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After about 5 full days off we got back to it. Emphasizing blood circulation in every possible way.

Extended periods of time off usually leave people feeling slow, stiff, and sluggish so the goal was to induce as much blood flow as possible. Circulation will improve a lot of things for you.

I’ve always found it wise to take short periods to reacclimate back into training. Whether it be an athlete coming off a competitive season or someone who’s washed up like me, these ramp up periods can be highly useful in managing training stress across transition periods of the year.

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We’re excited to announce the speakers for the 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕 𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫!

Join us as we bring together an outstanding group of professionals to share their knowledge, experiences, and perspectives on sports performance.

📅 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟗, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕
💻 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫

Mark your calendars! We look forward to a day of learning, collaboration, and professional growth.

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧!

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Miami was a trip. Hot as hell but worth every minute. The delayed gratification after months of build up came to fruition as soon as I stepped on the turf.

Nothing has given me the same excitement and energy that playing football gave me. I remember my last snap of college football 9 years ago like it was yesterday. I’ve searched every day since for something that gives me the same drive, passion, and mission driven purpose to compete and get after it.

And now I’ve found that thing… and it’s here to stay.

I don’t believe there’s anything else that can congregate that many high performing people in one area at any one given time. There are pro athletes in other sports, doctors, lawyers, business owners, coaches… people all doing things at exceptionally high levels off the field all turning up to throw down just the same on the field. It’s unreal.

Aside from meeting incredible people, you get to witness some wild feats of athleticism. This being my third Apex, I’m still amazed at the freakish displays people put on.

This is the stuff that got me into coaching. Absurd showcases of raw athleticism accompanied by everyone elevating one another to be better. You can’t kill something like that. That type of culture is inevitable.

Everyone that shows up to an Apex event wins. Put that on the next marketing campaign @apexathlete.official

For years I lost myself and gave up showing up for myself because I hadn’t found anything that resonated with me to focus my own process on. My results in April showcased that.

I strolled out of the Austin event feeling that same fire I had in my playing days get relit. 6 solid months of work later and Miami was a much different story. I’m not at all satisfied with what I was able to do but I’m also extremely happy with the results as well.

I think that’s the beauty of it. The old me would have been furious about the final results. I hate losing and I left a few goals I had off the table. But me now, I’m grateful I have a lot to look forward to for 2027 already.

There’s still so far to go but look how far we’ve come.

📸: @directordeejay

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Decided to make my doomscroll productive

Content can be hard and these are people I think do a really good job at it.

I find it useful, positive, or I like them as a person, probably a combination of the 3.

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Comment “Book” to download our latest ebook, this one on the fascinating topic of Archetyping 🔥

We have the opportunity to have conversations with some of the brightest minds in the world, and while the podcast features these conversations in one form, we wanted to find a way to harness the gravity of these, and deliver them in other ways ✊

We hope you thoroughly enjoy this experience. 84 pages of pure magic, created from the conversations with:
@pedullaperformance
@les7spellman
@spaniardperformance
@coryksandc
@rickfranzblau
Luke Storey

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Loved getting back on the competition floor and pushing myself both physically and mentally! Huge thank you to @apexathlete.official and @timrileytraining for creating such an elite event and atmosphere.

I am incredibly grateful for a body that lets me compete, and so glad to have @skanegibson doing this with me.

The Forty was my favorite event and the main focus of my training leading up to this. I am absolutely stoked to hit a lifetime speed PR as a 33-year-old mom! Shout out to @pedullaperformance for the training that forced me to attack my weaknesses.

The Trap Bar event was the toughest event for me with the weight at 2.6x my bodyweight and what I’ll work on the most for the next one.

The 7 Events
•Fast Forty
•Med Ball Overhead Toss
•Broad Jump
•Approach Jump
•Trap Bar Deadlift max reps in 60s (#275/#405)
•Bench Press max reps (#115/225)
•1 Mile Run (way more difficult than expected after competing in the Miami heat for 2 hours 😅)

Shout out to all the other moms out there getting after it!

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Working harder is not always the answer.

Sometimes the work you are doing is reinforcing the wrong priority.

I learned that personally.

I built a 641-pound trap-bar deadlift and pulled 420 pounds for 22 reps in 24 seconds.

Strength was measurable. I was good at it. Every new number made me feel like I was becoming a better athlete.

But eventually, strength stopped being my greatest developmental need—and I continued prioritizing it anyway.

I still sprinted.

I still jumped.

I still conditioned.

Everything was included, but my time, energy and recovery revealed what the program was actually built around.

My Apex results confirmed it:

Strength: 184
Speed: 178
Power: 169
Endurance: 108

The answer was not to add more conditioning on top of everything else.

It was to maintain the strength I had already built with less volume and redirect those resources toward the qualities with greater room to improve.

That experience changed how I coach.

I do not begin by asking what exercises an athlete needs to add.

I begin by identifying:

• What their sport requires
• What is currently limiting them
• What needs to be developed
• What only needs to be maintained
• What is consuming recovery without providing enough return

Sometimes you do not need another workout.

You need a clearer hierarchy.

If you are working hard but your results are not changing proportionally, DM me “STRUCTURE.”

Let’s identify what your training should actually prioritize.

#strengthandconditioning #AthleteDevelopment #SportsPerformance #OnlinePerformanceCoaching #speedtraining

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Jumping higher doesn't automatically mean you're accelerating faster.

Jumping can help develop explosive force, but sprinting requires you to apply that force in a specific direction, from specific positions, within a very short time.

That's why athletic development can't just be about improving isolated qualities.

We need to understand what the athlete needs to do, identify what's limiting their performance, and build a programme that addresses those demands.

Don't just train to improve your numbers. Train to improve what those numbers are supposed to represent.

DM "TRAIN" if you want to develop your athletic performance through individualised coaching.

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☀️🔥 APEX RECAP 🔥☀️

Hot day in Miami, great competition, and some solid marks in the 40 (4.57) and Pull (20)! 💪🏽

The mile didn’t go my way (I definitely died 😂), but overall, I’m happy with how my first APEX went. Got to compete alongside some great athletes, test my limits, and learn a lot along the way.

Huge thank you to @pedullaperformance for the programming and @timrileytraining for putting on an incredible event! Excited to get out and compete again!

First APEX in the books… I’ll be back. 🔥

🎥 @lexomoniyi

#APEX #AthletePerformance #Competition #SpeedAndStrength #BackToWork

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Yesterday, I talked about competing without making the result responsible for my identity.

But if the result does not define you, why compete at all?

Because competition shows you what your preparation has built.

After months of training, I finished Apex with a score of 639 and ran a 4.615 in the 40.

I am proud of that showing.

The training transferred.

I was able to compete across multiple events, trust my preparation and perform when it mattered.

Testing does not only expose your weaknesses.

It confirms your strengths.

It rewards consistency.

It shows you how far you have come and gives you clarity about where you can still improve.

That is why objective results matter.

You do not need the number to determine your worth, but you can use it as evidence of what your work produced.

I am leaving Apex encouraged, grateful and even more motivated for the next phase.

Most importantly, thank you to my wife, @ahcathers for supporting me and believing in me every step of the way.

Thank you to @overtimeathletes and @otastpete for giving me the environment and support to prepare for this.

Thank you to @pedullaperformance for programming my training and helping me arrive ready to compete.

And thank you to @apexathlete.official and @timrileytraining for creating an incredible event that gives athletes the opportunity to test themselves and have SOMETHING TO MF TRAIN FOR!

A score of 639 is evidence that the process is working.

Now we build from it.

700 soon.

#speedtraining #athletetraining #athletedevelopment #apexathlete #strengthtraining

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The last 8 weeks were HELL. 😤🔥

Got the invite to @apexathlete.official in Miami, and as most of you know, I’m a speed guy. Switching up my programming to incorporate more endurance into my lifts was a whole different kind of battle. 😂

My crew at @xtremeperformancetraining pushed me to go, so we made it happen!

Am I pissed about my overall numbers? Absolutely. Didn’t finish the mile, and that’s on me. But the goal was a 4.3 Fast 40, and WE DID JUST THAT. 🏁💨

Beyond the competition, I got to network, connect, and learn from some of the best trainers in the game. Always a blessing to be around like-minded people who push the industry forward. 🙏🏾

Back to the drawing board. More work to do. No excuses.

Appreciate @apexathlete.official for finally giving me something to train for! Blessed for the opportunity and hungry for what’s next. SLIDEE✅

THE STANDARD DOESN’T CHANGE. BACK TO WORK⚡️

TRAINXTREME🔋

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As I sit on a plane flying across the country, I can’t help but reminisce on the past 9 months of this year.

So much has changed and continues to change but just as it was when I had an identity crisis almost 10 years ago… training has remained a constant for me.

Working towards something and building up the excitement to compete with others doing the same has given me a rekindled tenacity that I lost when football ended for me.

It’s not the game itself that I miss. It’s the locker room. The camaraderie. The beauty in the struggle along side teammates. Nothing was able to replace that… until now.

I mean it when I say this competition means more to me than people realize. It’s a revitalizing and reinvigorating feeling that I didn’t realize I needed in my life.

I’ve talked about it before, when your entire identity revolves around being an athlete for the first two decades of your life, you have to input something into your life to replace the sport once it’s time to hang up the cleats. That void has to be filled or you’ll search for years like I did.

For me, this is it. Find whatever it is that YOU are after and go all in.

@apexathlete.official

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