Month: October 2010

Body By Boyle Online

After hearing me mention Body By Boyle Online over the last week, you may be curious what it actually entails. In other words, “If I register, what’s in it for me?” Great question! Coach Boyle and his BBBOnline team put together the following information for you:

What is BodyByBoyle Online?

Simply put, it is everything you need to become a great athlete, trainer, or strength coach. Here is a quick breakdown of some of the incredible features at BBB Online.

1. An Extensive Program Database: BBB Online includes 12-months worth of programs at launch. Included are the same programs Mike Boyle uses with his elite athletes, rehab programs for the low back, hips, and shoulders, fat loss programs for beginner clients and more hardcore fat loss programs for those that want a challenge. Plus Two Months of programs will be added each month

2. The Most Complete Exercise Video Library Ever Created: At launch BBB Online has over 280 exercise videos. EVERY movement and exercise that is used at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning has been filmed in HD and professionally edited. By everything, I mean, all of the warm-ups, stretches, speed work, agility drills, plyometrics, ballistics (medball) exercises, olympic lifts, and strength training exercises. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

3. An Educational Database That Will Give You the Knowledge to Be The Best Athlete, Trainer, or Strength Coach Around: BBB Online includes a vast educational database. Included are full DVDs, Exclusive F.A.Q. videos with Mike on a wide range of subjects (plus more added each week), and videos of our entire staff meetings at MBSC. Some weeks you may get over 60 minutes of video just from the staff meeting. That is like a mini-seminar! And the guys at BBB Online will be taking requests, so if you want to hear Mike talk about (insert subject here), all you need to do is e-mail them and they will make it happen.

Those features are just the tip of the ice burg, the BBB Online membership also includes a revolutionary piece of software that will make training athletes and clients online as easy as a few clicks of the mouse.

The best part about BBB Online, is that you will be in heaven if you like to train hard using the most complete programs used by elite athletes, or if you are a trainer or a strength coach that wants the tools and the recipe that has made MBSC the #1 Gym in America. They are literally giving you the keys to Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, you can do whatever you wish with what is inside.

Now stop reading and check BodyByBoyle Online Out! There are only 500 spots open at the discounted price!

>> Body By Boyle Online <<

To your success,

Kevin Neeld

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Adult Hockey Training

Over the last couple weeks I’ve received a few emails about training programs for adult hockey players. The adult hockey population is rapidly growing, and as with the youth hockey population, they are incredibly competitive.

To be honest, speaking more about adult hockey training never really occurred to me. It’s clearly a large, and generally unserved athletic population. If I were a better business person (I’m not), I’d be writing a book on the topic right now!

I think one of the reasons I haven’t paid more attention to adult hockey training is that the concepts that underlie youth hockey training still apply. We still need to ensure we’re creating appropriate mobility through the ankles, hips, and thoracic spine (the notables), while promoting stability through the knee and lumbar spine; we still need to progress exercises from basic to advanced; and we still need to progress conditioning from less intense to more intense.

The major differences between adult players and youth players are:

  1. The amount of time they spend on the ice
  2. The amount of time they can dedicate to training
  3. The adaptability of the neuromuscular and skeletal systems
  4. The recovery rate from all activities
  5. Post-game nutrition for adults tends to be illegal for youth players

Generally speaking, adult players spend less time on the ice, have less time to dedicate to training, adapt more slowly to training stimuli, take longer to recover, and drink more beer than protein shakes.


Mmm. Post workout nutrition.

While not always the case, most adult hockey players tend to gravitate toward higher body fat percentages than young players. This is a direct result of less activity, more stressed lifestyles, and generally a lifestyle characterized by quick fix nutrition. The take home from this is that the best hockey training program and adult player can follow is one geared toward dropping the extra pounds. Shedding the unwanted fat will ultimately lead to improved relative strength and speed, which will positively impact on-ice performance.

An argument can be made that more hockey-specific training is, in fact, a program geared toward fat loss and I wouldn’t disagree, as long as the athlete is paying attention to their nutrition. The training would only differ in that it would include more traditional speed work, lateral and diagonal movements, and maybe some slideboard work. Of course, if a player’s body fat is too high, none of these things would be safe anyway so the differences become negligible.

If you’ve been reading my site over the last week, you know that I’ve been mentioning hockey training expert Michael Boyle’s new Body By Boyle Online. I think one of the greatest benefits of Boyle’s new site is that he posts the EXACT programs he uses to train his athletes and the exact programs he uses for his fat loss clients. Relevant to our adult hockey training discussion, this means that regardless of whether you want to attempt a program that is more athletic-based (only recommended for relatively in-shape players with a decent training background) or fat loss based (applicable for everyone), you’ll have access to a program that meets your needs and abilities.

What makes Body By Boyle Online so unique is that he has videos of EVERY exercise included in the programs with specific coaching cues so people watching them get an idea of how they’d be coached if they were at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning (which, if you’ve missed my last couple posts, was recently voted the #1 Gym in America). And, for strength and conditioning professionals and proactive intellectual non-professionals, Boyle also put up a number of information-based videos details his philosophies on various aspects of training and giving an inside look to his staff meetings.

The site officially opened to the public today (October 6th) at 9:00 am, and they reserved a special price for the first 500 subscribers (which will inevitably be reached within the first 24 hours).  I highly recommend you check out the site at the link below. If it’s not for you, it’s not for you, but this is the first time that programs of this quality have been so readily accessible for EVERYONE, that you’d be doing yourself a disservice if you didn’t at least look into it.

>> Body By Boyle Online <<

To your success,

Kevin Neeld

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A New Look At Interval Training

Hopefully you had an opportunity to watch Boyle’s video no squatting. If you missed it, you can check it out here:

>> Death of the Squat Revisited! <<

Coach Boyle does a great job of clarifying his stance on squatting, which has become one of the most highly debated topics in the strength and conditioning industry.

In a follow up video, Coach Boyle delves into how and why he’s changed how his athletes condition at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning. Interestingly, this type of conditioning can be implemented for fat loss programs. I’ve been getting an increasing number of emails from older hockey players asking how they can lose some weight and get back in “hockey shape”. This video will give you an idea of how to go about your conditioning (for performance enhancement and fat loss).

Check out the video here:

>> A New Look at Interval Training <<

If you do consider yourself a serious athlete, lifter, strength coach, or trainer, you owe it to yourself to hear what the owner of the #1 Gym in America has to say when it comes to performing better and getting clients and athletes real results that will improve their conditioning, body composition, and speed.

Keep an eye out this week as Mike is literally giving everyone the keys to Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning with BodyByBoyle Online.

I’ve personally had a change to preview Body By Boyle Online, and am convinced that this service will change the training industry forever. It extends elite level training and up-to-date training information to people everywhere. From the training programs, to the exercise videos, to the educational content, it is an incredible resource for athletes and strength and conditioning professionals.

BodyByBoyle Online is officially launching on October 6th at 7:00 am EST. He’s limiting the number of spots initially so make sure you get in early so you don’t miss out!

In the meantime, go check out the interval training video here:

>> A New Look at Interval Training <<

To your success,

Kevin Neeld

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Return of the Squat Video from Mike Boyle?

In a way, Mike Boyle has become the Howard Stern of Strength and Conditioning. Whether people love him or hate him, people listen when he speaks.

Okay. Maybe there are some slight differences.

And for good reason. He’s been one of the leaders in the fitness industry for the last 30 years!

What really sets Boyle apart from the thousands of other so-called experts is that he:

  1. Is always learning and implementing new techniques with his athletes.
  2. Consistently gets fantastic results with his athletes and clients.

Boyle threw the industry for a loop last year when he gave a presentation stating that athletes should not squat. In fact, the “hate” response to that concept has been startling. I even take some flack for supporting Boyle’s single-leg arguments. As I mentioned previously, I think most of this comes from a lack of understanding more than true distaste.

It has been almost a year since that video hit the mainstream. Now Mike is back, in a special video, to talk about what he’s changed since then and how he’s starting to use some squat variations with his athletes.

In this video, Coach Boyle discusses:

1. The importance of teaching the squat pattern
2. Why athletes should be front squatting if they Olympic lift
3. Why you will see athletes squatting at Mike Boyle Strength and
Conditioning

You can check out the video for FREE here:

>> Death of the Squat Revisited! <<

You may not be aware of this, but Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning was recently voted the #1 Gym in America by Men’s Health. His results speak for themselves. If you do consider yourself a serious athlete, lifter, strength coach, or trainer, you owe it to yourself to hear what he has to say on one of the most controversial subjects in the industry.

There will be one more video coming later in the week on how and why Mike has completely restructured how he programs conditioning at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning.

Step 1: Check out this video now!
Step 2: Keep your eyes open for the next one.

>> Death of the Squat Revisited! <<

To your success,

Kevin Neeld

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