Those who follow this blog know that from time to time, I like to post about a great meal I have cooked and eaten. I do love to cook and I do love to eat! Well, this one post is a little different. Today I came home from the gym about an hour after Donny, and he had dinner almost done. Tri tip, potatoes, asparagus, and a salad. Sounds like a pretty standard dinner, doesn’t it?
It wasn’t standard. It was one of the best meals I have ever eaten in my life. He cooked the tri tip absolutely perfectly. Absolutely perfect. I am not sure what seasoning he used, but whatever it was it was just right. The meat was perfectly cooked, it simply could not have been done better. He said 15 minutes at 425 degrees, then 30 minutes at 300 degrees, if you are interested. It was better than any prime rib I have ever eaten.
The potatoes were like candy. Cream, butter, who knows what else. Whatever was in them, they could have been served as dessert. The asparagus was perfectly cooked, with just the right amount of salt. The salad was three kinds of lettuce, along with some baby spinach leaves, dressed with olive oil, red wine vinager, parmesan cheese, and course grated pepper.
It was a standard meal, meat, potatoes, and vegetables, but it was done to perfection. About 15 minutes after I ate, I just had to come back downstairs and fixed another plate, and made Donny sit by it for a photo. Perfection should be remembered. And so here it is, a simple meal of meat and potatoes and vegetables, that was PERFECT.
There are some changes and big events floating about. (Most of which are remaining secret, because I’m 007 like that.) But here’s the as-far-as-I-can-spill update. By the way, I hope to see you on USTREAM soon.
1. Update to An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee PainWhen I released An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain in January, half of its sequel book – Increasing Strength and Explosiveness Through Barbell Exercises, Leaps, and Bounds — sat latent on my desktop. Oddly, there was a sunny day here in Pittsburgh, which allowed me to shoot videos and complete the book.
I planned to sell it as a second book. But I’m a terrible businessman, seller, marketer — whatever you want to call it — and I just gave it away for free to those that bought the first book. And now, if you purchase the An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain here, you get both for the original price. So instead of the initial 90 page book, it’s 180 pages and two-books-in-one. Much more holistic.
The book’s home page got a makeover because of the updated comprehensiveness.An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain is truly more of an athletic enhancement program as it teaches movement in a way few people conceptualize. So while it does wonders for chronic knee pain, it also affects how your body synchronizes to accomplish athletic tasks. Check it out here.
If you already bought the book and haven’t received the updgrade e-mail, e-mail me: anthony.mychal@gmail.com.
Lastly, I created a newsletter list for chronic knee pain — specifically for those that bought An Athlete’s Guide to Chronic Knee Pain — so that I could drop tips as I came across them. Initially, the list was private. But I’m extending the invitation to everyone. Yeah, yeah, I know. You want to subscribe to another newsletter like you want a third nipple. But it is free. I already have content bookmarked that I can’t wait to send. (Like a supposed instant fix for tendonitis.)
Hey Mwodies,
Today’s episode is one of my favorites. Because we are in SF, we have the good fortune to be close to Glen Pendlay and his lifters over at Cal Strength. Last week, we had one of Diane Fu’s lifter crushes drop by. Who doesn’t want Pat Mendes hanging around your gym? Actually, he’s annoyingly fast and strong.
I’m reminded sometimes when I get a chance to work with the world’s best athletes, that they need tools that work appropriately (read actually do something). Pat is a product of super coach John Broz in Vegas, and has legs that can raw squat (deep, really deep) 800lbs. So, it’s not much of a stretch to see why a tube of white foam isn’t really going to change much in his legs. It’s not strange that during this smash party, Coach Glenn noted that the Chinese lifters engage in a whole bunch of whole body smashing before and after their training (weird that humans have been around for 2.5 million years and that they figure this out over and over and over…).
By the way, in spite of Pat’s loveliness and incredible abilities, he still get’s a minus one for making a gristle face. There just isn’t any excuse. It did take a little longer than two minutes to make change in those tree trunks. Stay on that tissue or mob until you change something or until you stop making changes.
The weight lifting nationals are just about 2 weeks away. It’s gonna be amazing.
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Kstar
Hey MWodies,
Today’s episode rounds out this cycle on shoulder internal rotation. While it is relatively easy to understand what is happening in the shoulder in more “simplified” movements (think ring dip and bench), it is sometimes more complicated to see restrictions and function in more dynamic freestyle types of motion. This is one of the reasons why a good strength and conditioning program is essential. It makes the invisible more visible.
Today’s episode is starring our friends at Parkour Visions in Seattle. These guys are amazing (never mind the freaky awesome super kids in the back ground). If you find yourself in the Northwest and are looking for a new way to apply your fitness, this place is for you. Be prepared to feel like a newbie at everything.
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2-3 min side/mob test retest with some Free Running.
Kstar
