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Lest We Forget: More Important Things Than Sports Training

Good Afternoon,

There are a lot more important things than sports fitness training and sports conditioning. I remind myself all the time. Never take yourself too seriously. Tunnel vision can make you miss the most important things in life.

Like today, Remembrance day in Canada and Veterans Day in the U.S.A., are a shared holiday in North America to take the time to remember the sacrifice of our military personnel in the past, present, and unfortunately the future.

I heard the Remembrance Day march outside our office in downtown Kenora and took the time to snap a couple of pictures.



We've been having some unbelievably warm and sunny weather in Kenora this fall. One extra picture, taken from Lakeview Drive in Kenora looking onto Lake of the Woods. It's hard to tell if it's November 11th or July 1st!




Thank-you to all of our military personnel and the sacrifices they've made and are making for us.

Warmest Regards,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.-The Way to Train.
Sports Fitness Training and Sports Conditioning for Athletes

Ultimate Sports Training Gift for 2009 Holiday Season!

Good Afternoon,

Yes, Halloween just passed us by and now we're gearing up for the 2009 Holiday Shopping Season! Kinetic Athletic has assembled the 'Ultimate Sports Training Gift' for the 2009 Holiday Shopping Season.

We've decided to offer the most outrageous deal for the holidays. We're combining two of our best selling sports training items into one fantastic bundle just in time for the holidays.

For only $99.00, you can spoil your favourite athlete, coach, athletic trainer, personal trainer, sports parent, or whomever else deserves a professional grade sports conditioning gift.

The 'Ultimate Sports Training Gift' consists of our patented 15 foot speed and agility ladder plus the Standard TNT Power Cable System. Only $99.00 for both items and plus we'll throw in Free Shipping to anywhere in Canada and/or the U.S.A.

This is a huge discount. Save big money for the holidays and buy a professional grade sports training gift.

Professional athletes train with agility ladders. Ladders are great for developing sport specific agility, balance, coordination, and quickness.



The Standard TNT Power Cable System is the highest grade resistance cable on the market. It is specifically designed and manufactured for sports fitness training and conditioning. A rugged cable built to last the toughest workouts. Again, professional athletes train with this product. It's the real deal.



Check-out the 'Ultimate Sports Training Gift' for the 2009 Holiday Season and we'll guarantee your satisfaction with this purchase. We'll definately back-up this amazing training package with our unconditional 30 Day Training Guarantee from Kinetic Athletic Inc.

Enjoy this amazing holiday season offer from Kinetic Athletic-The Way to Train.

Holiday shopping just got easier.

Train Smart and Train Hard,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.
Sports Training and Athletic Equipment for Athletes

Happy Halloween to the Athletic and Sports Training Community!

Good Afternoon,

Boo! Happy Halloween athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, personal trainers, and the entire sports training community!

The staff at Kinetic Athletic wishes that everyone has a safe and enjoyable Halloween.

Enjoy yourself and have some sweet Halloween treats.

The extra calories from the Hallowen 'sugar loading' can be burned off on Monday's sports practices and training.

Take care and be sure to check-out our site in November. We promise to have an interesting line-up of sports training equipment and blog articles for everyone.

Thank-you for visiting our site in October and we look forward to serving you during the upcoming holiday season.

Happy Halloween,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Atheltic Inc.
Sports Training and Athletic Equipment for Athletes

Gobble. Gobble. Don't be as Gullible as this Turkey.

Happy Thanksgiving Canada and Columbus Day in the U.S.A.,

A belly full of turkey and the fatigue of digestion has slowed me down enough to sit behind the keyboard and update the sports training blog for Kinetic Athletic.

My apologies for the writing hiatus but I'm grateful to say we've been working hard through the spring, summer, and fall of 2009. Thank-you to all the individuals who have found our company and have chosen to do business with us.

I've kept in the back of my mind a message I wanted to share with our online clients. Since it's Thanksgiving Day in Canada, it's as good as any day to share my experience with being the 'gullible turkey'.

It's been 15 years since I've been practising as a physiotherapist and having the pleasure of treating athletes from all sports for rehabilitation and performance training. The first seven and half years were mired in well intended effort with poor knowledge and strategy on functional sports training and rehabilitation. I was the 'gullible turkey' who bought the notion that the only way to produce results with sports training and rehabilitation of athletes was to purchase very, very expensive equipment and to have as many degrees from self-proclaimed 'institutes of education'. A lot of time and money was spent chasing pseudoscience with more questions than answers produced in the end.

I'm pleased to report, the last seven and half years are on the upside of the issue of rehabilitating and training of athletes. A lot has to do with the experienced educators who steered this 'gullible turkey' back on track. I call them the truth seekers. The group of truth seekers that I'm referring to have been around long enought to know 'how to smell a rat' when it comes to 'new ideas'. Generally, they share their knowledge at a reasonable price, have very impressive track records of real experiences over several decades, and there's less hype and more substance with the knowledge they are about to share with you.

My first experience, with what I consider a truth seeker, was Vern Gambetta of Gambetta Sports Training in Florida. I was directed to his course by a physical therapy colleague who reported the benefits firmly outweighed the costs of attending his seminar.

The seminar was in Chicago and Vern called the seminar 'Building and Rebuilding the Athlete'. He stood in front of about 30-40 attendees and stated he was about to share training techiques with us that he has used with countless athletes over the years. The 'tools for the job' were at the back of the room. I looked over my shoulder and observed an array of medicine balls, agility hurdles, agility ladders, exercise tubing, resistance band, and other very simple athletic training equipment. I kind of thought he was joking, but by the end of the seminar I was armed with an endless number of options for training athletes. Vern's seminar was just the start of my sports training 'awakening' as I started to attend seminars by other educators capable of providing common sense and practical methods for rehabilitation and sports training of athletes. All of the educators have the similiar attributes of authentic truth seekers.

Less than a decade later, confirmation on the simplicity and affordability of functional sports fitness and training methods for athletes is mainstream. There's a enlightening feature article in the September issue of Men's Fitness. It features Larry Fitzgerald of the NFL
Arizona Cardinals. A multi-million dollar athlete is training with all the simple functional sports training equipment you'll find at Kinetic Athletic. The same equipment Vern had shown me years earlier at his seminar.

Try not to be the 'gullible turkey' and believe that the only way to develop your athletic abilities is by emptying your wallet on expensive pieces of training equipment. The knowledge is more important than the equipment and the sports training equipment should complement the knowledge of functional sports training strategies.

Happy Thanksgiving in Canada and Columbus Day in the U.S.A.,

Perry Coma, Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.-The Way to Train
Sports Training and Sports Fitness for Athletes

Body Weight Training Workouts for Sports Training

Good Morning,

This past spring, to beat the Canadian winter blues, my family took a trip to southern California. When I'm on the road, I always bring some sports training equipment with me so I can get a workout in as time permits.

Light, portable, and functional equipment is the key when you are on the road and travelling with the family.

The jungle gym definately has these attributes. Below are some pics of a dynamic body weight training workout with emphasis on the upper body/core that I completed on the beach at Mission Bay in San Diego, California.





To complete the workout, I went to the beach and found a volleyball post. I slung the jungle gym over the top (a rigid metal eyelet was on the pole and prevented the jungle gym strap from slipping).

In the first picture, I'm performing a wide grip push-up with the jungle gym. It's very challenging and provides a wonderful upper body workout.

In the second picture, I'm performing an overhead reach while holding onto the jungle gym handles. Your core gets a tremendous amount of stress in the sagittall plane.

The jungle gym is a simple, practical, and yes, functional piece of sports training equipment for all athletic minded people.

Sorry, for the delay in posts over the last several months. Kinetic Athletic has been 'crazy busy'.

I'll try my best to post some more pics on body weight training with the jungle gym and other sports training equipment.

Keep it Functional,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.
Sports Training and Sports Fitness for Athletes

Tips for Sports Training: Push-Ups with Medicine Balls, Stability Balls, and Push-Up Bars

Good Afternoon,

Push-ups for sports training are a resourceful way of developing functional upper body strength. Body weight training, by the way of push-ups, is an effective method of improving strength.

The last several posts on Kinetic Athletic's sports training blog has outlined different body position for push-ups. Understanding the concept of 'three dimensional training' (changing body positions in the sagittal, frontal, and transverse planes of motion) provides an athlete with a plethora of options for push-up training.

After an athlete has mastered the different body positions for push-up training, I'll introduce different sports training equipment to challenge the athlete further.

Medicine balls, stability balls, and push-up bars can offer meaningful ways to challenge functional upper body strength training. Captioned below are some examples of push-up positions utilizing different equipment.









Every piece of equipment is a tool. Some tools are more useful than others depending on the situation and/or circumstances. Medicine balls, stability balls, and push-up bars offer different ways to progress the training.

Push-ups are a smart method of improving functional upper body strength for sports training and sports fitness conditioning.

Train Smart and Train Hard,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.
Sports Training and Sports Fitness Equipment for Athletes

Sports Training Workouts: Challenge Push-up Stability

Good Morning,

Push-ups for sports training and conditioning are a smart way to develop upper body strength for athletes.

Recently, we explored the various tweaks for push-ups with four points of contact. Powerful results can be attained by changing the hand and foot position with four points of contact from the push-up position.

After making changes in the sagittal and frontal planes with the hands and feet, consider taking one of the limbs out of the equation. Reducing your contact to 3 points (e.g. two hands and one foot) versus 4 points from the push-up position challenges your kinetic chain's stability.

I prefer to start with taking away one of my legs, either by hooking on the other leg or lifting my leg straight into the air. Taking away one of your legs reduces your stability and becomes a suitable progression after mastering 4 points of contact.





Check back soon and I'll be posting more articles regarding sports training tips for athletes.

Train Smart and Train Hard,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.
Sports Training and Sports Fitness Equipment for Athletes

Sports Training Programs: Foot Posture Adjustments for Push-up Progressions

Good Afternoon,

When it comes to fine-tuning the push-up for sports training to improve sports fitness, a lot of time is spent focusing on the upper kinetic chain. Consider tweaking the lower kinetic chain (e.g. foot posture adjustments) to create a different kinetic chain reaction.

Narrowing the foot posture from the traditional shoulder width stance is one option. See image below.



Widening the foot posture from the traditional shoulder width stance is another good option. See image below.



Both of these tweaks cause different 'kinetic chain reactions' and the muscles react differently to the body's change in position relative to gravity. It's a real simple way to make a push-up a lot more interesting when you're sports training and trying to improve your sports fitness.

Believe it or not, but this is just the beginning of the endless number of tweaks that make doing the traditional push-up even better. All athletes know, doing something 'good is not good enough'. The road to athletic excellence is endless.

Train Smart and Train Hard,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.
Sports Training and Sports Fitness Equipment for Conditioning Athletes

Sports Training Programs: Push-up progressions in the Sagittal Plane

Good Afternoon,

Changing hand positions for push-ups is a powerful way to progress your sports training program when you're focusing on developing functional upper body strength.

The next progression I would make with the push-ups is changing the hand position in the sagittal plane. The two pictures captioned below demonstrate sagittal plane progressions from the classical push-up position.





As mentioned in an earlier post on Kinetic Athletic's sports training blog,
different hand positions create different 'kinetic chain reactions' in the upper body. The muscles in your upper body react differently to a change of hand positions when performing push-ups.

Playing sports often places an athlete in awkward postures and/or positions. The sports training program must reflect the demands of the sport.

If you don't believe me, try it and discover the difference these simple sports training strategies make in your athletic development.

Train Smart and Train Hard,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.
Sports Training and Sports Fitness Equipment for Conditioning Athletes

Happy New Year and Best Wishes in 2009 for all Athletes and Sports Training Enthusiasts!

Happy New Year,

2008 has come to an end and it's time to focus on the endless possibilities of 2009. Where do you want to be 12 months from now?

I think every athlete should take the time to visualize where they want to be one year from now. A lot can happen when you take the time to set your course for the upcoming year. Setting sail for the open sea with a good map and a point of destination is bound to bring success.

Take the time to reflect on what you achieved in 2008 and set your mind on where you want to go in 2009.

Kinetic Athletic would be honoured to help you achieve your goals for 2009. We plan to offer new products for sports training in 2009 and look forward to serving you.

Thank-you for everyone's support in 2008 and choosing Kinetic Athletic for your athletic and sports training equipment.

P.S. Here's a couple of my favourite pictures from 2008

A beautiful day in the summer of 2008; Kenora, Ontario, Canada; Home of Kinetic Athletic Incorporated. Summers in Kenora are spectacular. Walking the harbourfront at lunch is a nice break from your workday.



Buzz Pedersen and I attending Rendezvous II: The American, Canadian, and Australian combined Sports Medicine Symposium in Las Vegas, Nevada, Spring 2008. What a great trip! Excellent mountain biking 30 minutes off the strip. A great getaway from the non-stop lights and sounds of the Las Vegas strip.



All the best in 2009,
Perry Coma
Director of Kinetic Athletic Inc.
Sports Training and Athletic Equipment for Sports Fitness and Conditioning

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