Frank DiMeo--Instructor/event coordinator

Frank DiMeo is the owner of CrossFit Gulf Coast, aka the Cave, and is an experienced coach, speaker, author, fitness advocate, and seminar presenter. Here's a list of his qualifications--
Instructor Courses:
Underground Strength Coach Level-1, CrossFit Level-1, CrossFit KettlebellLevel-1, NSCA-CPT, USAW Club Coach, Battling Ropes Level-1
Frank has also completed:
Dave Schmitz Reactive Resistance Band Workshop
Mike Mahler Level-1 Kettlebell Seminar
Kettlbell Concepts Level-1 Seminar
Tom Mitchell Strongman Basics

Logan Christopher/Bud Jeffries/Ryan Pitts

/Eric Guttmann/Dru Patrick: Super Human Training Workshops #2 & #3

Former SSG with U.S. Army Paratroopers
Over 25 years martial arts experience
Pioneered a  full-contact fight club in 1974

His goal is to provide the most effective training possible drawing from his own experience and that of other dedicated trainers/ coaches.

• January 16, 2014
• Wednesday 9am-1 pm
• Introduction/orientation
• First block of training

Improving your pull-ups

You'll hear a lot about fitness for "baby boomers" these days, and much of it is garbage!
I hate to see very capable people in their sixties being "trained" by so-called "personal trainers" who don't have a clue about what truly can be achieved by those in this age group.
I'm 63 years old, I know what I can do and what many others can do with the right kind of training.
It's much more than doing bicep curls with a 5lb dumbbells (and having a spotter for it, no less)!
In this block of instruction you'll learn how to really train these folks, who I choose to call master athletes, not baby boomers.
If you are a trainer or a coach, you'll learn how to program for serious strength gains for your clients.
If you are a master athlete, you'll learn what you are truly capable of in a "hands-on" setting.
Safety is always important, as is correct technique, but so is loading.
Many people train much to light, to the point of being rediculous.
Learn how to train master athletes from someone who actually is one!

• January 16, 2014
• Wednesday 2-6 pm

How to train Master Athletes

Noah Jeffries--Instructor

 










Noah has been coached in Strongman training throughout his life by his Dad, Bud Jeffries. His level of experience and knowledge are well beyond his years. 
Noah is crazy strong and will share insights about

Mental Bio-Locks - A system of reprogramming your mind for training and life success:  

Mental Bio-Locks is the process of teaching yourself how to think while training.  This is transferable to other areas of life and revolves off a system of mental tricks to make your body do what you intend for it to do instead of its instinctive path.  In short - everyone wants to be a race car driver, but the big mistake they make is spending all of their time working on their car instead of learning of how to drive.  You can have the fastest car in the world, but if you don't know how to drive it chances are, someone who knows how to drive will beat you in a Prius and you yourself will crash and burn.

• January 17, 2014
• Thursday 9 am-1pm

 

Mental Bio-Locks

Short Steel Bending and Scrolling to build phenomenal grips for martial arts and functional strength. Short steel bending is a great way to visibly monitor your gains in wrist, hand and grip strength.  Not only to monitor it, but to increase it exponentially for out of this world grip and mental focus to apply across all your training endeavors.  The gains from this type of training build a grip that is nearly impossible to break and in the martial arts world this is paramount.  From a functional strength perspective, steel bending builds hands, wrists, forearms and grip that is necessary and healthy for optimum longevity and mobility. 

• Steel scrolling is an incredible way to train in itself.  It's essentially one long rep isometric and if you don't already do some form of cross training, which teaches you how to breath and have cardio strength while under duress, steel scrolling is a powerful way hone this skill set.  In the world of martial arts your focus is to last as long as possible with the greatest strength, hold, endurance and aerobic capacity.  Steel scrolling builds all these facets through one long isometric movement.  During this session we will have hands-on learning.  I will teach you how to focus, control, and breath-through to bending and scrolling steel even if you think it impossible.

 
 

• January 17, 2014

• Thursday 2-6 pm

Steel Bending and Scrolling

Sue DiMeo, OTR/L--Instructor

Sue is a very experienced medical professional and an NSCA-CPT..
Though she  had spinal surgery and was in a body cast for a year as a teen, she has relentlessly pursued strength and conditioning.
She has treated people with spine and head injuries, stroke patients, and many other
physical complications. Currently she also does strength & conditioning training for people with back
problems.

She will be teaching about training people dealing with those issues. Her instruction will cover several areas including kinesio taping, core strengthening for people with back pain, and safe but effective back exercises.

If you or any your clients have ever said, "Ouch, my back hurts!" or "My back is killing me!"this instruction can be very helpful.

• January 18, 2014
• Saturday 1-4 pm

training with back pain