Does your current diet and lifestyle promote health or disease?1. Do you have variety in your diet? Are you eating from ALL the food groups? YesNO2. The food you eat, does it spoil if not eaten in a week? Yes, I eat living foods No, the foods I eat have a very long shelf lifeDid you answer (B) to any of the above questions? If yes, it may be in your best interest to make some changes to your diet. Discover how one-on-one nutritional consulting can help you with your:- health- energy levels- mood- performance levels....and morePlanning...Read more

3.  Consider adding exercises that require movement in multiple planes, demanding 3 dimensional motion in the sagittal, frontal and transverse planes at the same time.  These exercises are complex to execute, but challenge clients to control their bodies with powerful coordination, a strong mind to muscle connection, fueling movements similar to sport skills.Olympic Bar Single Arm Push with RotationSet Up:  Begin in athletic position, hand holding the Olympic bar at arms length, core set.Eccentric Phase:  Keep the elbow up, ...Read more

2.  Design exercises that link common movement patterns together to challenge the mind to command 2 motor patterns systematically.  This type of exercise increases the neural complexity requiring power production in a closed kinetic chain position. BOSU® Balance Trainer SMART Toner™ Lateral Lunge to Wood ChopSet Up:  Stand on back leg, holding SMART Toner™ in 2 hands, arms extended (slight bend in elbow), upper torso rotated towards partner, core set. Concentric Phase:  Initiate the movement by transferring w...Read more

" It's a dream until you write it down, and then it’s a goal and you can achieve it." -Anonymous     The first step in setting sporting goals is to decide your level of commitment to your sport. If you want nothing more than a bit of fun every now and again, then you should have different goals from someone who has decided to dedicate his or her life to achieving excellence in the sport. This decision about commitment will allow you to assess whether you 'own' the goals towards which you are currently working - do y...Read more

To transition your current exercise choices to a Linked System™ approach, gradually include these training concepts into your workout design.  1.    Take a traditional upper body pull exercise (seated row) and make it a standing whole body exercise.  Cue your client to initiate the movement from the legs, transfer through the core and express the power through the arms.Olympic Bar Bent Over Multi Joint Squat to Single Arm RowSet Up:  Begin in athletic position, 45 degree forward flexion at the hip, holding th...Read more

Multi Task – choose exercises that accomplish multiple performance goals to build in training efficiencies.  A smart muscle workout combines real life function and sport performance goals with appearance and health goals.    Athletes and clients are challenged to develop balance, agility, coordination, reaction skills, multi joint strength, dynamic flexibility, body control, aerobic and anaerobic energetics as well as movement precision by performing complex and challenging exercises.  The outcome is an action pac...Read more

Convenient – choose exercise tools that are easily transported and require minimal space and set up.  We recommend the Smart Gym as a simple, cost effective solution.  Packaged with 2 Smart Toners®, a Smart Stick and a door anchor, this workout system can be used by elite athletes at home or on the road and everyday athletes travelling for pleasure or business.  Portable tools translate into an easy to implement workout – no gym required.  Effective – choose smart muscle exercises that challenge the who...Read more

The body is built to move in 3 dimensions and to meet the demands of sport, strength training exercises should incorporate movement in multiple directions and not in single dimension linear movements.  Train with a Variable Range of MotionIn an ideal situation the athlete is able to be perfectly positioned to create optimal leverage to develop power through a full range of motion.  To be most transferable to sport or life, the athlete needs to be able to generate force through a variable range of motion instead of a predictable range....Read more

Message from the President - 2010 is Your Year! Kicking off a New Year has many people in the same mindset as coaches, we stay in all year - defining goals with specific action steps to help our athletes reach new heights. However,, we never decide where we want to go until we first reflect on where we have been. As our customer, client and committed advocate we are most appreciative of your support and shared enthusiasm throughout 2009 where Twist Sport Conditioning proved a recession proof business. With more people in multiple countries tak...Read more

Some elements of traditional lifts prevail. Progressively increasing the load, maximizing lift intensity and time under tension through traditional periodization models remain an integral part of the Twist Linked System™ program and are especially pertinent to building a base of strength and hypertrophy. But we also focus on challenging whole body coordination with force production in closed kinetic chain positions and place demands on the body’s software to step up as well. This is particularly applicable for active adults who don&...Read more

Participation in life and sport requires the body to link independent movement patterns together to produce skilled whole body movement.  The brain stores information as movement patterns, so strengthening independent muscles with isolation training can actually hinder the development of skilled movement. Body building is a sport we have tremendous respect for, yet the end result is not an athlete who can win an agility contest. The end result is amazing appearance predicated on size and symmetry. Different sports fall along a continuum of...Read more

Happy New Year! 2010 will serve to be a big year for our Community and for  the Twist Sport Conditioning Family. We have a great line up of Educational Events, Products and Tradeshows planned and New Programs being introduced in to or Sport Conditioning Centres in  2010, along with the excitement of our home city hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics! Our head office is located in North Vancouver, BC right in the centre of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. The city is under full construction, many venues now in full operation and ready to welco...Read more

The defining factor for sport conditioning coaches and personal trainers is their ability to help athletes and clients achieve their performance goals.  Results are the direct result of consistent training – the change or adaptation that is achieved by exposing your body to a new stimulus on a regular basis.  Every missed workout detracts from performance gains.   So how can you help your athletes, clients and yourself achieve a consistent training schedule?  Provide them with a completely portable workout that ma...Read more