I did a hour and fifteen minute interview with this website. It was a great time, they EDITED!!! for Promo only since it is subscription based service. Here is some photos and other images with the interview attached.
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Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
The Month of July
As we get to the end of the busiest month for Basketball coaches,players and agents,scouts,trainers, camp directors,agents, scouts,parents.
I must sit back and reflect on my month of July,
Sierra Strength and SPeed in Reno seeing many athletes in between there High School AM workouts and Summer League games then AAU tournaments on the weekends. I respect the athlete that does it all in the summer for it is not easy and definitely a choice to make when your peers are at the lake or sleeping in until noon. The summer it is intense.
I directed the 2nd Annual High ALtitude Basketball Camp, in Squaw Valley this past summer. Preparing for this camp was the main fovis for myself and provided me plenty of long nights.
Camp was an amazing sucess and we where proud to have another great year at Basketball Camp. We had a lot of kids from Reno and SParks area and as far as Southern California. The tradition continues.....www.highaltitudebball.com, more on camp in a later Blog.
I was on the radio three times! SHout out to Alice 96.5 Connie is the best, Bill not so Bad either
j/k!!!
Appeared at Galena BASKETBALL camp and warmed up Camp, I love having fun with future Grizzlies. Coach is the man. I learned the x's and o's from him.GreaT Teacher
The summer is a chance to create memories and for athletes it is designed to work on the weakness and for some to make a name for them self in the heat of the summer recruiting circuit. I know as a teacher and a trainer I have grown considerably and look forward to another hot August in Reno, NV.
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I must sit back and reflect on my month of July,
Sierra Strength and SPeed in Reno seeing many athletes in between there High School AM workouts and Summer League games then AAU tournaments on the weekends. I respect the athlete that does it all in the summer for it is not easy and definitely a choice to make when your peers are at the lake or sleeping in until noon. The summer it is intense.
I directed the 2nd Annual High ALtitude Basketball Camp, in Squaw Valley this past summer. Preparing for this camp was the main fovis for myself and provided me plenty of long nights.
Camp was an amazing sucess and we where proud to have another great year at Basketball Camp. We had a lot of kids from Reno and SParks area and as far as Southern California. The tradition continues.....www.highaltitudebball.com, more on camp in a later Blog.
I was on the radio three times! SHout out to Alice 96.5 Connie is the best, Bill not so Bad either
j/k!!!
Appeared at Galena BASKETBALL camp and warmed up Camp, I love having fun with future Grizzlies. Coach is the man. I learned the x's and o's from him.GreaT Teacher
The summer is a chance to create memories and for athletes it is designed to work on the weakness and for some to make a name for them self in the heat of the summer recruiting circuit. I know as a teacher and a trainer I have grown considerably and look forward to another hot August in Reno, NV.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Florida, 640 Fox Sports Radio
I travel all over the country, this trip has been a vay-kay of some sorts. As I travel I always seem to meet the most interesting people, connections and unique sitiations. This trip I ended up on a Radio program for the greater Southern Florida area. The guests on the show where Former Professional Footbal Player, Lorenzo White and former Heavy Weight Champion of the World Shannon Briggs. Needless to say I was a little out of my league from a career stand point however I was the most entertaining. The Host Jeff who has been a Radio Perosnality for a long time in South Florida was very intriuged by the life of a Washington General and wants to do a follow up interview at some point. It was a blast to be on the air and get to hang with some all time greats and talk shop, I look forward to the follow up and coming back to the Ocean Manor Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
I will be back in Reno, NV for personal training at Sierra Strength and Speed on Sunday and am already getting texts and calls from High School Players eager to start their off season workouts.
Are You ELite?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Quote of Week, 1/27/09
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Elite Pro Performance presents" Swoopes Hoops Series" Sheryl Swoopes
Sheryl Swoopes of the Seattle Storm, a three time WNBA MVP, Three Time Gold Medalist often called the "Michael Jordan" of womens Basketball will be hosting a camp series with Elite Pro Performance for the Spring and Summer of 09. The camp format will be up soon, all levels of players are encouraged to attend. Sheryl is very excited to work with the Seattle area youth and puts her upmost confidence in Elite Pro Performance to format the camp to her Gold Medal Standards, The only question Left is "ARE YOU ELITE?
"SWOOPES HOOPS CAMP"
CASCADE HIGH SCHOOL, EVERETT, WA
MARCH 30TH-APRIL 3RD
* MALES & FEMALES 4TH-12TH GRADE*
REGISTRATION OPENS FEB 9TH
limited to 120 participants!!!
http://www.eliteproperformance.com/
"SWOOPES HOOPS CAMP"
CASCADE HIGH SCHOOL, EVERETT, WA
MARCH 30TH-APRIL 3RD
* MALES & FEMALES 4TH-12TH GRADE*
REGISTRATION OPENS FEB 9TH
limited to 120 participants!!!
http://www.eliteproperformance.com/
Monday, January 19, 2009
ACL Tears Common amongst Female Athletes, RGJ.com
Jordan Rogers was coming off a screen during a summer practice with her club team when she jump stopped, and felt a stretch in her left knee.
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Suddenly she was sprawled out on the court.
Rogers did not hear or feel a pop, the tell-tale sign she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament. But she knew.
"It was the same stretch feeling as the first time," said the Spanish Springs senior.
Rogers tore the ACL in her right knee, and both meniscus muscles, her freshman year while at Reed. This time it was just one meniscus, along with the ACL in her other knee.
"It just gave out on me, both times," Rogers said.
She is not alone.
The most common age group for ACL injuries is 14 to 20, said Randy Jacobe of Nevada Physical Therapy, and 70 percent are non-contact injuries. An ACL tear does not repair itself. Reconstructive surgery, while effective, is costly and typically sidelines the athlete for six to nine months.
Furthermore, female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer ACL injuries than males, and studies have found one in every 50 to 100 female high school athletes and one in 10 Division I college athletes will tear an ACL.
"You don't see the braces with the boys like you do the girls, especially these last couple years," Reed girls basketball coach Sara Schopper said. "It's amazing to me how (girls) knees are a little bit weaker."
Weaker may not be the right word. The bodies of males and females are different, and research has shown there is an effect on the knee.
Hormones play a role, and it has been determined that women have a straighter knee when performing certain maneuvers in running and cutting than men, who tend to have more bend in their knees. Additional factors that place more of a strain on a woman's knee include a straighter hip and slightly more outward deviation in the knee joint.
One finding from research specific to these gender differences is that women tend to activate their hamstring significantly less than men during some typical athletic maneuvers.
Is there prevention?
All of this information, though, is not new -- a 1995 article in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found NCAA women's basketball players were four times more likely to tear an ACL than their male counterparts -- even if Northern Nevada has been hit by a rash of such injuries this year.
Besides Rogers, Reed's Micha Walker, Elko's Cierra Dunbar and most recently Yerington's Karrie-Ann Quartz have suffered serious knee injuries. Rogers, Dunbar and Quartz are done for the season; Walker is just returning to action after undergoing surgery in August.
The injuries have drastically altered the basketball landscape, and have led some coaches and parents to look deeper into preventative measures.
"I don't know why or what you can do," Schopper said.
Spanish Springs coach Christine Eckles has long encouraged her players to join the school's athletics weight class to help prevent all types of injury.
The University of Nevada implemented an ACL-injury prevention program last year. The offseason program focuses on the soccer, and women's basketball and volleyball teams, and aims to strengthen the muscles around the knee.
"We're trying to retrain the body on how to jump and land properly," said Shelly Germann, interim director of sports medicine. "We did not have one serious knee injury in soccer this year. That says something."
According to Dr. Thomas Haverbush, a Michigan orthopedic surgeon, the 2,200 ACL injuries suffered by female college athletes each year ran a reconstructing and rehabilitating bill of more than $44 million.
A training program developed at the University of Vermont Medical School designed to help prevent ACL injuries in skiers demonstrated a 69 percent decrease in injuries among ski patrol personnel and instructors who received the training compared to those who did not. Females who took part had injury levels equal to or only one to two times higher than their male counterparts.
Focus on strength
There are other nationally recognized programs that high school athletes can use.
Holly Silvers and her colleagues at the Santa Monica Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation developed a program called "PEP" -- prevent injury, enhance performance. Recent research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine shows PEP can dramatically reduce ACL injuries in female athletes.
"We saw injury reduction of 74 percent to 88 percent," Silvers said of one study involving soccer players between the ages of 14 and 18.
Jacobe has implemented aspects of the PEP program into his work with Walker, Wolf Pack athletes and others.
"We can't change anatomy, that uncontrollable risk factor," said Jacobe, who worked with Germann to develop the prevention program at Nevada. "But what we can change is the poor strength through the core."
Female athletes tend to overdevelop their quads, Jacobe said, which stresses the ACL. But women can counteract the problem by learning to use their hamstrings, abdominals, gluteal muscles and calves more in jumping and landing.
There was a reduction in the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times higher when athletes in a Cincinnati study were trained to rely more on their hamstring muscles than their quadriceps, Dr. Haverbush reported.
"When there is a weakness in the core, then the leg dives in and you go into the knock-kneed position," Jacobe said. "You have to be strong everywhere."
After determining that warm-up and workout programs aimed at prevention are successful, Silvers said the next frontier is to look at prepubescent girls.
"We want to study the true mechanism of the injury," she said. "Can we 'vaccinate' 8, 9, 10 year olds, and keep them from developing bad habits and mechanics?"
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Suddenly she was sprawled out on the court.
Rogers did not hear or feel a pop, the tell-tale sign she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament. But she knew.
"It was the same stretch feeling as the first time," said the Spanish Springs senior.
Rogers tore the ACL in her right knee, and both meniscus muscles, her freshman year while at Reed. This time it was just one meniscus, along with the ACL in her other knee.
"It just gave out on me, both times," Rogers said.
She is not alone.
The most common age group for ACL injuries is 14 to 20, said Randy Jacobe of Nevada Physical Therapy, and 70 percent are non-contact injuries. An ACL tear does not repair itself. Reconstructive surgery, while effective, is costly and typically sidelines the athlete for six to nine months.
Furthermore, female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer ACL injuries than males, and studies have found one in every 50 to 100 female high school athletes and one in 10 Division I college athletes will tear an ACL.
"You don't see the braces with the boys like you do the girls, especially these last couple years," Reed girls basketball coach Sara Schopper said. "It's amazing to me how (girls) knees are a little bit weaker."
Weaker may not be the right word. The bodies of males and females are different, and research has shown there is an effect on the knee.
Hormones play a role, and it has been determined that women have a straighter knee when performing certain maneuvers in running and cutting than men, who tend to have more bend in their knees. Additional factors that place more of a strain on a woman's knee include a straighter hip and slightly more outward deviation in the knee joint.
One finding from research specific to these gender differences is that women tend to activate their hamstring significantly less than men during some typical athletic maneuvers.
Is there prevention?
All of this information, though, is not new -- a 1995 article in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found NCAA women's basketball players were four times more likely to tear an ACL than their male counterparts -- even if Northern Nevada has been hit by a rash of such injuries this year.
Besides Rogers, Reed's Micha Walker, Elko's Cierra Dunbar and most recently Yerington's Karrie-Ann Quartz have suffered serious knee injuries. Rogers, Dunbar and Quartz are done for the season; Walker is just returning to action after undergoing surgery in August.
The injuries have drastically altered the basketball landscape, and have led some coaches and parents to look deeper into preventative measures.
"I don't know why or what you can do," Schopper said.
Spanish Springs coach Christine Eckles has long encouraged her players to join the school's athletics weight class to help prevent all types of injury.
The University of Nevada implemented an ACL-injury prevention program last year. The offseason program focuses on the soccer, and women's basketball and volleyball teams, and aims to strengthen the muscles around the knee.
"We're trying to retrain the body on how to jump and land properly," said Shelly Germann, interim director of sports medicine. "We did not have one serious knee injury in soccer this year. That says something."
According to Dr. Thomas Haverbush, a Michigan orthopedic surgeon, the 2,200 ACL injuries suffered by female college athletes each year ran a reconstructing and rehabilitating bill of more than $44 million.
A training program developed at the University of Vermont Medical School designed to help prevent ACL injuries in skiers demonstrated a 69 percent decrease in injuries among ski patrol personnel and instructors who received the training compared to those who did not. Females who took part had injury levels equal to or only one to two times higher than their male counterparts.
Focus on strength
There are other nationally recognized programs that high school athletes can use.
Holly Silvers and her colleagues at the Santa Monica Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation developed a program called "PEP" -- prevent injury, enhance performance. Recent research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine shows PEP can dramatically reduce ACL injuries in female athletes.
"We saw injury reduction of 74 percent to 88 percent," Silvers said of one study involving soccer players between the ages of 14 and 18.
Jacobe has implemented aspects of the PEP program into his work with Walker, Wolf Pack athletes and others.
"We can't change anatomy, that uncontrollable risk factor," said Jacobe, who worked with Germann to develop the prevention program at Nevada. "But what we can change is the poor strength through the core."
Female athletes tend to overdevelop their quads, Jacobe said, which stresses the ACL. But women can counteract the problem by learning to use their hamstrings, abdominals, gluteal muscles and calves more in jumping and landing.
There was a reduction in the ratio of knee ligament injuries in female athletes as compared to men from five times higher to only one or two times higher when athletes in a Cincinnati study were trained to rely more on their hamstring muscles than their quadriceps, Dr. Haverbush reported.
"When there is a weakness in the core, then the leg dives in and you go into the knock-kneed position," Jacobe said. "You have to be strong everywhere."
After determining that warm-up and workout programs aimed at prevention are successful, Silvers said the next frontier is to look at prepubescent girls.
"We want to study the true mechanism of the injury," she said. "Can we 'vaccinate' 8, 9, 10 year olds, and keep them from developing bad habits and mechanics?"
Quote of week Jan 19th,
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.--
Tim Duncan
Friday, January 9, 2009
Squaw Valley HIGH ALTITUDE BASKETBALL CAMP
2nd Annual High Altitude, the signature Resort Basketball Camp Expirience. Its is going to be the best event yet. Stay posted for updates on blog and web site. www.highaltitudebasketball.com
Best Camp in the Northern Nevada/ California
Best Camp in the Northern Nevada/ California
Close to Reno,NV and Sacramento CA
3-12th grade
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
QUote of Week 12/15 08
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief.
-- James Naismith
Thursday, December 4, 2008
HOLIDAY HANDLES OO BABY!!!!!!!!
Sparks Family YMCA, 3rd Annual Holiday Handles
Sparks, Nev. (TBD) – Spark’s Family YMCA presents Holiday Handles Basketball Camp, Offering two sessions Dec 22 – 24, 2008 and Dec 29-31 2008, at the Sparks Family. Holiday Handles Basketball Camp provides young athletes seeking to improve ball-handling, footwork, coordination, individual and injury prevention skills with 3 days of intensive instruction and competition
Holiday Handles Basketball Camp Pricing
• Who: Half day camp (9-12pm) for 1-3rd grade; Full day camp (9-4pm) for 4th -8th grade. Registration will be limited so hurry in to get registered.
• When: December 22-24th and December 29-31st; Camps will end at 2pm on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve.
• Program Cost: Half Day Camp is $65 per child $50 for YBA Participant.
Full Day Camp is $100 per child $85 for YBA Participant; $50 for second sibling.
• Where: Camp will be held at the Sparks YMCA Family Center Gymnasium.
Director: Mike Atkinson A.C.E CPT, EliteProPerformance.com
matkinson@eliteproperformance.com
Teams: Team pricing is available; please call 775-342-7333 for more information.
To register for the Holiday Handles Basketball Camp at the Sparks Family YMCA please contact for more Information contact:
Brian Sundeen - Sparks
(775) 323-9622 ext 1240
bsundeen@ymcasierra.org
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Quote of Week 11/24/08
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
-- Scottie Pippen
-- Scottie Pippen
Monday, November 17, 2008
Quote of Week
When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.
-- Larry Bird
ARE You Elite?
www.eliteproperformance.com
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Sierra Strength And Speed
(Reno, NV)
Winter is approaching I am currently in Reno Training at Sierra Strength and Speed. Right now we have a mixture of athletes training for their basketball School seasons and a group of Pro baseball players have their off season routines in full force as well. The gym is in full swing with Youth Developement classes and Personal Training for sking,Golf and other activities.
I love working with local athletes and take pride in being part of Northern Nevadas finest athletic Performance and Personal Trainig Facility at Sierra Strength and Speed.
Remember any trainer can make you soar, can they fix you? Prevent you from injury? Re Evaluate the way you train.
ARE YOU ELITE?
www.eliteprperformance.com
Request a Date Filling up!!!
Basketball Camps, Oaklahoma, WA,CA,NV
Quote of the Week
"Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball".
www.elitproperformance.com,
-Phil Jackson
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Drill for Lateral Movement/COmbo into Corssover
3 Keys to Drill:
Foot contact Toe toward shin
Stay Tall running form
Crossover Step high and tight with knee
ARE YOU ELITE
Foot contact Toe toward shin
Stay Tall running form
Crossover Step high and tight with knee
ARE YOU ELITE
Monday, November 3, 2008
Quote of Week
" THE SWEATY PLAYERS IN THE GAME OF LIFE ALWAYS HAVE MORE FUN THAN THE SUPERCILIOUS SPECTATOTRS."
William Feather
" ARE YOU ELITE"tm
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Twist Video
The point of this blog is to provide resources for athletes and coaches.. Here is another great video on the web by "Twist ". Respect in the field of training :Elite Pro Performance our new Launch of 09 schedule is coming...
"Are You Elite?"
http://www.viddler.com/explore/twistsports/videos/1/
"Are You Elite?"
http://www.viddler.com/explore/twistsports/videos/1/
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Maui Basketball and Sunsets
Throughout my basketball carreer I have been fortunate to have travled and entertained fans all over the world well now I find myslef traveling all over the country traning the youth of America.
I Just returned from Maui Hawaii, I was given the opprutunity to work with a High School from Lahina, Lahinaluna H.S the School is the "Oldest this side of the Mississippi" a school so rich in tradition that it has dorm rooms for the traditioned students to travel and live in. However traditon rich it was the school does not have aenough money to support its sports programs and struggles to supply shoes for the players who come from lower cconomic conditions in High Inflated Hawaii. I was blessed to be invited over to work with a independent parent who wants something to change in the culture for the youth program and build a sports program as rich as the tradition itself.
I trained 30 boys and girls all JV and Varsity players for 2 days over 6 hours and loved every minute of it. The Next few blogs will be about the trip and the kids.
Mahalo!!!!!!!!!!
I Just returned from Maui Hawaii, I was given the opprutunity to work with a High School from Lahina, Lahinaluna H.S the School is the "Oldest this side of the Mississippi" a school so rich in tradition that it has dorm rooms for the traditioned students to travel and live in. However traditon rich it was the school does not have aenough money to support its sports programs and struggles to supply shoes for the players who come from lower cconomic conditions in High Inflated Hawaii. I was blessed to be invited over to work with a independent parent who wants something to change in the culture for the youth program and build a sports program as rich as the tradition itself.
I trained 30 boys and girls all JV and Varsity players for 2 days over 6 hours and loved every minute of it. The Next few blogs will be about the trip and the kids.
Mahalo!!!!!!!!!!
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- Mike Atkinson ACE CPT,Basketball Sports Specialist
- Reno, Nevada, United States
- Age 26 Sports Specialist Basketball, ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Sierra Strength Speed. Eliteproperformance.com