Hello, hello – so next up from my summit extravaganza the amazing Jamie Milnes – Jamie has been in the fitness industry for 20 plus years – His passion for sports and adventure serve as the driving force behind the Get Fit Go Play movement. Through his creative approach to training, Jamie has also established himself as a fitness leader with a distinguished reputation within the Los Angeles community with a client list that includes many of Hollywood’s elite. Jamie is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (cscs) with the National Strength and Conditioning Association – Okay – I had to borrow that from his website, it was too good to pass up. 😉 http://www.getfitgoplay.com you have to check it out –
So Jamie’s presentation was called “A kick ass body that can kick some ass” His philosophy seems to be – follow your passion and the rest will follow, which I love…. He talked about one of his clients, Harrison Ford, (ya, I know) who came to him to train for the latest Indiana Jones movie…. He didn’t come in saying he wanted to get ripped, he came in and said help me make it through this in one piece, and in the process ended up looking great for the movie. At 67 years of age Harrison still does his own stunts – amazing! Next Jamie talked about another one of his client’s Colby Donaldson from the show Survivor, (who just happened to be at the Summit) Colby’s focus was not a physical one, but more that he wanted to do well on the show – again he ended up sculpting his body through his hard work, and made it to the final two – now that’s impressive. Laura Griffiths went to him and said she wanted to make the US climbing team and to climb a V12 – before her, there were only 6 women who had ever climbed one. Again, she didn’t come in and say she wanted nice arms, a nice butt, and ripped abs, it just happened through the process of her working toward her goal.
Next topic – functional training. Functional Training is a classification of exercise that involves training the body for activities performed in daily life. Jamie shared a story about another one of his clients, a 75 year old grandmother whose passion was her grandchildren. Her key driver or the relevance to her training was the thought of being able to get down and play with them, and to ability to pick them up over her head. This was her focused and what kept her motivated. What did he have her do? He had her doing dumbbell swings and had her squat and press with a plate – see the similar movement patterns? Picking up a child, squat down, pick up and press over your head. These exercises strengthened the areas she needed for everyday life, and the best part was she got to be a fun Grandma. He also used other example of how functional movements are used in everyday life – for instance, kettle-bell swings and dead-lifts movements might help you strengthen areas used to pick up luggage off the baggage carousel, a rowing movement might strengthen the muscles used to start a lawn mower, surfers may use the same muscles surfing as used bouncing / squatting on a bosu ball, etc. The thing that makes Jamie want to be fit is being able to do the fun stuff he enjoys, like snowboarding, bike riding, swimming and running. He has consistently found that the clients who have the most success are the ones that have a passion for what they are doing. The key is, to find some relevance or passion as to why you work out and you will succeed.
His next topic of discussion, the myth around women building extreme amounts of muscle simply by training with weights… According to Jamie, women can not get a muscular body unless they train for it. Body builders eat high calories, do steady state cardio, work to muscle failure, use body part splits, (chest/triceps one day and back/biceps another, etc.) And do 8 plus sets for each body part. So keep the weight moderate, do whole body workouts, interval train for cardio, watch your calories and don’t worry you won’t end up looking like this! Not that there is anything wrong with it … 🙂
Next, Jamie showed us an example of one of his routines, he emphasized again how whole-body training is the way to go, and decided to call a few volunteers up from the audience. The first hand up was my RCR sister Rachel Pyle, and since no one else volunteered, he dragged his girlfriend Jenny Adams up. Jenny just happens to be an amazing female athlete and past Olympian who has consistently ranked top 5 in the world in the 100 meter hurdles, a very impressive and beautiful woman… unfortunately she had a dress on, so for the last set I volunteered to take her place – enjoy!
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