JP Fitness Summit - Day 1

I'm back from day one of the summit getting ready to go over my Nutrient Timing talk for tomorrow. Today was great and very informative. Here's a run down of the talks in order of appearance:

Lou Schuler - This was an amazing way to kick off the summit. Lou talked all about Fitness/Muscle magazines, how they lay out their magazines, and what effect that has on content. He also discussed how to go about getting your writing into magazines. Lou is a great guy (with a great blog).

Alwyn Cosgrove - Alwyn gave his Real World Fat Loss talk. His talk is interspersed with amazing before and after photos of clients from his facility. Alwyn has a very practical and effective approach to getting his clients lean fast. Basically harder work is better and you get done faster.

Coach Dos Remedios - Dos is the NSCA Strength coach of the year. I again was riveted by the information he had to share. Dos can get 100 football players in and out of the gym in 50 minutes with no assistance - Amazing. The premise of Dos's talk was his new soon to be released book. It was a great preview and I picked up some strategies that I am going to apply to my training starting this week.

Zig Zigler - No this isn't the famous salesman. Zig's talk was all about the feet and how foot problems can lead to other imbalances higher up the body. All in all pretty interesting.

Chad Waterbury - Again, a great talk. I love Chad's methods. He spoke about the nervous system and then started discussing some of this new theories about how to maximize hypertrophy via maximal motor unit recruitment. Chad has talked about training and the CNS before but this was totally new. We spoke about this new theory a bunch after his talk - cool stuff. Again I have some new strategies that I am going to apply to my own training this upcoming week.


Other things from today:

*Finally got to meet Lisa Holladay who edited Your Naked Nutrition Guide.

*Met and chatted with "Coach Mike" (from Precision Nutrition) a bunch. He's a very smart guy.

*Talk about smart guy's I was floored by Bill Hartman today (and he hasn't even spoken yet!). He diagnosed my shoulder problem in less than 3 minutes. He is truly is the smartest man in fitness.

*Also got to meet and speak with Nate Green a bunch. Nate is a great up and coming guy in the industry.

That's all for now. Gotta go over my talk.