any athletic performance. With 3 simple exercises and their progressions we can cover everything we need to make it a world class training program for any type of athlete.
So, if you have never been under a barbell and experienced how it feels when that cold and heavy piece of metal drills you into the ground and how the results that come from doing so makes you feel warm and light. Pay attention, because this is a very simple start that will change everything.
Learn how to squat, press and dead lift to go bigger, faster, stronger and be more injury free than ever before.
These three movements are the foundation of any solid strength and conditioning program. I will be covering the basis of all three of them and introduce their progressions into Power and Olympic lifting.
If you are ready to get serious about your training, keep your eyes peeled for PART 2.
Coach Carl-on the pro athlete program-Paoli

November 11, 2009 - 1:12 pm
Carl, I love this Blog…it will be the only one I read. And Andrews shout out at the beginning is very very cool. He is your main fan you know.
I am going to start passing this to all the now highschool atheletes I know…rowers at PRC, soccer players at Burlingame Soccer Club (Deedee’s team won their division and is getting very competitive…Eliza’s 8 went to Seattle to row and did respectably.
And I am so curious how Andrew is doing this fall…it has felt very disjointed for me but I hope not for him. Cheers
November 14, 2009 - 10:27 am
Carl Paoli, I’ll be watching you. Great work!