Scott Sonnon - Flow Coach of the Internet

Lance Armstrong New Workout Revolution: Swinging Weight!

January 2, 2009 – 8:53 am
Men's Health reports on Lance Armstrong, what has been sweeping the nation: the revolution of not merely lifting, but swinging weight. Swinging weight, as opposed to the "compressive" hazards of lifting weights, adds the element of traction (pulling away) and torque (swinging twice as fast produces four times the force.) Clubbells, kettlebells, sandbags, medicine balls, even stationary elements such as parallettes, plyo-boxes, monkey bars and specialized biomechanical exercises (all of the components of the only tactical specific conditioning system ever created TACFIT) create resistance in two and three dimensions through this torque and traction. Traction, like when healing bone after a break, stimulates the osteoclastic/osteoblastic effect increasing bone density (fighting off osteoporosis) and stimulates bone barrow (bolstering your immune system, as well as muscle growth.) Torque distracts the joints, creating space, which washed the joint capsules with nutrition and lubrication - unlike the compression of lifting weights which removes space and as a ...

Posted in Clubbell Fitness, TACFIT, injury prevention, Circular Strength Training, clubbells, free-weights, kettlebells | 1 Comment »

Your New Year’s Resolution: Move Better, Feel Better, Be Better!

January 1, 2009 – 5:13 am
The 1st day of the New Year should be like any other: an opportunity to reinvent yourself into the person you want to become. In 2007, national statistics listed the top 3 concerns for people over the age of 35 to be: wealth retention and management, travel, and painlessness. However, I doubt that anyone would not want these virtues. On the New Year and the opportunity to presents you, you can join my global resolution to "Move Better - Feel Better - Be Better™!" French osteopath Barral says, “Nature abhors a vacuum but it abhors immobility even more.” Movement is LIFE! Jump off your seat, do just 8 minutes of mobility and extend your life while improving the quality of your aliveness. Mobility is body’s own anti-aging agent. When you bathe each joint in nutritive and lubricative flow, you revitalize “endogenous energy” (an energy independent of outside sources). Mobility removes aches and ...

Posted in active aging, frugal, kinesthetic sensitivity, mastery, motor development, proprioception, nervous system, motivation, wellness, injury prevention, abundance, immune system, pain-free, recovery, joint mobility, longevity, Circular Strength Training | 3 Comments »

Safe in the Ice and Snow? ~~FREE Tutorial~~

December 31, 2008 – 3:04 am
Many people have heard the story of my learning to fight in the ice and snow during the early years of my training in Russia. This unique center of balance created through joint mobility led to my development of the science of joint mobility and exercise systems based upon motor sophistication such as FlowFit: Six Degrees of Freedom. But sometimes I receive questions on how my original training actual appeared, what it involved. While traveling, I cannot post old vintage video clips from my training in Russia (yet). However, this video will give you a good understanding of how FlowFit® II: Ground Engagement applies for mobile security when navigating slick, dangerous surfaces. Here's how ground engagement works on the ice and snow: And if you don't have FlowFit® II: Ground Engagement, then remember that the core competency of balance, coordination and agility is the Intu-Flow® Longevity System, which you can see in this ...

Posted in joint mobility, ground engagement, performance enhancement, falling, Circular Strength Training, injury prevention, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Mobilization versus Mobility with FREE Webisode

December 30, 2008 – 4:56 am
The following contribution by one of Singapore's recently-crowned CST Instructors, Herman Chauw: "Mobilization vs Mobility" "In the fitness industry, we often hear the words (joint) mobilization and (joint) mobility. Well, at least in the hardcore circles. Those of you who belong to the typical commercial gym user category may not have heard of this before. In the traditional use of the word, joint mobilization is restoring a joint(s) full range of motion. It can be active or passive. It serves to release restrictions in joint tissues and therefore increase range of motion, reduce pain or both. Mobility on the other hand, not only refers to the full range of motion of a joint(s) but also the ability of the nervous system to move the joint(s) or body in direction-specific and speed-specific movements. That is why in the Intu-Flow Longevity System of joint mobility exercise, it is all ...

Posted in active aging, nervous system, proprioception, joint mobility, performance enhancement, pain-free, longevity, injury prevention | 3 Comments »

Using the CST Science of Compensations for Kettlebell Lifting

December 28, 2008 – 9:21 am
Due to my genetic obstacles as a child, and my intense passion for overcoming them, I searched the world to find the best teachers. The best teachers aren't necessarily the ones with the most gifted athletes - the top 2%. No, I was looking for those who could take someone from my shallow end of the gene pool and bring ME to greatness. The success that I've had as an international champion martial artist, acclaimed yogi and record holding athlete comes not from being born, but being made... Though my approach is used by more and more of the top 2% elite, it guarantees consistently replicable success for the other 98% like me. If I can become a hall of fame award winning champion, then you absolutely can surpass your goals and dreams, my friends. Over the years movement analysis and break-down became my specialty, and the focus of the Circular ...

Posted in Compensatory Movement, joint mobility, Circular Strength Training, kettlebells, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

2 New Sambo Purple Belts in UK and Germany

December 26, 2008 – 8:05 pm
Still on holiday in Pennsylvania, but wanted to congratulate two of my great members of the CST Coaching Staff for passing their RMAX Sambo Purple Belt Exams: UK's CST Coach Vik Hothi and Germany's CST Coach Raimar Mohrdieck. These two men display all the greatness of the long line of warriors from whom they derive. Coach Raimar Mohrdieck can be found at www.tensho.de:   Coach Vik Hothi can be found at www.mmasaddleuk.com: Here's a short video clip of their examination held earlier this month in Haltern, Germany:   Please help me in congratulating Vik and Raimar on their superb performance. The road to Brown Belt is hard won. White Belts prepare for study, learning movements, breathing and how to maintain and collapse structure. Blue Belts apply that preparation to building the basic positions and how to defend them from attack. Purple Belts assert that knowledge in reverse, methodically dissecting the structure of an opponent's position. Brown ...

Posted in grappling, competition, Sambo, fighting, combat, Europe, martial art, success | 5 Comments »

My Colossal Miscalculation, so Sending You a $500 Return

December 21, 2008 – 7:34 am
I need to stop this mistake dead in its tracks. Though only 24 hours have passed since the release of TACFIT, from the flood of orders I realize now the mistake only I can take personal responsibility for. Let me get to the bottom-line first: I've asked RMAX International to send you a return of $500 on your order, and for those of you who have demanded lowering the price, I've asked RMAX to reduce the price by 72% to $199 on its promotional offer release. Because of grossly miscalculating the individual consumer interest, RMAX International had anticipated only 30-40 subscriptions ordering the downloadable system per month. We expected continued agency and club-level orders, not hundreds of individual consumers on Day 1. I can only assume this to be my fault... We entirely miscalculated the market interest from individual customers wanting to use TACFIT for their personal use. When I initially started ...

Posted in Discount, TACFIT | 7 Comments »

The World’s 1st Tactical-Specific Metabolic Conditioning System: TACFIT.tv

December 20, 2008 – 7:10 am
Sometimes it feels as if I must lead a double-life: walking the middle of the road between mobility and yoga on one side, and conditioning and strength on the other. Because of the platform of public speaking, except for my instructor certification seminars, I often don't have the opportunity to describe how the Circular Strength Training System seamlessly integrates these aspects due to the sciences upon which CST rests. So, when I release a monster 26 video library like TACFIT, the first truly tactical-specific conditioning suite ever crafted to meet the needs of crisis responders, it can curl the mats of some more effete yoga and mobility people. They wonder why people fight and why people would even want to train this hard to prepare to do so in the most effective way possible. It becomes a metaphysical battle between idyllic and pragmatic reality. Sometimes, you must protect your life, family, and ...

Posted in martial art, combat, competition, recovery, pain-free, fat loss, progress, injury prevention, violence, performance enhancement, periodization, bodyguard, TACFIT, military, toughness, sport specific, career development, Physical, stress relief, weight loss, free-weights, certification, agility, weight-lifting, coach, exercise, strength, conditioning, endurance, stamina, metabolic, Circular Strength Training, energy, anaerobic, gym, power, business, health, fitness | 10 Comments »

FlowFit Italiano: Free Webisode!

December 19, 2008 – 6:47 am
John Locke (the esteemed ancestor of CST Head Coach Mike Locke) once wrote, "We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves." My so-called childhood learning "disabilities" (such as dyslexia) were gifts that forced me to search for the ideas represented by words, rather than becoming attached to the manifestation of them. I wasn't able to grasp the mere usage of words, so I had to seek out the 15% of communication which is syntax and the 80% which is non-verbal... leaving the rote 5% to the linguists. Over the years I've been criticized for my liberal deconstruction and renovation of terms. My alternative education tools and techniques allowed me to transform my traditional academic immersion in Latin and classical Greek literature into an archeological dig... searching out the cultural (and ...

Posted in public speaking, culture, leadership, FlowFit, Europe, travel, certification, success, Circular Strength Training, coach | 2 Comments »

It’s Not How Much You Can Do….

December 18, 2008 – 7:05 am
It's not about how much you can do, but how much of what you can do, you do... I can say I saw this maxim portrayed in the hearts and hands of my European students as RMAX Faculty Coach Ryan Murdock and I traveled from country to country teaching the past two weeks. Having just arrived home and spent the past 2 days decompressing, playing with my children and nestling in to a home enshrouded in holiday snow, lights and spices, I now can reflect upon the great memories of my 2nd European tour in 2008. And the dedication of the students stands out as the most prominent virtue they displayed... Weights, calisthenics, yoga, martial arts: these things only constitute means to an end, but not the end that most people think early on in their physical development. These mediums act as gateways to discipline, to developing a daily personal practice. Surely, ...

Posted in culture, workshop, Europe, Circular Strength Training | 2 Comments »