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Dan John's Top 10 Tips Search Skip to content Menu Menu follow us Store Articles Community Loyal-T Club Loyal-T Points Rewards Subscribe to Save Search Search The World s Trusted Source & Community for Elite Fitness Alpha LifeTraining Dan John s Top 10 Tips by Dan John December 27, 2004April 5, 2021 Tags Athletic Performance, Metcon, Opinion The Classic Tips Years ago, I offered this list of tips for athletes: Use whole body lifts; rarely isolate a muscle. Constantly strive to add weight to the bar and move it faster.
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If not, don't ask me anything about nutrition. If you smoke or don't wear your seatbelt, please don't tell me the quick lifts are dangerous. Go heavy, go hard.
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Keep it simple. Less is more.
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You have to put the bar over your head. Put the bar on the floor and pick it up a bunch of different ways. Know and love the roots of your sport.
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I still stand by this list; however, the past few months of coaching and working with athletes have taught me a few new lessons. The first three contain warnings, the second three are the hard won lessons, and the last four are the tips that work in life, in love and in lifting, but not in that order. The Warnings 1 – Beware of anything that makes no sense Okay, everybody try this: breathe through your eyes.
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"I'm sorry, Dan, I thought you said to breathe through my eyes." Yes, yes I did. Now, imagine yourself as a fetus in the womb of the universe. "What?!" Exactly.
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My first tip is to beware of anything that makes absolutely no sense to you. If you're at the local nutrition store and the assistant day manager begins to spout about how the regression of this or that can be subdiverted by the axial dynamic of a bottle of stuff costing $99, be sure to back away slowly. My favorite new thing in the nutrition stores is the "locked" glass cabinet.
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Certainly, something that has to be locked behind glass must be worth more than I make in a week! "Breathe through your eyes" takes on many variations.
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There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen. "Breathing deep" will flush it out. Well, doesn't that make sense?
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You have fat deep in your belly, so to eliminate it you do deep belly breathing and the air will carry the fat out. If someone tells you that lifting slow makes you fast or that jolting your abs with an electric shock every few seconds will carve out a six-pack, try to breathe through your eyes.
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It'll bring clarity. 2 – Beware the real estate professor who doesn t own real estate Several years ago I asked my buddy, Jerry, how he became so rich.
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Jerry dropped out of school that day and took up a career in real estate. He said, "If this guy's students are my competition, I should be a millionaire in no time." Jerry was right. No, you don't have to be Mr.
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I've heard great advice from ballerinas, martial artists and monks on things that have done wonders for my training. But the point is simply this: if somebody is telling you to radically change your training merely on a whim or unsupported opinion, ask them simply to try it on themselves first. Beware advice from somebody who doesn't put the advice into practice.
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3 – Beware overkill Here's an example of overkill: "If jumping off a small box helps my vertical leap, then jumping off a building will help that much more." Whenever I think about this, I'm reminded of my uncle who survived a fall of 39 stories off a building. Unfortunately, the building was 40 stories. Get it?
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He was fine for 39 stories; it was the last one that did him in. Of course, my uncle was an optimist. At the 26th floor a lady leaned out the window and asked, "How's it going?" My uncle answered, "So far, so good!" Okay, sorry, enough of that.
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This little warning illustrated by the statement above is perhaps the most ignored in most people's training programs. "If two sets of curls make my biceps pump, I'll do twenty and the pump will stay with me until the lights come on at the club at three in the morning." Well, the pump doesn't last that long and what are you doing at a club that late anyway?
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Basically, I'm talking about overkill here. You shoot the deer, then pump it full of twenty more shots "just to make sure." It's the most common error in sports: "Sixty grams of fiber a day is what some guys take to cut fat, so I'll take in 160." "The Bulgarians train six times a day, so I'll train twelve!" "Arnold got up to 240 in the off-season, so I'll get up to 480 and be twice as big!" You've seen it. You've done it.
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Read #5. 5 – Build a foundation of basic strength Generally, if healthy and fit, you should be able to do a double bodyweight deadlift and a bodyweight bench press. I won't tell you that you need to military press bodyweight, but that's what I insist on.
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Why? A double bodyweight deadlift means that the posterior chain has been built up enough to begin the process of adding something to the rest of the frame.
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The bodyweight press is just something that's cool. I wish I had more to say about that, but that's just the way it is: if you can't bench your bodyweight, don't ask me about all the other stuff until you can do it. If you're not yet at this level, you need to get there.
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The problem with genetics is this: exactly what have you been dealt in the gene pool crap shoot? You can't find out if all you do is bench press and curl!
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You may be standing on the finest legs since Tom Platz or Cory Everson, but if you don't ever get off the pec deck, you'll never find out the truth. I've always wondered if I could have been an Olympic champion in kayak, fencing or team handball.
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Whatever you're striving for has been done before. I've had the unique opportunity to talk with most of the elite discus throwers from the United States, including those from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's.
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I sat in the stands with former world record holder Fortune Gordien who told me, "When you get stuck in practice, either do throws with iddy-biddy footwork or throw with no reverse." It's a gem I still use, and I still call them "iddy-biddy" drills. The road to leanness can be studied by looking over the books by Clarence Bass or Vince Gironda.
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Learn from the greats! 8 – Train outside Recently, T-Nation asked me what was the one thing missing from most modern trainers' quivers. Simply this: they need to go outside and train more.
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9 – Have some fun I have a workshop that emphasizes "balance." Simply, I outline four terms: work, rest, play and pray. (Pray can simply be "alone time." I'm amazed at how many of my college athletes who literally have no alone time. They're always surrounded by roommates, teammates and mate mates.) The harder you "work," the bigger the other three components have to become in proportion to your added level of work.
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This isn't the same as making fun of someone while lifting (that can be anywhere from juvenile to deadly), I'm talking about having a great time training. It's easy to measure: if you're doing something that seems like five minutes of work but it actually lasts an hour, it was probably fun. When in doubt, listen to one of my mother's mantras: "Go outside and play." 10 – Have some passion Passion is a word that doesn't mean what you think it means.
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It means "to suffer." Now, that may not be how we use it today, but that's what the root of the word means, at least in the dictionary. Let's define it this way – Passion: To suffer for love.
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In life, you're going to be hurt a lot. Bosses don't always care about your "inner child" when you blow a sale or ram an oil tanker into a dock. Passion is learning to push beyond all of this in the pursuit of your dreams and goals.
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I wrote: Travel to a lot of meets. Hang out with your competition for long periods afterwards.
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Read everything and watch everything you can about your sport. Travel some more.
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See number four above! Simple, huh?
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