Power Clean-Olympic Brakemen

This is Curt Tomasevicz brakemen for the USA 1 team. Usually the brakemen are the fastest position on the teams, but Curt just happens to be the strongest. He has amazing acceleration. While the power clean isn't textbook, he shows some brutal power. He trains with John Carlock in Colorado Springs, CO. This is him cleaning 168K. He has done 172 before. Thats a little over 374lb's if your wondering. Curt will be racing the 2 man event and 4 man event in the upcoming weeks in Whistler.

First Morning in Vancouver

Woke up this morning to this sunrise over the bay. We proceeded to breakfast and to Olympic orientation. Special guest speaker was Dan Obrien. If you don't know who Dan Obrien is.....well come on! He's the Gold medal winner in the Decathlon in the 96 Atlanta games. One of the few who walk this earth with the title Worlds Greatest Athlete. He's the first athlete I can remember growing up really following and rooting for. Remember the Dan vs Dave Reebok commercials? I was devastated when he didn't make the 92 Olympics. He talked about how his biggest disappointment spring boarded him to his greatest success. It was really cool to meet someone you grew up watching and rooting for.

Monday Motivation

It's always more interesting when your following sports, when you know the story of the athletes. Check out this article on AOL.com. It's about Bill Schuffenhauer. His story is definitely a motivator. Take the time to read it. You won't be disappointed.

We're off to Vancouver this morning. It seems like we have been getting ready for this for so long. We will spend three days there, before moving into the athletes village in Whistler.

High Speed 15m Sprint Analysis

Every now and then it's fun to film the athletes I'm working with and look at movement quality. After running a few I could tell the hips weren't moving like we wanted with fluidity and power, to much stiffness. So we stressed that over the next few days.

Another Vit D Endorsement

Just in case you hadn't fully jumped on the Vit D bandwagon, Charles Poliquin recently wrote this article endorsing the supplement. He actually goes on to say that he believes it's more important then Fish Oil. Here's the LINK.

San Diego Training Camp

It was a great week in Chula Vista, California. It was so nice to be back in some warmth and sun. We spent a week there training and recovering. A horrendous virus wreaked havoc on our teams in Austria, so much of the week the athletes spent eating, gaining back the several kilos that were lost through enteric violence.

Personally I would like to thank the training staff there as they helped me get back on my feet after a little back problem flared up and knocked me on my back a few days.

I roomed with two awesome strength coaches. Jon Carlcok and Jason Hartman. Jon was in this months Outside magazine and Jason was in last months Mens Health. It was fun to talk training with two extremely smart but humble people. One of his athletes told me that Jason has 16 athletes going to compete in Vancouver. 16! Awesome.

Today I found out Proctor and Gamble is giving 3000 dollars in a gift card to all the Olympic Athletes moms. They said the moms deserve a thanks for doing all the've done. Pretty Sweet! United airlines has been a sponsor for awhile. It was really nice of them to let me not pay the $125 overweight fee on one of my bags. Thanks!

We're in Park City, UT today through Monday before heading up to the "Big Show." The "Today Show" was up at the track today, Lester took a ride with Steven Holcumb and his crew. Not sure when that will air, but keep an eye out.

Until then .....

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This is one of the most impressive things I've witnessed in training. This is tremendously hard to do. This is Olympic athlete Emily Azevedo brakemen for the US. She trains under John Carlock, who was just recently in Outside magazine. (My favorite magazine) John runs the Colorado Springs training facility. If you doubt how hard this is, try it out and feel your hamstrings about blow off the bone, most people and high level athletes can't even lower themselves to the floor under control!