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XTREME ATHLETIX - TOTAL STRENGTH & CONDITIONING FITNESS BOOT CAMP GYM- TAMPA (813) 401-2234

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Welcome to our new site! We have been training and coaching clients for over a decade helping them lose fat, get stronger, and live better while working off the stress of everyday life in a fun, challenging and supportive environment that our programs provides.

Beginning in June 2010: New Classes, Workshops & Events and Personal Training Session Schedule for Xtreme Athletix Strength & Conditioning Boot Camp Gym - South Tampa

Please note: There is an updated Class Schedule for Xtreme Athletix beginning in June.

 

The following classes that are being offered beginning in June 2010 are:

• XA Boot Camp Open House Try Outs
• XA Boot Camp Foundations
• Xtreme Athletix Boot Camp Lvs 1 & 2
• Kettlebell Club
• Olympic Weightlifting
• Sports Conditioning for Athletes
• Athletic Yoga - Flexibilty & Mobility

Click here to see class decriptions and times:

http://tinyurl.com/XAClasses

 

Personal Training sessions can now be booked with anyone of our trainers online by clicking here:

http://tinyurl.com/XABookPT

 

The following New Workshops and Events have been added.

• 30 Day Paleo Boot Camp Challenge
• Developing the Dominate Athlete! Dominate your Sport & the Competition!
• Kettlebell Excellence Series: Introductory Kettlebell Workshop (Level I)
• Kettlebell Excellence Series: Intermediate Kettlebell Workshop (Level 2)
• Kettlebell Instructors Prep Course for RKC Certification

Click here to see more details on these courses:

http://tinyurl.com/XAWorkshopsEvents

Please continue to check back frequently as new classes and events will be added. . 

 

Tampa Olympic WeightLifting Team Now Forming!

Olympic Weighlifting Coach now forming Olympic WeightLifting Team in Tampa!

Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:30 pm at Xtreme Athletix

$10 per class or $40 per month!

Go to

http://tinyurl.com/TpaOlyLifting

Olympics-Weightlifting-Rivals ponder secret of Chinese success | Reuters

 

Melanie Roach doesn't resemble your typical Olympic weightlifter. A 33 year old mother of three, and businesswoman, she packs a lot of muscle in her five-foot two-inch, 117 lb frame. But, a weightlifter is not what she set out to be. Roach was an aspiring gymnast, on her way to the Washington State High School Championships when an injury took her out of competition. Rehab included free weights, and soon after, she was hooked. 

Olympics-Weightlifting-Rivals ponder secret of Chinese success

Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:21am EDT

By Sophie Hardach

China

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Novel training methods, unprecedented scientific insight, or simply hard work and a talent pool of 1.3 billion people?

Weightlifting experts from around the world are striving to uncover the secret behind the success of China, which was expected to win one-third of the 15 Olympic weightlifting gold medals on offer but has already beaten that target.

Chinese coaches and athletes say there is no secret -- just a tough training routine and the determination to win.

"Weightlifting depends on strength and so we women weightlifters have fully understood the importance of strength and pick up gold medals," said Olympic champion Cao Lei.

Cao brought home China's seventh Olympic weightlifting gold of the Games in the 75kg class on Friday. Hours later, in the men's 85kg contest, Lu Yong won the eighth.

China's female lifters have been especially impressive, not only because they have won every competition they entered but also because of their style. Cao and her compatriot Chen Xiexia appeared to lift the barbell with astonishing ease and assurance that contrasted with their groaning, straining challengers.

At the Olympics, Chen lifted 13kg more, Cao 16kg more, and gold medallist Liu Chunhong, 31kg more than their closest rival -- this in a sport where there is often just a single kilogram between gold and silver.

Some speculate that China has unlocked a new technique which allows women in particular to achieve unprecedented results.

Andrew Charniga, an international weightlifting federation official, has watched the Chinese women train and suspects the secret could be in a long warm-up. While a long warm-up can exhaust men, it possibly has the opposite effect on women, allowing them to take on higher and higher loads. 

"It's a training method that is unique. They think women can do more loading than a man," he told Reuters, adding that he had observed a similar effect in non-Chinese female weightlifters who can load more the longer they warm up. 

Whether his theory holds remains to be seen. Chinese lifters have been tight-lipped on their training routine. Tamas Ajan, the president of the federation, puts their success down to the country's sports schools. 

"Thousands and thousands of young boys and girls practise every day, it's the right nutrition, the right medical treatment, the right training -- this is not a wonder, this is the sport," he told reporters. "Twenty-first century sport is different." (Editing by Alex Richardson)

via www.reuters.com

My Dog is the FASTEST Dog in the Park

On any given early afternoon weekday, you can probably find myself and Mirko at the Davis Island Dog Park.

When I first found Mirko, he was a pretty timid Husky and one of my goals for him was to give him more confidence. (He was a rescue, and I suspect he was an abused dog.) 

Bringing him to the dog park is a part of meeting that objective since socialization and exercise is huge for developing a well-trained and happy dog.

On the first day, I saw the beginnings of an athletic dog, from the way he handled a Pit Bull and a Rhodesian Ridgeback, which was not much of a surprise since I owned Huskies before, but as his conditioning increased, he quickly showed quality that I had not seen with my other dogs.

He was able to match and beat other dogs, regardless of size or the breed’s specialty, (i.e. Greyhounds – speed) when he played chase or tackle.

I usually sit there quietly watching him play, and have heard other owners say things about his speed, agility, endurance, and stamina.

It wasn’t long before I realized I got the perfect dog for me.

He was a perfect example of a CrossFit dog!

The CrossFit methodology believes in developing and maximizing 10 Areas of Fitness in any client or athlete that comes through our doors.

10 Areas of Fitness are Cardio Respiratory Endurance, Stamina, Strength, Flexibility, Speed, Power, Accuracy, Agility, Balance and Coordination.

The CrossFit methodology is a training system that is complete unto itself because we have the above 10 goals in mind.

This is why our clients and athletes continue to match and even beat others who specialize in other types of training.

See, our specialty is not to specialize. Our system is organic and ever evolving.  Just like life.

One of my favorite quote from Coach Glassman is, “"We don't have the agility of gymnasts, the power of a weightlifter, or the endurance of a marathoner but we have more agility, power, and endurance than any gymnast, weightlifter or marathoner. We do your stuff almost as good as you, you can’t do our stuff at all and we do stuff neither of us does way better than you can."

So let me ask you, “Are you just fit or are you CrossFit?”

You can Have Excuses or Results, Not Both!,

Coach Charlie
www.XtremeAthletix.com

CrossFit vs the Globo Gym, Part 2

So there I was, in a Globo Gym performing my last set of 5 sets of OverHead Squats with 135 lbs, when a trainer wearing a green Boot Camp T-shirt came over with her trainer's clipboard and came dangerously close to me, while I basically had her total bodyweight in iron and bumpers overhead.

Although everyone else around stood clear of me, understanding the high degree of difficulty, she approached even closer, clueless and oblivious to the danger that she was putting herself and myself in.

If you are uncertain on how difficult the OHS is, just grab a broomstick and try to do it and let me know what your results were. My clients can attest to how difficult it is when they worked on the OHS this week with 25-45 lbs, much less 3 times that weight.

I’m not telling you this to boast. The weight I was using is too light to be respected by serious Olympic caliber lifters. I just wanted to put into perspective the high degree of strength, flexibility and balance it takes to perform this lift.

Now, any strength coach worth his salt would have immediately yelled at her for not staying clear of a lifter training a lift. I could only imagine what Coach B would have said to her!

Not trusting her sense of self-preservation, I began to chant louder and louder, “Stay clear, watch yourself”, by the third time she heard me and stepped back, just enough for me to dump my bar.

She then made an obvious sexist remark,  “there is way too much testosterone here”, before moving away from us.

I found the fact that she was wearing a Boot Camp T-shirt quite ironic . I also wonder what her reaction would have been if I made such a blatant sexist remark. No need to wonder, we all know how she would have reacted, don’t we?

As I removed the rubber bumpers for the bar, I shook my head and told one of the gentleman nearby “that’s pretty unprofessional for a trainer to say.” 

What he then said shocked me. “Well there are a lot of pu$$y trainers that work here.” – Hey, don’t get mad at me, his words, not mine.

“What you are doing there was pretty tough. Much tougher than what I was doing.”  I thanked him for his kind words and wished him well.

At least someone recognized true effort.

Post your thoughts to comments.

You can Have Excuses or Results, Not Both!,

Coach Charlie
www.XtremeAthletix.com

My Trip to the Local Globo Gym

It’s been 3 or more years since I have consistently gone to a Globo-Gym.

They hate us CrossFitters. To them, we are “loud, weight dropping, chalk dust leaving, fitness freaks performing dangerous tricks and slinging around too-heavy weights too quickly.”

We usually cause a stir and get kicked out.

Sheesh - wouldn’t want us to upset the commonly accepted training dogma of 3 sets of 10 and running on shiny new expensive machines.

If you want proof, and a laugh, just check out the sign below posted at a Globo-Gym, somewhere in the good and free US of A.

So this weekend I decided to go into enemy territory at a local popular Globo-Gym, Lifestyle Family Fitness, to see how “fitness” in one of these places has evolved.

Nothing has changed.

Well, actually, the machines look so much more expensive. And less functional.

A sea of “functional” equipment, namely machines, occupying over 75% of the clubs floor space.

I really got a laugh at the bicep machine, which I figure would cost about $7k or more. Got to keep those machine manufacturers in business.

While finding a good pull up structure to do my CrossFit workout was hard, they did have two C2 Rowers, which I am sure, are hardly used except by CrossFitters who don’t know about us yet.

I quietly pulled out my chalk, I wasn’t trying to be the quickest CrossFitter to get kicked out of a Globo-Gym, and began my pull-up workout.

Once I jumped down from completing my first round, I turned around and I was greeted by that always funny “dear in headlights’ look by at least 7 guys.

No mean looks yet, thought I would get at least one.

Once I finished my pull up workout, I decided to test the C2, especially since it was a newer model than the one we have and performed a 5k on it. Don’t know if I was just pumped, but I thought my classic C2 was harder.

Tonight, I plan to do Cleans and Dips, CrossFit style. I’ll let you know how it goes.

You can Have Excuses or Results, Not Both!,

Coach Charlie
www.XtremeAthletix.com

Squat

"Because somewhere out there, a girl is warming up with your 1 rep max."