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I was overweight and not athletic - I committed to making a positive change.  Coach Robb's story...

I was twelve years old.  I was entering the sixth grade thirty pounds overweight and burdened with the knowledge that this would be a pivotal year.  I was old enough to know that I was considerably overweight and aware enough that my friends and, worse, girls had noticed too.  Gone were the days of simplicity dependant only upon who had the best baseball card that week or who would adorn this month’s cover of BMX Action.  Things were getting complicated and I knew Ocean Pacific didn’t make chords for guys my size.  Things had to change.   Up until now only my stepbrothers had noticed and seemed to enjoy harassing me continuously but I’d dealt with their verbal assaults before.  However, the relational shift in my friendships as well as the potential disinterest of all those amazing sixth grade girls in my class would have to be headed off. 

Leaving the musty Teague Middle School locker room, adorned in my required bright red physical education shorts (youth XXL) with coordinating Teague Tiger t-shirt , I joined the crowd of sixth graders awaiting the coaches and our PE lesson for the day.  In walks this sandy brown haired dude with broad shoulders and a clip board.  His name was Coach Lauters and after a brief introduction and a few guidelines put in place to keep us and the county public school system safe, he mentions… “By the way, I’ll be here in the gym every morning at 6:00 am, Monday through Friday, if anyone wants to join the weight lifting club.”  Providence.  Plan and simple this was it!  I went home, took a long hard look at the clothes hanging in my closet and knew in my soul they would never fit well ever again. 

They never did.  If you’ll join me… neither will yours.

How do I know your complete training solutions program will work for me?  Robb's research quest began...

At the age of 14, I decided to pursue a career in BMX racing at a national level.  In an attempt to improve my strength, endurance, flexibility and nutrition, I pedaled my racing red schwinn to every book store and library within a ten mile radius of my home.  I was in desperate need of resources to build the best program possible and in turn become the best racer in the country.   Over the next two years, through an exhaustive search, the only information available was linked to an author selling a book, an expensive meal replacement plan, miracle drinks and/or bars or a magical protein powder that would build muscle in record time.  Everyone was out to sell me something.  I didn't want to buy anything.  I just wanted to learn how to best get lean, build muscle and have the energy to race without tiring.  In 1982, after a three year search, I had increased my personal library of resources to one book published by a professional BMX racer. Although interesting and informative, it certainly didn't provide any insight on how to improve as an athlete from the inside out.   I was hungry to learn how much protein to eat to increase lean muscle tissue, how to maximize my power output, and I needed to discover the secrets of endurance.  

It was at this time I completed a scientific study on a specimen of one. With two very detailed parents having set a fine example, I made the decision to record everything.  I recorded each and everything I ate and the intensity and length of each workout.  I also took constant measurements of my body and how it adapted, good or bad, to the exercise and nutrition I subjected it to.  In a period of six months I had recorded more data and information than I had been able to locate in the books available to me in the bookstores and libraries of central Florida.

In 1990 I was granted an opportunity to travel to Colorodo Springs and visit the U.S. Olympic Training Center.  There my body and abilities were tested under the supervision of several triathlon human performance coaches from around the world.  Here I was able to test the data I had collected and compare it against the expertise of these coaches with countless years of education and personal experience.  They were more than accommodating and not only provided me with state of the art physiological testing but allowed me to present the information I had gathered through my own research, adjusting my conclusions where necessary for optimum performance and personal  athletic results.  We adjusted my techniques to reduce injury and consequent pain, altered my diet to increase lean muscle and shed unwanted excess body fat, and created an effective training schedule to avoid the burn out usually associated with long term endurance training.

Because of this experience, I am now forty two years old and can still enjoy the health benefits of training and racing with my clients and now my two growing boys! 

I am looking forward to you gaining easy access to my Athlete Resource Center.  I hope the resources you find there will eliminate the frustrations of hidden agendas.  Join me today.

I am injured, frustrated and bored - what can you do for me Coach Robb?...

Over the last nineteen years, I have had the opportunity to train with athletes and coaches of all backgrounds.  Some of the athletes were world champions and some were million dollar athletes that I could watch perform on my television on the weekend!  Some of the coaches had the privilege of training athletes that went onto the Olympics and medaled.  But ironically, nine out of ten of these athletes are no longer competing.  The popular coaches don’t have programs as big as they once did.  In my journey to “learn from the best”, I noticed a consistent theme amongst all of these athletes, they were frequently injured, frustrated and not enjoying the job of a lifetime – and I was becoming one of them. 

My big eye opener occurred May 3, 1992 when I woke up at 4:30am for a morning swim workout so frustrated and tired, I literally showed the alarm clock through my wall next to my bed.  After I pulled my hand out of the wall, I sat up on the side of my bed and asked myself what I was doing to myself in the name of performance.  I was doing everything “the other guys were doing” but nothing seemed to be working out correctly.  I was weighing my food, hadn’t had any simple sugars in two years and still was not as lean as I wanted to be.  I couldn’t break through any performance barriers no matter how many more speed sets I incorporated into my weekly schedule.  If I was doing everything by the book, where were my big performances – why all the performance plateaus?  My temporary break ended up lasting five years before I had the desire to establish some training, racing and personal goals for the 1997 racing season.

 

During this five year sabbatical, and some painful soul searching, I wanted to determine how I got myself into this situation (the first step as they say is realizing you have a problem – I get that now!).  I went back and looked at my training logs –they were perfectly maintained of course, and realized that I had lost sight of what worked for me early on in my athletic career.  I was pulled into that vortex that the group workouts filled with talented athletes and coaches were more interested in making themselves look good at the expense of others.  These workouts lead to training sessions that were too high on the intensity scale, too long in duration and occurred to frequently during the week which lead to obvious overtraining symptoms that I disregarded.  My vicious cycle of overtraining  lead to bad biomechanics which then lead to exercising in pain most of the time, but I “Had to make the interval” was my mindset and justification of training through the pain.

It wasn’t until I looked at my training program prior to joining “the fast guys” that I realized that what I needed to do was to listen to my body and allow adequate time to absorb my workouts.  When I looked at the athletes that had longevity in my sport (triathlon at the time), where the athletes that trained by themselves a lot of time and followed the feedback that their body gave them.   I can honestly say that today, if I am tired – I sleep.  If I am hungry – I eat. I am now faster at 42 than I was at 29, not just in regards to human performance, but I am not faster asleep than I was at 42 because I am balanced and healthy.

I am looking forward to helping you create this balance, health and longevity in your personal endeavors without the negative side effects of injury or burn out!

If you have began a program only to get injured, bored, frustrated and even dropped out, learn how Coach Robb's Complete Training Solutions program will keep you Injury Free, Motivated and constantly achieving the goals you established for yourself!  Give us a try join now!

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