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Fox Morning News Feature
Fox Morning News with Holly Morris, featured cutting edge trends in training and weight management with James and Monica at Athletic Excellence in June 2005.
Tags: Amateur, Professionals, Video, Weight Management
Faster, Stronger, Better
Athletic Excellence was featured in an article about performance training in the March 2009 issue of the Washingtonian Magazine by Denise Kersten Wills
Training techniques used by pro athletes can help you shave strokes off your golf game or minutes off your marathon time.
“I always believed you’re either fast or you’re not,” says Tami Lenox, 50, a recreational-soccer player and former girls-soccer coach. Lenox began to rethink that assumption after she sent two of her slowest players to work with James and Monica Walker. Their business, Athletic Excellence, trains athletes.
Lenox hoped the girls would get fitter and become a little faster. Eight weeks later, she was stunned: They were among the fastest sprinters on the team.
She decided to see if James and Monica—he’s a former strength coach at the University of Maryland, she was a college sprinter who competed at the 1996 Olympic trials—might be able to help her, too. Continue reading Faster, Stronger, Better
Training the Right Muscles for High Performance
By James Walker, CCS Athletic Excellence | December 2007 Issue of Your Health Magazine
There are several components that enhance performance: speed, strength, power, flexibility, muscle imbalance or balance, neuro-muscle recruitment, biomechanics, technique, and body composition to name a few of the primary ones. All of these components listed are intertwined; each has its purpose and is specific to the needs of the individual attempting to improve his or her overall function towards performance. Continue reading Training the Right Muscles for High Performance
Interval Training for Fat Loss
By James Walker, CSCS, Athletic Excellence | September 2007 Issue of Your Health Magazine
Have you ever considered interval training for fat loss? Athletes have been training this way for decades to enhance their performance and at the same time develop and maintain a lean physique. Interval training involves alternating lower levels of exercise with higher levels of exercise effort within the same workout. The lower effort parts are called active recovery because you are still moving or exercising but at a reduced effort. The higher effort portions are the actual interval or sprint components that art performed with a greater effort. Continue reading Interval Training for Fat Loss
Meet Your Local Health Professionals
James E. Walker, CSCS, STM was featured in the December 2007 issue of Your Health Magazine.