Its been a busy and awesome week at the Synergy Athletics gym!  Before our recap, here’s a few quick tips for our athletes and adult fitness boot campers.

Muscle Recovery Tips

During a sport or activity drink room temperature water.   Your body isn’t built to digest ice water, it first heats it up before the the water can be used.  This means your hydration will be delayed.

Save the ice water for the rest of the day, but room temperate during the activity.   If you insist on drinking Gatorade, note that most bottles are 2 to 4 servings.  Your best solution is to take half a bottle of Gatorade and fill the rest with water.  Cutting the Gatorade will make it easier to digest and more beneficial.

Boot Camper Nutrition Tip

Do the vast majority of your shopping around the outside of the grocery store.  Every grocery store is set up with your produce, fruits, meats, and dairy around the parameter of the store.   These items should make up most of your meals.

If you are doing the majority of your shopping in the isles, chances are your cart is filled with overly refined and/or sugary products.

Tips of the hat

1.  The girls are attacking the record board!  I expect to see Dani and the Ralieghs back up on that board soon!

2.  Congrats to John “Crazy Legs” Kline and Jake Haddock to being named football team captains at SCC and Maine Endwell.   Building muscle AND leadership skills!

3.  Tip of the hat to quiet hard worker Colin S. who became our most recent 200+ lb bench’r and now 300+ lb squatter (up 45 lbs in 6 weeks)!  Learn the form, follow the program numbers, and watch the magic happen!

Gym Announcements

1.  We are open Labor Day from 3 – 6 as usual.

2.  Outside the gym, I am starting to work on a collaborative project with EAS trainer, Rob Williams.   Rob is a great trainer from Ohio and preps the EAS sponsored athletes for their tests such as the NFL combine – as well as working with a number of other lifters.

Still in the planning phase, but it looks like I will be able to get Rob out here in early December to do my 2nd gym seminar.  After the seminar we will set outside a few hours to work with any Synergy athlete that wants to tweak their running.

- Joe Hashey, CSCS -