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Living Passionately: Four Lessons I Learned Watching Jon North Train and Compete
There are many positives and negatives that come from living passionately. I believe the positives far outweigh the negatives, though. When it comes to being passionate and living passionately, Jon North weightlifting comes to mind. There are lessons we can learn from Jon North and his passion for the sport. Some lessons are warnings as […]
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August 2013 at SPTC
August 1, 2013
Happy August to everyone! I hope your summer has been great and you’re staying fit and healthy. RUNNING CLUB I am proud to announce that SPTC now has a running club. This is a great way to get out, run together, get some exercise, compete in a race and have a little fun. We will […]
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Commitment and What Follows
August 1, 2013
I’ve been playing different sports almost all my life. I started playing soccer at the age of 4 and still enjoy competition to this day. I’ve played on teams with some great athletes during that 29 year span of time. I remember playing baseball with a boy named Russ when I was 9. Russ was […]
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June/July 2013 at SPTC
June 25, 2013
I hope your summer is going great thus far! Here’s what’s going on at SPTC for the rest of June and in July and what happened in May. RUSSIAN RIVER MUDRUN There were five of us in all that represented SPTC at the mudrun in Healdsburg last month. We had a great time and we’re […]
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Now You Have to Show Up!
November 13, 2012
My last blog was about scheduling your workouts, which is really important. But it takes more than just scheduling a workout to get you and keep you in great shape. That’s why you also need to commit to your fitness and follow through by showing up to your workout. The work it takes to be […]
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Schedule Your Workouts!
November 2, 2012
Scheduling your workouts gives you a well drawn road map for your week that will help steer your daily decisions onto the fit and healthy path. Think about this: it’s evening and you’re heading to bed. A TV show comes on that you want to watch. You also want to make that morning workout. If you […]
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What Weightlifting Is…And What It’s Not
March 14, 2012
“Ok, Class. Pay attention, now. Today we’ll be having a vocabulary lesson.” I know it’s not the most exciting topic in the world so I will keep this brief and make the point clear. There is a lot of confusion in the fitness world about what weightlifting is. Surprisingly enough, the people who are guilty of causing […]
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A Little Poem About Squats
February 23, 2012
This is great. So much truth to this. You HAVE to squat! Not having squats in your workout routine is like trying to hit a baseball without a bat. You HAVE to squat to get the gains. Hope this inspires and makes you chuckle. -G.Curoso THE SQUAT Down this road, in a gym far away, […]
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Choose the Right Shoes continued
February 22, 2012
In the last SPTC post I discussed a major benefit of using weightlifting shoes when performing standing barbell exercises: power/energy transfer. Beyond proper power/energy transfer, there are a few other basic reasons that, while performing squats, clean and jerk, snatch, and other standing power movements while working out, it is crucial to wear weightlifting shoes […]
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