MMA Johnny Rees talks about his success with Trigger Point Performance Therapy

Check out what our Foot Lower leg Kit can do for you, not a lot of time but an incredible result!!

Johnny has been a professional MMA fighter for years, hear about the results that he’s had with our Self Massage Foot and Lower Leg Kit.

Jeremy Thiel talks about Cassidy Phillips

Crazy Man

Do you know Cassidy Phillips? If you dont, you should meet him. He is extremely passionate about his company trigger point performance. A couple days ago in the gym a client mentioned his wife thought we was a little off his rocker working out at 6am in 15 degree weather. He also stepped up his workouts at home to a total of 6 days a week of training. So the topic of Crazy or Committed came up. In many peoples eyes he is CRAZY. I see a man committed to achieving his goals.

This brings me back to Cassidy. Cassidy is CRAZY ….. CRAZY COMMITTED is more like it. I think he is world class and I plan to work with him to bring trigger point performance to the Crossfit CRAZIES around the world!

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Jeremy Thiel – Saturday, January 16th 2010

Free your shoulder!!

Austin, Texas Dec 13th

We had a great U6 RE-GEN training class here in Austin, there were fitness enthusiasts from all over the city here to take this one day class. There was a tremendous amount of information covered over the entire day, one of the great images we are able to share with you is what we can do for shoulder functionality when massaging the muscles in the chest.

As we massage Pec major and minor the shoulder is able to rotate back naturally allowing the should to function more optimally. At the same time we are going to take away the stress of the upper back by massaging the areas. Once this area gets tight it is going to pull the shoulder forward, forcing the muscles in the upper back to lengthen past their capacity, once they’ve been in that position for a prolong period of time, muscle spasms, trigger Points and scar tissue can develop.  No one wants a dysfunctional shoulder, imagine a baseball player with greater range of motion, a swimmer or triathlete, what about all you crossfitters out there with all of your Olympic lifting.

Above you will see several of the movements and massage patterns we took the the arm and product through to get the relief discussed. These are movements that are typically done with the aid of a practitioner or someone else. You can get the same awesome benefits with our self massage techniques.

When it’s all said and done we open up the lung capacity, allow the shoulder to have more freedom while at the same freed up the upper back. Take a look at the last image and you can see how dramatic of a change there is between the two shoulders.

Trigger Point’s for the Holidays!!

As we move into the Holidays we all need to be aware of what travel does to the body. You’ve got to think about your hydration during the holidays being that we are typically running around like a chicken with our head cut off trying to get all of the last minute shopping done.

Most of you are either going to travel by plane or car to get to your holiday destination, once in motion it’s typical to forget about your bodies biomechanics. Reality, if you can’t breath, you can’t perform, nor can you recover from your daily challenges. So you must remember to keep that diaphragm open, no slouching, so that your muscles are getting all the O2’s they deserve. The more blood and oxygen that’s pumped through the tissue the more likely the muscles are going to respond in a desirable way. If you limit the amount of blood and oxygen going to the muscles in specific areas, and you apply the realities of dehydration, muscular challenge can occur. Trigger Points, muscles spasms and general discomfort can be the result of not taking care of yourself. Easy, self massage techniques can aid in eliminating trigger points and muscle spasms.

Time to address your Trigger Points with Self Massage

After reviewing the Trigger Points in the diagram above, think about the necessity of our TP Massage Ball for the Holidays. Apply pressure to the back with the TP Massage Ball by gaining leverage over your airplane seat, car seat, chair wall or a floor. As you can see there are colored pin points for the actual trigger point, and the colors radiate out from their colored pin points to show the discomfort that can be associated. Reality is once you have one trigger point in the muscle tissue you can have several others without ever knowing where the latent trigger points are, so holding the TP Ball in place for 5-7 seconds as the trigger point releases is a great way to address the tissue, but don’t stop there go ahead and do the same techniques throughout the area so that you know you are addressing the muscles group versus just a specific area defined by the chart above.

Bottom line you brush your teeth everyday for a purpose, that’s to keep the plaque off your teeth.  You have to do the same thing for your muscle tissue, it just makes since.

Here is a video giving you great tips regarding the information above:

Atheletes Performance and Trigger Point Performance

What many people don’t know is that I have been fortunate enough to teach at many of the Mentorship programs that Athletes Performance has to offer. We’ve seen so much success with this that they have now build all of our products and methodologies into their training programs for all the athletes that have come through their doors.

Here is a clip form a recent Mentorship program. This is a great way to work through pec major and minor. This will allow the shoulder to rotate back naturally on it’s own so that more force can come out of the fulcrums and leavers of the arm.

If you are a runner, swimmer, cyclist, baseball player, football player, or you are involved in a different throwing sport I think you will find this effective and efficient in massaging the area.

Interview with Cassidy Phillips

Here is an interview with Cassidy Phillips on Shadowfit.com

What a great testimonial

Check out the last post on our Facebook page, I took a screen shot so everyone could see it fast and easy…….for all of you that wonder if our products work:

Geat Testimonial tptherapy

Lance Armstong

It’s official, Lance Armstrong will be competing in the 2011 Ironman World Championships, check out the video below:

Gearing up for mobile updates

With an iPhone I find that you have to get an Application for everything. Here is my son Sklar on one of our special GRID rollers

GSX Hell’s Half Acre: Success!

We’re back from a Bonsai weekend at the Crossfit Southwest Regional Qualifier – GSX Hell’s Half Acre, and whew – what a weekend.  As you saw earlier, we faced some weather challenges, but even with Mother Nature doing her part to dampen our spirits we managed to have a super successful weekend.  We sold out of nearly all of our product, met a ton of excellent people, helped countless people, and had a great, great time.  

Here are a few photos from Saturday night and Sunday – we’ll go short on text here, and just share some pictures.

 

Jessica ordered a chicken fried steak that was bigger than the state of Texas… 

Things got started early on Sunday morning; rolling out folks

 

 

The top five women's finishers - they're going to the Crossfit games

The top five women finished as follows:Carey Kepler, Pollyanna Bobseine, Crystal McReynolds, Lindsey Smith, Nikki Hall.  Congrats to CrossFit Central – they had two (2) top five women’s finishers (Carey and Crystal)!!

 

The top five men's finishers - also going to the Crossfit games!

The top five men finished as follows:Dutch Lowy, Breck Berry, Lance Cantu, Vic Zachary, Jason Boag.  Congrats again to Crossfit Central – Lance is a coach there, and finished third!  Crossfit Central was tearing it up!!

For what it’s worth (we’ll brag a bit here), we spent a lot of time working with (rolling out) a bunch of the top 10 finishers.  Dutch came by for a refresher on Saturday, and then rolled out extensively after his heats on Sunday.  Carey and Crystal took a Quadballer back to the hotel with them on Saturday night; each made sure to rollout before their heats.  Lance has taught classes for us and was spotted using our stuff over the weekend.  We’re not saying you’ll be a top 5 finisher if you use our product, but it definitely won’t hurt to roll out!

And many, many thanks to Tucker and his crew over at GSX.  They did a fantastic job with the event – everything went off without a hitch, and we really enjoyed ourselves at this inaugural event.  We can’t wait to go back next year.  Here’s Tucker getting a little emotional – he and his crew put their hearts into this event, and it showed:

 

Tucker from GSX thanks the crowd.

With the event over, it was time to pack-up the Trigger Point RV and hit the road back to Austin.  We got everything loaded up (there wasn’t any product to load-up as we sold out of it all), and got to motoring.  Thanks again to everyone who attended the show, stopped by to work with us, bought product, and gave us wonderful feedback.  Triathlon/marathon may be our “home crowd,” but you CrossFitters are really making us feel welcome and like a part of the family – we can’t say thank you enough for your interest and support.