Friday, October 30, 2015

Strength and Health TV - Episode 15: The Way to Live in Health and Physical Fitness.

In this week's episode I feature one of my favorite books on the topic of physical culture, "The Way to Live in Health and Physical Fitness" by, George "The Russian Lion" Hackenschmidt.

The underlying theme in the book is that health can never be divorced from strength. The approach many of the founding fathers of physical culture took was a more balanced, holistic approach to total human development. To develop the whole of the man and not just the muscles.

Many of the works, including Hackenschmidt's, can be found for free on this website: http://www.sandowplus.co.uk/



Stay Strong AND Healthy!

-Scott

Friday, October 23, 2015

Scott Shetler's Strength & Health TV - Episode 14: Special Guest Stic.man of Dead Prez!

In this week's episode I talk with my good friend Stic from the hip hop duo Dead Prez.

In the interview we discuss the training we did, supported with his wife Afya's plant-based nutrition expertise, to help him pack on 20 lbs. of muscle in under 3 months!

This process went on to become our book, "Eat Plants, Lift Iron".

Stic talks about how the transformation that took place was much more than just adding pounds to the barbell and the scale. This journey was as much about personal growth and spiritual development as it was physical strength and muscle mass.

I've always said that there are a lot of lessons wrapped up in that pile of iron in the gym, Stic shares some of the ones he learned and much more!

In case you have missed any previous episodes, click here check them out here on my Strength & Health TV playlist.

If you are interested in getting a copy of "Eat Plants, Lift Iron" click here!



Stay Strong AND Healthy!

-Scott

Friday, October 16, 2015

Strength and Health TV - Episode 13: My Journey to Westside Barbell & Bonus Episode 13.5.

In this week's episode I recap some of the information I learned from Louie Simmons when one of my athletes and I visited him at his Westside Barbell Club in Columbus, OH a couple of weeks ago.

I've been a fan of Louie's work for over 10 years now and have benefitted tremendously from the information he's shared through is videos, books, and website. I've used his methods extensively, and with great success, with many of the athletes, lifters and clients I've trained over the years and getting to work with him in person was amazing.

Not only did he work with us on my athlete's strength and conditioning preparation for his 2016 Olympic Trials but I got to work with him on my own training as well.

Louie has more knowledge combined with practical experience than anyone I've ever met and it was an absolute honor to train with him. He and everyone else at Westside were very gracious with their time and very informative. I can't wait to go back!

I hope you enjoyed this week's episode and be sure to check out Episode 13.5 - a bonus video I put together of the chair deadlift Louie taught me to help with building my deadlift technique and strength.



In this week's bonus video I am demonstrating an exercise Louie Simmons taught me to help improve my technique and build strength in the deadlift. This is an exercise he developed to help strengthen and utilize the hips and he suggested that after watching me work up in the deadlift and saw that as the weights got heavier I started using my legs and back and wasn't pulling back into the deadlift enough to engage my hips.

This exercise is brilliant and has already helped me improve my technique dramatically.

I hope you enjoy the video and be sure to give this a shot to see if it will benefit your deadlift as well.

Stay Strong AND Healthy!

Scott

Friday, October 9, 2015

Strength and Health TV - Episode 12: Mindful Training.

In this week's episode I talk about the importance of mindfulness in our training and health and fitness practices. 

Unfortunately I feel that most people think mindfulness is reserved for things like meditation, qigong and yoga exclusively. Without bringing a strong mental approach to our training and physical development we will never achieve everything that we are capable of.

If we are able to have a strong mental approach to our training and physical practices not only will we get more out of our training but we will be able to transform our training into a sort of "meditative experience".

I hope you enjoy this week's episode and if you have any questions or suggestions for future show topics please leave them in the comments below.



Stay Strong AND Healthy!

Scott

Friday, October 2, 2015

Scott Shetler's Strength and Health TV - Episode 11: Interview with Atlanta Humane League Director Chris Guinn.

In this week's episode we talk with Chris Guinn, director of the Humane League's Atlanta office.

Animal rights and welfare is extremely important to me, so it was awesome to have Chris as my guest this week!

We talked about his work for animal rights with the Humane League, effective and non-effective forms of activism, myths associated with the vegan diet and lifestyle, the Team Humane League fundraising project and more!

For more info check out these links Chris references in the video:
http://countinganimals.com/
http://thehumaneleague.com/impact/
http://teamhumaneleague.causevox.com/

I hope you enjoyed this week's episode and leave any suggestions for future show topics in the comments below.



Stay Strong AND Healthy,

-Scott