I have woken up each morning, for the last week with a hangover. Tired and drained. I have been watching way too much of the Olympics. Yea, I have Olympic hangover every morning. Cannot get enough of these games. China being 12 hours ahead of the East Coast is killing me. At least the 2012 are a in London, so the time difference won’t be so bad.

Congratulations to Quinton Miller for signing with the Pittsburg Pirates. Quinton is an 18-year-old baseball player who I have been training for the past year and a half. “Q” was selected by the Pirates in this year’s draft, and also was named player of the year in the state of NJ. Q is a right-handed pitcher that tops out at 95 miles per hour.

If you are over 50 years of age, and you have been training like crazy, watching your diet and still don’t seem to be dropping the weight and fat like you think you should be…get your metabolism checked out by your doctor. I have talked to two people just this last week that have found out (more than a year after starting their training program) that they have “slow” or not so functional metabolisms. It is worth finding out.

Michael Phelps’ coach, Bob Bowman, told a newspaper that the biggest difference between how Michael prepared for this Olympics vs. the ‘04 games is that he got himself in the weight room instead of just doing pushups. His physique has changed, his blood lactate levels…(used to measure recovery) are half that of most swimmers, and of course, he is faster than he has ever been.

Big props to Simon M. Simon is a football player entering his Junior year of high school. Simon started training with me to get his overall strength up for this coming football season. Today I found out that Simon squatted 430 lbs and bench-pressed 345 lbs as a 16-year-old athlete. Simon’s max on bench was 305 lbs and his best squat was only 315 lbs when I first met him in the Spring. We were able to put 115 lbs on his squat and 40 lbs on his bench in a few short months.

When I worked at the high school a few years back, I used to witness many “school swappers.” These were athletes and their parents looking for better high school sports programs so their kids could excel. Rarely did switching schools do anything more for them. I have witnessed the same in fitness and personal training lately. Some clients that I have talked to have started “switching” trainers and gyms, (multiple times) looking for the “greener grass.” In most cases, like the high school athletes, the problem is with the client and not the program or trainer.

Table Tennis athletes (Ping Pong) train very hard. If you get a chance, check out Olympic Table Tennis. I found out that Table Tennis players lift weights, run and train harder than many “traditional” athletes that we see everyday.

I hate pre-season NFL games. Although I love football season, pre-season games signals the end of the summer. I love summer.

There have been a lot of reports about what Michael Phelps listens to on his IPOD before he swims…he listens to a lot of hip-hop. If you watch any sport, you will see athletes getting prepared to compete with good music. What do you listen to when you train?

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