The Day Of Reckoning PICP Level One

09-12-2010

Without Strength we have nothing....

It is amazing the amount of information that quality coaches can pass to the student during the course of 24hr of lecture and practical. During the second day of PICP 1 we looked at the main lifts for upper body structural balance and the remedial lifts as well. Beyond that we then looked at the variations and progressions of the main lifts (7 main) and the (4 secondary). This set us up for a full day of lifts, and these lifts can return an athlete from injury or progress them beyond their current goals via proper balance of the body. I will link the seven exercises and their correlating links from a published Charles Poliquin article. But I will not tell you myself specifically myself what is in this article. Let me send caution, this is the article that outlines what is covered in PICP 1, but the actual information outlined during this article is but a piece of what we are covering during the three days. This article is the upper body structural outline, but there isn't any information regarding the progressive variations of the lifts or the 12hr of lecture covering annual periodization and program design. Interesting note, the Poliquin Strength Institute has developed a program design software to accommodate the coaches that are coming through the PICP education system. With in this software there are 1200 variations for the triceps extension alone! This obviously takes you beyond the information that is outlined in this article.

The interesting thing that I have been witness to since arriving at the Idraettens Hus (house of sport) is the basic efficiency of how everything works together.  At times it seems that there may be a hindrance because they adhere to schedules of time, for example at a hotel the front desk was closed after 11pm at night until early in the morning. SO I assume that you might be shit out of luck if you locked your self out of the room in the late evening. Other interesting notes about the location that we are staying at involves the celebration of former Danish athletes throughout the entire building. In fact there are a number of head casts and stone carvings of former great athletes, in fact there are poster of former NCAA athlete Joachim Olsen on the walls around the center.


Well that is it for this blog, tomorrow we begin the PICP Level II which is five days in length and covers the structural lower balance.