Lemieux Sport Performance
1825 Boul Saint-Louis G8z2n7 Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

IT´S ALL IN YOUR MIND

L'histoire de cette femme paralysée et de cet ancien joueur de rugby est digne d'un conte de fée ! Crédits : Keith Mason

Une coalition de 200 gyms, centres de yoga, de danse, d'arts martiaux et de CrossFit ouvriront le 29 octobre partout au Québec afin de convaincre le premier ministre François Legault de déconfiner l'activité physique en salle... Écoutez bit.ly/2J8wJn6

Here is a SWIS Video Clip with Christian Thibaudeau discussing CNS fatigue...many people don't consider how long the Central Nervous System (CNS) takes to recov...er compared to the muscles and energy systems....if you push too hard for too long...the CNS will fatigue and then you start to feel lousy...Great advice. To Watch This 90 Minute Video and Hundreds More SWIS Videos for Free for a Week... Go To https://www.swisvideoflix.com/ Transcript Muscles recover really fast. Energy systems recover really fast. The nervous system takes a much longer to recover once it's strained. The problem is you don't realize you have a problem with the CNS until it's too late, why? Because it's a very gradual decrease and working state of your nervous system. Maybe you feel like you're 85% for three weeks, but by those three weeks, you don't even realize you're at 85%. It's your normal state. You only realize it when it's too late and you feel like crap. You have no motivation, no drive, you don't wanna train, your libido is down, you have mood swings, you're dragging your feet all day long, no quality of life. You could win $2 million and you wouldn't be happy because you feel like crap all the time.

THIS IS A POST I SHOULD HAVE MADE 10 YEARS AGO I love helping people out with their training issues, I absolutely do. But I cannot answer every question in a he...lpful manner. One of the questions I really can't help you with is how to become a successful trainer. Because in all honesty, in my case it was super easy and due to a few big breaks given to me by three people while I had no reason to be given a break to. My first break came from Jean Boutet. Who I still see as my main mentor and biggest training influence to this day. I met Jean when I was 14 years old. He was the coach of the varsity football team at my high school and also worked at the best gym in town (owned by international weightlifter Alain Lemieux, and where his son Patrick Lemieux worked). Then he coached me for two years in high school and one year in CEGEP (what could be seen as pa junior college in the US, except that in Quebec, everybody goes there before university) where he was also the strength coach. Jean introduced me to the olympic lifts. When I stopped playing football he hired me on his high school coaching staff and also continued to help me with my training as I trained before the practices. But more importantly, Jean was pretty much the only strength coach in town at the time. And he hired me to work with the athletes he was training. Basically, he would write the programs and I would coach them in the gym. At 20 years old, I was already training good level athletes. Jean's training books library is still the most impressive personal collection that I've seen. That was the beginning of the internet and he asked me to look for good training material and print it out for him. I must have printed the equivalent of 5 full binders, reading all of it, learning. NOBODY has contributed more than Jean to make me the coach that I am today and he was one of the most influential men in my life, sadly, to this day I still fail to live to the morality and no-bullshittedness standard that he has established. And I still see him as much more knowledgeable than I am regarding training. The second guy who really helped me is Martin Ge (Martin Gervais). I first met him when I played golf, he was the coach of the junior team that I was part of. He was a physical education teacher and a strength training nerd (I remember that he especially liked Ian King, Charles Poliquin and Paul Chek). Martin also had a daughter who was a figure skater. Martin started a strength and conditioning program for the team. Which is an accomplishment in itself because back then all skating coaches were afraid that training would make the girls bulky and worse on the ice. He then asked me to come help him teach the olympic lifts to the girls. And that started a 3 years journey that allowed me to work with national champions and a future Olympic medalist. Those two guys empowered me to start writing articles. I submitted them to Testosterone Nation, which was, by far, the best website for training information at the time (still is). I submitted a few articles, some were picked up, some weren't. I then decided to read all their articles to see exactly what they were looking for. And after adjusting my material (and in large part to the editing prowesses of Chris Shugart and Tc Luoma) I was brought in as a regular for longer than most marriages last. That gave me a lot of visibility and more opportunities to work with great "athletes" ranging from bodybuilders, to pro athletes and Crossfit competitors. The third person who was life-changing for me was T-nation's CEO, Tim Patterson. The moral of the story is that you never know who will be able to help you; where your breaks will come from or what series of events will lead to success. All you can do is cultivate positive relationships, be willing to help as much as you can, don't focus on money (I trained people for free for 2 years when I started out, to gain experience) and when you have a break you must work hard to get fully into the door. Getting a break is like getting an interview, you are in the room, but you still have to do your part to get the job. Hmmmm, maybe I was able to answer the question after all. But don't ask me about mobility and injury prevention, I really can't help you there. Ask Mai Mai for that.