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		<title>Eliminating The Non-Essentials</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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“One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity”
- Bruce Lee


I’m sure this concept can be applied to many things in life, but in my experience regarding training this is an essential key to obtaining results. To do this, you must strip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 Essentials To Improved Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the name of the title there are many things that could be discussed on this topic. I’ve chosen some that are initial issues you must deal with when first starting to train correctly.
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		<title>Caution - Training At USI Can Be Habit Forming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s true. In a little over 2 months the daily schedule at the USI has gotten quite full. On any given day we’re training 9 people. These are people from all walks of life; new mothers, business owners, police officers, students and computer geeks turned meathead (myself). They all have found time in their ‘busy’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your 2 Cents Are Worthless</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I got a question from a jiu-jitsu practioner/competitor regarding kettle bells. Apparently he had read an article where some guy proclaimed that the best training for an MMA athlete was kettle bells. In all fairness, I don’t know who this person is &#8212; I believe he said he was a personal trainer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specificity and ROI</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly is Specificity, and how do you train it?
Vladimir Zatsiorsky, a former strength and conditioning coach for many olympic teams of the Soviet Union,  defines it as an issue of transfer of training results.
So basically, what training would produce the highest carryover to the sport. What I often refer to as the highest [...]]]></description>
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